Prof Gavin Yamey
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I’d heard the rumors about Plum Island and used to kayak around it & Montauk occasionally searching for signs as to what nefarious experiments had gotten out of control and I am sorry to report I saw nothing. No monsters sighted. As you were.
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’d heard the rumors about Plum Island and used to kayak around it & Montauk occasionally searching for signs as to what nefarious experiments had gotten out of control and I am sorry to report I saw nothing. No monsters sighted. As you were.
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I feel now is the perfect time to reveal this important detail. Back when Lyme Disease was first discovered, the prevailing winds were much more consistent from the southwest. Therefore, the disease was leaked not from the Plum Island lab, but rather from the snack bar at Claudio's in Greenport. 😉
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I feel now is the perfect time to reveal this important detail. Back when Lyme Disease was first discovered, the prevailing winds were much more consistent from the southwest. Therefore, the disease was leaked not from the Plum Island lab, but rather from the snack bar at Claudio's in Greenport. 😉
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put simply, medicine became medicine by not coddling quacks, which had been the norm until then
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
put simply, medicine became medicine by not coddling quacks, which had been the norm until then
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IMO people with credentials who do this kind of thing need to be kicked out of the profession
that's the lesson of the Flexner Report and the entire move towards grounding medicine in scientific practice and rigor
Paul Starr's book is phenomenal www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/paul-...
that's the lesson of the Flexner Report and the entire move towards grounding medicine in scientific practice and rigor
Paul Starr's book is phenomenal www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/paul-...
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
“A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark h...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
IMO people with credentials who do this kind of thing need to be kicked out of the profession
that's the lesson of the Flexner Report and the entire move towards grounding medicine in scientific practice and rigor
Paul Starr's book is phenomenal www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/paul-...
that's the lesson of the Flexner Report and the entire move towards grounding medicine in scientific practice and rigor
Paul Starr's book is phenomenal www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/paul-...
I also did NOT know that, WOW!!!!
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I also did NOT know that, WOW!!!!