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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Having to write these bios gives me a sense of existential dread. In other news, some people on other platforms think I occasionally have interesting things to say. #medsky twitter @arghavan_salles IG @arghavansallesmd Tik Tok @arghavansallesmdphd

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Mar 23

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.

First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4h

It’s worth pointing out that in this case, the wellness influencer in question was Paloma’s mother, who was also a former nurse (she had been removed from her post for spreading disinformation about covid). You can read the coroner’s report from the inquest here

www.kent.gov.uk

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4h

It’s very disturbing that there’s no accountability for these people

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Irwin Glenn @irwinglenn.bsky.social · 4h

Please pay attention.

Grifts kill.

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4h

Wellness influencers are killing people. Paloma Shemirani was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which 80% of people survive, at age 22. She was dead within 7 months because dietary changes and coffee enemas didn’t work. Her airway collapsed under pressure from a tumor and she died at age 23.

Wellness influencers are literally killing people

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4h

Wellness influencers are literally killing people

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 6h

It really is infuriating, but it helps that there are people like you who see it

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 6h

Indeed

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10h

We’ve been saying the agenda is resegregation. Hope folks see it now, if they didn’t before

Arie Goldshlager @ariegoldshlager.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump

[Please Repost:]

[NYT Gift Article] Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

"Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black."

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10h

Since he doesn’t understand science, he doesn’t realize this is wrong

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10h

Anytime!

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10h

Don’t like the evidence? Make new evidence that fits your narrative and call it science! Easy peasy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11h

It’s unfortunate this is the pattern in so many professions where there is money and/or power.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11h

There was one person under Obama who didn’t sign. Per wiki they’re still alive, but Jerome Adams’s tweet suggests they may no longer be alive

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11h

Right? No one is perfect, but some people get called out on it more than others. I’m certainly not endorsing abusive behavior, but the same things that are often praised in men (being assertive, having high standards, etc) are often criticized in women and it’s so frustrating.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11h

Totally agree! It’s not just the media, though. It happens all over the place, which is part of why these stories get so much traction. We’re eager to see takedowns of powerful women.

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Joshua Cohen @joshuapcohen.bsky.social · 16h

This double standard has bothered me for decades. Subconsciously the media (especially in America; we're weirdly reactionary in this respect) accepts/condones men in power behaving assertively (to the point of sometimes being impertinent) while it criticizes women in power for the same behavior.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11h

Thank you!

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 22h

There’s so much out there! I really like Erika Taylor, who’s a makeup artist. She focuses on women of a certain age (like me!), which is helpful

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 22h

I was gonna say the same think about tutorials—tons of them on ye olde interwebs!

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 22h

It’s ahead of schedule, even. Who knew they would declare war on the US within the first year? I thought that would come later

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 23h

I feel like we are already in the spookiest possible timeline

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

I don’t think anyone was suggesting it shouldn’t be mentioned or that it’s not important. I certainly wasn’t.

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

Right? I haven’t gotten a single text asking me to donate to antifa

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who that is…but this whole situation leaves me wondering, as I do with “professionalism” reports in a hospital, what’s the denominator? How many men are acting rudely, and what proportion of them gets written about? Same with women. My guess is those proportions are not the same.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

Oh I see what you mean.To be fair, I do think that story has been written many times. I’m sure there’s more dirt to uncover, but I can see why someone might not be too excited to report on something already pretty well documented.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

Yeah that guy is great on the scammer side, for sure.

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