R to @anish_koka: 9/ The barrier wasn't surgical anymore. It was rejection. Enter cyclosporine — discovered by a Swiss company called Sandoz. Animal experiments were remarkable. And Sandoz almost killed the whole thing. Executives wanted to abandon the drug. Limited market. Too costly.
R to @anish_koka: 8/ From 1963 to 1979, 170 patients were transplanted. Only 29 survived. The question asked with growing urgency: how could they keep going? It was the rare successes that gave the team hope. The pessimists focused only on failure.
R to @anish_koka: 7/ What drove him? He never viewed these attempts as causing death. These patients were already consigned to die a horrid death. The people who favored "not trying" talked endlessly about the dignity of death. But that phrase assumes there's a good death to be had. Sometimes there isn't.
R to @anish_koka: 6/ Starzl shrugged. He admitted all those patients to his own surgical service — two residents and two attendings. That was the whole team.
R to @anish_koka: 5/ Most surgeons would have stopped. The medical establishment WANTED him to stop. Colleagues called it "macabre and unethical." The entire medical training program at his own institution signed a resolution denouncing liver transplantation as an "unethical pursuit."
R to @anish_koka: 4/ He was not ready. It took hours to enter Bennie's abdomen. Every piece of tissue that was cut bled without stopping. An elementary observation obvious only in hindsight — operating on a healthy dog liver was nothing like operating on a diseased human liver with no clotting factors. Bennie died on the table. March 1st, 1963.
R to @anish_koka: 3/ When Bennie was born, every child with his condition had one fate: death. A young surgeon named Thomas Starzl believed the only hope was a liver transplant. He had done nearly 200 liver transplants in dogs. He was ready.
R to @anish_koka: 2/ Bennie was born in the early 1960s with biliary atresia — a condition where bile has nowhere to go. It backs up, destroys the liver, and kills children. Slowly. Horribly. The only treatment towards the end was socks on their hands — the itching was so intense children would scratch their skin off.
why are they not talking about the scientists who are being murdered at their front doors — this makes #2 in only 3 months
main stream definitely won’t share these stories but @GTP_Podcast and others will
Deutschlands #Klimapolitik verfehlt ihre Ziele und belastet Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Statt dirigistischer Eingriffe braucht es eine Neuausrichtung hin zu Effizienz, Technologieoffenheit und internationaler Kooperation, schreibt Rupert Pritzl. https://www.cicero.de/wirtschaft/neuausrichtung-energiewende-nachhaltigkeit-windenergie
Norway said no to the EU. We never voted on EEA. Yet politicians let BlackRock and Vanguard dictate our banks through ESG-without asking us. It’s not a climate change crisis, it’s a power grab. We’re not conspiracy theorists. We’re just people who want our country back.
Scam and Fraud
🚨 SHOCKING CONFESSION: @ScienceMagazine EIC Holden Thorp Admits Peer Review Skips Fraud Checks Entirely—While AAAS Rakes in $129M!
In this clip, EIC Holden Thorp confesses:
"We ask reviewers really two things... whether the paper belongs in our journal... and whether, if you take the experiments at face value, [they] support the conclusions... We don't ask reviewers to comb through every piece of data, look for fraud... We don't ask them to run image analysis and determine whether there's misconduct or flawed data."
Translation: Peer review under his leadership is bare-bones—NO fraud checks, NO data deep-dives—shifting the burden to post-publication 'wisdom of crowds,' which we at ScienceGuardians™ have exposed as a tool for anonymous smears (e.g., targeting @NobelPrize laureate and distinguished @Stanford Professor Thomas C. Südhof, then framing him in @ScienceMagazine via compromised journalist @HollyElse).
Why? Reviewers labor for FREE, while parent org @aaas pockets nine-figure revenue ($129M in 2024 from fees/subs/ads) and ~$127M assets.
Is this "rigor" or exploitation in a tax-exempt empire?
🧵 Read the attached thread on the Holden Thorp Puzzle, which exposes his enabling of smearing campaigns against high-profile members of the academic community.
🔱 Follow @SciGuardians to be impowered and to empower others.
Seit Herbst 2023 haben antisemitische Vorfälle deutlich zugenommen. Für die Schweiz, die als Depositarstaat der Genfer Konventionen und als Gastgeberin zahlreicher internationaler Organisationen unter besonderer Beobachtung steht, könnte das zum Problem... https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/schadet-der-zunehmende-antisemitismus-dem-internationalen-ansehen-der-schweiz-noch-nicht-sagt-der-bundesrat-ld.1929139?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b19181e077e55d2a063823
Children across the world DIED and are DYING STILL because men like this were reckless, dumb, and drunk on power.
Carrie is a grifter, and has no constitutional right to be on a commission, her "rights" were not violated. She was removed for being an antagonistic asshole and falsely accusing other people on the commission, and because she's fking retarded.
The fact that you're taking up her cause makes you even more suspicious for taking donations from Islamists.
To Arab countries that are being repeatedly attacked by the regime in Iran, but sitting like sheep and not retaliating: Why did you spend tens of billions on your military, if you're not willing to defend your country?
South Asian adults in the US develop cardiovascular disease risk factors earlier than other groups, according to new research from the MASALA cohort study. Here’s what that means for prevention. https://ja.ma/3NCyudL
Leaked photo of Mojtaba Khamenei in hospital
Channel 14's @DBalazada revealed that Larijani and Ejei are on Israel's elimination list, while Pezeshkian and Araghchi are not.
The result: Today Larijani and Ejei walked densely surrounded by civilian human shields, while Pezeshkian and Araghchi walked freely without fear 👇
“Raise your hand if you were injured by a COVID-19 vaccine—or know a friend or family member who was.”
*ENTIRE ROOM RAISES THEIR HAND*
"Now raise your hand if one of your friends or family members died from the vaccine."
*HALF THE ROOM RAISES THEIR HAND*
Steigende Preise für Benzin und Rohöl zwingen das Weisse Haus zum Handeln: Amerika legalisiert den Handel mit russischem Erdöl. Dabei begannen die Strafen gegen Moskau gerade zu wirken. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/iran-krieg-trump-hebt-oel-sanktionen-gegen-russland-auf-ld.1929147?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b19181e077e55d2a063822
Oh my goodness how did @JClinEpi allow this? The authors are pretending that point estimates are true values! For this study the subjects should not have been given point estimates & you really can't answer the survey questions without Bayesian posterior probs. #Statistics
We can’t ignore this anymore.
Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children.
The dissent is pure gold:
Meine Analyse: So kam ZDF-Intendant Himmler zu seiner zweiten Amtszeit. Geschäftsführung und Aufsicht haken sich unter. Mit einem entschlossenen „Weiter so!“ soll die „mediale Zeitenwende“ gestaltet werden.
https://nius.de/articles/news/so-kam-zdf-intendant-nobert-himmler-zu-seiner-zweiten-amtszeit
Der Iran-Krieg habe die Monarchien am Golf in ein Dilemma gebracht, sagt der Islam- und Politikwissenschafter Sebastian Sons. Sie stünden an einem kritischen Moment in ihrer Geschichte – und müssten sich gegenüber Iran und den USA strategisch neu... https://www.nzz.ch/international/golfstaaten-im-iran-krieg-strategische-neuausrichtung-nach-angriffen-ld.1929039?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b19181e077e55d2a063821
.@PeteHegseth: “Looking up, the IRGC and the regime see only two things on the side of aircrafts: the stars and stripes 🇺🇸 and the star of David 🇮🇱. The evil regime's worst nightmare.”
Sickle cell disease is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders, affecting nearly 8 million people worldwide.
However, current global standards of care are not aligned with the scale and severity of the disease.
Read more in our Editorial▶️ http://spkl.io/6011AISol
Baroness Jay is surprised the House of Lords focuses on the detail. But then she has not spoken on ANY bill in the last four years, except this one.
143 Government Bills and not one was worthy of a single comment. And now she lectures others!
Half of all vaccines don't reach those who need them, due to cold chain failures.
UKHSA scientists are supporting trials of a room‑temperature tetanus and diphtheria vaccine – a potential breakthrough for global immunisation.
Read more on our blog: https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/13/could-fridge-free-vaccines-transform-global-immunisation/
Das sag ich ja schon die ganze Zeit!
Aber die Tesla Fanboys werden sicher wieder eine Begründung haben, warum das genau richtig so ist, auch im Hinblick auf den Launch eines Autos ohne Lenkrad und Pedale 😂😂
Drei Bundesräte haben an einer Medienkonferenz die definitive Verabschiedung der neuen Verträge mit der EU verkündet. Ab sofort ist das Paket in den Händen des Parlaments. Dort wird es schwierig. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/schweiz-eu-nach-zwoelf-jahren-ueberweist-der-bundesrat-die-neuen-abkommen-an-das-parlament-jetzt-live-ld.1929124?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b19181e077e55d2a063820
I suppose the pyramids were build by volunteers
The ignorance is breathtaking
Dänische Statuen bekommen nun Strickkleider angezogen. Was nach einem Witz klingt, hat einen ernsten Hintergrund.
https://www.infosperber.ch/gesellschaft/kultur/wenn-venus-einen-pullover-traegt-daeninnen-bestricken-statuen/
Bildquelle: © Maren Uthaug
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.
Post of the Day:
Secretary of Defense Hegseth says that the Strait of Hormuz is “open for transit” but the only thing preventing the transit of ships is the continued drone and missile attacks by Iran.
Which basically makes the Strait de facto closed.
„Seit vier Jahren ertragen Europas Bürger, dass auf dem Altar eines nicht zu gewinnenden Krieges ihre einst mächtige Industrie zugrunde gerichtet wird.“
Im Gastbeitrag für die morgige WamS erklärt Ungarns @PM_ViktorOrban die EU-Strategie für gescheitert https://www.welt.de/debatte/plus69b2e8316da168ad8c076a03/gastbeitrag-von-viktor-orban-warum-glaubt-man-in-bruessel-dass-die-geduld-der-europaeischen-buerger-grenzenlos-ist.html
Genau das war es: ein strategisches Versagen der Bürgerlichen, das den Atomausstieg erst ermöglichte. So manche, die jetzt ganz anders tönen, haben sich noch vor wenigen Jahren gegen Atom ausgesprochen - und beispielsweise den Abriss von Kernkraftwerken tatkräftig betrieben.