Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s? economist.com/science-and-te… From The Economist

A lamaison Blanche, où on a complètement dévissé, on impose des droits de douane de 10% a la Guyane, à la Martinique et à la Guadeloupe, en ignorant visiblement que c'est l'UE (taxée à 25%) Solution simple: faire tout transiter par ces îles avant d'exporter aux USA.

Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”

Top 5 advances in medicine this week (🧵)

Quand l’unité européenne dérange, la désinformation va jusqu’à faire passer un simple mouchoir pour de la drogue. Cette fausse information est propagée par les ennemis de la France, à l’extérieur comme à l’intérieur. Vigilance face aux manipulations.

A biting assessment of Europe by The Economist: “Europeans know the global race for economic supremacy is lost. But the continent’s business model endures: it is a third poorer than America, works a third less, and is a lot more tanned at the end of August.” #economy

The report HHS sent to congress to justify the changes in vaccine recommendations for healthy non-elderly people and pregnant women has all kinds of misrepresentations and errors, as outlined by this report, and clearly does not accurately reflect the state of the scientific

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no Santa Claus. No tooth fairy. Also no “deep state,” and vaccines aren’t harmful. These are stories for small children and those too credulous to disbelieve them.

Good news often goes unreported, especially if it happens gradually. That is the story of the war on cancer. Death rates are down substantially—and are likely to fall further. Future gains will come from three main sources econ.st/459V9Ec

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"Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state ... So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. " —

Brilliant explanation of the Trump Cult‼️ 👇🏼

CENSURE: Quelques fondamentalistes de Noisy-le-Sec, en Seine Saint-Denis, ont interdit par la menace la projection du film « Barbie » organisée par le Maire de la ville.

I’m excited to share our new nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health. Details in thread.🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nachdem Britannien, Kanada und Australien einen „Staat Palästina“ anerkannt haben, hat die Hamas in Gaza heute zur Feier des Tages erst einmal drei Menschen öffentlich hingerichtet. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, noch so ein Staat ohne Wahlen seit Jahrzehnten, mit gewalttätigen Typen an

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Tous au travail !

Troubling

This awesome paper finally got published! The conclusion is, basically, that we've been mismeasuring lifespan, so the resulting heritability estimates are halved compared to if we measured without counting stuff like getting killed by cars or guns or accidents.