Andrew Chow
@andrewchowmdphd.bsky.social
Former MSKCC lung cancer doctor and researcher. Now in Clinical Development in Pharma. Opinions are my own.
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Everyone should watch and share. Thank you David. youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw
Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
youtu.be
May 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Everyone should watch and share. Thank you David. youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw
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1/ Why this is🚨?
My colleagues, collaborators, and I are funded by #NIH to bring the most promising medicines to people with life-threatening illness
How does this work?
www.science.org/content/arti... #oncsky #lcsm
My colleagues, collaborators, and I are funded by #NIH to bring the most promising medicines to people with life-threatening illness
How does this work?
www.science.org/content/arti... #oncsky #lcsm
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
www.science.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
1/ Why this is🚨?
My colleagues, collaborators, and I are funded by #NIH to bring the most promising medicines to people with life-threatening illness
How does this work?
www.science.org/content/arti... #oncsky #lcsm
My colleagues, collaborators, and I are funded by #NIH to bring the most promising medicines to people with life-threatening illness
How does this work?
www.science.org/content/arti... #oncsky #lcsm
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🌟 In Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology,
we examine the *overwhelming* evidence for classifying NUT carcinoma as a subtype of squamous lung cancer and squamous head and neck cancer
🫁 🗣️ rdcu.be/d8uni @natrevclinoncol.bsky.social #medsky #oncsky #meded #lcsm #lungcancer
🧵 Highlights:
we examine the *overwhelming* evidence for classifying NUT carcinoma as a subtype of squamous lung cancer and squamous head and neck cancer
🫁 🗣️ rdcu.be/d8uni @natrevclinoncol.bsky.social #medsky #oncsky #meded #lcsm #lungcancer
🧵 Highlights:
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🌟 In Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology,
we examine the *overwhelming* evidence for classifying NUT carcinoma as a subtype of squamous lung cancer and squamous head and neck cancer
🫁 🗣️ rdcu.be/d8uni @natrevclinoncol.bsky.social #medsky #oncsky #meded #lcsm #lungcancer
🧵 Highlights:
we examine the *overwhelming* evidence for classifying NUT carcinoma as a subtype of squamous lung cancer and squamous head and neck cancer
🫁 🗣️ rdcu.be/d8uni @natrevclinoncol.bsky.social #medsky #oncsky #meded #lcsm #lungcancer
🧵 Highlights:
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If you offer an across-the-board buyout to 2 million people, the best have outside options and will take it; the worst have none and will stay.
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Trump Administration Offers 2 Million Federal Workers Payouts to Resign (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you offer an across-the-board buyout to 2 million people, the best have outside options and will take it; the worst have none and will stay.
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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A terrifying new report by John Carreyrou illustrates why we have those pesky regulations and those irritating clinical trials:
Killing Cancer Patients (Once the Payments Clear)
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A terrifying new report by John Carreyrou illustrates why we have those pesky regulations and those irritating clinical trials:
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Elon’s extreme hatred of his former friend Sam Harris seems to have begun after Elon made a bet with Sam that Covid would never top 35,000 cases in the US, and was proven spectacularly wrong.
samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
January 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Elon’s extreme hatred of his former friend Sam Harris seems to have begun after Elon made a bet with Sam that Covid would never top 35,000 cases in the US, and was proven spectacularly wrong.
samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
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My article from a decade ago on vaccine hesitancy, the anti-vax movement, and the risk of a measles resurgence in the U.S. As relevant today as it was when this article was first published by Forbes.
Why Debate Over Vaccines And Autism Will Continue
How do you win a debate, when the arguments you’re presented with keep changing? Such is the problem with the dispute over whether vaccines – and specifically the shot for measles, mumps, and rubella ...
www.forbes.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My article from a decade ago on vaccine hesitancy, the anti-vax movement, and the risk of a measles resurgence in the U.S. As relevant today as it was when this article was first published by Forbes.
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January 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Quote of the Day: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
from her latest Atlantic article
from her latest Atlantic article
January 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quote of the Day: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
from her latest Atlantic article
from her latest Atlantic article
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A lot of people seem to struggle with this but 50% is actually much better than 0%
Influenza vaccines for this year are about 50% effective against all severity of influenza in adults and slightly more effective in young children, about 62% against severe infections. This is a good level of protection and it matters. Get a flu shot🧪
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
Report: Flu vaccine over 50% effective against severe illness among US children from 2015 to 2020
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 31, 2024 at 1:50 AM
A lot of people seem to struggle with this but 50% is actually much better than 0%
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President #JimmyCarter died today at age 100, having lived w/ #melanoma that had spread to his brain & liver for >9y. I grew up in GA admiring him, so as an oncologist, I’d like to honor his life by teaching a bit. #melsm #MedSky #OncSky #MedEd
First, the ⚠️ signs (ABCDE 👇) & some examples:
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First, the ⚠️ signs (ABCDE 👇) & some examples:
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December 29, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Post election, I've been trying to report more on the decline of trust in institutions. Obviously the media's crisis is part of this. Last week, I came across a paper from @juliaangwin.com that looks at how creators build trust w/ their audiences & I called her up. Lots of good lessons here, imo
‘A Terrible Irony’: How the Media Lost Trust
And a template for rebuilding it
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Post election, I've been trying to report more on the decline of trust in institutions. Obviously the media's crisis is part of this. Last week, I came across a paper from @juliaangwin.com that looks at how creators build trust w/ their audiences & I called her up. Lots of good lessons here, imo
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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December 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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We have established a playing field in which the forces of MAGA can slander, libel, and defame with near impunity...while simultaneously using libel law to attack legitimate critics in an attempt to chill everyone else’s speech.”
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Weakness Is a Provocation
ABC News, billionaires, media orgs, and CEOs are surrendering to Trump because they think he’s a lame duck. They’re making a terrible mistake.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
We have established a playing field in which the forces of MAGA can slander, libel, and defame with near impunity...while simultaneously using libel law to attack legitimate critics in an attempt to chill everyone else’s speech.”
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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"Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made his name by claiming he was censored during the Covid pandemic. But it never happened." Great piece by @mmasnick.bsky.social. Also worth noting...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna183120
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna183120
Opinion | No, Jay Bhattacharya wasn't 'censored' by the government
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made his name by claiming he was censored during the Covid pandemic. But it never happened.
www.google.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:17 PM
"Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made his name by claiming he was censored during the Covid pandemic. But it never happened." Great piece by @mmasnick.bsky.social. Also worth noting...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna183120
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna183120
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My mentions are full of notes that @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social's comments about RFK + vaccines should be ignored because he is on the board of Pfizer.
FWIW, here's SG saying similar things in 2015, before he joined that BOD. www.forbes.com/sites/scottg...
(I oversaw Scott's writing at Forbes.)
FWIW, here's SG saying similar things in 2015, before he joined that BOD. www.forbes.com/sites/scottg...
(I oversaw Scott's writing at Forbes.)
Why Debate Over Vaccines And Autism Will Continue
How do you win a debate, when the arguments you’re presented with keep changing? Such is the problem with the dispute over whether vaccines – and specifically the shot for measles, mumps, and rubella ...
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:13 PM
My mentions are full of notes that @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social's comments about RFK + vaccines should be ignored because he is on the board of Pfizer.
FWIW, here's SG saying similar things in 2015, before he joined that BOD. www.forbes.com/sites/scottg...
(I oversaw Scott's writing at Forbes.)
FWIW, here's SG saying similar things in 2015, before he joined that BOD. www.forbes.com/sites/scottg...
(I oversaw Scott's writing at Forbes.)
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Vaccines are being attacked left and right BECAUSE they work so well that people have conveniently forgotten about polio and poxes.
Here is a contemporary example in oncology. Vaccines prevent cancer and reduce cancer deaths - do you know how hard THAT is??
Spread the words - vaccine save lives!
Here is a contemporary example in oncology. Vaccines prevent cancer and reduce cancer deaths - do you know how hard THAT is??
Spread the words - vaccine save lives!
Vaccines reducing cancer mortality (specifically the number of deaths from cervical cancer).
Astonishing. #Vaccineswork
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Astonishing. #Vaccineswork
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years
This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.
jamanetwork.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Vaccines are being attacked left and right BECAUSE they work so well that people have conveniently forgotten about polio and poxes.
Here is a contemporary example in oncology. Vaccines prevent cancer and reduce cancer deaths - do you know how hard THAT is??
Spread the words - vaccine save lives!
Here is a contemporary example in oncology. Vaccines prevent cancer and reduce cancer deaths - do you know how hard THAT is??
Spread the words - vaccine save lives!