Dave Fischer
@wustlphd.bsky.social
Tsundoku practitioner; retired cell/molecular biologist, recombinant protein expression, genome editing; conservation of wolves, prairies, democracy; fan of dogs, old movies, maps, music (rock & classical)
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Important umbrella review showed NO link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. Notably this review also graded how reliable the studies were and highlighted a low level of confidence in the studies RFK used as confounding factors were not considered🧪
Tylenol use in pregnancy not tied to autism, ADHD, review shows
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Important umbrella review showed NO link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. Notably this review also graded how reliable the studies were and highlighted a low level of confidence in the studies RFK used as confounding factors were not considered🧪
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"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
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"It’s nice to see, even if for a moment, a billionaire get destroyed in his own grubby little playroom. So thanks, Joyce."
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"It’s nice to see, even if for a moment, a billionaire get destroyed in his own grubby little playroom. So thanks, Joyce."
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
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Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
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She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
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The outcome of the GOP's Trump-backed gerrymandering scheme now lies in the hands of federal judges, whose rulings could determine House control for years to come. Remarkably, nearly half of the judges overseeing these cases happen to be Trump appointees.
https://bit.ly/4nKxrEv
https://bit.ly/4nKxrEv
Trump-Appointed Federal Judges Could Lock In GOP House Advantage
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The outcome of the GOP's Trump-backed gerrymandering scheme now lies in the hands of federal judges, whose rulings could determine House control for years to come. Remarkably, nearly half of the judges overseeing these cases happen to be Trump appointees.
https://bit.ly/4nKxrEv
https://bit.ly/4nKxrEv
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Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.
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So if I’ve got this right, ordinary Americans in all
walks of life got squeezed for 40 days so that we could somehow win …
what exactly?
Except that no one will ever take the threat of shutdown from the Dems seriously ever again
walks of life got squeezed for 40 days so that we could somehow win …
what exactly?
Except that no one will ever take the threat of shutdown from the Dems seriously ever again
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
So if I’ve got this right, ordinary Americans in all
walks of life got squeezed for 40 days so that we could somehow win …
what exactly?
Except that no one will ever take the threat of shutdown from the Dems seriously ever again
walks of life got squeezed for 40 days so that we could somehow win …
what exactly?
Except that no one will ever take the threat of shutdown from the Dems seriously ever again
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If only there were a must-pass bill Senate Dems could have used as a vehicle to stop such things.
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If only there were a must-pass bill Senate Dems could have used as a vehicle to stop such things.
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Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers.
What a scam…
What a scam…
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers.
What a scam…
What a scam…
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My book #Strongmen turns 5 today! The paperback edition, with a new epilogue on January 6, is now 4. The book built a large readership gradually and became a New York Times bestseller in Nov. 2024. Thank you to all who read it and share its warnings about what such leaders do to societies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My book #Strongmen turns 5 today! The paperback edition, with a new epilogue on January 6, is now 4. The book built a large readership gradually and became a New York Times bestseller in Nov. 2024. Thank you to all who read it and share its warnings about what such leaders do to societies.
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These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest.
They don't need to be in these positions anymore.
They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.
Demand more and better, folks.
They don't need to be in these positions anymore.
They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.
Demand more and better, folks.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest.
They don't need to be in these positions anymore.
They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.
Demand more and better, folks.
They don't need to be in these positions anymore.
They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.
Demand more and better, folks.
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We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
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That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The US Supreme Court has acted like it's one of Kim Davis's many husbands and kicked the "Marriage is Sacred, Y'all!!!" hypocrite to the curb. Glory!
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The US Supreme Court has acted like it's one of Kim Davis's many husbands and kicked the "Marriage is Sacred, Y'all!!!" hypocrite to the curb. Glory!
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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RepubliKKKans are All Hypocrites !
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
RepubliKKKans are All Hypocrites !
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Two things:
1. I hope you’re not having a “wonderful” day. I hope you are seething…the red hot kind of seething.
2. I hope you choose to channel that into constructive action; the kind that puts a great deal of distance between you…and thoughts of “what’s the use?!”
1. I hope you’re not having a “wonderful” day. I hope you are seething…the red hot kind of seething.
2. I hope you choose to channel that into constructive action; the kind that puts a great deal of distance between you…and thoughts of “what’s the use?!”
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Two things:
1. I hope you’re not having a “wonderful” day. I hope you are seething…the red hot kind of seething.
2. I hope you choose to channel that into constructive action; the kind that puts a great deal of distance between you…and thoughts of “what’s the use?!”
1. I hope you’re not having a “wonderful” day. I hope you are seething…the red hot kind of seething.
2. I hope you choose to channel that into constructive action; the kind that puts a great deal of distance between you…and thoughts of “what’s the use?!”