The greater noctule bat can, and DOES, hunt and eat freakin ROBINS in midair.

...and then it chews while continuing to echolocate.

Heheheh it "talks" with its mouth full. www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...

But I can imagine good intentions. The lead author, Ann Bauer, recently told me there's simply NO decent evidence showing Tylenol early in life links to autism.

She didn't say it's impossible. Just that the data isn't there & it's hard to study well.

Inviting you to @ me @gavinyamey.bsky.social 😅

They do nothing rule out the *MANY* other factors that come into play here. Their conclusion is that this is worth studying epidemiologically (they haven't.)

I call it an idea paper since it's just a quick & dirty exercise that researchers might do to formulate a hypothesis. IDK why it's published.

There simply isn't data showing how much Tylenol children take early in life. So the researchers thought, gee, maybe we can assume that parents give their baby boys Tylenol after circumcision. It's a hell of a leap! They say so (in nerdspeak.)

Children's Health Defense is like a funhouse mirror for scientific research. But not fun!

Re: circumcision. They cited a 2013 hypothesis-generating, idea paper, where researchers looked for any signs of a potential connection btwn early childhood Tylenol & autism. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23656698/

🧵RFK "HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS" Jr. is now linking circumcision with autism.

This nonsense was posted by his anti-vax group Children's Health Defense years ago, and I looked into it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9D...

When I was reporting in Sudan several years ago, a driver warned me not to tell government officials when I was leaving because the airport is where they stop and detain writers.

So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another case of warping research findings to suit political aims: This time on so-called conversion therapy.

“This is the most upsetting use of my scholarship that has ever happened in my career,” said law professor Clifford Rosky.

By @samlevin.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Arriving in a Blackhawk helicopter and more, ICE raids an apartment building in Chicago.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," said one resident.

"We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Maybe it's morning brain but meat loaf immediately came to mind.

A young woman committed at psychiatric hospital in a flood zone said the river feels like a moat trapping her inside.

“My first feeling is doom,” Aurora said, watching a simulation of the river rising. The facility is one of many.

By @hackwriter.bsky.social et al
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

"It is an inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised," says Susan Monarez.

Q&A with the former CDC director by @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

*2023 data from DOD report: www.opa.mil/research-ana...

About 25% of women in the military & 6% of men experienced sexual harassment in the past year. 7% of women experienced "unwanted sexual contact"

Fewer than a third reported it. Of those who did, 60% say they experienced retaliation.*

It's tragic that this situation will almost certainly worsen.

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

In anticipation of another "historical" announcement, I'm flagging a shady study claiming that apple cider vinegar works better than Ozempic.

Before it was retracted, @jamesheathers.bsky.social pointed out big old flaws. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/research-i...

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

The headline on the actual piece, not for social is great, and so is the piece.

Media, I am begging you to callout false information within the headline.

I know it's a challenge with limited characters, but that's the only part of the story that many people read. The broadcasting of misinformation is as dangerous as policy changes.

Trump's autism announcement may foreshadow ACIPs next move to kneecap MMR vaccines.

@angierasmussen.bsky.social explains how and why no, you can't just "break it up"
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-poison...

I know very little about Bacarelli and his relationship with RFK. A number of credible researchers have now taken RFK's autism data-science money. If RFK and Trump spout wildly distorted & dangerous takes loosely based on their findings, to what extent do we blame the researchers?

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces. This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous,” says Jacob Granger, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Gaza. prezly.msf.org.uk/msf-forced-t...