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No puede ser que #Shogun terminara así
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Negotiating parties working on the #PandemicAgreement should read this article by Lynn Parramore

Lynn Parramore – Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!: braveneweurope.com/lynn-parramore…

Listening to William Lazonick on 'Predatory Value Extraction' in healthcare.
The Crown Family School

I wrote about this mortality reduction trial, flanked by 4 other disappointing #AI studies published in the past week — in the new Ground Truths (link in profile)

We had just reviewed all previous medical #AI randomized trials; none had mortality reduction as the primary endpoint thelancet.com/journals/landi…
The overall 17% reduction of mortality, and 31% in high-risk, using AI, is comparable to any highly effective medical treatment effect

Proposals to overhaul the UK’s disability benefits and make them more targeted to people with the greatest need have been described as “cruel” and “ineffective” by doctors’ leaders Royal College of Psychiatrists Scope
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🧵A reminder that claims of 'The vast majority of American Jews are Zionists'...are completely baseless. A thread with numbers from the 2 most recent local Jewish population studies that have asked about Zionist self-identification. Most studies haven't asked, but these 2 have:

No me cabe la menor duda de que va a ganar. Más ahora, con los llamados de sectores progresistas a no votar por Biden. Biden ha sido, en muchos aspectos, un total desastre. Nadie lo niega. Pero hay que ser 100% irracional para creer que entonces lo que toca es dejar ganar a Trump

Un narco-gobierno haciendo narcopolítica

'Reducing crime could significantly boost investment, productivity, and GDP growth in Latin America and the Caribbean' imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Están completamente desquiciados.
No, no y no.

¿Cuál es la justificación del PANICR para dejar a los hijos de una víctima de femicidio con la familia del femicida (padre de los niños)? La hermana del femicida aparentemente sabía de la intención que él tenía de asesinar a su esposa. ¿Ella no lo denunció?. No, no hizo nada.

I wrote about why it was wrong to send the police on students and as faculty we must protect them and their rights — but also why we shouldn’t idealize them or their politics — or romanticize about their predecessors in the Sixties

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“Hamas's political survival is all but assured, w/ or w/o Rafah. Why risk Palestinian & Israeli lives? Bring them home now!”

Many who loathe Hamas won’t want to hear that. But it’s where pragmatic political realism & the humane determination to save 🇮🇱 & 🇵🇸 lives must lead us.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Columbia & Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) have truly lost the plot. As Rafah is about to be invaded, they choose to engage in this destructive, headline-grabbing action that will taint the entirety of pro-Palestine activism

Duro esto por donde se vea; a mi me preocuparía que traten de “justificar/normalizar” las acciones del padre como “un arranque”, esta Tía sabia de las amenazas también, la abuela materna señala esto