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Mark Histed
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Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

publichealth.realclearjournals.orgAre air quality‒health effect claims a statistical analysis fluke?There are literally thousands of epidemiology (observational) studies in the literature claiming that air quality causes adverse health effects, including mortality. There are three profound examples ...
Mark Histed
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“Public records and interviews show that The Federalist, whose funding sources have been largely secret, draws from the same pool of donor money as Real Clear…” @rickhasen.bsky.social ‘s Election Law Blog quoting NYT electionlawblog.org/2020/a-popul...

electionlawblog.org"A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn. What Steered It?" #ELBNYT: Interviews with current and former Real Clear staff members, along with a review of its coverage and tax filings, point to a shift to the right within the organization in late 2017, when the bulk...

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Mark Histed
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“Liz Uihlein minimized the virus, calling it “overhyped,” and endangered Uline workers by allegedly using lax safety practices and initially discouraging employees from working from home”

Mark Histed
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Oh wait the billionaires behind Jay Bhattacharya’s fake journal denying COVID risk also made more money if they kept their factories going by denying COVID risk??