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🧵 In a shocking/unbelievable move, @CASenateDems @AssemblyDems are about to pass #AB2098 & send to @GavinNewsom to sign into law. Would take away any doc’s medical license for “COVID misinformation” as defined by THEM (not necessarily scientific fact). leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText… ImageImageImageImage
Please read the full text of #AB2098 at the link. I have pasted and highlighted most of the text. Senators @DrPanMD @Scott_Wiener with support from @CMAdocs want to silence MDs by threatening to end careers of any doc who doesn’t follow COVID “standard of care” ie what THEY say. Image
“Standard of care” is a legal term that doesn’t mean what is scientifically/medically factual or correct but rather what many/most MDs in that particular community practice (even if it’s wrong or imperfect). It allows #AB2098 to destroy MDs who speak the TRUTH by defining truth.
#AB2098 would turn CA into a medical police state where POLITICIANS practice medicine, not doctors, where any doctor perceived to disagree or even QUESTION @GavinNewsom or state (who have been wrong - a LOT!) will never again practice. How’s THAT for loss of trust in healthcare?
It is BEYOND shocking that the text of #AB2098 (Section 1e) actually says that “Major news outlets” report that “some of the most dangerous propagators of misinformation” are MDs! Let me guess, they’re not including highest-rated @FoxNews @IngrahamAngle @TuckerCarlson as “major”?
I’m particularly ashamed that Senators I personally know like @HenrySternCA @BenAllenCA would vote Yes on #AB2098 without consulting non-lobbyist MDs who objectively question some state policies and HAVE been right. We are better than this. Image
I fled from Iran at the age of 3 with my parents, with NOTHING but our clothes, to escape a system that silenced and seriously harmed professionals including physicians who didn’t parrot the regime’s policies. With #AB2098 the @GavinNewsom regime will be doing the very same.
I urge any state politician who wants to discuss #AB2098 to contact me or any of the outstanding docs/scientists fighting against it like @DrJBhattacharya @TracyBethHoeg @akheriaty and hear us out in a non-political context, to learn how medicine REQUIRES skepticism to improve.
Any California state politician or organization that supports extorting, silencing, and ending careers of good doctors who may disagree with government bureaucrats (who are often wrong) through #AB2098 has declared themselves an enemy of science/medicine/people and must step down
I urge everyone to contact & tweet anyone involved and urge them to vocally distance themselves from #AB2098 and stand on the side of freedom. PS it’s blatantly unconstitutional and no court will ever uphold it. Read this about a @StanfordLaw professor: law.stanford.edu/2022/04/22/doe…
Think we have a doctor shortage in California now? Wait til #AB2098 becomes law - which doctor in their right mind would want to practice in a state where politicians and bureaucrats have legal power to indiscriminately take away their license & destroy their careers? 🤦🏽‍♂️🤬
@CAGOP @CAGOPdigital you need to make noise about #AB2098. This is far worse than any criminal policy or tax increase as it would forever turn over medical decision making to politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists in CA. Do NOT let this happen. @RoxanneHoge
The rest of the nation, the rest of the world, have moved far beyond COVID, but in @GavinNewsom California, they’re JUST getting started as #AB2098 proves. Why NOW, with near 0 deaths/hospitalizations for COVID esp among younger/healthier people, do they want to control docs?
It’s clear that #AB2098 isn’t about COVID — it’s about codifying the very same permanent “emergency powers” @GavinNewsom gave himself to have a permanent control over docs/medicine & use them to push their agenda/meds onto the population. What’ll happen? People will lose trust.

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⚡️California’s electricity demand at 7:15p tonight is 34,428 megawatts.

Let’s do some math: I already calculated that all transportation in CA consumes 2,434,500 MWh a day. Let’s assume most charge at night (cheaper & more convenient) over a span of 10 hours. That would mean 243,500 megawatts of power used ALL night, EVERY night, to charge every car, bus, and truck once Newsom’s fantasy of an all-EV California occurs. WOW!!!! 🤯

That’s a 7-FOLD increase in power consumption in the evening over what is used at 715pm, but since we use less power when people are asleep, it means our electrical grid will have to accommodate 10-20 TIMES more power consumed than before 100% EVs!

Renewables currently supply 9317 megawatts at that time, meaning we would need to boost renewables 26-FOLD to be able to have “clean” energy. Otherwise we are just burning fossil fuels at the power plant instead of in your car’s engine.

But it gets worse: our electrical grid, as well as home (house, condo, apartment) wiring often cannot accommodate the high voltages and amperages needed to carry all this power. So what happens then? What happens when the grid shuts down because it’s overworked? And how will people pay for transportation when they inevitably have to jack up electric charges dramatically due to surging evening demand??

NONE of this makes sense. Newsom’s “climate” policies seem nice on the surface but once you look beyond the slogans and do the math (I’m an MIT-trained engineer in addition to being a doc), you realize it’s impossible to implement without causing large scale disruptions and overwhelming cost increases that’ll eclipse what we consider high energy costs today.

I haven’t even considered the enormous costs of installing charging infrastructure everywhere, who will pay for it, and the long time it takes to charge an EV, even with “fast charging”!

I have EVs. I love them. But they’re not for everyone and once you mandate them for everyone, we are in for a lot of pain. Time to stop this.
@ib2_real I would be grateful if you could kindly read this with an open mind and non-political lens. I’m trying to help you and other policymakers understand the realities of an all-electric transportation system so you can grasp the unintended but very real consequences of this. Please let’s discuss. Thanks! 🙏
@ib2_real @BenAllenCA & @HenrySternCA I urge you both to read this post and happy to discuss with you as well. We need to face the realities and see if this is even remotely possible. I’m afraid it’s not.
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🧵🚨MED SCHOOL DEI SMOKING GUN🚨

As a former member of UCLA's med school admissions committee, I'm dismayed to see this report showing how DEI policies are producing failing docs at UCLA.

I've also heard from current UCLA admissions that they have anti-Jew policies (just a few per year versus dozens when I was there) and confirmed the anti-Asian bias of the current committee.

But the problem is more widespread and goes to the very top. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is the umbrella organization for all US MD schools.

A whistleblower sent me an AAMC slide deck presented to med school admissions deans several years ago by Dr. Geoffrey Young entitled "Admissions:
How are we moving forward?".

In this slide, entitled "Understanding the Whole Applicant," med schools are told to consider race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and national origin in admissions! 1/6Image
In another AAMC admissions slide, med schools are told to use "More nuanced race and ethnicity categories."

Why? Because while many applicants are "diverse", some applicants are more diverse than others.

If your minority religion/race isn't "oppressed", you're not diverse. 2/6Image
The AAMC deck continues with a presentation by the late Dr. Brenda Armstrong, pediatric cardiologist, Admissions Dean & later Diversity Dean of Duke Med.

Dr. Armstrong's slides show precisely how Duke quantitatively factors DEI in admissions process, encouraging others to copy. 3/6Image
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🌊 ⚡️🐳 The very same people in California who are happily ripping out thousands of Joshua Trees to place solar panels are ambitiously planning to install massive offshore wind farms with the goal to enhance clean energy generation. Here are my major concerns:

1. Environmental Impact: Offshore wind farms can significantly disrupt marine ecosystems. The installation process, involving activities like pile driving into the seabed, generates underwater noise that can disturb marine life, potentially altering fish and marine mammal behaviors and impacting migration patterns and feeding grounds.

Furthermore, these structures can obstruct shipping lanes, altering vessel routes and potentially increasing fuel consumption and emissions.

2. Economic Concerns: The cost of generating electricity from offshore wind is astronomical compared to other sources. Per MWh of power:

-Offshore wind: $67-179 (California high end of that range)
-Onshore wind: $27-75
-Solar: $31-146
-Nuclear: $81-82
-Natural Gas: $52-78

Guess what: WE pay for those higher costs. Like paying $1500-2000/mo for power, more when you can only have EV’s?

Despite the potential for large-scale energy production, the economic investment required for the development of offshore wind infrastructure is substantial. This includes the costs associated with (environmentally bad) undersea cables and ongoing maintenance (saltwater & electric cables!) which drive up the cost per kilowatt-hour compared to other renewable energy sources.

3. Aesthetic Impact: Residents and visitors value the pristine views of California's coastline. A sea full of large wind turbines (many are needed to generate meaningful power) are pollutants, likely impacting tourism and local property values. Worse, who on earth wants to look at an ocean full of these monstrosities?

4. Impact on Public Health and Community: While direct health impacts from noise are minimal, the aesthetic concerns and the effect of shadow flicker can significantly affect community well-being. Read: Environmental Impacts of Wind Power by the Union of Concerned Scientists ().

5. Technological and Operational Challenges: The effective operation of wind turbines depends on numerous factors including wind speed and turbine design. Despite technological advances, issues like noise pollution and turbine visibility still pose challenges. And on a day when the wind doesn’t blow, they make NO power. Imagine a cloudy day with no wind: we’d become crippled.

6. Long-term Commitments: It's crucial to consider the decommissioning process after the operational life of the turbines. Ensuring that developers are responsible for the environmental restoration of sites is essential for sustainable development. But somehow I have a feeling taxpayers will get stuck with the bill.

There actually have been some offshore wind projects in the United States that were either dismantled or abandoned. Notable examples include the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts, which was canceled due to legal, financial, and logistical challenges. The Fisherman's Energy Atlantic City Windfarm in New Jersey also faced postponement and eventually abandonment due to regulatory and financial hurdles. Additionally, the Ocean Wind projects (1 and 2) in New Jersey were canceled by Ørsted in 2023 due to poor financial outlooks.

Let's Talk: The environmental and economic and aesthetic costs of offshore wind are NOT worth the clean energy gains. In fact, they’re anything BUT clean. We already have cleaner and cheaper alternatives that don’t destroy the coast.

This is dangerous virtue signaling that will cost us dearly and destroy fragile ocean ecosystems and it must be stopped. It makes for a nice press conference & photo op but it must NOT be allowed to happen. Not here. Not anywhere.

So why’s it happening? Follow the money 💰. Wonder how much these politicians are getting. 🤔ucsusa.org/resources/envi…Image
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@RickChavezZbur @PhilBrock4SM @ctorosis @santamonicacity FYI @stevenmking95 & @EnvCalifornia - would love your thoughts on all these issues and happy to meet to discuss the many concerns the citizens have about offshore wind. Happy to educate you about the environmental & economic costs. Thanks!! 🙏
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I’m calling on @RepAdamSchiff @AdamSchiff to resign from Congress & end his Senate campaign. Coordinating w/another government agency to suppress speech is as unconstitutional as it gets. Thank you @hamill_law for exposing. More to come. @elonmusk FYI ocregister.com/2023/08/06/bar…
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@lapublichealth @LACountyBOS @LindseyPHorvath @HollyJMitchell @HildaSolis @kathrynbarger @SupJaniceHahn @Morrow_Brett Thank you @Jen_G123 for alerting us to this great article. This is the TIP of the iceberg when it comes to what @hamill_law has shown (at her personal expense!) fighting LA County & @SheppardMullin in the legal system. Few have gone as far as Julie has. She’s a REAL HERO.
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🧵There's been a lot of recent attention on #DEI in college admissions thanks to @GovRonDeSantis @RonDeSantisFL pushing to ban DEI-based admissions in Florida & to DEI in medicine w/@IngrahamAngle @wsj @nypost reporting on @AAMCtoday adding DEI to medical schools. But the scope… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Of all the allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) medical schools in the United States, the majority have questions on their 2022-2023 application cycle applications that relate to “DEI” issues. Typically, the question is: “How would you contribute to the diversity of our medical… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A for-profit admissions advising site has done a great job of publishing every medical school’s 2022-2023 secondary (school specific) application questions. They’re located here (I have no affiliation with the site/company): shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/medical-s…
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