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For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,
FOR NATURE CANNOT BE FOOLED.

Für eine erfolgreiche Technologie muss
die Realität Vorrang vor Öffentlichkeitsarbeit haben,
DENN DIE NATUR LÄSST SICH NICHT TÄUSCHEN.

Richard Feynman
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How bleak. Opened an NPR link and this popped up.
June 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Huge congratulations to @annerimoin.bsky.social for winning the Roger Detels Award for distinguished research in infectious disease epidemiology ! #SER2025
June 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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👏👏👏👏
Pediatrician Running To Unseat Lindsey Graham Says He's 'Full Of Sh*t' In Fiery Campaign Video
No lie detected.
www.comicsands.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Out with ACIP, in with…. BLEACH.
June 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Out of pocket cost of common adult vaccines in U.S.
- Flu - $20 to $120
- Shingrix - $400
- TDAP - $25- $100
- Prevnar20 -$312
- HepB series - $120-$330
- COVID vaccine -$200
As per goodRx
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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To remove vaccines from ACIP guidelines, which seems to be the end goal here, is effectively a ban. If a vaccine is not recommended, Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance can refuse to cover it. Few people can afford to pay for the cost out of pocket.

RFK Jr's end game is to ban vaccines!!!
June 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science"
Agree. A clean sweep of the HHS.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines
We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.
www.wsj.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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If you have never stuck a needle in the back of an infant and watched pus drip out please don’t tell me I am overreacting to RFK Jr.’s latest assault on science.
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Preview "Das Ende der Ukraine-Krise" 📺

Wenn Ihr wissen wollt, wie Trump & Partner dieses Ukraine-Dings zu Ende bringen könnten, spulen wir hier etwas weiter vor ins Jahr.
Wenn erst mal so richtig Ordnung in der Ukraine hergestellt wurde, müsste man noch 1, 2 andere Problemchen lösen.
Dystopie.
1/2
May 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Little things that ICU nurses do that warm my heart and brighten my day. Did you know about the "love glove"?
They fill a glove with warm water to simulate human touch for patients who may not have family at bedside. Its popularity grew during peak of covid19 when hospital visits were not allowed.
May 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Die Aktivität respiratorischer Viren ist derzeit gering
Im Sentinelsystem vor allem Nachweise von #Rhinoviren (32%), #Parainfluenzaviren (12%) und #SARS-CoV-2 (9%)
Eingesendete Probenzahl insgesamt sehr niedrig
#ZentrumVirologie #MedUniWien
May 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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1/Seit Monaten tobt ein Deutungskampf um einen Historiker der Uni Würzburg:Hat er Artikel im rechtsradikalen Kampfblatt "Sezession"des faschistischen Vordenkers Götz Kubitschek unter Pseudonym verfasst - ja oder nein?Fast 700 Akademikerkollegen (www.geschichte.uni-wuerzburg.de/neueste-gesc...) haben
April 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Im Berliner Bezirk Neukölln wird ein Bericht zum Rechtsextremismus zurückgezogen – wohl aus Angst vor CDU und AfD. Dann veröffentlicht ihn eben die taz.
Rechtsextremismus-Bericht in Neukölln: Antifaschismus, aber bitte neutral
taz.de
April 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The father of the unvaccinated child who died of measles said it was God’s will.

Yet they took her to the hospital.

I will never understand.
March 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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"As the pandemic unfolded, though, it became clear that the coronavirus did indeed spread through airborne transmission—even if the WHO took more than a year and a half to officially describe the coronavirus as a long-range airborne pathogen."
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.
www.theatlantic.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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2/in der FAZ darüber. Eine Frage hätte ich schon: Waren die drei Männer in ihrem bisherigen Leben eigentlich im Untergrund oder eher an den Schalthebeln der Macht, die den Staat dorthin brachten, wo er heute steht?
March 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Five years on. Millions dead. COVID effectively endemic. The big story is how we are STILL in denial about airborne transmission of respiratory diseases. Good job, libertarians.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.
www.theatlantic.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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„I wish we could return to the newspaper of a not so distant past. But that is not to be, and here is the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left.“

www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her. Für mich unvergessen das Interview von Söder, CSU, dass er im Januar 2022 der FAZ gegeben hat.

- Russland sei nicht unser Feind.

- Keine Waffen für die Ukraine

- kein NATO-Beitritt

- Rücknahme von Sanktionen gegen Russland

- Schnelle Öffnung von North Stream 2
March 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
February 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Totally normal and acceptable stuff from non-racist conservatives:
Fox News Contributor Katie Pavlich Calls Mehdi Hasan a ‘Terrorist’
Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky was banned from CNN last October when he implied Hasan, who is Muslim, was a terrorist during a debate.
www.mediaite.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Vor 5 Jahren ... tödlicher Rechtsextremismus
February 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM