tim Walz owns vinyl Warren Zevon albums. finally, a candidate we can trust to take brucellosis seriously

Stunning. Involuntary detention as a psychiatric business model. nytimes.com/2024/09/01/bus…

Secret surveillance of lawmakers who deal with anonymous whistle-blowers nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/…

'Próspera has become particularly well known for the zone’s experimental medical facilities, which run clinical trials unburdened by F.D.A. standards." nytimes.com/2024/08/28/mag…

Homeless New Yorker Carl Elliott As I discuss in my book, this Acadia situation & countless other cases like it go back decades--these places are almost never closed, virtually no one gets jailed or even loses their license. Occasionally, one closes and soon re-opens with a new name/company doing the same thing.

Some low-income Americans will have to pay up to $200 for an updated Covid vaccine. wapo.st/4dJsGqE

Worked to the Bone, India’s Doctors Fear for Their Safety, Too nytimes.com/2024/09/01/wor…

NYT reporter Sarah Kliff discusses misleading marketing claims by cord blood banks. youtube.com/watch?v=KV7rZA…

Wow

.Dr. Nancy Olivieri Remind you of anyone? denverpost.com/2024/09/04/cbi…

"I’m the town pariah now,” Jones said. “I get called a pervert. I can’t grocery shop or go to the store without being called names.” nytimes.com/2024/09/03/boo…

💯The Vigilant Fox 🦊 Medical #ghostwriting = a *long*standing problem "One way to stop it would be if the authors were punished in some way. But the academics who are complicit never seem to be punished at all" 🎯Carl Elliott nytimes.com/2009/08/19/hea… #butjusttrustscience #MedTwitter

💯 Pierre Kory, MD MPA And #Study329 (which was ghostwritten) was the landmark study which promoted these drugs in adolescents while downplaying the side effect of violent behaviour. #ResearchMisconduct #PharmaCrime ti.ubc.ca/2016/11/22/101… 🙏Therapeutics Initiative

Some people got some nerve.

Canadian public servants in Ottawa are distributing these.

“Someone, let’s say a baby, is born; his parents call him by a certain name.” dailynous.com/2024/09/06/ana…

Save the date! I'll be talking about my book on whistleblowers, The Occasional Human Sacrifice, with Joseph E Davis at Anselm House in Minneapolis on Sept 17. Reception to follow. …discussiongroups.eventcalendarapp.com/u/39627/327132

Notes on style from Raymond Chandler: "The corridor had a smell of old carpet and furniture polish and the drab anonymity of a thousand shabby lives."

Whistleblower who warned about Florida state parks fired by state agency tampabay.com/news/environme…

Any day that I make a “weird science” book list is a great day. nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/love-…