Chris Dockendorff
@cdockendorff.bsky.social
A passion for organic and medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and drug discovery.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Martial law is justified to protect us from guys in chicken suits.
This is ground zero for ICE. Nothing burned. No broken windows. No damaged cars. A few dozen protestors hanging out. This is war ravaged? This is terrorists in control?
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Martial law is justified to protect us from guys in chicken suits.
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In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
Doctors push back on Trump admin’s autism & Tylenol link | CNN
Dr. Paul Offit and Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell joins The Lead
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September 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.
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“Don’t trust the experts” is an absurd thing to say because we all have to trust experts in many aspects of daily life. The real questions are what defines an expert, how do you recognize them, how to distinguish them from crackpots, and what to do when expert opinions disagree.
This text is quoted accurately.
It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue.
Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue.
Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
August 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Don’t trust the experts” is an absurd thing to say because we all have to trust experts in many aspects of daily life. The real questions are what defines an expert, how do you recognize them, how to distinguish them from crackpots, and what to do when expert opinions disagree.
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My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
I couldn’t better summarize in a single sentence what most federal grants are and what they mean for America. Future generations will ponder why many of us shrugged shoulders while literal madmen applied chainsaws to American greatness and elevated quackery.
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I couldn’t better summarize in a single sentence what most federal grants are and what they mean for America. Future generations will ponder why many of us shrugged shoulders while literal madmen applied chainsaws to American greatness and elevated quackery.
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HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
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When a book falls open at the right page. From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching.
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When a book falls open at the right page. From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching.
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if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.
April 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.
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Yes.
In Gerhard Bronner's words:
“There are three things that can’t be reconciled: intelligence, decency, and Nazism. If you are intelligent and a Nazi, you can’t be decent. If you are decent and a Nazi, you can’t be intelligent. And you can be intelligent and decent. But then you’re not a Nazi.”
In Gerhard Bronner's words:
“There are three things that can’t be reconciled: intelligence, decency, and Nazism. If you are intelligent and a Nazi, you can’t be decent. If you are decent and a Nazi, you can’t be intelligent. And you can be intelligent and decent. But then you’re not a Nazi.”
April 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yes.
In Gerhard Bronner's words:
“There are three things that can’t be reconciled: intelligence, decency, and Nazism. If you are intelligent and a Nazi, you can’t be decent. If you are decent and a Nazi, you can’t be intelligent. And you can be intelligent and decent. But then you’re not a Nazi.”
In Gerhard Bronner's words:
“There are three things that can’t be reconciled: intelligence, decency, and Nazism. If you are intelligent and a Nazi, you can’t be decent. If you are decent and a Nazi, you can’t be intelligent. And you can be intelligent and decent. But then you’re not a Nazi.”
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Controlling shareholder in the Danish company that makes Ozempic says he is avoiding opportunities in the USA because “The uncertainty is just too, too high for me to give an answer as to what our response is going to be.” Shopping in China and India instead. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Novo Holdings Wants to Do More China Biotech Deals, CEO Says
Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish weight-loss drug pioneer Novo Nordisk A/S, is seeking more biotech transactions in China following two deals last year for the overseas rights to e...
www.bloomberg.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Controlling shareholder in the Danish company that makes Ozempic says he is avoiding opportunities in the USA because “The uncertainty is just too, too high for me to give an answer as to what our response is going to be.” Shopping in China and India instead. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD: vaccines are the safest and best way to prevent disease
RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena
RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena
March 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD: vaccines are the safest and best way to prevent disease
RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena
RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena
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Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.
March 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
March 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
February 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season.
Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities.
-- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson
Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities.
-- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson
Layoffs to hit IRS as DOGE targets tax collections
Several people briefed on the matter said cuts to the IRS cuts numbering in the thousands. One target is tax collections.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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You cannot “pause” an airplane and fire the crew in mid-flight and pretend that no damage is done.
But that is exactly what Musk and Trump are doing with total disregard to the harm.
Our last chance depends on court rulings this week that could end the illegal purge and shutdown.
But that is exactly what Musk and Trump are doing with total disregard to the harm.
Our last chance depends on court rulings this week that could end the illegal purge and shutdown.
February 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
You cannot “pause” an airplane and fire the crew in mid-flight and pretend that no damage is done.
But that is exactly what Musk and Trump are doing with total disregard to the harm.
Our last chance depends on court rulings this week that could end the illegal purge and shutdown.
But that is exactly what Musk and Trump are doing with total disregard to the harm.
Our last chance depends on court rulings this week that could end the illegal purge and shutdown.
If you think things are crazy now, wait until you find out that the costs we will save halting humanitarian aid, medical research, and educating children will justify a trillion dollar vanity Mars mission led by someone literally trying to be a Bond villain.
February 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If you think things are crazy now, wait until you find out that the costs we will save halting humanitarian aid, medical research, and educating children will justify a trillion dollar vanity Mars mission led by someone literally trying to be a Bond villain.