Tom Matches
@tmatches.bsky.social
Degrees in chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, and 35 years in drug development. Ridding my little Kansas oasis of invasive plants. Unlikely to wow or appall you.
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My latest effort to be super-popular in @nytimes.com: “Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.” Yes, the world’s most hated herbicide is way less toxic than caffeine. Here’s a gift link where you can leave all your supportive comments: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My latest effort to be super-popular in @nytimes.com: “Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.” Yes, the world’s most hated herbicide is way less toxic than caffeine. Here’s a gift link where you can leave all your supportive comments: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
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American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
August 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
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Again, if you want to get a COVID19 vaccine this year, please consider getting it before RFK Jr’s fraudulent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets on September 18-19.
There is every reason to believe they will further restrict access. Absolutely shameful.
There is every reason to believe they will further restrict access. Absolutely shameful.
RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Again, if you want to get a COVID19 vaccine this year, please consider getting it before RFK Jr’s fraudulent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets on September 18-19.
There is every reason to believe they will further restrict access. Absolutely shameful.
There is every reason to believe they will further restrict access. Absolutely shameful.
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Truly remarkable new research that sheds light on the role that Lithium may play in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease AND the vital insights this work provides for therapeutic development.
Welcome hopeful news to the millions who suffer worldwide
Incredible medical innovation always imparts hope!
Welcome hopeful news to the millions who suffer worldwide
Incredible medical innovation always imparts hope!
August 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Truly remarkable new research that sheds light on the role that Lithium may play in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease AND the vital insights this work provides for therapeutic development.
Welcome hopeful news to the millions who suffer worldwide
Incredible medical innovation always imparts hope!
Welcome hopeful news to the millions who suffer worldwide
Incredible medical innovation always imparts hope!
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Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
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RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop.
mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.
Make it make sense!
mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.
Make it make sense!
August 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop.
mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.
Make it make sense!
mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.
Make it make sense!
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Here's the clip: video.snapstream.net/Play/3GATrkT...
July 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here's the clip: video.snapstream.net/Play/3GATrkT...
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
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Pseudoscience is deadly.
And it's running our health agencies, gutting scientific research programs, defunding healthcare and social programs, and making all of us LESS healthy.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
And it's running our health agencies, gutting scientific research programs, defunding healthcare and social programs, and making all of us LESS healthy.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
Cancer misinformation kills. Chemotherapy saves lives.
Rejecting evidence-based treatment in favor of false hope and wellness industry lies is deadly.
news.immunologic.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Pseudoscience is deadly.
And it's running our health agencies, gutting scientific research programs, defunding healthcare and social programs, and making all of us LESS healthy.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
And it's running our health agencies, gutting scientific research programs, defunding healthcare and social programs, and making all of us LESS healthy.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
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Things that ARE linked to cancer that influencers ignore or even deny:
Alcohol
Tobacco use
UV radiation
Smoking (of all types)
Low fiber intake
Certain viral infections
Almost like people who don’t understand complex cancer biology maybe shouldn’t talk about it? 👀
Alcohol
Tobacco use
UV radiation
Smoking (of all types)
Low fiber intake
Certain viral infections
Almost like people who don’t understand complex cancer biology maybe shouldn’t talk about it? 👀
June 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Things that ARE linked to cancer that influencers ignore or even deny:
Alcohol
Tobacco use
UV radiation
Smoking (of all types)
Low fiber intake
Certain viral infections
Almost like people who don’t understand complex cancer biology maybe shouldn’t talk about it? 👀
Alcohol
Tobacco use
UV radiation
Smoking (of all types)
Low fiber intake
Certain viral infections
Almost like people who don’t understand complex cancer biology maybe shouldn’t talk about it? 👀
I had to tear myself away from a Mark Cuban thread regarding drug expiration dating. I posted a bunch of replies but didn't completely open the fire hose. Relax, I'm not going to do that here, but I thought I'd summarize.
January 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I had to tear myself away from a Mark Cuban thread regarding drug expiration dating. I posted a bunch of replies but didn't completely open the fire hose. Relax, I'm not going to do that here, but I thought I'd summarize.
Lay your bets. My money is on Kevin Sorbo as ambassador to North Macedonia next.
December 18, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Lay your bets. My money is on Kevin Sorbo as ambassador to North Macedonia next.
I found this well-written and insightful.
We are getting presented with a false binary: do we support violence or do we support nonviolence?
The choice here is more about a reality that people have only begun contending with. Revolution is coming. The question is whether we will be participants and if so how.
My latest.
The choice here is more about a reality that people have only begun contending with. Revolution is coming. The question is whether we will be participants and if so how.
My latest.
What Kind of Revolution Do You Want?
It's not just about a CEO's murder. It's about the kind of change we want and how we get there. And why we're here in the first place. A message to both those condemning and those celebrating the act.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:22 AM
I found this well-written and insightful.
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Pretty close to home.
Veronica Coan: “Daddy, do scientists just spend most of their time saying, ‘this is bullshit, this is bullshit, and this is also bullshit?’”
Jim Coan: “Yes, my love, that is what scientists spend most of their time doing.”
Jim Coan: “Yes, my love, that is what scientists spend most of their time doing.”
December 15, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Pretty close to home.
1. DST=Daylight Saving (not Savings) Time
2. It's Standard Time now.
3. DST is associated with increases in health issues, and not just around the transition date.
4. Solar time, with the sun at its highest point of the day at noon, would be healthiest.
5. Standard Time is closest to solar time.
2. It's Standard Time now.
3. DST is associated with increases in health issues, and not just around the transition date.
4. Solar time, with the sun at its highest point of the day at noon, would be healthiest.
5. Standard Time is closest to solar time.
December 14, 2024 at 2:47 AM
1. DST=Daylight Saving (not Savings) Time
2. It's Standard Time now.
3. DST is associated with increases in health issues, and not just around the transition date.
4. Solar time, with the sun at its highest point of the day at noon, would be healthiest.
5. Standard Time is closest to solar time.
2. It's Standard Time now.
3. DST is associated with increases in health issues, and not just around the transition date.
4. Solar time, with the sun at its highest point of the day at noon, would be healthiest.
5. Standard Time is closest to solar time.
I'm going to share this, because it bears sharing.
Everybody thinks dogs are better than people but I’ve never had a human roommate who greeted a visitor by just fucking yelling at them.
December 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM
I'm going to share this, because it bears sharing.
Roll call: Fezzik, Pippa, Sakima, and Remy
November 19, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Roll call: Fezzik, Pippa, Sakima, and Remy