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As the FDA and NIH eschew animal testing, startup raises $40 million for lab-grown organs www.statnews.com/2025/05/29/a... via @statnews.com

Another Starship flight failed. Each rocket launch costs about $90 million. Estimated $540 million of our taxes literally up in smoke. Does RFK know this? Is he happy with $540 million spent on a dream to go to Mars, while here on the ground, medical research is being gutted?

What it’s like to have measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses www.statnews.com/2025/05/10/w... via @statnews.com

Wanna be scientists.

Scientists can dream and imagine and discover. And cheat. AI can’t judge whether a published paper is rigorous or contains made-up data.

A colleague told me last week that she and her husband left China to come to the US to escape the cultural revolution. She feels like it’s happening again.

The scar is from the smallpox vaccination. I have one too. The measles vaccine was first available in 1963.

San Diego

Dentists must have been running out of customers. A shame because kids in Utah have beautiful teeth.

Peter is honorable, which meant that he could not bow to pressure to abandon evidence-based medicine. He is an extraordinary communicator, and I hope that he will continue to speak the truth. And I hope that he can wait this out and come to our rescue when we will need him desperately.

A huge loss at FDA.
Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

The mice are transgenic, not transgender!

Sucks.

Will they stop when the total reaches the amount that Musk gets each year from our taxes- $3.7 billion?

Clueless. Cruel. If they want to save money, stop paying Musk 8 billion a year for his rockets and satellites.

$8 billion a year in government contracts, right? If he reduced that to $4 billion, all the other cost-cutting could stop.

Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t... via @statnews.com

What if it had been a republican?

“Walking pneumonia” here. My cat nurse, Lily, won’t let me out of her sight.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Ick- couldn’t pay me enough.

A convicted grifter and yes, a rapist, by definition.