Andrew Rezvani
@andrewrezvani.bsky.social
Blood & Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy, Stanford University
Jay Bhattacharya, free-speech absolutist
"She's not in a scientist position, so the academic freedom policy regarding scientific communications does not apply to her," Bhattacharya told Just the News.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Jay Bhattacharya, free-speech absolutist
“a ventricular fibrillation flare-up”
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“a ventricular fibrillation flare-up”
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
the good vibes are back
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
the good vibes are back
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Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education.
I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.
I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.
October 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education.
I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.
I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.
Prior auth in a nutshell
me: i need this treatment
my doctor: he needs this treatment
the anonymous doctor who lost his license for fondling unconscious patients that anthem decided to hire for prior authorization reviews: erm, methinks not
my doctor: he needs this treatment
the anonymous doctor who lost his license for fondling unconscious patients that anthem decided to hire for prior authorization reviews: erm, methinks not
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Prior auth in a nutshell
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
Truly an incredible feat to lose the moral high ground to Rand Paul and yet
September 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Truly an incredible feat to lose the moral high ground to Rand Paul and yet
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is it worse if the NIH director is unaware of banned words blocking research grant payments or if he’s lying about it
Just unbelievably stupid. I had no idea how dumb fascism would be when it came to America.
August 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
is it worse if the NIH director is unaware of banned words blocking research grant payments or if he’s lying about it
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Baseball fans like to debate who the GOAT is, and to me the GOAT is John Smoltz, because he managed to make the Hall of Fame despite not knowing a single thing about the game of baseball.
July 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Baseball fans like to debate who the GOAT is, and to me the GOAT is John Smoltz, because he managed to make the Hall of Fame despite not knowing a single thing about the game of baseball.
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this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
June 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
So few academic leaders have the courage to state these obvious truths. I wish this guy were the president of my university.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So few academic leaders have the courage to state these obvious truths. I wish this guy were the president of my university.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
This is Jay Bhattacharya’s legacy, and how he deserves to be remembered after he’s gone: as the hatchet man for illegal grant terminations driven by racial animus.
Judge Young on NIH grant terminations cont.:
"I have never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable, I have sat on this bench now for 40 years, and I've never seen government racial discrimination like this, and I confine my remarks to this record, to health care."
"I have never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable, I have sat on this bench now for 40 years, and I've never seen government racial discrimination like this, and I confine my remarks to this record, to health care."
June 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is Jay Bhattacharya’s legacy, and how he deserves to be remembered after he’s gone: as the hatchet man for illegal grant terminations driven by racial animus.
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Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked…
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
The real victim of Jay Bhattacharya’s destruction of the NIH is… Jay Bhattarcharya.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The real victim of Jay Bhattacharya’s destruction of the NIH is… Jay Bhattarcharya.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Ashamed at our leadership’s consistent inability to stand up for their own purported values.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/23/l...
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/23/l...
Levin abstains from signing letter opposing Trump administration 'interference'
In a letter published by the AAC&U on Tuesday, Stanford administrators were absent from a list of signatories who condemned the Trump administration’s actions toward U.S. higher education institutions...
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ashamed at our leadership’s consistent inability to stand up for their own purported values.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/23/l...
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/23/l...
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Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
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Every university that capitulated to the government sent a message to everyone else and that message is: don’t send your children to our university
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
April 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Every university that capitulated to the government sent a message to everyone else and that message is: don’t send your children to our university
