According to Strimpel “You can’t have everything, and falling birth rates happen to be correlated with freer, more prosperous societies in which women have choice,” Wrong. Birth rates are falling in almost every country in the world from China to Iran to the US to Scandinavia to the UK. 12/
Strimpel claims that pro-family policies like tax breaks are attempts “to emotionally blackmail women into breeding”. But blackmail is what you use to force someone to do what they DON’T WANT TO DO. 92% of young women do want children. Are tax breaks for electric cars ‘blackmail’? 7/
This is seriously misleading: “the truth is that fertility does not go through a meaningfully sharp drop at 35, & in the right conditions can continue only slightly dimmed into a woman’s early 40s”
There’s no ‘cliff edge’ at 35because fertility declines steadily FROM AGE 20. 5/
Even more significantly, the marriage rate in Hungary has boomed, again bucking regional trends. Given that marriage is the best indicator of future fertility, this bodes well. Tax breaks are no silver bullet, but they do have some positive effect. 3/
Author Zoe Strimpel says: “Hungary’s…offer to rescind income tax for parents of more than three children hasn’t nudged the needle really at all.”
But as this graph shows, fertility did rise sharply in Hungary - against the European trend - after family policies were introduced in 2010. 2/
What they did to these DOGE kids, purely to harass them and discourage anyone else from even trying to do real civic work, is completely beyond the pale. Truly sick people. Credit to Nathan Cavanaugh for running circles around that mob.
Der Arbeitsforscher Hans Rusinek im Cicero Podcast über die Vier-Tage-Woche, „Lifestyle-Teilzeit“ und die Frage, ob wir Angst vor KI im Arbeitsalltag haben müssen. #Arbeit
Podcast anhören: https://tinyurl.com/2csrdbtr
💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations.
https://ja.ma/4bgWA5u
Ab 18 Uhr live auf http://kontrafunk.radio, YouTube und X: Christian Wirth (@ChrWirthMdB), Matthias Matussek (@mmatussek), Daniel Barthel, Joana Cotar (@JoanaCotar), Dietmar Buchberger und Markus Vahlefeld (@MVahlefeld).
Hey @grok who is @apoorva_nyc ?? Give me lifetime biography in which country she came from and why she is stealing other people’s work and not crediting them? I want to make this Witch a household name as this is not her first time.
Nach dem Ausbruch des Zollstreits mit den USA exportierten chinesische Unternehmen verstärkt in den Nahen Osten. Jetzt bedroht der Krieg das Wachstum. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/von-alibaba-bis-xiaomi-chinas-firmen-fahren-ihre-aktivitaeten-in-der-golfregion-herunter-ld.1928923?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e708
They said treating workers decently would bankrupt Robert Owen.
He proved them wrong. 🏴
Born in a tiny Welsh town. Son of a saddler. Left home at ten years old with nothing.
By eighteen he'd borrowed £100 and started his own mill. By twenty-nine he owned New Lanark. One of the largest mills in Britain. Two thousand workers. Five hundred of them children. Beaten. Starving. Worked from dawn to dark.
He looked at all of it. And changed everything.
He stopped the beatings. Sent the children out of the mill and into school. Cut the hours. Built proper housing. Opened a village store selling goods at near cost. Evening classes. Music. Dancing. A community.
And then he opened the first infant school in Britain.
Every mill owner in Britain laughed at him. Every politician told him it was impossible. You cannot treat workers well and make money. The iron law of profit.
New Lanark became more profitable than ever. 📈
Workers who were healthy worked harder. Workers who were educated solved problems. Workers who were respected didn't leave.
He broke the iron law.
20,000 people came from across Europe to see it. Royalty. Politicians. Reformers. They came to see the impossible. A factory that treated people like people.
Owen lobbied Parliament for the Factory Act of 1819.
The first time in British history that Parliament said children have limits. ⚖️
His village store became the cooperative movement. His school became the blueprint for early education. His proof that decency pays changed the argument forever.
New Lanark still stands. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. 🏛️
A saddler's son from Wales who left home at ten.
Ordinary people from our island constantly changed the world. 🇬🇧
Be part of us - http://proudofus.co.uk/support
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Artificial Intelligence in the Clinic: Don’t Pay for the Tool, Pay for the Care https://nej.md/3ZEpqYr
Continuing #GLP1 or GIP agonists before upper endoscopy increased the risk of clinically significant residual gastric volume, with no additional aspiration events.
https://ja.ma/4shmbmm
💬 Perspective: The Great Healthcare Plan introduces policies like most-favored-nation drug pricing and PBM reform, but anticipated impacts on health care costs and coverage are limited.
https://ja.ma/46WyBaI
It’s been 16 days since Khamenei was eliminated, and he still hasn’t been buried.
Are they waiting for Mojtaba so they can do a 2-for-1 Ayatollah funeral?
Who Needs Glyphosate? https://brownstone.org/articles/who-needs-glyphosate/ via @brownstoneinst
Current early detection strategies for #Sepsis focus on hospitalized patients, but most cases begin days earlier in the community. Smart technology could help detect and manage sepsis before hospital admission.
JAMA Senior Editor Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, discusses 5 areas of research that could benefit care for critically ill patients.
🎥 Watch the full video: https://ja.ma/4uvtE2F
Zwei Rüstungstitel unterhalb des Radars: Einer ist günstig, einer wächst sehr stark https://www.nzz.ch/finanzen/zwei-ruestungstitel-unterhalb-des-radars-einer-ist-guenstig-einer-waechst-sehr-stark-ld.1929166?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e707
🔴The Kremlin is expected to intensify its crackdown on Telegram, one of Russia's most widely used messaging platforms. The move could fuel an escalating struggle over censorship — with Russia's place in the world hanging in the balance.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-global-internet-shutdown-vpn-durov-telegram-2026-3
"Vertuschte Vergewaltigung in Jugendzentrum: Neukölln ist Rotherham – nur auf Deutsch"
@TobiasHuch, @cicero_online
https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/vertuschte-vergewaltigung-in-jugendzentrum-neukolln-ist-rotherham-nur-auf-deutsch
💬 Editorial: The ORCHESTRA trial demonstrated that surgical or ablative debulking strategies in multiorgan metastatic #ColorectalCancer do not improve overall or progression-free survival when added to #chemotherapy.
https://ja.ma/47ygojO
Tucker is smiling, knowing that he will tell the regime in Iran about what Trump just told him.
Trump grinning, counting on Tucker to do that 😎
📊 Research Summary: Among patients with multiorgan metastatic #ColorectalCancer, tumor debulking combined with systemic chemotherapy failed to provide a survival benefit over chemotherapy alone and resulted in higher rates of serious adverse events.
https://ja.ma/4sok2oI
Just like when we were kids. :)
Die #Linke erklärt sich zumindest in Niedersachsen ganz offiziell zum Feind des real existierenden Zionismus. Dieser ist nichts anderes als der Staat #Israel, ohne den es kein jüdisches Leben im Nahen Osten gäbe. Das ist praktizierter Antisemitismus. https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/antisemitismusbeauftragter-verlasst-partei-die-linke-die-linke-erklart-sich-offen-zur-feindschaft-gegen-israel
Three years ago I brought this to attention through publication on my SS. @Kevin_McKernan @jikkyleaks
Is apixaban safer than rivaroxaban for acute venous thromboembolism (VTE)?
NEJM Clinician Editor-in-Chief, Raja-Elie Abdulnour, MD (@BageLeMage), describes the first head-to-head trial comparing the bleeding risks of these two direct-acting oral anticoagulants. Read the context and comment by Christopher W. Goodman, MD: https://jwat.ch/4doeoye
See What Changes Practice This Week in @NEJMClinician:
🔬 Guideline Watch: Caring for Adults Hospitalized with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
🦇 Clinical Conversations: @PaulSaxMD on Rabies
🧠 When to Consider Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome without Hyponatremia
📊 Predicting Outcomes in Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Leaked Report to Federal Advisers Calls for Urgent Recognition of Covid Vaccine Injuries https://brownstone.org/articles/leaked-report-to-federal-advisers-calls-for-urgent-recognition-of-covid-vaccine-injuries/ via @brownstoneinst
Among adults with multiorgan metastatic #ColorectalCancer, adding local debulking to chemotherapy did not improve survival and increased serious adverse events.
https://ja.ma/47vpg9W
"So where are the ICD-10 codes for injuries due to the COVID-19 injectable products?
Where? It’s been 2 years you bozos. I am sorry to call you bozos but this is serious and it needs ATTENTION! We need answers and we need to give the injured OUR BEST!"
https://substacktools.com/sharex/BEIudtCV
China tut sich schwer mit Homosexualität – doch in Chengdu blühen versteckte Freiräume. Was macht die Stadt so besonders? https://www.nzz.ch/international/chengdu-die-heimliche-lgbt-hauptstadt-von-china-was-macht-den-ort-so-anders-ld.1907233?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e706
R to @JesslovesMJK: substacktools.com/sharex/5rv…
R to @JesslovesMJK: substacktools.com/sharex/BEI…
Seeing as how ICD-10 codes missing for COVID-19 shot AEs is all the rage now... reposting from articles written Feb 3rd and 7th, 2023.
"So my question is, if there are so many types of MedDRA codes being invoked in the context of the COVID shots, and there are also ICD-10 codes to describe COVID-19, then why are there no ICD-10 codes to describe a single COVID-injection injury?"
@MaryanneDemasi @brownstoneinst @Honest_Medicine @RWMaloneMD
https://substacktools.com/sharex/5rvpaRfG
Correcting the NY Times ACIP Reporting on Vaccine Injury https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffereyjaxen/p/correcting-the-ny-times-acip-reporting?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Er har nicht Unrecht. Seine Hardware Capabilities und Signal-Quellen sind die besten im Markt. Er mag nicht alle Rennen gewinnen, aber einige sind so ausgelegt, dass ihn keiner wird überholen können. Sie verstehen davon vielleicht einfach nicht genug.
R to @UKHSA: Here is the latest statement from our Regional Deputy Director for the South East, Trish Mannes on the current situation.
📰🔗 Find the full news story here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cases-of-invasive-meningococcal-disease-confirmed-in-kent
Cases of invasive meningococcal disease have been confirmed in Kent. Sadly, 2 people are known to have died. It's important to know the signs of symptoms of meningitis and septicaemia. Get more info from @NHSuk.
🔗 http://nhs.uk/conditions/meningitis
Nein zum Krieg gegen den Iran - Frieden statt Kriegsinflation! Kundgebung in Berlin am 21. März um 14 Uhr auf dem Potsdamer Platz