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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 9h

In other words: "we'll keep running the numbers in different ways until we find a way to confirm our belief"

Synonyms: p-hacking, data dredging, data fishing
Consequences: Type 1 error, replication crisis, erosion of trust

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 MacArthur Fellows are here: 22 extraordinary "thinkers, doers & dreamers," e.g....
-A photographer documenting American poverty
-An epidemiologist working on addiction care
-A filmmaker exploring racial justice
-A biologist studying plant and fungi mutualism
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www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️ @docwinter.bsky.social · 1d

💉 New study: 2024–25 COVID vaccines cut ER visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39%, and death by 64%.

➡️ Protection was seen across ALL age groups — not just the elderly.
➡️ Benefits held even if you’d had COVID or prior shots.

#COVID19 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #MedSky #COVIDVaccine #TrustScience

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 10h

"We have to climb over, crawl under & work our way around all the obstacles that stand between us and the star: climate change; biodiversity loss; killing of the soil with agricultural poisons, pesticides and herbicides; harming the ocean with our artificial fertilizers; & poverty."

-Jane Goodall

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 10h

"I see humanity as at the mouth of a very long, very dark tunnel. And right at the end of that tunnel, there’s a little star that’s hope. And it’s no good sitting at the mouth of the tunnel folding our arms and hoping that the star will come."

-Jane Goodall

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 19d

The future of #GlobalHealth... decentralize power, localize manufacturing of health supplies, boost regional cooperation, and start with community participation.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19d

The Trump Administration’s ‘earthquake’ is why we need the New Public Health Order

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1d

💉 NEW: Annual COVID boosters save lives — even if you’ve had the virus before. A new NEJM study shows updated shots cut ER visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39%, and deaths by 64% — in all age groups, with or without risk factors. Protection is protection. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
#SciSky 🧪

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Wayan Vota @wayanvota.bsky.social · 11d

Are We Connecting Communities to 3G Student Learning Failure?

I've spent years advocating for digital inclusion, arguing that Internet access is fundamental to closing development gaps. But new research from the University of Zurich has me questioning everything we think we know about connectivity…

Are We Connecting Communities to 3G Student Learning Failure?

I've spent years advocating for digital inclusion, arguing that Internet access is fundamental to closing development gaps. But new research from the University of Zurich has me questioning everything we think we know about connectivity and its benefits for young people in low and middle-income countries. The findings are stark and uncomfortable: 3G internet coverage leads to substantial increases in smartphone ownership and internet usage among adolescents, but also results in significant declines in test scores in math, reading, and science, with magnitudes roughly equivalent to the loss of one-quarter of a year of learning.

www.ictworks.org

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 1d

To date, the PFNA report still hasn't been published. Here's another question, why do we allow chemical exposures BEFORE toxicity reports?
#PrecautionaryPrinciple
#PFAS
#Pollution

Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 1d

The EPA completed a toxicity report on PFNA—a "forever chemical" in 26 million Americans' drinking water—back in April. It shows serious health risks: lower birth weights, liver damage, reproductive harm.
#MedSky #EnviroSky #GreenSky
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 MacArthur Fellows are here: 22 extraordinary "thinkers, doers & dreamers," e.g....
-A photographer documenting American poverty
-An epidemiologist working on addiction care
-A filmmaker exploring racial justice
-A biologist studying plant and fungi mutualism
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www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 5d

"Taken together, these findings suggest that Georgia's work requirements have so far undermined well established coverage gains that typically occur with Medicaid expansion without producing increases in employment..."
#MedSky
#healthpolicy
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 17d

"New" global health strategy launched after cutting billions.

The plan? Direct disbursement to governments (not NGOs), to reduce a "culture of dependency" while simultaneously promoting American prosperity through US commercial partnerships. 🤔
#GlobalHealth #ForeignAid
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

What's in -- and what's missing -- in the new U.S. strategy for global health

After months of aid cuts, the State Department has released a 35-page document detailing how it plans to roll out global health assistance. Here's what it says — and what the reaction is.

www.npr.org

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Single-use plastic was never inevitable. It was a business decision. And we can choose differently if we confront how we’ve essentially been manipulated into arriving here, and muster the willpower to push for something better."
#GreenSky #EnviroSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/o...

Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us

www.nytimes.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16d

Curse of private equity.

After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals.

PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits.

People killed for profit.

Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds

The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 18d

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 18d

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4d

The Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants Americans to “move on” from needing healthcare

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Dr Oz: "The folks that we're trying to help both in Medicaid and in the exchanges are people who with a little bit of help they hope they can get healthy and be able to take care of their families and move on."

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 4d

“The whole point of EMTALA is that when you get a person at the door, you stabilize them before you ask them any effing questions.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/government...

Congress ultimately addressed both needs, by putting EMTALA and the Emergency Medicaid initiative into 1986 budget legislation.4 And although Vance, in a Fox interview last week, described Emergency Medicaid as a “Biden-era” program, it was signed into law by the Republican who was in the White House at the time: conservative patron saint Ronald Reagan.

Leavitt herself seemed to acknowledge that on Friday, when another reporter asked her a question similar to the one she got from NBC News: “Is it the administration’s position that hospitals should not have to treat people who come to ERs who are not here legally?”

“No,” she said, “that’s not our position.” Just like that, she conceded the rationale for EMTALA and Emergency Medicaid—and acknowledged that the Trump administration actually supports taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants. Maybe someone should tell JD Vance.

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 9d

Via @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social If algorithms can diagnose patients as well as doctors, what's left of the physician's role?

My answer: The human connection, navigating complex health system constraints, & trust... if AI's hallucinate 1 out of 100 times, they are not ready to scale. 🏥🤖
#MedSky

Dhruv Khullar @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social · 17d

How good is A.I. at making medical diagnoses? Good enough to help—and to hurt.

For @newyorker.com, I spent months talking to patients, doctors, and researchers about how we can make the most of a powerful new technology and how we can minimize the side effects.

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?

Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

www.newyorker.com

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting read... recently saw the film "The Materialists" which had this topic as a strange sub-plot.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 10d

For those hoping to make themselves taller, the procedure is far from simple. Bones, muscles, nerves and joints all pay a heavy price – and the risks often outweigh the rewards.
www.sciencealert.com/the-alarming...

The Alarming Boom in Height Surgery, And Why It's So Risky

Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bones stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in recovery – all to be a few centimetres taller? This is the promise of limb-length...

www.sciencealert.com

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 5d

"Taken together, these findings suggest that Georgia's work requirements have so far undermined well established coverage gains that typically occur with Medicaid expansion without producing increases in employment..."
#MedSky
#healthpolicy
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 5d

Agree with your point 100%.

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 5d

Devastating and sad outcome to this article... the consequences of EHR alert fatigue, ER overcrowding, and a "...rare patient with an outlier diagnosis."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...
#emergencymedicine #medsky

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.

www.nytimes.com

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