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4 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
OK, let me get this straight. In March / April of 2020, the year went totally off the rails.
In March / April of 2021, we have, so far, 15 million doses of COVID vaccine getting screwed up...
... a massive anti-vaxx campaign gearing up, while the new head of the CDC dithers with mixed messages ...
... over 600 million gallons of radioactive, phosphorous-laden water, from a site that the government of FL failed to address when there was still time, about to engulf Tampa Bay ...
... and Matt Gaetz implicating the Dilbert guy in a sex trafficking ring while his dad is trying to fund an Israeli spy rescue mission on the down low.

You can't *tell me we don't live in the stupidest timeline in the multiverse.

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5 Apr
There are a few people who follow me on here at least in part because of COVID, and for those I want to riff on this finding to explain some of my current attitudes, and in the true spirit of a Cargo Cult Scientist, also explain what data will *make me change my mind*.
So @sailorrooscout is an expert, so definitely listen to what they have to say about T cells and other elements of the immune system.
But you will have also, almost definitely, heard right wing pundits, especially a few months ago, espousing the idea that T cell immunity was sufficient for protection from COVID.

This is untrue.
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29 Nov 20
I am bookmarking this.

For all the stupid motherfuckers out there arguing that (and I quote this figure from some stupid motherfucker arguing with me) 99.97% of people will be fine.
First of all: your math is wrong. The 10:1 assumption on symptomatic to asymptomatic cases is just that: an assumption. Maybe true in NY and NJ, likely not elsewhere ... yet.
Second, just sticking to cases, and not stopping tom punch holes in the "a quarter of Americans have had it, so HERD IMMUNITY, YAY!!!" complete and utter horse shit you're peddling, we we had 143K new cases yesterday, and that's *without* the Thanksgiving surge in 5-7 days hence.
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21 Oct 20
I understand why @C_Stroop has an anaphylactic reaction to calling the kinds of Evangelicals who wholly support Trump "fake Christians", but I was just reminded of why it's always a temptation for me.
The Evangelicals and Fundies have this expression "committed Christian" for themselves.

There is the not-so-subtle implication that everyone who doesn't believe what they do, or pepper every single phrase with God-bothering nonsense is not as committed to their faith.
So it's reeeeeeally tempting to return the favor by calling them fake Christians when they exhibit their typical exclusionary and mean-spirited behaviors.
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11 Sep 19
I get it. I do. I was in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. I remember the panicked stampede at Grand Central when some idiot yelled something about a bomb.

I remember walking down Third towards Chinatown and seeing the ghostly figures trudging north in shock, covered in gray dust.
I remember diving across the 59th St. bridge on Sept. 12, when they reopened the arteries across the rivers.

On my way there, the silence was eerie. 2nd Ave. was deserted. There was a solitary lady walking her dog at 7:30 AM. It was like I was in a post-apocalyptic horror film.
Those images and those feelings will be with me forever.

But this national, public indulgence is ... not productive.

It's been 18 years. This public orgy of remembrance feeds the desire for, or at least the indifference to, continuing the Forever War.

And the press feeds it.
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5 Jun 19
I think @JohnCendpts did a great job in laying out some of the hype behind the @washingtonpost story on Enbrel and Alzheimer's. If you don't subscribe to Endpoints and have any interest in the life sciences at all, do so.

endpts.com/the-washington…
John's expose of the bad Academic behavior of the guy behind the 'whistleblowing" is great. It's a shame the post ran with this story without checking out the full background. Make no mistake, the post story is just *bad* science journalism.
It's not like the Academic world doesn't have legitimate beefs along this line with Pfizer: ask any transplant surgeon about Xeljanz, and you are likely to get an earful.

But the Enbrel /Alzheimer's story is not, IMO, a case of Pharma abandoning a potentially beneficial therapy.
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