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The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Infectious disease forecasters at Stanford University who recently looked at the effects of falling vaccination rates across the country found that in Florida alone, a 15% decline in vaccinations against measles over 25 years would lead to 1 million measles cases.
Florida’s surgeon general said he didn’t calculate the costs of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists have. | CNN
Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists who have done thos...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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does microsoft understand that they make money by running the serious computers that do the grown up business stuff
August 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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As of July 6, the United States reported 1,281 measles cases in 2025, the highest total since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

1/5
July 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Destroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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May 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🧵hi, medical toxicologist and poisoning expert here

let's talk about pong-pong (“the suicide tree”) from The White Lotus #whitelotus #thewhitelotus 🪷

(yes it's real, yes it's deadly, and YES I HAVE OPINIONS)
April 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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In Connecticut -

NIH FUNDING:
$770M

JOBS SUPPORTED:
6609

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$1.68B
February 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM