Among health "experts" who tweeted about Monkeypox, there was a dramatic tendency to get basic facts wrong.
For example, many claimed risk wasn't especially heightened among gay men.
PhDs were among the worst misinformation spreaders.
Being an "expert", being "credentialed", having "studied" something and so on, is not sufficient to make someone truly credible, to endow their words with reliability.
Being right is, and most popular "experts" were usually not right.
The acute toxicity of glyphosate is considerably less than that for common substances like vitamin D, caffeine, aspirin, and even table salt.
Glyphosate thread🧵
There's a crowd of people opposed to glyphosate for various health reasons, but they're virtually all poorly supported. The claims are more about potential than real risks.
One of their responses to acute toxicity data is to reply that they're interested in "chronic toxicity".
What they mean by chronic toxicity is long-term effects of low-level exposure.
Of which there are seemingly none.
Ironically, all the meaningful evidence used to suggest chronic harms is acute evidence: results of poorly-run experiments with short-term high-dose exposures!
The revolution in organ transplants is here thanks to gene editing.
A 62-year-old man on dialysis needed a new kidney. Doctors implanted him with a pig's kidney that had been given 69 edits to be human-compatible.
He immediately stopped needing dialysis.
This man was insanely unhealthy before and after the operation, but at least the organ transplant worked.
On day eight he had his only hiccup, a rejection episode that was easily overcome with a hit from some monoclonal antibodies and some corticosteroids.
For background on how insanely unhealthy this man was, just look at his prior history.
He did die 52 days after the operation, but it was still a success. He died from an unrelated heart attack, with no evidence of xenotransplant rejection, and he had stable kidney function.
High schoolers think it's funny to self-report being transgender.
This makes estimates of trans percentages and other stats unreliable.
Students who self-report as trans also frequently report being blind 7-foot-tall crackheads who belong to a gang and never visit the dentist.
The study is from 2014, and of course, we might "know" (who can say, given the nutty response patterns?) that transgender numbers have greatly increased since then.
In a 2017 follow-up it was found that the issue remained.
Cutting out just the most obvious "mischievous responders" halved the rates of "LGBQ-Heterosexual disparity" in 20 a composite of 20 different health measures.
This one didn't deal with trans identity so much, but it's probably even more affected than general gay results.