Fuck this guy

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

It's great to see that the piles of money and enormous amounts of electricity and other resources used to train these models has produced such stunning and useful results. And I'm SUPER glad that google now always shows me this garbage.

A clear statement from the American Psychiatric Association on autism, Tylenol, folinic acid -- and a general endorsement of evidence-based medicine (as we move in reverse) www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...

this man needs to be in jail and every govt that refuses to follow the law because he's rich is endangering the public

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

If only we had some way of know what things were really true. Some system of testing over time, where we could build up our knowledge about the best way to do things...

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump will claim that Tylenol is linked to autism. But every expert Julia Musto and I interviewed say this is a gross misreading of the data. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

the bargain of, let’s say, fairly stable, small-d democratic capitalism is that the average person gets better living standards and wages and doesn’t have to think very much about politics, and i think everyone involved in politics will come to regret the choice to change the terms of the agreement

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

I am *shocked* by the poor quality reporting on Leucovorin as an autism treatment by the Washington Post. I’m not even going to link it. Just abysmal.

These are visas for skilled workers — doctors, scientists, and engineers. This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Any rich dems want to fund an independent science news and commentary outlet, hmu (climate, vaccines, energy, public health, biomedical research, assults on science writ large, etc)

3 tracks out this week showed Trump dropping and at his lowest point this year: Econ/YouGov 39%-57% (-18) down 5 pts from last week Civiqs 41%-55% (-14) down 2 pts from last week AP-NORC 39%-60%(-21) down 13 pts from last month This dictator shit ain't play well with voters.

Dr. El-Deiry just presented at RFK Jr.’s ACIP goat rodeo. I condemned his presentation to the fires of hell, but I was not aware that 75 of his pubs were flagged for data irregularities. This tracks.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

I still don’t think you’ve got the guts @royalsociety.org: www.bbc.com/news/article...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Well. The RS is clearly feeling the heat. They could have saved themselves the embarrassment months ago. How did they ever imagine this wasn't going to get even worse?

Somehow still every day I am repeatedly astounded that the entire United States is voluntarily destroying itself just so that a few people can pretend Donald Trump didn’t sexually assault children

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

Today, I'm grateful for a new episode of "The Chain" podcast (Episode 77). Great conversation between Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social and chris bahl @cdbahl.com with a wide range of thoughts, provocations, and opinions (1/2). www.healthtech.com/thechain

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

Some kinds of biological stress can make cells live longer - such as nutrient starvation. One such mechanism:

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Ok, #Chemsky, apparently the fact you didn't know about phthalimide - it is a mineral, known among geologists as Kladnoite: www.mindat.org/min-2222.html

we very specifically and over decades had earned a reputation for being a place where you could come and study or work and be treated ~fairly rather than tyrannically. that reputation was a big deal. I hope in time we can rebuild it.

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

Okay I'm sick of talking about this week so today is a cats selfies and gardening Saturday. Catselfardenday

‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’ Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social

To be clear this is not an AI SOLVES THINGS statement. It's kind of the polar opposite. I still, really firmly believe, that most of the published chemical and biochemical literature is so full of crap and noise that building AI models on it is a complete utter waste of time.

This is just bizarre. Fake medical paper was published about content plagiarized from an April Fool, lead author claims it's a deliberate conspiracy against him (heard that one 10000× before) www.the-scientist.com/tin-man-synd...

One final thing. It's odd to see Ezra Klein, a total policy nerd, say Kirk did politics the right way when Kirk had almost no interest in either policy, or the empirical rigor necessary to get policy right. Kirk's approach to politics was 99% culture war rage stoking w/ almost no policy content.

Life on Mars? The latest results and what to do about them:

Voltaire supposedly said that while one might owe respect to the living, to the dead one owes only the truth. Worth remembering after the death of a horrible person who espoused horrible ideas.

NASA has a proposal to re-commission the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for the exact purpose. It's healthy, & up for a 2029 mission—total cost $200 Million, $50 Million already spent. President Trump wants to kill it. Here's more on the OSIRIS-APEX mission - osirisrex.arizona.edu/osiris-apex

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

This is a bit of a shock www.ft.com/content/5ace...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

This is bad news. Shooting people whose views we disagree with can only take us in a terrible direction.

So what I glean about this Mars announcement is that chemicals were found on Mars that on Earth are due to life, and no one knows any other way to make them on Mars. However, this is very far from knowing they *were* made by life. Reminds me of phosphine on Venus; "we don't know" doesn't mean life.

A ton of effort goes into tracking special elections on our Big Board, so we're always grateful when people cite us by name and link us. This data—especially the presidential results, which we calculate by hand—doesn't grow on trees! Ds now running 15.7 pts ahead of 2024. In 2017-18, it was D+10.6.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.