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🚨 Breaking: France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is already in the Mediterranean Sea, and is rapidly approaching the war zone with a large supply of white flags
The most shocking revelation of the covid pandemic for me was the realization that the governor of my state has the power to declare himself a dictator based on any public health pretext, to suspend everyone's natural and Constitutional rights indefinitely, and to coerce anyone to inject anything he thinks beneficial for "public health." Such a state is not compatible with a free republic. It is essential that these unlimited police powers are constrained. I support this resolution and I encourage others to read and consider.
Political tribalism is ignoring the science.
In this case, ideologically motivated to do what?
Which specific decision do you think Vinay ignored the science and made a political decision ? Sarepta? Uniqure? Moderna flu?
I looked under the covers at the actual science behind the decisions, and Vinay was correct based on the evidentiary standards that based on your feed you appear to support.
You either haven’t looked at the Science or are making a political judgement.
I know it's FB and a limited sample but it's astonishing how things are compared to just a few years ago. Wales Online usually promotes the state narrative on topics generally. The ratio and the replies...
Das Volk will die SRG nicht weiter schwächen, dennoch muss sie sich endlich der Kritik stellen. Der Kommentar von @vaenaetsch https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/das-volk-will-die-srg-nicht-weiter-schwaechen-dennoch-muss-sie-sich-endlich-der-kritik-stellen-ld.1928270?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030869ad8715e077e55d2a0472f5
Das ist Teheran - am helllichten Tag!
Nach den Luftangriffen der USA und Israel, auf Öllager, ist der Himmel schwarz und es regnet Öl.
Wo sind die sogenannten „Klimaaktivisten“, wenn man sie wirklich braucht? Es ist unfassbar. Dieser Krieg ist ein Verbrechen.
🚨 Modern scientific publishing didn’t become corrupt overnight.
Robert Maxwell’s commercialization of scientific publishing began decades ago — and its consequences now fuel the six plagues corrupting the entire academic ecosystem.
On 5 May 2025, we at ScienceGuardians™ identified 6 Plagues Corrupting Academia. At the root are:
1️⃣ Predatory Publishers & Journals
2️⃣ Predatory Practices by Legitimate Publishers & Journals
These two systemic forces created the conditions that allowed the other four plagues to flourish:
3️⃣ Paper Mills
4️⃣ The PubPeer “PubSmear” Network Mob
5️⃣ Predatory Conferences
6️⃣ Reckless / Compromised Journalism
When publishing becomes a profit-driven gatekeeping system, the entire research ecosystem becomes vulnerable to distortion.
Understanding the structure is the first step toward restoring integrity in science.
@SciGuardians 🔱
There’s a fundamental disconnect between how the world sees Israelis and who we actually are. Over the last thirty years, I’ve looked terror in the face more than once. I was there in '96 during the Dizengoff Center bombing when a suicide bomber took 13 lives. In 2012, I watched Hamas rockets streak toward my home in Tel Aviv. Just recently, Iran targeted the very park next to my house - the place where I spend quiet afternoons with my family.
My story isn't unique. it's the Israeli story. Millions of us have lived under the shadow of a threat since the day we were born. We understand that defending our home against Jihadist and nationalist terror comes with a heavy price, but it’s a price we’re willing to pay. Israelis are, hands down, the most resilient people on the planet.
When outlets like CNN hyper-focus on a tiny protest of twenty people and claim it’s some "growing movement," they’re either completely clueless or pushing a narrative. Western pundits fall for Iranian propaganda, thinking that missiles from the world’s leading sponsor of terror - the same regime that built the proxy responsible for the October 7th massacre - will make us fold. They couldn't be more wrong.
Every Israeli carries a bit of that Churchillian "never surrender" spirit. No matter how long it takes, we believe that toppling the Iranian regime - the world's primary terror hub - is a just cause. This isn't about mere revenge for decades of orchestrated attacks; it’s the realization that this regime is the root cause of the instability we’ve faced for thirty years. Eliminating that threat is the only path toward a New Middle East defined by prosperity and true peace
Well this adds flair to my next article.
We fought, on behalf of @ICANdecide, to restore the federal Task Force for Safer Childhood Vaccines (disbanded decades ago) and we just submitted a 9-page letter on the critical changes the Task Force should implement ASAP.
https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-releases-recommendations-for-hhs-task-force-on-safer-childhood-vaccines/
Du meine Güte... Da stimmt ja gar nichts @grok.
🙄🙄🙄
Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/supermajority-of-voters-support-health-and-medical-freedom-poll-shows-5994728?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=twitter&rs=SHRNCMMW via @epochtimes
Der Krieg der USA und Israels gegen Iran mag aus der Sicht des Völkerrechts illegal sein, aber für seine Legitimität gibt es durchaus Argumente – wenn da nicht das fahrlässige Vorgehen von Trumps Kabinett wäre. https://www.nzz.ch/infoscreens/apg-nzzas/der-dior-effekt-oder-warum-die-weltmacht-usa-nicht-serioes-wirkt-ld.1927600?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030869aafa01e077e55d2a039328
𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 is the use of different exons in the formation of messenger RNA from initially identical transcripts, which can result in the generation of related proteins from one gene, often in a manner specific to a type of tissue or a developmental stage.
To learn more about this NEJM Illustrated Glossary term, read the editorial “Toward a Disease-Modifying Therapy for Dravet Syndrome” by Gemma L. Carvill, PhD, and Heather C. Mefford, MD, PhD, from @NUFeinbergMed and @StJudeResearch: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2515874
Explore more terms: https://illustrated-glossary.nejm.org/index.html
Current allocations under the Rural Health Transformation Program are inversely associated with rural mortality and hospital bed losses, indicating that funding may not reflect clinical need.
https://ja.ma/4cxeT95
This case report describes a man in his 60s who presented with myxedema coma due to secondary hypothermia, which was revealed on electrocardiography.
https://ja.ma/4ukpKtu
In Iran schwören die Mullahs nach dem Tod des Ayatollahs Khamenei Rache. Der Nachrichtendienst des Bundes wies im vergangenen Juli in seinem Lagebericht auf eine erhöhte Terror-Bedrohung durch Jihadisten hin. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/iran-krieg-bundesrat-pfister-warnt-vor-terroranschlaegen-in-der-schweiz-ld.1928263?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030869aafa01e077e55d2a039327
"Das #Ehegattensplitting überlässt den Eheleuten die Entscheidung, wie sie die Arbeit unter sich aufteilen – frei von finanziellen Sanktionen."
@LindaTeuteberg (Thread)👇
#Leseempfehlung!
Vinay Prasad is a hero!
He kneecapped Covid early treatment drugs, opening the door for the wretched Covid shots - & all the vaccine injuries that resulted from them!
-Never ever called for the Covid shots to be pulled.
YAY! Vinay Prasad is our hero!
https://x.com/sabinehazanmd/status/1883721414605480298?s=46&t=hQDucQoy52Cttm-KrsuuIw
Islam is and will always be the problem
Trial after trial shows minimal meaningful decline - except for the company’s external historical control at 1 year.
The entire valuation of this company at this point is based on the company’s unnatural external historical control. (And their ability to control who is head of CBER)
Great job legacy science reporters. Keep speaking truth to power.
I bought this book Iran: Empire of The Mind by Michael Axworthy 15 years ago during a previous crisis and reread it this morning. Highly recommended.
The subtitle is key, Axworthy emphasizes Iran's enduring cultural, intellectual, and civilizational influence rather than just military conquests or territorial power. Iran/Persia has shaped the world more through its ‘mind’ (philosophy, literature, bureaucracy, and resilience) than sheer force. He paints a picture of a land of profound contradictions and continuity: an Islamic Republic with low mosque attendance; strict religious dogma alongside poetry celebrating wine, beauty, and love; restrictive rules on women yet high female university enrolment.
He highlights continuity in Iranian identity across invasions and dynasties — the land absorbed conquerors (Arabs, Mongols, Turks) while preserving core elements of Persian culture, language, and administration. I’ve come away from reading it thinking that Khomeinite Islam is like an alien face hugger on Iranian civilisation. They’d like it off them but it’s a complex extraction requiring delicacy and time.
I don’t think we should be bombing these people. I can’t work out what the political objective is and/or how what we are up to leads to the achievement of it. The whole exercise seems riddled with the potential of disastrous secondary effects and it does not help that American strategic communications seem to be in the hands of the Team America guys.
The Economist, in its “fighting back the tears” obituary for Khamenei, salivates with true depravity over Trump’s future death in grisly, if ecstatic, terms: “...when Mr. Trump’s body was ashes, eaten by worms and ants.” It makes the Washington Post and its infamous “Austere Islamic Scholar” obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seem very quaint indeed.
But I read the whole thing so you don’t have to. The key takeaways:
1. The USA is the Great Satan—no scare quotes.
2. For readers who don’t know what “Israel” is, the Economist helpfully translates it in parentheses as “the little Satan.”
3. Khamenei, otherwise known as “God’s Dictator,” had “divine right on his side” and had “countless reasons to hate the West,” which is an America-led “phalanx of morally corrupt countries.”
4. Khamenei was a sainted and humble man, dragged to power against his will, selfless and “heroically flexible” and unassailable—a “humble cleric from Mashhad who inherited the earth.”
5. Honourable in life, but perfect in death: what could be sweeter than delicious martyrdom? What could be “more deserving of paradise-to-come than to drink the pure draught of a martyr’s end”?!
6. According to the Economist, “Freedom, human rights, dress codes for women” are “tiresome Western tropes.” Yes, really.
7. All his troubles were economic: he was tormented by the West and by foreign enemies. All the crimes he ordered—beatings, killings, and so on—were, naturally, merely “a response” to those Western crimes.
8. He “rules by divine authority,” and “his tongue could channel God.”
9. He was just a ”mild-mannered cleric” gazed benignly from billboards and was a great teacher of forgiveness”.
We have now surely reached the apogee of the decay of the legacy media in the West. Surely it can't sink lower than this?
Prasad is a moron for saying we shouldn’t approve a non-working drug that requires drilling into your brain to deliver said drug.
I am also a moron for saying Prasad was correct.
Pharmabro in a nutshell.
This is a thought-provoking read from Horvath. It also illuminates a major blind spot in the EdReform community.
EdReformers have spent the last year-plus debating why student outcomes started dropping since 2013.
Their leading theories:
- changes to accountability schema as No Child Left Behind policies gave way to the Every Student Succeeds Act
- it’s the Common Core Standards’ fault
Some began to discuss the role of *cell phones,* as phone bans entered the discourse.
No one, and I mean no one, ever talked about Ed tech. Not the EdReform people, anyway.
The instructional people talked about it. But they (we) are EdReform-adjacent, most of the time. Most of EdReform is debating policies and their impact, and all that messy “what happens in the classroom” stuff is a bridge too far.
What EdReformers were doing was generally rehashing arguments they’d been having for years, about the role of accountability and standards. Everyone seemed to be projecting their prior positions onto this national moment of 2025 NAEP failure.
And in the process, potentially overstating the role of policy in the first place.
Somewhere deep in my drafts folder, I have a piece titled “It’s the Ed Tech, Stupid,” responding to this debate specifically. Ed tech was (at minimum) a massive distraction from the academic goals of the Standards; iPads and the Standards hit K-12 at the same moment, and Ed Tech definitely won the battle of educator mind share over nuanced discussion of math and ELA.
The Southern Surge states illustrate the point nicely.
In Tennessee and Louisiana, the two states that charged ahead with low-tech, standards-aligned ELA curricula (the “knowledge-building” options), and made those statewide norms, reading outcomes rose.
For me, this is Exhibit A in defense of the ELA standards, and it puts pressure on the EdReform camps who blamed the CCSS.
More importantly, it illuminates the path to better reading outcomes.
R to @TheLancet: Read more in the accompanying Editorial: http://spkl.io/6017AxQTU
To mark #InternationalWomensDay, editors and board members from The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health highlight 10 advances from the past 10 years that have transformed research and care.
Explore the milestones shaping women’s health today:
http://spkl.io/6015AxQTW
Agree here with most of what he’s saying, but the story should be the ridiculous decisions with regards to evidentiary standards made under the prior FDA.
Inexplicable/harmful decisions made related to Duchenne’s is a good example - there is little doubt woodcock was wrong to approve exondys, elevidys killed some boys (a Peter marks decision to expand a non working therapy with serious side effects beyond the kids in the trials)
Adu also doesn’t comment on the troubling playbook I write about - to 90% of objective ppl looking at this , this is the FDA closing a loophole opened up inappropriately to give dangerous therapies to desperate patients that don’t work and make biotech loads of money.
Frauen, Gewalt, Kinderlosigkeit, Gehalt: Das grosse Streitgespräch zum Frauentag https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/streitgespraech-zum-frauentag-vielen-frauen-wird-die-macht-verwehrt-diese-opferhaltung-stoert-mich-ld.1920530?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260308699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7cfc1
...und am Montag, den 9. März Bernau bei Feuchtwangen. https://krasser.guru/veranstaltungen/die-welt-ist-krank-wie-kann-man-da-gesund-sein-bernau/
Staatsbürgerliche "Pflicht" erfüllt. ✔️ 🙂
#BadenWürttemberg
#WählenGehen!
𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Radiobiologic models developed with the use of characteristics such as mitotic capacity, tissue hierarchy, and differentiation state can predict responses in normal tissue at the levels of the cell, tissue, and organ. For example, the interaction of the dose and volume of radiation with the risk of effects in normal tissue is tissue- or organ-specific and dependent on the organization of the smallest functional subunits (e.g., nephrons, neurons, or alveoli) within the tissue. For some organs in which the functional subunits are organized in parallel (e.g., nephrons in the kidney), approximately a third of the total volume of the organ must be spared from receiving a relatively low threshold dose to maintain functional organ viability. The remaining two thirds of the organ constitutes a functional reserve. In contrast, when functional subunits are arranged in series (e.g., spinal cord neurons), even a focal injury threatens organ function (e.g., spinal cord myelopathy). Tissues with parallel organization generally have a higher tolerance for radiation than tissues with serial organization. Ablative treatments such as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy are more likely to have an acceptable safety profile when applied in and around tissues with parallel organization or in tissues capable of compensatory hyperplasia after injury than in serially functioning tissues (seen in figure).
Learn more in the Review Article “Effects of Radiotherapy in Normal Tissue” by @DeborahCitrin, MD, and Robert D. Timmerman, MD (@BobTimmermanMD), from the National Cancer Institute and @UTSWMedCenter: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2506017
COVID vaccine liability lawsuit dismissed by rubber-stamp judicial panel that botched law: lawyer https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-vaccine-liability-lawsuit-dismissed-rubber-stamp-judicial-panel?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
COVID vaccine liability lawsuit dismissed by rubber-stamp judicial panel that botched law: lawyer https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-vaccine-liability-lawsuit-dismissed-rubber-stamp-judicial-panel?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
In WISDOM, researchers compared risk-based breast cancer screening to standard annual mammography among more than 28 000 US women aged 40 to 74 across all 50 states.
https://ja.ma/4uk8Uec
Have your health concerns ever been dismissed by a doctor - only to be confirmed later?
Let's start the conversation! You are not alone in this type of medical gaslighting.
Heute bin ich bei Ingolstadt https://krasser.guru/veranstaltungen/die-welt-ist-krank-wie-kann-man-da-gesund-sein-weichering/