Seth Trueger

I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be

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I don't think these people know how cremations work.

Fern Gully & Avatar Point Break & the Fast and the Furious

recently LilAware texted me a photo of a pastry cube and said "is it about my cube?" and i broke the grinch's echocardiogram

The bad: measles cases in the U.S. are more than double what they were last year, with 96% of cases being unvaccinated. The good: Pennsylvania has so far administered 14,000 more vaccines this year than last. The dream: The anti-vax movement is deservedly shunned and everyone gets vaccinated.

reminds me of this:

All the Everything That's Fit to Film

perfect, no notes

every billionaire is a policy failure

Now THIS is awesome public health (and, yes, it is everything that RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine MAHA movement are not)

Trump claims he has successfully blocked cocaine from entering the US with his maritime military campaign. The opposite is true, and it’s showing up in overdose mortality numbers. I analyzed newly available CDC data and found that cocaine involved deaths are up in more states than any other drug.

It's similar with abortion - they say they want better evidence but they break the systems for building strong evidence and elevate weak systems because they know those systems will empower their allies to inject bias into the "evidence."

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Four vaccines that can protect your heart: shingles, flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines reduce heart issue by preventing infections that harm your heart. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Lesson here goes way beyond weightlifting.

Also for what it is worth, it DIDN'T actually label them as illustrative — and the deception was only apparent because I know the data well. That's scary, because if you use AI for everything, you wouldn't know the data well enough to catch its deceptions.

Cheesecake Factory is the most American thing because nothing about it makes sense, from the name to the decor to the menu, but there's a lot of it and you can't deny you kinda want it.

In America you can call everyone from Somalia “low IQ” and imply that every Muslim is a terrorist and the media will just shrug its shoulders, but come after the decor of the Cheesecake Factory and they will come for you.

my greatest achievement🥲

parents, please check your kids' Halloween candy this year. I just found a single plum floating in perfume in a man's hat in this Snickers bar

when I was 12 I thought The Sharper Image was pretty fancy

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.

But the weight of what Alexander was doing started to settle on him late last year. He said he gets flashbacks about a specific traffic stop, when he handed ICE the husband of a woman he knew. It was between Christmas and New Year’s. She was less than 2 weeks postpartum.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

The “You Haven’t Heard Of Random YouTuber With Some Farfetched and Sketchily Calculated Number of Views?” really hits weird with anyone old enough to remember the last vestiges of American popular monoculture.

I don’t know what I was expecting

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.

guess I should really say “targeted and immune therapies” a lot of the amazing new esp cancer stuff are -ibs, not mAbs

Sideburns*

same construction worker who died his beard? brother? coincidence?