@saviatinis.bsky.social
I'm not a bot. (I know. That's exactly what a bot would say.) Moved from x.
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This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical
“When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”
“When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”
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...
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 11:06 PM
This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical
“When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”
“When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”
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‼️Russian shadow fleet struck in the Mediterranean by SBU quadcopters
The Qendil was struck and disabled, and GRU Unit 29155 commander Maj. Gen. Averyanov was reportedly demilitarized.
There will be no safe places for the Russian aggressor as long as the war continues.
The Qendil was struck and disabled, and GRU Unit 29155 commander Maj. Gen. Averyanov was reportedly demilitarized.
There will be no safe places for the Russian aggressor as long as the war continues.
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
‼️Russian shadow fleet struck in the Mediterranean by SBU quadcopters
The Qendil was struck and disabled, and GRU Unit 29155 commander Maj. Gen. Averyanov was reportedly demilitarized.
There will be no safe places for the Russian aggressor as long as the war continues.
The Qendil was struck and disabled, and GRU Unit 29155 commander Maj. Gen. Averyanov was reportedly demilitarized.
There will be no safe places for the Russian aggressor as long as the war continues.
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Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datat, päivitetyt kaaviot olkaa hyvät!
- nyt näyttää epidemialta: Vaasa ja Roi vähän laskussa, Hki, Jsuu, Oulu, Turku kovaa nousussa
- vuosivertailussa vielä matalia määriä
- rauhallista Joulua 😷🎅
- nyt näyttää epidemialta: Vaasa ja Roi vähän laskussa, Hki, Jsuu, Oulu, Turku kovaa nousussa
- vuosivertailussa vielä matalia määriä
- rauhallista Joulua 😷🎅
December 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datat, päivitetyt kaaviot olkaa hyvät!
- nyt näyttää epidemialta: Vaasa ja Roi vähän laskussa, Hki, Jsuu, Oulu, Turku kovaa nousussa
- vuosivertailussa vielä matalia määriä
- rauhallista Joulua 😷🎅
- nyt näyttää epidemialta: Vaasa ja Roi vähän laskussa, Hki, Jsuu, Oulu, Turku kovaa nousussa
- vuosivertailussa vielä matalia määriä
- rauhallista Joulua 😷🎅
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Putin:
We do not consider ourselves responsible for the deaths of people because we didn't start this war.
A war criminal that waged the largest war in Europe in 80 years keeps cynically lying about deaths of so many people.
We do not consider ourselves responsible for the deaths of people because we didn't start this war.
A war criminal that waged the largest war in Europe in 80 years keeps cynically lying about deaths of so many people.
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Putin:
We do not consider ourselves responsible for the deaths of people because we didn't start this war.
A war criminal that waged the largest war in Europe in 80 years keeps cynically lying about deaths of so many people.
We do not consider ourselves responsible for the deaths of people because we didn't start this war.
A war criminal that waged the largest war in Europe in 80 years keeps cynically lying about deaths of so many people.
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CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official
The funding is for a study on hepatitis B vaccines that some experts say may be unethical and is unlikely to generate data relevant to use of the vaccine in this country.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/c...
The funding is for a study on hepatitis B vaccines that some experts say may be unethical and is unlikely to generate data relevant to use of the vaccine in this country.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/c...
CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official
CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official Tracy Beth Høeg.
www.statnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official
The funding is for a study on hepatitis B vaccines that some experts say may be unethical and is unlikely to generate data relevant to use of the vaccine in this country.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/c...
The funding is for a study on hepatitis B vaccines that some experts say may be unethical and is unlikely to generate data relevant to use of the vaccine in this country.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/c...
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I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
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This schedule will mean not only fewer childhood vaccines, but fewer children.
Exclusive: The US Department of Health and Human Services plans to overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots, source says. https://cnn.it/4qhzOR2
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This schedule will mean not only fewer childhood vaccines, but fewer children.
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"intelligence official said the campaign noticeably calmed in late 2024 and early this year. Their analysis showed Moscow likely paused the campaign to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump's new administration. It has since resumed at full pace."
Doesn't bode well for 2026. #hybridwar
Doesn't bode well for 2026. #hybridwar
Fantastic piece of journalism by the AP. A map of the 145 Russian sabotage and disruption incidents across Europe.
These are not random acts. "Russia wants to drain Europe's investigative resources with its sabotage campaign, officials say." apnews.com/projects/rus...
These are not random acts. "Russia wants to drain Europe's investigative resources with its sabotage campaign, officials say." apnews.com/projects/rus...
Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative r...
apnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"intelligence official said the campaign noticeably calmed in late 2024 and early this year. Their analysis showed Moscow likely paused the campaign to curry favor with U.S. President Donald Trump's new administration. It has since resumed at full pace."
Doesn't bode well for 2026. #hybridwar
Doesn't bode well for 2026. #hybridwar
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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This dude Lutnick is such a sychophant that he's literally trying to rewrite the rules of math to kiss up to Trump.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This dude Lutnick is such a sychophant that he's literally trying to rewrite the rules of math to kiss up to Trump.
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count him back in...
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
count him back in...
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Not a single word in this speech was true.
And why is he yelling?
And why is he yelling?
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Not a single word in this speech was true.
And why is he yelling?
And why is he yelling?
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This is real. Note that the first response is from a neo-Nazi, to whom the EEOC chair politely and helpfully responds.
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is real. Note that the first response is from a neo-Nazi, to whom the EEOC chair politely and helpfully responds.
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Bart De Wever is an utter disgrace. He will be listed in the hall of shame.
Belgian PM Bart De Wever admitted the Kremlin threatened him personally
Now he opposes using €210 billion in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine and calls victory a "fairy tale" and asset seizure "theft" euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/17/b...
Now he opposes using €210 billion in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine and calls victory a "fairy tale" and asset seizure "theft" euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/17/b...
Belgian PM says Kremlin threatened him personally over frozen assets for Ukraine. Moscow’s pressure is clearly paying off
Medvedev says Belgium could "disappear."
euromaidanpress.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Bart De Wever is an utter disgrace. He will be listed in the hall of shame.
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“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions”
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions”
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
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"a president that maybe wasn't watching" would have been Gerald Ford, because Venezuela's nationalization of its oil industry happened in 1976
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"a president that maybe wasn't watching" would have been Gerald Ford, because Venezuela's nationalization of its oil industry happened in 1976
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Holy fuck, am I reading this correctly? Are they going to do a single-blind RCT (i.e., some babies will get placebo instead of HepB vax and their parents won't know)??? This seems insanely unethical, like Tuskegee levels of unethical public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23245.pdf
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Holy fuck, am I reading this correctly? Are they going to do a single-blind RCT (i.e., some babies will get placebo instead of HepB vax and their parents won't know)??? This seems insanely unethical, like Tuskegee levels of unethical public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23245.pdf
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I couldn’t be more embarrassed for the people who put this man in power…
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I couldn’t be more embarrassed for the people who put this man in power…
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SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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Our government should be more concerned about the heart damage Covid is causing. Everyone is at risk.
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Our government should be more concerned about the heart damage Covid is causing. Everyone is at risk.
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For any journalists looking at how the flu outbreak is being handled - anyone for a game of Bingo?
New game: "Outbreak BINGO", using the list of screwups identified by the SARS Commission in SARS-CoV-1 that were repeated in SARS-CoV-2.
Summaries (full details at the link - NB this is *despite* a lot of self-serving testimony from those responsible):
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
Summaries (full details at the link - NB this is *despite* a lot of self-serving testimony from those responsible):
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
For any journalists looking at how the flu outbreak is being handled - anyone for a game of Bingo?
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December 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM