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If something is popular, it is not proof that you are getting reliable, balanced or correct information. Just means you are getting popular information.

if you were a foreign adversary hell-bent on corroding American hegemony you'd: 1/ alienate us from our longtime allies, pushing them towards a china centric supply chain 2/ pour concrete over the wellspring of global braindrain we've benefited from for 8 decades

So much wrong with this. Anti-vaccine bias promoted by RFK and adopted by Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary for political reasons undermines sensible health policy and excludes large groups from choosing a vaccine. More to follow on the vaccine front. None of it good. Shameful

1/ “We're ingrained in stupidity… we have to do better.” Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Research Translational Inst., doesn’t hold back in this conversation about superagers—those rare individuals who avoid chronic disease & stay healthy well into old age. Video below:

Why are animal models useful for CNS drug discovery? zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal-m…

We got COVID for the first time while my wife was pregnant with our second child. She had it much severe than me & my older child. Luckily, she was vaccinated. Our son was born healthy. Glad we had the option & not at the mercy of rabid antivaxers spineless contrarians "doctors"

I could have never conceived that the U.S. President would be far more aggressive against a great university than he would be against a Russian dictator engaged in invading a U.S. ally. Why is it smart to starve cancer research, students on financial aid, innovation in public

Big news from the team at Strand Therapeutics: Our lead mRNA therapeutic, STX-001, has shown positive Phase 1 data in patients with advanced solid tumors. This is a milestone that’s both scientific and deeply personal. 🧵

Agree with "if you believe in markets and capitalism, you have to embrace the competitive tension that crowding manifests." And Bruce makes good observations. But it still feels like a bug, at least from patient benefit perspective. Competition works when customers have a say.

Obama, Trump, and Biden all stated that they wanted to launch massive projects to beat cancer. Each of them presided over the slow defeat of cancer. In fact, progress towards the total defeat of cancer is happening all the time🧵

So many companies (public and private) shutting down, doing RIFs, paring down programs due to lack of funding. Good science being shelved. Teams dismantled & knowledge lost. Huge inefficiencies. There’s definitely room for a mechanism/venture like activity to preserve some of

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service

When America drove away rocket scientist Qian Xuesen because McCarthyists were scared he was a commie, he went to China, became an actual commie, and built their ICBM program. Driving away Chinese scientists is really dumb.

I spent way too long on this but I made a small benchmark for OCR of biological sequences. It's pretty incredible how poorly everything I tried works. Maybe by posting a benchmark it will lead to finding something out there that works! github.com/hgbrian/bio_oc…

Harvard. PEPFAR. LIGO. Basic science. And dozens of other crown jewels of not just the US, but of humanity. And one extremely corrupt man and his cronies and enablers are attempting to partly or totally destroy them

Nice showing for Octant Bio at Foundation Fighting Blindness VisionWalk!