Importantly, Kidd et al. IMPROVED the field and led to real genetic causes of autism or psychiatric disorders. But there are certainly environmental causes of childhood psychiatric disorders too. So the goal (hopefully) is not to necessarily disprove, but instead to IMPROVE 4/4

Some disagree: one of my mentors warned against spending too much effort to disprove flawed assertions. Gotta light a candle, perhaps. Kidd not only cleaned up the literature but made seminal contributions (importance of considering diversity in genetic studies, ironically) 3/

It's common for a field to develop "trendy" topics (I'm old enough to remember nNOS) and also trendy to tear down trendy topics. Such criticism is still important (e.g. Ken Kidd helped a lot by removing spurious genetic association studies in psychiatric disease) 2/

Happy neuroscience?
Saw this and thought you might try it. It involves several things you love youtu.be/bHOE-5uR3Xg?...

Seems like those suing are non-profits, and those not suing are corporations. What's worth exploring is whether tech STARTUPS will sue, because the $100K system favors tech giants that can easily absorb the excess cost

My wife keeps telling me about that place. We're in Connecticut now and it seems so close but also so far if you know what I mean

... the right has been quite adept at this, simply bathing in hypocrisy as required to achieve the ends of destroying progressive and centrist ideals. Should the left take the same road? Or will holding to their ideals actually be the better choice for attracting support based on authenticity?

It's interesting work that highlights a typical poltical problem: ideology versus pragmatism. Making an ethical stand is important, but some consider that such stands might be futile unless power is achieved through pragmatic actions that might require compromising one's ethics...

What's the point? It's deserted? That's capitalism at work I guess

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When not private equity, it's often just greed or topheaviness

The one critique that shocked me was: "The NIH Director has never been the PI on an NIH grant". Not sure if that's true but I'm not surprised

Lol it's just for the photo - intent was to get the Sound in the background. Definitely not keeping the glass on that railing

That was Dennis Kucinich's idea. At least it was novel. Trump just went back to his favorite era: 1938. I remember last week when Trump said he stopped 7 wars and should get the Peace Prize; now he's all in on war

I made a chartreuse swizzle to start

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Yes some people were concerned about what I had disclosed, and others began to harass me just for being a researcher in the field. I deactivated the account to remove the previous disclosures and take a break from some of the haters

This paper is suggestive but not conclusive - it shows that dumping spike protein on human retina cultures induces beta amyloid that colocalizes with spike, and that similar colocalization is detected in postmortem retina from COVID patients. Very thought-provoking nevertheless

new pathway discovered by Tomomi Yoshida, Andrew Wang, and tons of other great @Yale folks, described in this recent report @ Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...