MarkH
@markhoofnagle.medsky.social
Trauma Surgeon. Basic Scientist. UVA/UMD/UPenn. Now WashU/STL. Blocking is curating.
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MarkH
@markhoofnagle.medsky.social
· Nov 12
So I decided to contribute.
People here are skeptical thinkers from a variety of fields not just medicine - including law, journalism and academia.
Let me know who I missed. go.bsky.app/P8Vnf7M
People here are skeptical thinkers from a variety of fields not just medicine - including law, journalism and academia.
Let me know who I missed. go.bsky.app/P8Vnf7M
If I am reading this correctly, the idiot is going to try to charge Maduro in federal court (SDNY)?
I am NAL but really? This seems a catastrophically stupid plan.
Isn’t the judge just going ask, “you did what?!” when they describe the illegal interdiction and throw out the phony charges.
I am NAL but really? This seems a catastrophically stupid plan.
Isn’t the judge just going ask, “you did what?!” when they describe the illegal interdiction and throw out the phony charges.
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If I am reading this correctly, the idiot is going to try to charge Maduro in federal court (SDNY)?
I am NAL but really? This seems a catastrophically stupid plan.
Isn’t the judge just going ask, “you did what?!” when they describe the illegal interdiction and throw out the phony charges.
I am NAL but really? This seems a catastrophically stupid plan.
Isn’t the judge just going ask, “you did what?!” when they describe the illegal interdiction and throw out the phony charges.
For the record, Science Magazine is showing how it’s done, unlike the medical journals like JAMA and NEJM that have served as stenographers for MAHA.
They shouldn’t enjoy publication in these journals because of their authority or position. Their view should reflect the data and evidence.
They shouldn’t enjoy publication in these journals because of their authority or position. Their view should reflect the data and evidence.
Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health
For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
For the record, Science Magazine is showing how it’s done, unlike the medical journals like JAMA and NEJM that have served as stenographers for MAHA.
They shouldn’t enjoy publication in these journals because of their authority or position. Their view should reflect the data and evidence.
They shouldn’t enjoy publication in these journals because of their authority or position. Their view should reflect the data and evidence.
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Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health
For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
It’s not just the US, everywhere you go when it’s a car vs pedestrian somehow the pedestrian is at fault.
Here the pedestrian “collided” with a cop car and died. They make it sound like the car was holding still.
These cops killed a person with their car. What is their defect?
Here the pedestrian “collided” with a cop car and died. They make it sound like the car was holding still.
These cops killed a person with their car. What is their defect?
Newspapers when drivers KILL pedestrians:
1: X died after coming into contact with a car
2: X died after a collision with a car
3: X died after being struck by a car
Newspapers when people die from floods, weather, and so on:
1: X killed by
2: Y killed X
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
1: X died after coming into contact with a car
2: X died after a collision with a car
3: X died after being struck by a car
Newspapers when people die from floods, weather, and so on:
1: X killed by
2: Y killed X
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pedestrian dies after collision with Surrey police vehicle, IIO investigating | CBC News
B.C.'s police oversight agency is investigating after a female pedestrian was killed following a collision with a Surrey police vehicle on Christmas Day.
www.cbc.ca
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
It’s not just the US, everywhere you go when it’s a car vs pedestrian somehow the pedestrian is at fault.
Here the pedestrian “collided” with a cop car and died. They make it sound like the car was holding still.
These cops killed a person with their car. What is their defect?
Here the pedestrian “collided” with a cop car and died. They make it sound like the car was holding still.
These cops killed a person with their car. What is their defect?
This is going to be like every headliner of the Kennedy Center going forward and it’s hilarious.
Please tell me this isn't why the Turtles couldn't make Mamdani's inauguration?!?!?!?!
Vanilla Ice performing with a dancing Ninja Turtle at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party
January 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This is going to be like every headliner of the Kennedy Center going forward and it’s hilarious.
I like how they cut out the ine positive thing Holden Thoro had to say about AI in an editorial that boils down to “keep this shit iut of our magazine.”
Go Science!
Go Science!
In the first #ScienceEditorial of 2026, H. Holden Thorp focuses on #AI, discussing how it “will allow the scientific community to do more if it picks the right ways to use it.” He revisits the journals’ policies and approaches related to AI.
Read more: https://scim.ag/4qzSdJ5
Read more: https://scim.ag/4qzSdJ5
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I like how they cut out the ine positive thing Holden Thoro had to say about AI in an editorial that boils down to “keep this shit iut of our magazine.”
Go Science!
Go Science!
This is great but they’re gonna keep trying against CFPB. It more than anything else represents a threat to the right wing media ecosystem which is funded by grift.
In a win for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal judge blocked the White House's attempt to defund the agency
Judge Stops Trump's Agency Exterminator From Kneecapping The CFPB
At the heart of this case was whether White House budget director Russell Vought could effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of its employees.
www.huffpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is great but they’re gonna keep trying against CFPB. It more than anything else represents a threat to the right wing media ecosystem which is funded by grift.
So what kind of Christmas spirits visit and make you attack a bunchnof countries? This is some kind of inverse Christmas carol where he got visited by like, Hellraiser, Stephen Miller, and that pea soup puking demon from the Exorcist.
December 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So what kind of Christmas spirits visit and make you attack a bunchnof countries? This is some kind of inverse Christmas carol where he got visited by like, Hellraiser, Stephen Miller, and that pea soup puking demon from the Exorcist.
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It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
Watching the “Coverup” doc on Sy Hersh on Netflix and damn, thr NYT has always sucked in the exact same way. It’s just amazing. His critique is delivered without any polemic insult, he just described what they did - serve as stenographers for the powerful, shield corporations etc.
December 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Watching the “Coverup” doc on Sy Hersh on Netflix and damn, thr NYT has always sucked in the exact same way. It’s just amazing. His critique is delivered without any polemic insult, he just described what they did - serve as stenographers for the powerful, shield corporations etc.
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Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
So if I’m reading this right, the idiot wanted to attack terrorists on Christmas, and basically the whole world said “ok sure grandpa” and with with permission of the Nigerian government we bombed an empty field, nowhere near any actual terrorists. The locals arrived and found no one hurt:
December 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So if I’m reading this right, the idiot wanted to attack terrorists on Christmas, and basically the whole world said “ok sure grandpa” and with with permission of the Nigerian government we bombed an empty field, nowhere near any actual terrorists. The locals arrived and found no one hurt:
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As some may remember, 11 years ago MIT computer scientist Seneff predicted that glyphosate would make 50% of kids autistic by 2025.
My latest on absurd predictions as a key part of pseudoscience, including our current medical establishment.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/well-dr-step...
My latest on absurd predictions as a key part of pseudoscience, including our current medical establishment.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/well-dr-step...
Well Dr. Stephanie Seneff, 2025 is Over. Did Glyphosate Turn Half of All Children Autistic?
Failed predictions are a key feature of pseudoscience, and much of my writing has documented instances of credentialed academies making bold, confident declarations, only to act like they never happen
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
As some may remember, 11 years ago MIT computer scientist Seneff predicted that glyphosate would make 50% of kids autistic by 2025.
My latest on absurd predictions as a key part of pseudoscience, including our current medical establishment.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/well-dr-step...
My latest on absurd predictions as a key part of pseudoscience, including our current medical establishment.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/well-dr-step...
I can't wait for Ilana Glazer to play her in the movie about the episode "The Outsider". I bet it wins 7 Oscar noms.
Interesting to see someone w/no experience in TV news pull a 60 Minutes story the correspondent said was vetted by lawyers and editors. Wonder if Weiss will ever say exactly why she pulled the story? Or if CBS News new ombudsman will somehow surface? https://loom.ly/SnYFb1w
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I can't wait for Ilana Glazer to play her in the movie about the episode "The Outsider". I bet it wins 7 Oscar noms.
So it seems a football happened last night and people are big mad.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So it seems a football happened last night and people are big mad.
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It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/
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One of the strangest & most unhelpful things I heard from Tracy Beth Høeg (amid strong competition!), the RFK Jr ally who wants the US to adopt Denmark's vaxx schedule, was when she said athletes are fit so don't need vaccines
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of the strangest & most unhelpful things I heard from Tracy Beth Høeg (amid strong competition!), the RFK Jr ally who wants the US to adopt Denmark's vaxx schedule, was when she said athletes are fit so don't need vaccines
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
Groundhogs Shvitz. IYKYK.
December 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Groundhogs Shvitz. IYKYK.
About to start writing a new grant and my collaborator and I have decided to use Overleaf because we’re so sick of how bad MS Word is. This discussion is dead on. They will add AI but they win’t fix it’s complete inability to handle images.
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
About to start writing a new grant and my collaborator and I have decided to use Overleaf because we’re so sick of how bad MS Word is. This discussion is dead on. They will add AI but they win’t fix it’s complete inability to handle images.
And this is why when they ask me for money I just text back strings if expletives.
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
And this is why when they ask me for money I just text back strings if expletives.
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If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
Give DeMoor extra credit for having landed an uppercut on such a small target.
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Give DeMoor extra credit for having landed an uppercut on such a small target.