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
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✅“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.” --Faulkner
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
🎁"Vaccines must be “recommended for routine administration” (our emphasis) to children or pregnant women to be covered by the program. Voila, by changing the government’s recommendations, Mr. Kennedy is inviting his trial lawyer friends to maraud vaccine makers. Call it the RFK way."🛟
Opinion | There RFK Jr. Goes Again . . .
His new schedule for childhood vaccines will enrich the trial bar and make children sicker
www.wsj.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
🎁"Vaccines must be “recommended for routine administration” (our emphasis) to children or pregnant women to be covered by the program. Voila, by changing the government’s recommendations, Mr. Kennedy is inviting his trial lawyer friends to maraud vaccine makers. Call it the RFK way."🛟
🎁"Americans have the right to voice their frustration, but they should remember that violence undermines their message and distracts from potential accountability for the shooting. The uglier protests get, the easier it will be for the Trump administration to distract from scrutiny of the shooting."
Opinion | The woman fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis did not deserve to die
Rioting in response to fatal shooting plays into Trump’s hands.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 AM
🎁"Americans have the right to voice their frustration, but they should remember that violence undermines their message and distracts from potential accountability for the shooting. The uglier protests get, the easier it will be for the Trump administration to distract from scrutiny of the shooting."
A timely 💭 “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him.” Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The danger, Dostoevsky remarks, is not self deception alone, but the habituation to it. It's a form of **moral anesthesia**.
The danger, Dostoevsky remarks, is not self deception alone, but the habituation to it. It's a form of **moral anesthesia**.
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
A timely 💭 “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him.” Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The danger, Dostoevsky remarks, is not self deception alone, but the habituation to it. It's a form of **moral anesthesia**.
The danger, Dostoevsky remarks, is not self deception alone, but the habituation to it. It's a form of **moral anesthesia**.
@rbly.bsky.social even talented beginners could see some challenges here with light prodding. Horrifying how these tools can be weaponized by ersatz experts.
Then switched it and talked about Sally Clark. Roy Meadows was a pediatrician, NOT a statistician. He told the jury that the probability of two SIDS deaths in a similar family was about one in seventy three million. Absolutely bonkers. Rudimentary error. Real world consequences. #stats
Asked to inspire a group of AP Stats students.
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January 7, 2026 at 3:55 AM
@rbly.bsky.social even talented beginners could see some challenges here with light prodding. Horrifying how these tools can be weaponized by ersatz experts.
“We failed,” Offit told me. “And then I was the one who had to go out to the waiting room to tell this mom of a little girl who had been previously healthy two days earlier that her child had died.” 🛟
Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon
A leading vaccine expert on what the country’s newly overhauled immunization schedule means for children
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:28 AM
“We failed,” Offit told me. “And then I was the one who had to go out to the waiting room to tell this mom of a little girl who had been previously healthy two days earlier that her child had died.” 🛟
Then switched it and talked about Sally Clark. Roy Meadows was a pediatrician, NOT a statistician. He told the jury that the probability of two SIDS deaths in a similar family was about one in seventy three million. Absolutely bonkers. Rudimentary error. Real world consequences. #stats
Asked to inspire a group of AP Stats students.
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Then switched it and talked about Sally Clark. Roy Meadows was a pediatrician, NOT a statistician. He told the jury that the probability of two SIDS deaths in a similar family was about one in seventy three million. Absolutely bonkers. Rudimentary error. Real world consequences. #stats
Asked to inspire a group of AP Stats students.
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Asked to inspire a group of AP Stats students.
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
January drudgery.
Spent time on Monty Hall Problem. Nobody got it. Skeptics! So I used Bayes' theorem to prove it. I also drew pictures of doors. Monty's actions are NOT random. THAT selection is key. Lots of nodding heads! 🚪 #stats #Bayestheorem
Less you think I'm exaggerating...
Local Cable Access Channels have smoother transitions. 👀
Local Cable Access Channels have smoother transitions. 👀
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Less you think I'm exaggerating...
Local Cable Access Channels have smoother transitions. 👀
Local Cable Access Channels have smoother transitions. 👀
"Lindsey Graham is the guy in the spy thriller or heist movie 'who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.'🎯"
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
"Lindsey Graham is the guy in the spy thriller or heist movie 'who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.'🎯"
Amateurish first broadcast. Couldn't seamlessly move between stories. Surprising fecklessness for CBS.
I like Dokoupil. I reckon, however, all the hype is just marketing to gin up interest. Anchors are called "presenters" in the UK, a more accurate label. 22 minutes to share the headlines. Just like Couric, Williams, and Sawyer, any changes will likely be at the margins. Same/same.
CBS News anchor makes shocking plea to viewers amid Bari Weiss takeover: 'Don't just trust me'
'CBS Evening News' anchor Tony Dokoupil urged viewers to hold journalists accountable for accuracy and pushed back against 'corporate interests' amid Bari Weiss' takeover.
ew.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Amateurish first broadcast. Couldn't seamlessly move between stories. Surprising fecklessness for CBS.
Re-upping this: "It's like comparing a cruise ship to a kayak," says O'Leary, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Also Denmark has FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. 🎯
We live in the dumbest, most dangerous times!
Also Denmark has FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. 🎯
We live in the dumbest, most dangerous times!
Should the U.S. model its vaccine policy on Denmark's? Experts say we're nothing alike
The Trump administration wants to revamp U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations to align with some other peer nations, including one tiny country in northern Europe.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Re-upping this: "It's like comparing a cruise ship to a kayak," says O'Leary, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Also Denmark has FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. 🎯
We live in the dumbest, most dangerous times!
Also Denmark has FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. 🎯
We live in the dumbest, most dangerous times!
May her memory be a blessing.
RIP. 🙏
RIP. 🙏
Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor who dedicated her life to speaking out against prejudice and to preserving the legacy of her stepsister, Anne Frank, died on Saturday in London at 96. trib.al/NZEPlL6
January 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
May her memory be a blessing.
RIP. 🙏
RIP. 🙏
He voted for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Then Bill Cassidy tries sounding like a doctor again, warning that vaccine preventable diseases are killing children.
You do not get to enable the arsonist and then read a fire safety lecture. History records votes, not walk backs.🛟
You do not get to enable the arsonist and then read a fire safety lecture. History records votes, not walk backs.🛟
Bill Cassidy — who voted to confirm RFK Jr — says his move to roll back vaccine recommendations “will make America sicker.”
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
He voted for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Then Bill Cassidy tries sounding like a doctor again, warning that vaccine preventable diseases are killing children.
You do not get to enable the arsonist and then read a fire safety lecture. History records votes, not walk backs.🛟
You do not get to enable the arsonist and then read a fire safety lecture. History records votes, not walk backs.🛟
McConnell weaponized procedure. Schumer moralizes it. Guess who won. 👀
If not having control of a branch of government means you have "zilch" in terms of power - then why then hell was Mitch McConnell so damn powerful, huh? Why was he able to be so obstructive.
Could that be because he...had actual power? Or did I just get everything wrong about the last two decades.
Could that be because he...had actual power? Or did I just get everything wrong about the last two decades.
They don't have any power to do anything. They have none. Zero. Zilch. Everything else is virtue signaling. It's futile gestures.
January 5, 2026 at 8:43 PM
McConnell weaponized procedure. Schumer moralizes it. Guess who won. 👀
We are not Denmark.
More kids will needlessly die.
Horrible but predictable.
🛟
More kids will needlessly die.
Horrible but predictable.
🛟
CDC Pares List of Recommended Childhood Vaccines
The changes would bring the U.S. closer to Denmark’s schedule and end recommendations for Covid-19 and flu vaccines, among others.
www.wsj.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
We are not Denmark.
More kids will needlessly die.
Horrible but predictable.
🛟
More kids will needlessly die.
Horrible but predictable.
🛟
I like Dokoupil. I reckon, however, all the hype is just marketing to gin up interest. Anchors are called "presenters" in the UK, a more accurate label. 22 minutes to share the headlines. Just like Couric, Williams, and Sawyer, any changes will likely be at the margins. Same/same.
CBS News anchor makes shocking plea to viewers amid Bari Weiss takeover: 'Don't just trust me'
'CBS Evening News' anchor Tony Dokoupil urged viewers to hold journalists accountable for accuracy and pushed back against 'corporate interests' amid Bari Weiss' takeover.
ew.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I like Dokoupil. I reckon, however, all the hype is just marketing to gin up interest. Anchors are called "presenters" in the UK, a more accurate label. 22 minutes to share the headlines. Just like Couric, Williams, and Sawyer, any changes will likely be at the margins. Same/same.
Tragedy in Switzerland ski resort. Young people record but don't flee. Calling this the bystander effect is wrong.That is about diffused responsibility.This is habituation and mediated perception. Endless exposure blunts danger.The phone creates distance.The trained instinct is record, not react.
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Tragedy in Switzerland ski resort. Young people record but don't flee. Calling this the bystander effect is wrong.That is about diffused responsibility.This is habituation and mediated perception. Endless exposure blunts danger.The phone creates distance.The trained instinct is record, not react.
"Arc de Trump"? I did a double take thinking at first this was satire from The Onion. Nope. 🏛️🤨
Trump says 'Triumphal Arch' monument construction to begin within 2 months in DC: report
President Donald Trump said construction of a monument nicknamed "Arc de Trump" will begin within two months to commemorate America's 250th anniversary.
www.foxnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
"Arc de Trump"? I did a double take thinking at first this was satire from The Onion. Nope. 🏛️🤨
💭“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 AM
💭“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
✅“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.” --Faulkner
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
a cartoon of snoopy wearing a top hat and holding a cane says new year 's eve
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy wearing a top hat and holding a cane says new year 's eve
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
✅“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.” --Faulkner
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
Time won't yield. History won't be conquered. So lean into 2026! Be well!
One custom I've Adopted from President Trump is my much more Casual Association with punctuation and grammar. I go with my vibes these days ⁉️🤔
a man and woman are looking at each other and the woman is asking the man if he ever heard of punctuation
ALT: a man and woman are looking at each other and the woman is asking the man if he ever heard of punctuation
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December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
One custom I've Adopted from President Trump is my much more Casual Association with punctuation and grammar. I go with my vibes these days ⁉️🤔
Wow this is ghoulish dreck! His sister just died. Show some grace and leave him the fuck alone.
Distraught Jack Schlossberg seen with nephew entering sister Tatiana’s NYC building hours after her tragic death
Distraught Jack Schlossberg seen with nephew entering sister Tatiana’s NYC building hours after her tragic death
Devastated Jack Schlossberg was spotted pushing his little nephew into sister Tatiana’s New York City apartment Tuesday — shortly after the family announced that she had died following a battle with terminal cancer. Schlossberg, 32, who is running for Congress in the 12th Congressional District being vacated by Manhattan Rep. Jerold Nadler, looked disheveled and...
nypost.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wow this is ghoulish dreck! His sister just died. Show some grace and leave him the fuck alone.
🎁 “Suddenly,” she wrote, “the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky.” It's in tatters.May she rest in peace. 🙏
"She wrote of the horror she felt when Mr. Kennedy cut a half-billion dollars for research on mRNA vaccines, a technology that is also deployed against some cancers."
"She wrote of the horror she felt when Mr. Kennedy cut a half-billion dollars for research on mRNA vaccines, a technology that is also deployed against some cancers."
Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her Cancer, Dies at 35
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
🎁 “Suddenly,” she wrote, “the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky.” It's in tatters.May she rest in peace. 🙏
"She wrote of the horror she felt when Mr. Kennedy cut a half-billion dollars for research on mRNA vaccines, a technology that is also deployed against some cancers."
"She wrote of the horror she felt when Mr. Kennedy cut a half-billion dollars for research on mRNA vaccines, a technology that is also deployed against some cancers."
"The era of vaccines is over". 🤡
Brownstone Institute is what happens when smug certainty mistakes itself for insight. It's grievance cosplay by ninnies. Never heard of this intellectual nullity, but this is vile, uninformed, dangerous, and gross.
#medsky 🛟
Brownstone Institute is what happens when smug certainty mistakes itself for insight. It's grievance cosplay by ninnies. Never heard of this intellectual nullity, but this is vile, uninformed, dangerous, and gross.
#medsky 🛟
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"The era of vaccines is over". 🤡
Brownstone Institute is what happens when smug certainty mistakes itself for insight. It's grievance cosplay by ninnies. Never heard of this intellectual nullity, but this is vile, uninformed, dangerous, and gross.
#medsky 🛟
Brownstone Institute is what happens when smug certainty mistakes itself for insight. It's grievance cosplay by ninnies. Never heard of this intellectual nullity, but this is vile, uninformed, dangerous, and gross.
#medsky 🛟
Aidan Toner-Rodgers' groundbreaking AI paper was fake.
"What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study."
@rbly.bsky.social Skepticism is how curiosity stays honest.
"What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study."
@rbly.bsky.social Skepticism is how curiosity stays honest.
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Aidan Toner-Rodgers' groundbreaking AI paper was fake.
"What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study."
@rbly.bsky.social Skepticism is how curiosity stays honest.
"What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study."
@rbly.bsky.social Skepticism is how curiosity stays honest.