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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 5h

It's mind-blowing that some former speechwriter, Peter Thiel muppet is the current CDC director.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

It's what Project 2025 called for, political CDC and analysis CDC

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

Good thing those don't exist.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The acting director of the CDC called for vaccine makers to develop separate shots against measles, mumps and rubella to replace combination MMR vaccines, despite no evidence of any benefit to getting the shots separately.

Acting CDC director, citing Trump directive, calls for MMR shot to be split into three despite no evidence of benefit | CNN

The acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for vaccine makers to develop separate shots against measles, mumps and rubella to replace combination MMR vaccines, des...

www.cnn.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 3d

CDC is being led by a goddamn speechwriter haha. Reminds me of South Carolina DHEC under Nikki Haley. Just straight nepotism with about the same effect... Cough cough...

www.thestate.com/news/upstate...

South Carolina reports measles outbreak as statewide vaccinations fall

Five cases of the highly contagious virus have been identified in the Upstate over the course of roughly a week.

www.thestate.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to shoot down his bullshit is like drinking from a firehose, press issues that make him weaker.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 4d

Safety and efficacy of early medical abortion at home between 10+0 and 11+6 weeks' gestation: a retrospective review

srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

srh.bmj.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 5d

I was just going to post this, is this independent from NCBI?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 6d

Certainly a slippery slope but one the US is already well down...

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall

Most of the cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy, a nonprofit legal group found.

www.nbcnews.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 6d

How much is the article processing fee?

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 7d

Can't believe I missed that the @societyforepi.bsky.social podcast recently had stochastic modeling episodes, kinda glad they send out those summary email blasts.

seriousepi.blubrry.net

SERious EPI | A podcast from the Society for Epidemiologic Research

seriousepi.blubrry.net

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 8d

Ha, quiet and gassy or a messy wreck?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 8d

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a, Total incidence of TCs on CONUS by month. Bar height is sum of average maximum wind speeds for all state-by-storm events. Colours correspond to decades. b, Stacked overlapping excess mortality responses to each storm for all of CONUS. Each storm response aggregates state-level responses nationally, accounting for state-level population and adaptation. Outline colours correspond to the decade when the TC occurred. The upper envelope is the total estimated mortality burden for CONUS resulting from all TCs occurring during the prior 172 months (see Supplementary Fig. 3). c, Official deaths directly resulting from TCs for each month according to NOAA National Hurricane Center and NOAA National Weather Service6,7. The y-axis scale is the same for b and c.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 9d

This reminds me of the fetal cell lines used for testing, at what point does religion say, "maybe our >1,000 year old book doesn't cover this"?

apnews.com/article/indo...

Halal concerns drive vaccine hesitancy as Indonesia fights measles outbreak

Health workers in Sumenep, Indonesia, are delivering measles vaccines to children. This effort is part of a campaign to curb a deadly measles outbreak on Madura Island, which has persisted for nine mo...

apnews.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 9d

*elimination and there needs to be an uninterrupted series of outbreaks which isn't the case this year given Texas is under control. Soon enough though

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 11d

Just be sure to at least scan the comments, the study wasn't great.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 11d

www.reddit.com/r/science/s/...

From the science community on Reddit: One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting, a new study shows, revealing the depth and impact of the epidemic of gun violence that has washed over the US i...

Explore this post and more from the science community

www.reddit.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 12d

I do worry about fish die off if it's widely adopted in communities

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 12d

FWIW, maybe be more mindful of stock images:

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Needle phobia could be the cause of 10% of COVID vaccine hesitancy in the UK – new research

People who are afraid of needles are twice as likely to be vaccine hesitant, new research shows.

www.gavi.org

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 14d

🎶Should I stay or should I go now?🎶

www.rezoomo.com/job/84988/

Epidemiologist in Galway | HSE West and North West region Jobs

HSE West and North West region is looking to fill the role of Epidemiologist in Galway. Apply today!

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 15d

Systematic review of animal studies on early acetaminophen exposure shows inconsistent results, with wide variation in methods and dosing, little replication, and overall weak evidence with no clear signal for autism

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A quantitative weight-of-evidence review of preclinical studies examining the potential developmental neurotoxicity of acetaminophen

Acetaminophen [paracetamol; N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP)] is an antipyretic/analgesic commonly used in the treatment of fever and mild to moderate pain, headache, myalgia, and dysmenorrhea. Rec...

www.tandfonline.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 15d

Given mifepristone and contraceptives are also actively being attacked, women for sure.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 16d

Don't forget Harvard also downplayed a lot and emphasized competing interests among the authors...

hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-a...

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 16d

So CDC is just done with hiring ORISE?

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 17d

Why can't people understand that LLMs are probability engines? The output should be interpreted as a point estimate with uncertainty bounds. How can we do that with language as the output? Better hedging?

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 17d

I think a problematic balance in social media is that personal accounts are always hustling for their brand. Book deals are lucrative after all. I just wish more experts would sit down to serious Q&As that are available to a broad audience. Cough, cough, /science and r/askscience