I wrote to Director Bhattacharya with an idea about how to convert these "scientific freedom" lectures into something potentially useful.
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It feels like they’re running out of targets. We started with attacks on Harvard, Columbia, self-consciously “elite” schools that Trump’s GOP has defined itself against. Which MAGA voices were braying for the blood of CUNY and UC Davis Med School?
“Experts along the East Coast are all seeing an uptick in tick activity in metropolitan places where people would otherwise give little consideration to small arachnids crawling up an ankle or arm & taking hold. Where there is habitat, ticks will go, bringing a variety of dangerous diseases w/ them”
Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social: Virology Research is Not a Crime
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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942, on her 13th birthday, she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
JFC!
I don’t want a party of faith. Do your worship on your time. No one prevents you.
On the taxpayers’ time?
Competence
Education
Knowledge of the Constitution
Relevant experience
Separation of Church and State
A commitment to inclusion and equality
Disgraced ACIP member Robert Malone is claiming that RFK Jr. is about to get fired.
RFK Jr.’s HHS has denied it.
Both are prodigious liars so don’t get too excited.
Brilliant thread—the NIH Director’s “Scientific Freedom” lecture series is free of actual science!
“Director Bhattacharya appears to be afraid of promoting scientific presentations & debates by actual scientists but rather favors fringy journalists who promote ideas favored by his boss”
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide
The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place
