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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 7h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 5d

A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials investigating obesity management medications reports that tirzepatide and semaglutide are the most effective in reducing body weight and obesity-related complications, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. #medsky 🧪

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of pharmacological treatments for obesity in adults - Nature Medicine

A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of obesity management medications reported tirzepatide and semaglutide to be the most effective in reducing body weight and obesity-related complications.

go.nature.com

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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 1d

A minimum of 60 civilians lost their lives, and many others sustained injuries following the shelling of a displacement shelter in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, by the UAE-backed RSF militia on Friday and Saturday.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

It is a strange, and unpleasant, irony that zionists are responsible for a rise in antisemitism, because of their terrible lie that all Jews are zionists.

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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer Promised to Fight Antisemitism — Then Handed University Training... youtu.be/l2qx-n4gkok?... via @YouTube

Starmer Promised to Fight Antisemitism — Then Handed University Training to Zionists

YouTube video by KernowDamo

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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 1d

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Drug-resistant bacteria continue to multiply worldwide, with the superbugs behind the most dangerous infections increasing by 5 to 15% annually, the World Health Organization has warned. on.ft.com/4h4tuJ4

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

Any hints as to how much tirzepatide, Mounjaro, affects brain function?

It has anti-inflammatory & neuroprotectiv effects, as well as influencing the dopamine system.

Might it affect the functioning of the default mode network (DM ), ageing, be nootropic?

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

Yea, right. Plants have been turning CO2 into food for millins of years. It's their thing.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

The Head Gardener
might be employed at Wisley,
or be a barber. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #horticultural #tonsorial

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

A further problem is that glasses, contact lenses, and lazik eye surgery don't work for myopia in the -12 diopter region.

Only total lens replacement works, but this is seldom, if ever, available to children, since it is usually treatment for cataracts.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

Correlation isn't causation, but 48% of children on the AS have opthalmic problems, relative to 17.43% across all children ( pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... ).
This makes sense to me, as evidence backing the stereotypical 'nerd' or 'geek' being bespectacled. eyewiki.org/Autism_Spect...

Prevalence of Refractive Errors Among School-Going Children in Urban Versus Rural Areas

Background: The most common cause of visual impairment globally is refractive error. The prevalence of refractive error has been on the rise since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pos...

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Kevin E. Joyce🇺🇸🇺🇦 @5214rrc.bsky.social · 3d

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Two major #psychiatryassociations have called for #RFKJr to be replaced as #healthsecretary

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

www.npr.org

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

The moral hazard is that moral absolutism lends itself to exceptionalism, xenophobia, racism and abhorrent postions like white supremacy.

Slavery, caste systems and Apartheid are defended by absolutist views that humans are intrinsically unequal.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

It's no surprise about the LLMs, but the success of the graph ranking algorithm is interesting.

It gives quite s sharp insight into group minds.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

One disadvantage of reading English texts, when English, is that it is less obvious when you mistranslate.

"Es gibt keine Tatsachen, sondern nur Interpretationen." - Nietzsche

[whatever that might mean, translated]

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

I think from that, this is particularly interesting: "Alle möglichen Tatsachen is closer to “everything that can possibly happen” than to “all possible facts.”"

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

I was struck by what a difference to understanding the Tractatus Alexander Booth's "The world is all that happens to be the case." makes.

Something that I'd imagine has always been obvious to Greman readers.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

There's an interesting discussion of some pf the problems in translating German here:

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus - Words Without Borders

Damion Searls considers his new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and argues for a literary approach to translating rigorous philosophical texts.

wordswithoutborders.org

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

Why, indeed, run away to The Smoke, when you could run away to Katmandu instead?

Besides: genius.com/Noel-coward-...

Noël Coward – Mrs Worthington

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington / Don't put your daughter on the stage / The profession is overcrowded / And the struggle's pretty tough / And admitting the

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

Be grateful, though, to live in a time where a bottle of Laudanum for the weekend, can be obtained inexpensively from your local chemist. Legally.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 4d

It's odd how there's never any mention of the Ukranian refugees as a problem.

Well not really, they're seen as 'white', so no problem.

The whole hatred is really simple racism. Nothing to do with immigration.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 4d

How light the traffic,
when you are in no hurry.
Early - earlier! #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #late #later

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 4d

Prefiguring silent disco.

#philosophy #dance #Nietsche #music #silence

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 5d

Prefiguring silent raves.

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