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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.

1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia.

Immunotherapies?
Gene therapy for rare diseases?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines?
Vaccines?
Novel cancer treatments?
Psychiatric medicines?

You betcha.

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February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A Long Beach college football coach sent me a threatening DM from his main account. I posted about it and it's getting some pickup from local publications.
LBCC football coach apologizes for ‘dumb’ message he sent to prominent progressive journalist
The 11-year coach said the message has reflected poorly on the school but stood by his criticism of the “journalist’s integrity.” The college has not said how it will handle the situation.
lbpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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The eradication of disease through vaccination is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

Please remember that when the barrage of bullshit begins.
December 2, 2024 at 11:30 PM