Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile
Max Frenkel, PhD

@casualvariant

MD/PhD candidate @UWSMPH | hunting for causal/casual variants | interested in congenital cardiac surgery + genomics

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calendar_today09-12-2020 04:33:05

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Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So then resign immediately and make way for someone who is willing to do their job. Growing up Jewish you spend time wondering “how could the Holocaust possibly happen?” This is how. Your silence is enabling our morally bankrupt, fascist administration.

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The post-truth era is here. Trump shared a doctored image to justify illegally deporting a man to a foreign prison--meeting the definition of a concentration camp--while Trump defies the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision to facilitate his return. God help us all.

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not the first to sound the alarm: RFK Jr cares about his priors, not data. The guy is a hack with the blood of children on his hands. "the HHS Communications Director contacted the NYT reporter saying that the results of my study don't support the views of RFK Jr on UPFs"

Malcolm Gladwell (@gladwell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To avoid embarrassment it might be useful to read RFK Jr’s book rather than rely on ChatGPT. The quote in question is on page 153: “[RotaTeq] almost certainly kills and injures more children in the United States than the rotavirus disease killed and injured prior to the vaccine’s

Sasha Gusev (@sashagusevposts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This has to be one of the craziest admissions from A JUDGE that I've ever seen in a court transcript. What the hell are we doing here?!

This has to be one of the craziest admissions from A JUDGE that I've ever seen in a court transcript. What the hell are we doing here?!
Timothy Caulfield (@caulfieldtim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research science.org/content/articl… by Kai Kupferschmidt Reality: Misinformation research is NOT about censorship. It is about understanding one of the most complex & harmful phenomena of our time. The irony?

Timothy Caulfield (@caulfieldtim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More harmful lies, lies, lies. RFK Jr as monumentally horrible & destructive as predicted. Complicit in this deadly authoritarian anti-science sh*t storm: Bhattacharya, Makary, et al. RFK Jr falsely claim MMR vaccine includes ‘aborted fetus debris’ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A bittersweet end to my near decade-long MD/PhD. If I can help any patients, it's only because of the exceptional mentorship I've had at The Blake School, Harvey Mudd College, and UW School of Medicine and Public Health along the way. Thank you, all. I will miss the Midwest more than I anticipated. On, Wisconsin!

A bittersweet end to my near decade-long MD/PhD. 

If I can help any patients, it's only because of the exceptional mentorship I've had at <a href="/LifeatBlake/">The Blake School</a>, <a href="/harveymudd/">Harvey Mudd College</a>, and <a href="/uwsmph/">UW School of Medicine and Public Health</a> along the way. 

Thank you, all. I will miss the Midwest more than I anticipated. 

On, Wisconsin!
Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s not a grudge. It’s the plan. The poor feel like highly educated dems left them behind. MAGA curried their favor: “professors are the enemy”. In return, the poor become more disenfranchised having voted against their self interests; tale as old as time ft.com/content/6de668…

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You *want* people in positions of power to be quiet and silently benefit from the system?! That's the opposite of what reasonable people have consistently fought for. Also, how large a pay cut must this guy take before he's "allowed" to speak? This is silly.

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bingo. Having a well educated, thoughtful electorate is fatal to authoritarian power grabs. They’d rather a credulous, ignorant populace to manipulate than a thoughtful one and lose power. They’re sacrificing advances that make people live better just to hoard power and money.

Max Frenkel, PhD (@casualvariant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oh my god, he's going to create a propaganda machine because he knows that his snake oil, anti-vax, conspiratorial bullshit won't make it into rigorous journals. RFK Jr might be the most dangerous person in the admin: killing people with lies and creating systems to amplify it.