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Lindsay Jones
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Recovering scientist, American living in AoNZ 🇺🇸🇳🇿 I like cats, gardening, running really slow, and immunology.
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From what I hear from multiple people in the space, the latest NIH indirect costs for medical research grants will basically mean the end most academic medical centers.
February 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I'd forgotten about RFK Jr's specific connection to the terrible measles outbreak in Samoa, just in case you'd forgotten too:
Alastair McAlpine, a pediatric physician at British Columbia’s children’s hospital, wrote: “It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is. RFK Jr has no medical training. He is a hardcore anti-vaccine and misinformation peddler. The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles.” According to FactCheck.org, in 2018, two infants in Samoa died when nurses accidentally prepared the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine with an expired muscle relaxant instead of water. Following the infants’ deaths, the Samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccination program. The temporary suspension prompted Kennedy and his anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense to reportedly spread various falsehoods about vaccinations across the island, in turn resulting in a drastic decline in vaccination rates. A year later, a measles outbreak on the island caused by a sick traveler ended up infecting more than 57,000 people and killing 83, including children. In an interview for a documentary, Shot in the Arm, Kennedy said he bears no responsibility for the outcome.
November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea
November 14, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Polio after hearing RFK was selected as HHS secretary.
November 14, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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As a historian, I cannot help pointing out that, once upon a time, in 2008 to be precise, it was possible for Vanity Fair to publish a lengthy exposé on US government involvement in the horrible mess that brought Hamas to power in Gaza. archive.vanityfair.com/article/2008...
Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.) But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza.
October 27, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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The day after the Uvalde, TX shooting my husband and I applied for jobs in New Zealand. He got a callback the next day that started our moving process. Now we’re here and every time I start to get a little bit homesick there’s another mass shooting in the US. Like clockwork. It’s madness.
October 26, 2023 at 6:11 AM