Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Anecdotal, but I’ve now lost count of how many men I’ve treated for massive heart attacks with minimal risk factors for heart disease except being on testosterone therapy that they never needed. They’re buying it online or getting it from functional doctors who convince them it’s a panacea

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

I'd really like to see (and join) a group of creators, politicians, and charities that will fundraise to support undocumented immigrants and migrants who participate in an organized strike.

They can stay home, safe from workplace raids, while the economy they make possible grinds to a halt.

Tom Cruise is 62.
Maybe it's time to ease up on the impossible.
Give him Mission: Improbable, Mission: Plausible but Very involved, or just Mission: Mildly Inconvenient.

Just as the Trump admin is trying to get rid of the rights established in it

In my course on evolution and medicine I was discussing why—if fever is an evolved defense—we so often use antipyretic drugs to reduce fever. (FWIW, I think it's generally fine to do so.)

"No one would prescribe an immunosuppresant to treat a deadly viral infection", I said.

I forgot about RFK Jr.

We solved acid rain so successfully that it has become a talking point used to oppose solving environmental issues, it's maddening

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Smallpox was a devastating illness, but it was also vulnerable to human ingenuity because:

1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.

my personal favorite comic of 2024

"Whenever someone starts talking about the `free market', it's always a good idea to look around for the man with the gun. He's never far away."

Reading David Graeber's 2015 book during the last days of 2024 is a trip.

Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."

Nikola Jokic, the most efficient scorer in NBA history so far.

Massive away win for the little fella.