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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 32m

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Skeptiker Wien @skeptikerwien.bsky.social · 7h

Kurzentschlossene können heute Abend zu unserem skeptischen Pubquiz ins Aera (Gonzagagasse 11, 1010 Wien) kommen:

Skeptiker Wien @skeptikerwien.bsky.social · 2d

Übermorgen Mittwoch feiern wir 10 Jahre Skeptics in the Pub Wien! Wir begehen den Abend mit einem skeptischen Pubquiz mit Fragen von bisherigen ReferentInnen. Kommt am 8.10. ins Aera, um 19:30h geht's los. Es wird bestimmt lustig! www.skeptiker.at/veranstaltun...

Zehn Jahre Skeptics in the Pub Wien: Skeptisches Pubquiz

Kaum zu glauben, aber wirklich wahr, die Skeptics in the Pub Wien werden zehn – OK, wir lassen das mit den altbackenen Sprüchen lieber. Aber es stimmt: Die Skeptics in the Pub Wien gibt es bald seit…

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 6h

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

I’m shocked.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs.

Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy.

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Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention

Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease previously declared eliminated in the United States, is reemerging with over 1400 cases reported in 2025. This …

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Must-read on Trump’s lawless Chicago invasion: “The president instructed federal agents to use extralegal violence against immigrants & citizens, pitting armed soldiers from 1 state against citizens of another… rubicons can’t be uncrossed.” www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3h

“voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—IF they are presented with this as a clear choice.” Too bad Democrats in leadership positions don’t want to fight authoritarianism

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 2h

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Americans must urgently become aware that RFKJr is an imbecile who puts their well-being, health and lives at risk edzardernst.com/2025/10/amer...

Americans must urgently become aware that RFKJr is an imbecile who puts their well-being, health and lives at risk

"Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This i...

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 7h

It is wrong, I think, to normalize what is currently happening in the US. This country has fallen into the hands of psychopaths bent at destroying it. This process will drag us all down, and the further we distance ourselves from it, the better for us.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 7h

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 7h

Nobel Prize: "Regulatory T cells are the immune system's 'security guards' that prevent immune cells from attacking our own body" edzardernst.com/2025/10/nobe...

Nobel Prize for 3 scientists who discovered that “Regulatory T cells are the immune system’s ‘security guards’ that prevent immune cells from attacking our own body”

The Japanese physician and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, the American immunologist Fred Ramsdell and the American molecular biologist Mary Brunkow have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicin...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13h

🙏 Thank for the kind words.

His powerful writing is quoted in both of my books because he tells it like it is.

If only more people had been as willing to clearly call out obviously dangerous disinformation as he has since 2020- and many years before that too.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13h

Tomorrow, I, along with Senator Kaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.

Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

ICE shot a clergy member in the head in broad daylight.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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