Jeffrey B. Benyacar
@drjeffreyb.bsky.social
Health policy thinker | Healthcare economics & innovation nerd | Public policy wonk | Biostats appreciator | Mets & Jets fan| sic labitur ætas
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." Paul Farmer
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." Paul Farmer
Pinned
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”- Nietzsche
He’s railing against “people who don’t file claims” as if insurance only works when everyone gets sick. That’s literally how risk pooling keeps costs down.So dumb on many levels.
This ignorance is infiltrating our public discourse. He's an MD who doesn't understand basic economics or statistics.
This ignorance is infiltrating our public discourse. He's an MD who doesn't understand basic economics or statistics.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
He’s railing against “people who don’t file claims” as if insurance only works when everyone gets sick. That’s literally how risk pooling keeps costs down.So dumb on many levels.
This ignorance is infiltrating our public discourse. He's an MD who doesn't understand basic economics or statistics.
This ignorance is infiltrating our public discourse. He's an MD who doesn't understand basic economics or statistics.
🚨The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Powerful testimony by Dr. Atul Gawande. ["Clearly I lacked, imagination".] "We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed 'public man-made death,' which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century." 🛟
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🚨The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Powerful testimony by Dr. Atul Gawande. ["Clearly I lacked, imagination".] "We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed 'public man-made death,' which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century." 🛟
R data stuff tonight. It's wild. Every function call spawns a new little universe (an environment) all chained together but aren’t copied: they’re shared. Change a variable in one,and it echoes throughout the void. #rstats
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
R data stuff tonight. It's wild. Every function call spawns a new little universe (an environment) all chained together but aren’t copied: they’re shared. Change a variable in one,and it echoes throughout the void. #rstats
I confess to having paused for a second on this one, a scammer sending me a $0.01 using Pay Pals messaging service that they received my $499.99. These wily hucksters!
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I confess to having paused for a second on this one, a scammer sending me a $0.01 using Pay Pals messaging service that they received my $499.99. These wily hucksters!
A Hobson’s choice dressed up as leadership?
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A Hobson’s choice dressed up as leadership?
“Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this!”....King Lear
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this!”....King Lear
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this!”....King Lear
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this!”....King Lear
Reposted by Jeffrey B. Benyacar
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Doctors Speak Out: The Reality of Antisemitism in Medicine
Podcast Episode · Breaking the Narrative · 2025-10-30 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Yesterday, @standwithus.bsky.social Canada posted the podcast that Montreal's Dr. Lior Bibas and I recorded about antisemitism and antizionism in medicine in Canada. Among the topics, what legal liability has the CPSO exposed themselves to by not acting? www.youtube.com/watch?v=StMK...
Doctors Speak Out: The Reality of Antisemitism in Medicine
YouTube video by StandWithUs Canada
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yesterday, @standwithus.bsky.social Canada posted the podcast that Montreal's Dr. Lior Bibas and I recorded about antisemitism and antizionism in medicine in Canada. Among the topics, what legal liability has the CPSO exposed themselves to by not acting? www.youtube.com/watch?v=StMK...
Wonder how they’re measuring impact of this intervention on sales.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Wonder how they’re measuring impact of this intervention on sales.
Time for some more turnover?
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Time for some more turnover?
Hilbert’s Grand Hotel captures the odd hospitality of countable infinity:a fully booked hotel with infinitely many rooms can still admit infinitely many guests by rearrangement. The paradox shows how intuition, trained on finite experience, fails with infinite sets. ℵ₀
I will now take qs. #math 〽️
I will now take qs. #math 〽️
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hilbert’s Grand Hotel captures the odd hospitality of countable infinity:a fully booked hotel with infinitely many rooms can still admit infinitely many guests by rearrangement. The paradox shows how intuition, trained on finite experience, fails with infinite sets. ℵ₀
I will now take qs. #math 〽️
I will now take qs. #math 〽️
😅 Nothing says for the people like a $15 glass of Riesling at your “affordability” celebration. Socialism sounds great as long as someone else is paying the tab.
Zohran Mamdani’s push to make NYC ‘affordable’ doesn’t extend to victory party — with $13 beers at pricey bar
The steep prices at the party wasn’t lost on critics of the Democratic socialist.
nypost.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
😅 Nothing says for the people like a $15 glass of Riesling at your “affordability” celebration. Socialism sounds great as long as someone else is paying the tab.
While the cowards whisper and the filth multiplies on the right, Ben Shapiro’s out there swinging alone. Republicans are cowering in fear rather than calling out the antisemitic scum in their party. Time to stop being gutless swine.
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
While the cowards whisper and the filth multiplies on the right, Ben Shapiro’s out there swinging alone. Republicans are cowering in fear rather than calling out the antisemitic scum in their party. Time to stop being gutless swine.
Dans un autre endroit, il dit « tu prenais l'ascenseur pour descendre, mais pas pour monter ».
Sublime.
Sublime.
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dans un autre endroit, il dit « tu prenais l'ascenseur pour descendre, mais pas pour monter ».
Sublime.
Sublime.
Kevin Roberts turned the Heritage Foundation from a conservative think tank into a culture-war bunker. When your own antisemitism task force quits in protest, the problem isn’t the press. It’s the president. Time to resign. Skulk away in disgrace.
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Kevin Roberts turned the Heritage Foundation from a conservative think tank into a culture-war bunker. When your own antisemitism task force quits in protest, the problem isn’t the press. It’s the president. Time to resign. Skulk away in disgrace.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”- Nietzsche
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”- Nietzsche
I've seen a lot of mocking memes on this.
It's NOT funny. That’s Dr. Oz and others in the White House helping someone in distress.
Politics aside, let’s show some grace. Not everything is for laughs.
It's NOT funny. That’s Dr. Oz and others in the White House helping someone in distress.
Politics aside, let’s show some grace. Not everything is for laughs.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I've seen a lot of mocking memes on this.
It's NOT funny. That’s Dr. Oz and others in the White House helping someone in distress.
Politics aside, let’s show some grace. Not everything is for laughs.
It's NOT funny. That’s Dr. Oz and others in the White House helping someone in distress.
Politics aside, let’s show some grace. Not everything is for laughs.
sic labitur ætas
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
sic labitur ætas
Remember: R’s random seeds are deterministic across sessions.If you call set.seed() with the same value, you will get identical random draws even across different operating systems and versions of R, as long as the RNGkind is the same. R is unusually reproducible for stochastic simulations. #rstats📊
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Remember: R’s random seeds are deterministic across sessions.If you call set.seed() with the same value, you will get identical random draws even across different operating systems and versions of R, as long as the RNGkind is the same. R is unusually reproducible for stochastic simulations. #rstats📊
TIL: "California Sober".
Thanks to FB and Cameron for expanding my horizons. 👀
Thanks to FB and Cameron for expanding my horizons. 👀
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
TIL: "California Sober".
Thanks to FB and Cameron for expanding my horizons. 👀
Thanks to FB and Cameron for expanding my horizons. 👀
A candidate for NYC who won't repudiate "globalize the Intifada". Someone with zero managerial experience wanting to run the largest city in the US. Also he talks like scarcity retired. Friedman, Hayek, and every Econ 101 student know better: “free everything” means debt, rationing, and regret.
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani and the Jews
What do Democrats have to say about their Israel-hating nominee to run New York City?
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A candidate for NYC who won't repudiate "globalize the Intifada". Someone with zero managerial experience wanting to run the largest city in the US. Also he talks like scarcity retired. Friedman, Hayek, and every Econ 101 student know better: “free everything” means debt, rationing, and regret.
Up next! Recommended by a colleague. 📚
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Up next! Recommended by a colleague. 📚
🚨Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’. A handy reminder that epistemic humility in journalism usually sounds like “Is this true?” (No.)
E.g.
Headline: Is coffee the fountain of youth?
NOOOO
E.g.
Headline: Is coffee the fountain of youth?
NOOOO
darth vader is standing in a dark room with the letter n behind him
ALT: darth vader is standing in a dark room with the letter n behind him
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🚨Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’. A handy reminder that epistemic humility in journalism usually sounds like “Is this true?” (No.)
E.g.
Headline: Is coffee the fountain of youth?
NOOOO
E.g.
Headline: Is coffee the fountain of youth?
NOOOO