Looking forward to joining @cvpayne on "Making Money" today at 2:25 PM EST on @FoxBusiness
We’ll be diving into AI, the Iran war, and the broader global impact. Don’t miss it!
Medicalization of Our Spiritual Life https://brownstone.org/articles/medicalization-of-our-spiritual-life/ via @brownstoneinst
💬 Editorial: For adults ≥75 years, 10-year #ColorectalCancer risk after adenoma removal is low and far exceeded by non-CRC mortality, supporting deprioritizing routine surveillance colonoscopy.
https://ja.ma/4tBs9hY
Im Schatten des amerikanischen und israelischen Vorgehens gegen Iran erhält die kriegerische Eskalation zwischen Pakistan und Afghanistan wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Die Spannungen reichen weit zurück, nun ist frühere Nähe in offene Feindschaft gekippt. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/alte-fronten-und-neue-kriege-warum-afghanistans-und-pakistans-rivalitaet-militaerisch-eskaliert-ld.1931123?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040969d52a0176a9f83a5507cd4e
In adults ≥75 years, 10-year #ColorectalCancer and CRC death risk were higher with prior adenoma but both were low (<1.1%); non-CRC death risk was 47-48%, supporting deprioritizing repeat surveillance.
https://ja.ma/48luTb8
My wife Lisa died in 2021
Her death was caused by the AZ vaccine
For families like mine, whether bereaved or injured, this report on vaccines & therapeutics matters deeply
It’s a chance to be heard, to understand, and prevent others going through the same pain
@covidinquiryuk
Another day, another call from a family being investigated by CPS agency in Oregon because they won’t say that their daughter is transgender, won’t agree that she is a boy, won’t transition her.
She is 15. She is mentally unwell.
Her school is the one reporting the parents.
CPS is calling the mom’s employer which will guarantee that mom will lose her job. She is the main breadwinner of the family. Dad’s business is not doing well.
They are legal immigrants with small means. They are easy pickings.
This is queer theory. This is how American will be destroyed. One family at a time.
@elonmusk @megynkelly @adamcarolla @RobSchneider @HHSGov @JanJekielek
If this "recombinant protein product" contains DNA and polysorbate 80, it becomes a gene therapy
Polysorbate 80 is a transfection agent, just like a lipid nanoparticle
The BMJ states that these components are present in the 💉
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/26/6/285#xref-ref-30-1
Causal by Design: new blog article on Statistical Thinking. I'm sure @yudapearl will find something to dislike but I hope there's something he likes too https://www.fharrell.com/post/causal/ #Statistics
Most patients seeking abortion accurately self-selected eligibility for #MedicationAbortion using a prototype OTC package and drug facts label, with 88% concordance with clinician assessment.
https://ja.ma/47GcWnx
Unfair to homeopathy which (if no biochemical / pharmacological action) takes advantage of the power of the mind to help the person heal themself.
“Gender affirming care”, as well as the egregious physical harms, weaponizes a person’s psychology against themselves.
"Schon in den 1980er Jahren hat Andreas Kreft ein Jurastudium begonnen, sich aber für eine Karriere in der Wirtschaft entschieden. Als Rentner wagt er den zweiten Versuch."
@lto_de
👍👍👍
https://www.lto.de/karriere/im-job/stories/detail/jurastudium-als-renter-mit-67-jahren-erfahrungen
#Trump ließ sich von #Netanyahu zu einem großangelegten Militärschlag drängen, obwohl die eigenen Geheimdienste ihn für unrealistisch hielten. Jetzt kontrolliert #Iran die Straße von Hormuz – und die USA verhandeln um das, was sie zuvor kostenlos hatten. https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/amerikas-ernuchterung-am-persischen-golf-wie-netanyahu-trump-in-den-krieg-hineinziehen-konnte
Statt der angedrohten Apokalypse verkündete Donald Trump in der Dienstagnacht doch eine Waffenruhe. Auch Iran und Israel stimmten zu. Der Nahost-Korrespondent Daniel Böhm ordnet ein, was das für die Region bedeutet. https://www.nzz.ch/podcast/iran-krieg-was-bedeutet-die-waffenruhe-fuer-den-nahen-osten-ld.1932858?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040969d52a0176a9f83a5507cd4d
Nashville public schools are embracing Ramadan.
Let's have a look at the people making this possible, shall we? 🧵🧵🧵
I need a graphic for this
What Cybersecurity Compliance Actually Costs an Independent Practice
In December 2025, a $500,000 settlement was announced between the New York Attorney General and OrthopedicsNY, LLP following a cyberattack that exposed sensitive information belonging to more than 650,000 patients and employees. Half a million dollars. For a breach an independent orthopedic practice did not invite and could not necessarily have prevented under existing guidance.
That was the penalty, but what are the additional costs to maintain compliance? The proposed HIPAA Security Rule overhaul would require annual penetration testing, annual compliance audits, documented risk analyses under a specific regulatory framework, 72-hour system recovery windows, and written third-party security verification for every vendor with access to patient data.
Think about the cost of each of those individually. MFA deployment. Encryption upgrades. Managed security services. IT consultants to document compliance. For a small independent practice already operating on thin margins, this is unsustainable. Neither the penalty for a breach nor the cost to prevent the breach have a viable pathway.
After the Change Healthcare attack, I testified that each insurance company had its own unique process for advanced payments, requiring practices to navigate a complex web of procedures and contact numerous entities just to stay afloat. Insurers limited advanced payments based on past billing history. CMS took 18 days to begin making accelerated payments available. Throughout the crisis the bills continued to overwhelm practices. Overtime for staff working manual reconciliation, clearinghouse setup fees, third-party IT costs, and compliance documentation all buried staff and decimated bank accounts. None of that was covered by advance payments. Those covered the gap in claims revenue but not the operational cost of responding to a failure that originated entirely outside our practices.
That asymmetry is the core problem. The liability flows down to the smallest participant in the system. EHR vendor contracts limit their liability to three months of fees from the practice. A data breach involving even a small number of patients can generate penalties that dwarf that figure. Physicians are potentially liable for millions of dollars from failures we did not cause and could not control. I raised this directly with the committee. We have tried to negotiate these contract terms with multiple software vendors. We have been unsuccessful every time.
The incoming compliance regime, if finalized as proposed, applies the same standard to a solo surgeon as to a regional health system with a dedicated security team. More than 100 hospital systems and provider associations called for withdrawal of the rule in December 2025, describing its provisions as “crushing and unprecedented.” They are right but the burden falls disproportionately on independent practices, not health systems. Health systems have entire compliance departments where I only have office managers.
If you are running an independent practice right now, you are being asked to absorb declining Medicare reimbursements, prior authorization administrative burden, and now a cybersecurity mandate designed for organizations ten times your size. Each of these pressures in isolation is probably manageable but together they are the mechanism by which independent medicine is being systematically priced out of existence.
Friedrich Merz beruft allen Ernstes eine Pressekonferenz zum Thema Benzinpreise ein, um den Deutschen dann mitzuteilen: „Rechnen Sie nicht mit kurzfristigen Entscheidungen.“
Ich kann das alles nicht mehr glauben.
Welcome to a $19.8 million Adult Daycare in California
- No adults
- No info how to enroll my “grandma”
- Phone number to nowhere
- New BMW parked outside
Prime example of fraud, waste and abuse
END THE FRAUD.
🚨 With rising concerns over AI-generated content, image manipulation, and research integrity, one issue remains persistently overlooked: improper reuse of figures & tables.
Each year, hundreds of papers are retracted and thousands of corrections issued due to self-plagiarism, missing attribution, or unresolved copyright issues.
These are entirely avoidable with clear, practical guidance.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Guidelines for Ethical and Compliant Reuse of Figures and Tables provide a step-by-step framework for:
– Reusing your own published figures
– Using third-party content correctly
– Determining when permission is required
– Understanding when adaptation is truly ethical
📄 Covering attribution, copyright, Creative Commons, self-plagiarism, and clear adaptation rules
🔗 Access the full guidelines (free):
https://scienceguardians.com/docs/main/ethical-reuse-of-figures-and-tables/
🔱 If you are an author, researcher, or postgraduate student engaged in academic publishing—these guidelines are for you.
#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics #ImageIntegrity #EmpowerAcademics
„Reiche bekommt Ärger dafür, dass sie den von Grünen durchsetzten Ministerialapparat beurlaubt“ http://to.welt.de/aUpWLI3
Artemis II Trajectory compared to Apollo 11 and Apollo 13
FDA issued a warning letter to a Texas medical spa for failing to follow federal requirements designed to ensure prescription drugs are safe, traceable, and come from verified sources. These safeguards help protect patients from counterfeit or unsafe products. Learn more: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/pure-indulgence-aesthetics-723267-04012026
Viel spannendere Frage als was am Golf oder in der deutschen Koalition passiert. Who is John Galt?
Pinned: Falls Ihr mir hier folgt, aber meinen Newsletter noch nicht abonniert habt - heute ist ein guter Zeitpunkt! In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BlingBling geht es um die Identität von #Satoshi Nakamoto, den Erfinder von #Bitcoin. Link hier und in der Bio
Ich bin gerade am Unterricht vorbereiten und stoße auf das…
Ein Corona-Elfchen… 🤮
Habe auch schnell ein Elfchen geschrieben:
Corönchen
Eine Lüge
Alle wurden verarscht
Kinder mit Masken gequält
Lufttankstelle
Chattanooga has a supper club! Join us next month when @repreneau will be speaking to us. https://brownstone.org/event/brownstone-chattanooga-supper-club-may-5-2026-michele-reneau/ @brownstoneinst
In den Alpen kamen diesen Winter ungewöhnlich viele Schneesportler ums Leben. Grund sei das sogenannte Altschneeproblem, sagt Jürg Schweizer, Leiter des Instituts für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung. Man könne von Glück reden, dass es nicht noch mehr Opfer... https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/mit-dem-klimawandel-hat-die-lawinensituation-dieses-winters-nichts-zu-tun-ld.1932234?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040969d52a0176a9f83a5507cd4c
Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden…
8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years.
8% of the entire country.
7% of Cuba.
6% of Haiti.
5% of Honduras.
Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital (@MassGeneralNews): A 70-year-old woman was evaluated at this hospital because of a racing heart, fatigue, dyspnea, and leg edema.
Five months before the current admission, the patient was evaluated by a cardiologist at this hospital for frequent episodes of palpitations and lightheadedness that did not resolve with cessation of alcohol and caffeine use. Outpatient rhythm monitoring showed paroxysmal atrial tachycardia and atrial fibrillation events that constituted a total tachycardia burden of 6%, with heart rates of up to 180 beats per minute. Treatment with apixaban and flecainide was started; however, the symptoms did not abate, and flecainide was discontinued.
Read the full case details in “A 70-Year-Old Woman with a Racing Heart, Fatigue, and Dyspnea,” a Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital, by T.K. Varghese et al., from Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (@MassGeneralNews), and @harvardmed: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcpc2513542
#AFib #Cardiology
"It would change the face of managing critical illness."
JAMA Senior Editor Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, outlines 5 areas of critical care research that could reshape how we care for critically ill patients, from early detection to smarter technology and human-centered care.
🎥 Watch the full video: https://ja.ma/4tyZsCr
BREAKING: No one cares what the UK says
Lloyd's of London had a $200 million problem floating 210 miles above Earth. So they called NASA and said: go get our satellites back.
NASA charged them $5.5 million. For that price, they got two astronauts in nitrogen jetpacks, flying untethered at 17,500 mph, manually stopping spinning satellites by jamming a spike into their rocket nozzles, then having a third astronaut swing them into the shuttle cargo bay with a robotic arm.
The first retrieval went wrong. The grapple fixture didn't work. Joe Allen had to hold a 9,600-pound satellite over his head by its antenna for an entire 90-minute orbit while Gardner bolted an adapter to the bottom. His wife radioed from Houston: "Make sure there are no pigeons on your shoulders."
They did the second satellite two days later. Ran an hour ahead of schedule.
When Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center, a Customs official (arranged by NASA pranksters) confronted the crew about duties owed on $200 million in imported satellite equipment. Lloyd's awarded them silver medals, flew them to London on the Concorde, and arranged tea with Prince Charles.
Gardner held up a "For Sale" sign next to the satellites. The jetpack he used was permanently retired. No human has flown untethered in space since.
$5.5 million for a $200 million repo. The best ROI in insurance history came from two guys in jetpacks.
R to @Ayjchan: There should be a Genesis Mission equivalent for governing research that can cause pandemics. Such research has immense national security & economic consequences. Covid-19 showed this is one of the most challenging problems of this century & requires a historic national effort.
Pedro Sánchez will be remembered as the man whose face was etched by a terror regime that massacred tens of thousands of its own citizens onto a ballistic missile aimed at innocent civilians.
Let me remind you, Mr. Sánchez: Israel did not attack Lebanon, not on October 8 and not now. It was Hezbollah that opened fire in defense of its Iranian masters. Israel has no conflict with Lebanon. It is at war with the Iranian axis of evil, with Hezbollah, and with its enablers, including Maduro and you.
You, Sánchez, chose to align yourself with this terror regime. By doing so, you have become a full partner in the oppression of the Iranian people and a full partner in the terror imposed by Hezbollah on Lebanon.
And we will not forget how you cynically exploited the release of hostages, women and children, at the Rafah crossing to stage a public relations campaign for Hamas.
Many European leaders are trapped in a profound moral vertigo that is dragging their nations toward the abyss. But in your case, this is not confusion. This is alignment. A deliberate alignment with Iran, with Hamas, with Hezbollah, with pure evil.
There are no words to describe my contempt for you. You are a complete and utter zero.
@sanchezcastejon
R to @Ayjchan: Even if one's main concern is AI-designed biothreats, the absence of independent oversight and the ease of acquiring materials by legitimate scientists and apparently even criminals (eg Reedley biolab) constitute a major problem as AI tools become more accessible and useful.
Der Schauspieler Mario Adorf ist mit 95 Jahren gestorben. Er gehörte zu den grössten Stars des deutschen Films und spielte in seiner langen Karriere unzählige Rollen. https://www.nzz.ch/fotografie/zum-tod-von-mario-adorf-der-grandseigneur-des-deutschen-films-ld.1932957?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040969d52a0176a9f83a5507cd4b
"Bundestariftreuegesetz: Mehr Bürokratie und massiver Eingriff in Koalitionsfreiheit"
Ein Beitrag von RA Thomas Ubber (Ubber Labour & Law) auf @efarbeitsrecht - DEM Expertenforum Arbeitsrecht.
https://efarbeitsrecht.net/bundestariftreuegesetz-mehr-buerokratie-und-massiver-eingriff-in-koalitionsfreiheit/
Two topics that get 100x more airtime than they deserve on fintwit:
1) Trillions in Tbills constantly maturing and getting bought again by the same balance sheets that hold them now.
2) The Treasury issuing some on-the-run debt to buy back some of its own off-the-run debt.
💬 Editorial: For patients with 5 to 20 brain metastases, stereotactic radiosurgery reduced symptom severity and preserved function vs hippocampal-avoidance whole brain radiotherapy, supporting its role as a standard approach.
https://ja.ma/4ss0wa5
Among adults undergoing cardiac imaging for #CoronaryArteryDisease, radiation dose varied widely and was higher for CCTA in low-income countries. The findings suggest a need for standardized protocols to reduce exposure.
https://ja.ma/3Q1uaFM