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ScienceBlogs @ScienceBlogs

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We've all been there.

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Happy Birthday to the Progressive War On Science Liberals aren't the problem. Neither are conservatives. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s anti-science crusade against science didn't begin last year, that fuse was lit in 1992. By, unsurprisingly, an English professor.

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Hank Campbell @HankCampbell

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How to tell us you don't live there and are just engagement farming.

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Science 2.0 @science2_0

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Someone stepped on my foot and I think they broke ...

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Some people ridicule the term 'soccer', like it is some American invention. The "soccer" name was coined by the British, in the homeland of professional footie. To differentiate it from rugby football. But that was then. Are Yanks taking over the game now?

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Link: economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

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It was statistically impossible that Asia had 1.6 million fewer girls than they should have had in 2000. But ultrasound and desire for smaller families (and in China, government mandating one child) led to selective abortion of girls. Now that normal sex ratio is below 200,000.

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Life Biosciences @lifebiosciences

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Pleased to announce the first patient has been dosed in our Phase 1 clinical trial, evaluating our lead candidate for optic neuropathies. This marks a key milestone as our epigenetic restoration therapy enters the clinic for glaucoma & NAION. Read more: bit.ly/4urPcMn

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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio

2 weeks ago

Every family is paying about $30k annually for healthcare they barely use, and that typically comes with a high deductible and out of pocket costs. The median healthcare spend is $500 annually. Now imagine an alternate version. Every American has a tax exempt HSA, but to participate, you must purchase at least a catastrophic insurance plan. If we allowed pre-ACA plans, we are looking at $6000-12000 per year. For the poor, instead of Medicaid or an ACA subsidy, the government just funds their HSA for them. Now every family is putting $15k a year into an HSA. Most people would barely touch that. Maybe use some to pay for a DPC and the occasional lab or prescription. But by retirement, everyone would have $2-5 million saved up. That could pay for all lifetime medical expenses for 95% of Americans. The only people who have to deal with insurance companies are those with catastrophic high cost events (trauma, cancer, etc). The only role government has is as a reinsurance to keep premiums low and help people with pre existing conditions get plans. Or for the truly destitute who burn through their HSA and cannot care for themselves (universal backstop coverage). This would provide truly universal coverage, give money back to patients, simplify healthcare, and make every American richer.

Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit

2 weeks ago

this always gives me such sticker shock - the average annual health insurance premium for families is nearly $27K now! I updated the numbers for the upcoming Healthcare 101 course (starts July!) - one of the points I try to get across is that most people don't realize how much

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It's 100% junkification, because everything is linked to the same nonsensical selection pressure. It's humanities people who don't understand evolution.

Rob Sica @robsica

2 weeks ago

"Why evolutionary psychology is comparatively resistant to junkification... Hypotheses must be linked to plausible selection pressures, fitness-relevant outcomes, and mechanistic pathways shaped by natural or sexual selection" share.google/kThwSl4hZ5wCB2…

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You're right about shingles and the rest is just weird alternative nonsense.

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis

3 weeks ago

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received

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A mathematician walked by my truck and thought I was working on an equation.

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In 100% of clinical trials, the only lifestyle change that works is fewer calories. Like Einstein, energy balance has survived all challenges.

Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes

4 weeks ago

What the post also shows is that no single dietary intervention has been shown, in a long term study, to improve long term human health. Not diets that substitute polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats; not diets that replace fat with carbohydrate. Yet I doubt there is a single

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60 years of selling antioxidant nonsense and the number of people helped by that supplement remains zero.

Jake Pearson @JakePearson303

3 months ago

Big Pharma makes billions pushing statins and blood pressure meds on men.

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Science 2.0 @science2_0

4 weeks ago

Don't tell either of them psychology isn't science and this claim proves it yet again.

Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005

4 weeks ago

A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology. Her name is Marily

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All blood tests of the last 15 years have done a1c

Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20

3 weeks ago

I have posted six threads in the last month. Over 400,000 views. Thousands of replies. The same question keeps appearing. Over and over. In every thread. "What tests should I actually get?" Here are the five tests. Under $150. No prescription needed at most direct-access labs.

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Places like California and Germany that subsidized and mandated solar before it is viable have seen electricity costs rise 100%, meaning now poor people can't even sleep as healthy as wealthy elites.

Karl Mehta @karlmehta

3 weeks ago

Harvard just proved bedroom temperature controls sleep quality. Participants fell asleep in 6.2 minutes when cool vs 20 minutes when warm. Yet most people still don't optimize this simple factor. Here's the exact temperature range that triggers deep, restful sleep: 🧵

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They are still death sentences.

Avi Roy @agingroy

4 weeks ago

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months. Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in