Professor. Litigator. Scientist. Bicyclist. Husband. Father. Son. Wrecks grifters, creeps, anti-vaxxers & scientific illiterates. Personal account (not @uOttawa).
Amir Attaran is a Canadian professor in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
I deactivated my X account.
It’s GONE.
GONE FOR GOOD.
(Oh, and fuck u, Elon 😘)
Like the poorest in Asia and Africa.
And it will be Doug Ford’s fault.
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Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
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I think it was honest, but only in the sense that it revealed Watson and not reality.
He was an ambitious, arrogant, misogynistic, and opportunistic man who managed to get himself into the right place at the right time.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Bang-on (as usual) from @nickkristof.bsky.social
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”
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