LizW
@cave-malum.bsky.social
Dogs, cats, old house,recovering classicist. Now advocacy for protection of folks in clinical trials w/CIRCARE
Priceless from FDA to clinical investigator: "We remind you that it is not appropriate to collect source data on materials such as paper towel."
Priceless from FDA to clinical investigator: "We remind you that it is not appropriate to collect source data on materials such as paper towel."
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LizW
@cave-malum.bsky.social
· Apr 27
IRBs have names and registration numbers in the OHRP database. IRB rosters can be obtained via FOIA.
1 very large commercial IRB is located in a state where the law permits public inspection of IRB minutes.
Surely there is no reason not to disclose the name of the IRB.
1 very large commercial IRB is located in a state where the law permits public inspection of IRB minutes.
Surely there is no reason not to disclose the name of the IRB.
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In short, all criminal prosecutions face hurdles. All of them. But getting a conviction is not the only way to reinforce the meaning and importance of laws. Want law to matter? Start by telling the folks who represent you think it still does. /end
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
In short, all criminal prosecutions face hurdles. All of them. But getting a conviction is not the only way to reinforce the meaning and importance of laws. Want law to matter? Start by telling the folks who represent you think it still does. /end
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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Looking at past authoritarian and concentration-camp regimes around the world, it wasn't always possible to tell in the moment what crisis or challenge to despotism would gain traction and trigger vast consequences. We should celebrate Boasberg and the appeals court judges demanding accountability.
District Judge Boasberg and federal appellate judges deserve our thanks for not simply shrugging and letting the Trump regime get away with defying a court order regarding their cruel and illegal fights to El Salvador..
Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Looking at past authoritarian and concentration-camp regimes around the world, it wasn't always possible to tell in the moment what crisis or challenge to despotism would gain traction and trigger vast consequences. We should celebrate Boasberg and the appeals court judges demanding accountability.
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The institutions we used to trust are crumbling. In this hellscape, we need new nodes of survival intelligence & that's what I do at patreon.com/mattbc, high-level legal, medical, political intel to navigate this shit. I’m grateful to supporters who keep this accessible, almost nothing is paywalled
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November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The institutions we used to trust are crumbling. In this hellscape, we need new nodes of survival intelligence & that's what I do at patreon.com/mattbc, high-level legal, medical, political intel to navigate this shit. I’m grateful to supporters who keep this accessible, almost nothing is paywalled
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Trump’s Failure and Greed in Ukraine
How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
***Included in this post is a template for any concerned readers looking to write their representatives
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-fai...
How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
***Included in this post is a template for any concerned readers looking to write their representatives
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-fai...
Trump’s Failure and Greed in Ukraine
How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
www.avindman.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Trump’s Failure and Greed in Ukraine
How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
***Included in this post is a template for any concerned readers looking to write their representatives
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-fai...
How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
***Included in this post is a template for any concerned readers looking to write their representatives
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-fai...
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With Tracy Hoeg compiling evidence for Vinay Prasad to kill a life saving vaccine under the auspices Marty Makary, it seems like a good time to revisit their first collaboration, an epidemiology paper so bad they had to publish it in an ethics journal.
Predictable.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
Predictable.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
The End of Science at the FDA
A single study reveals the incompetence (at best) of its incoming leadership
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
With Tracy Hoeg compiling evidence for Vinay Prasad to kill a life saving vaccine under the auspices Marty Makary, it seems like a good time to revisit their first collaboration, an epidemiology paper so bad they had to publish it in an ethics journal.
Predictable.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
Predictable.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
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One reason we failed in the past is bc we didn't build up popular opposition to the crimes, whether it's torture or drone-killing or even attacking Congress.
Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.
Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.
If Democrats are ever in power again what’s going to happen is the idea of holding this administration accountable for breaking the law every single day is immediately going to be made out as the greater breach of the rules.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
One reason we failed in the past is bc we didn't build up popular opposition to the crimes, whether it's torture or drone-killing or even attacking Congress.
Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.
Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.
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The Pledge to the American People was a foundation for Walter Dowdle’s Mountin lecture in 1990, and it used to be as prominent on our website as this 20ft mural in the lobby of one of our buildings.
I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Pledge to the American People was a foundation for Walter Dowdle’s Mountin lecture in 1990, and it used to be as prominent on our website as this 20ft mural in the lobby of one of our buildings.
I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
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OMG @angierasmussen.bsky.social. Scourge of public health, friend to infectious diseases and eeewwwwww. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Do Unvaccinated Kids Make You Horny?
Don't settle for being the scourge of CBER and the COVID ward at the children's hospital when you can also be the scourge of Hinge
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
OMG @angierasmussen.bsky.social. Scourge of public health, friend to infectious diseases and eeewwwwww. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Here’s how trustworthy Prasad is.
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here’s how trustworthy Prasad is.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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There's a reason why Germans stopped winning Nobel prizes in medicine and physics after the early 1930s, and never recovered the dominance they once held...
PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There's a reason why Germans stopped winning Nobel prizes in medicine and physics after the early 1930s, and never recovered the dominance they once held...
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NYT is asking the public to donate to education charities. Ok, sure. But individual donations can’t make up for the huge gap created by the loss of federal funding. Vote to restore funding education if you want an educated public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Opinion | America Has Sidelined Education. You Can Help.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NYT is asking the public to donate to education charities. Ok, sure. But individual donations can’t make up for the huge gap created by the loss of federal funding. Vote to restore funding education if you want an educated public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
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Marty Makary cites long-time chronic Lyme cult propagandist Kris Newby, but Newby does not mention Lab 257 or a Nazi scientist in her book. And her claim about Plum Island (where Lyme was NOT studied) is limited to a single paragraph.
Newby's nonsensical conspiracy theories are much more nebulous.
Newby's nonsensical conspiracy theories are much more nebulous.
Oh god, Lyme too, of course. "Where did Lyme disease come from? I can tell you with a high degree of probability, it came from Lab 257 on Plum island, just outside of Connecticut, 25 miles from Lyme, Connecticut, where the first case was described."
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Marty Makary cites long-time chronic Lyme cult propagandist Kris Newby, but Newby does not mention Lab 257 or a Nazi scientist in her book. And her claim about Plum Island (where Lyme was NOT studied) is limited to a single paragraph.
Newby's nonsensical conspiracy theories are much more nebulous.
Newby's nonsensical conspiracy theories are much more nebulous.
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We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Checks out.
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Checks out.
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Chiropractic schools are basically scams, and their graduates have very high default rates.
quackwatch.org/chiropractic...
quackwatch.org/chiropractic...
Chiropractic Student Loan Default Rates (1999 to 2012) | Quackwatch
From 1999 through 2014, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) maintained a list of Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) borrowers who w ...
quackwatch.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Chiropractic schools are basically scams, and their graduates have very high default rates.
quackwatch.org/chiropractic...
quackwatch.org/chiropractic...
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Does the FDA plan to provide any evidence for this claim?
In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Does the FDA plan to provide any evidence for this claim?
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“Unfortunately, for much of the world, alarms are ringing. Measles cases are surging. Outbreaks are increasing and too many children remain unprotected.”
Measles vaccination efforts worldwide have had a substantial impact, averting nearly 59 million deaths from the infection from 2000 to 2024. “The measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other childhood immunization in the past 50 years." #RSNA25
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
Global measles vaccinations are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, WHO report finds
New report suggests the number of children vaccinated against measles globally — which declined during the Covid-19 pandemic — is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.
www.statnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“Unfortunately, for much of the world, alarms are ringing. Measles cases are surging. Outbreaks are increasing and too many children remain unprotected.”
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You know how I know Eric Garcia is a good reporter you should be following?
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You know how I know Eric Garcia is a good reporter you should be following?
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Here’s the fundamental difference Prasad, Hoeg, and people here.
If they miraculously present compelling evidence and experts agree that yes, 10 kids died from the vaccine, we will accept it.
They’ll *never* accept the overwhelming evidence the vaccine helped.
If they miraculously present compelling evidence and experts agree that yes, 10 kids died from the vaccine, we will accept it.
They’ll *never* accept the overwhelming evidence the vaccine helped.
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here’s the fundamental difference Prasad, Hoeg, and people here.
If they miraculously present compelling evidence and experts agree that yes, 10 kids died from the vaccine, we will accept it.
They’ll *never* accept the overwhelming evidence the vaccine helped.
If they miraculously present compelling evidence and experts agree that yes, 10 kids died from the vaccine, we will accept it.
They’ll *never* accept the overwhelming evidence the vaccine helped.
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Here is the NIH’s “pandemic playbook” for anyone who cares www.panaccindex.info/p/modelling-...
Modelling a "Great Barrington" Pandemic Response
Seriously Engaging Silly Fantasies
www.panaccindex.info
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here is the NIH’s “pandemic playbook” for anyone who cares www.panaccindex.info/p/modelling-...