Ari B Friedman
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This is my personal account. Faculty at UPenn. Emergency doc, health economist, geriatrics and privacy researcher. Views are my own. RT does not imply endorsement.
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Arrrrrrgg. This is pretty much the opposite of what we say in this paper that they SHOULD be doing to integrate federal data into a real, secure, useful linkage system.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Arrrrrrgg. This is pretty much the opposite of what we say in this paper that they SHOULD be doing to integrate federal data into a real, secure, useful linkage system.
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At Law Dork, I look into the challenges to DOJ’s subpoenas seeking invasive information from providers of gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. I write about 4 rulings for the challengers, 3 public opinions, and 2 instances of judges directly questioning the actions of DOJ’s lawyers.
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
At Law Dork, I look into the challenges to DOJ’s subpoenas seeking invasive information from providers of gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. I write about 4 rulings for the challengers, 3 public opinions, and 2 instances of judges directly questioning the actions of DOJ’s lawyers.
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Antifungal 'Nystatin' is named for the NY State Department of Health.
'Statins', on the other hand, are from Latin 'stare' meaning to "stay or hold still" for their ability to slow or stop cholesterol production via inhibition of liver enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.
'Statins', on the other hand, are from Latin 'stare' meaning to "stay or hold still" for their ability to slow or stop cholesterol production via inhibition of liver enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.
Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She co-discovered the antifungal nystatin while doing research for the New York State Department of Health, hence the name. (1/2) 🧪 👩🔬
Image: Smithsonian Institution
Image: Smithsonian Institution
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Antifungal 'Nystatin' is named for the NY State Department of Health.
'Statins', on the other hand, are from Latin 'stare' meaning to "stay or hold still" for their ability to slow or stop cholesterol production via inhibition of liver enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.
'Statins', on the other hand, are from Latin 'stare' meaning to "stay or hold still" for their ability to slow or stop cholesterol production via inhibition of liver enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.
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The truth continues to exist whether you accept it or not.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The truth continues to exist whether you accept it or not.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
Vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines save lives. This is not a matter of “orthodoxy.” It is the result of consistent, reproducible scientific evidence collected across continents and generations.
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You cannot change the truth by issuing orders.
You cannot rewrite decades of research with a directive.
You cannot bend biology, epidemiology, or statistics to your will because they are inconvenient to your ideology.
You cannot rewrite decades of research with a directive.
You cannot bend biology, epidemiology, or statistics to your will because they are inconvenient to your ideology.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
You cannot change the truth by issuing orders.
You cannot rewrite decades of research with a directive.
You cannot bend biology, epidemiology, or statistics to your will because they are inconvenient to your ideology.
You cannot rewrite decades of research with a directive.
You cannot bend biology, epidemiology, or statistics to your will because they are inconvenient to your ideology.
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🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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NEW: FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug. Top leaders like Vinay Prasad, George Tidmarsh, and Tracy Høeg led the vote instead. Read for the full list, and expert reaction from @hollylynchez.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/t...
FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug
Top officials like Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh voted on the drug, a major break from the FDA's typical practice.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NEW: FDA review staff was excluded from voting on whether to approve first priority voucher drug. Top leaders like Vinay Prasad, George Tidmarsh, and Tracy Høeg led the vote instead. Read for the full list, and expert reaction from @hollylynchez.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/t...
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Pennsylvania Releases our Rural Health Transformation Plan! www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs...
Rural Health
The Commonwealth is working with local communities, providers, doctors, nurses, and leaders to improve rural health care, keep hospitals strong, and make care more affordable.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Pennsylvania Releases our Rural Health Transformation Plan! www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs...
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Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
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The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
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Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Astounding no one has thought of that before. Let's start w Arrow 1963, shall we?
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Astounding no one has thought of that before. Let's start w Arrow 1963, shall we?
That's the fascinating part of this to me. Just about EVERYONE has experience with ibuprofen. You can experience the pain getting better. You could conduct your own personalized trials to prove to yourself that it worked, if you really doubted it.
I have had two separate lower wisdom tooth removals. For one I got paracetamol, the other one ibuprofen. There was much less pain when I used ibuprofen. N=1, but it adds to the review.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
That's the fascinating part of this to me. Just about EVERYONE has experience with ibuprofen. You can experience the pain getting better. You could conduct your own personalized trials to prove to yourself that it worked, if you really doubted it.
We don't just have evidence that ibuprofen works, we have things like a cochrane review finding two high-quality RCTs showing ibuprofen works better than acetaminophen for dental pain after lower wisdom tooth removal. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We don't just have evidence that ibuprofen works, we have things like a cochrane review finding two high-quality RCTs showing ibuprofen works better than acetaminophen for dental pain after lower wisdom tooth removal. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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I didn't understand an econ paper unless I'd gone to the trouble of taking it to pieces and putting it back together, better still programmed the thing in a computer and solved it myself.
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I didn't understand an econ paper unless I'd gone to the trouble of taking it to pieces and putting it back together, better still programmed the thing in a computer and solved it myself.
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One of the things I discovered about my own learning was that unless I went to the trouble of trying to reconstruct whatever model, argument, proof, reasoning myself, step by step, from scratch, I did not really see or understand its whole in my mind.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
One of the things I discovered about my own learning was that unless I went to the trouble of trying to reconstruct whatever model, argument, proof, reasoning myself, step by step, from scratch, I did not really see or understand its whole in my mind.
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Immigration raids during Trump II have increased daily student absences by 22 percent in the California Central Valley, with largest increases among the youngest students.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Immigration raids during Trump II have increased daily student absences by 22 percent in the California Central Valley, with largest increases among the youngest students.
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Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
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'You’re probably thinking, screw you, my doctor would tell me if something was really wrong, or else they wouldn’t have sent these. But do you know that for sure? Because there sure are a lot of numbers here and a lot of arrows up and down."
I’m Your Uploaded Bloodwork Results, and No, I Will Not Explain Myself to You
I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and l...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'You’re probably thinking, screw you, my doctor would tell me if something was really wrong, or else they wouldn’t have sent these. But do you know that for sure? Because there sure are a lot of numbers here and a lot of arrows up and down."
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SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.
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“Socialism-any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”
Merriam-Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
Merriam-Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Socialism-any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”
Merriam-Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
Merriam-Webster www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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