‘A White House official confirmed [Dave] Weldon’s nomination [for CDC head] was pulled, but did not offer an explanation about why.’
How clever of us to contain populations about whom we cannot collect any data.
The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said...
The guy is writing Richard Dawkins’ next book for him.
For Peter and his family, the loss of their daughter is a private tragedy, one that would be excruciating no matter how she died. The fact that she died of measles, though, is a sign that something has gone wrong with the country’s approach to public health. Twenty-five years ago, measles was declared “eliminated” in the United States. Now a deadly crisis is unfolding in West Texas.
************************
Total Praise: Peter forgot the most precious part of God’s creation. God created Peter’s daughter’s measles so that she could become a disease vector and spread it all over west Texas. Praise Him.
Bhattacharya and his co-authors were “fringe epidemiologists” whose proposal needed a “quick and devastating” rebuttal, Collins wrote in an email that later came to light through a public-records request. Collins doubled down on this dismissal in a media interview a week later: “This is a fringe component of epidemiology,” he told The Washington Post. “This is not mainstream science.” ... The “fringe” is now in charge.
Sing it.
When the Senate vets my appointees
Honey here's the way it's gonna be
They will get behind a team of anti-vaxxers
In the thickest fringe you ever see!
Young and old and weak better scurry
Those who want to live better worry
NIH is gone in a hurry - with the fringe on top!
Leopold Bloom does a fart walk through Dublin at the end of the Sirens chapter in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
***************************
Prrprr.
Must be the bur.
Fff. Oo. Rrpr.
Nations of the earth. No-one behind. She’s passed. Then and not till then. Tram. Kran, kran, kran. Good oppor. Coming. Krandlkrankran. I’m sure it’s the burgund. Yes. One, two. Let my epitaph be. Karaaaaaaa. Written. I have.
Pprrpffrrppfff.
Done.
*************************
A century plus later modern science informs us that an evening fart walk should be part of our health regime. And not only that.
There are alternatives to fart walks as well. As long as the physical activity is vigorous enough but not too vigorous, it can suffice. So, fart texting, for example, probably doesn’t move enough of your body around enough. But fart cycling (as long as it is not too vigorous), fart yoga, fart squats, fart lunges or fart marching could do the trick.
Heroes of mine, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, authors of the indispensable Retraction Watch, note that with RFK jr’s appointment, we are now officially drowning in junk.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t subscribe to the Atlantic, by the way – the magazine gives you three free paragraphs, and that’s all you need in order to get their despondency-making point.
With RFK jr incoming, this is just the beginning!
As if we needed a headline in Live Science – in this political season – to tell us that.
Nicely buttoned up and a med school prof at CUNY but for almost ten years he’s reportedly gotten multiple millions in NIH grants by the simple expediency of making shit up. I’m curing Alzheimer’s! Look at these results!
Happens a lot. The rewards are for results, so you produce results.
****************
Here’s another result. Stock in the company pushing this guy’s drug just plummeted.
Here’s another. The guy could go to prison for 55 years.
But he won’t. Too buttoned down. CUNY will dump him and he’ll have to pay some of the money back. He’ll leave the States for a job in Saudi Arabia. End of story.
15 percent fewer U.S. medical-school graduates applied to Kentucky residency programs in the 2023-24 academic year, part of a trend related to states’ strong anti-abortion laws enacted after the federal right to abortion was abolished… In OB-GYN programs, there was an even sharper 23% decline… Kentucky hospitals are already dealing with an “acute shortage” of health care workers, with nearly 13,000 job vacancies in hospitals at the end of 2022… [M]ore than half of Kentucky’s 120 counties didn’t have a single OB-GYN specialist in 2022-23…
“You wouldn’t come if you’re a young woman and know that if something happens to you, you might die because they aren’t gonna let you get the health care you need,” [explained one local pediatrician.]
*******************************
It’s already one of our very worst states, without adding a health system composed of the dumbest, most desperate MDs in America… or forget MDs… Kentucky will offer its populace their pick of degree mill grads from Dagestan and Irkutsk.
Our mentally retarded, dog-gunning states are now out of the closet – they’re the states with humongoid abortion bans. Turns out new MDs of all kinds don’t want to start their careers there, while significant numbers of established ob/gyns can’t get out fast enough.
UD sees this as a win-win. Kristi Noem’s rabid pack doesn’t believe in science, anyway; they’re happy to pray to the lord for healing. Physicians want to help people who want to be helped. It all works out.
Next to go – medical schools in the earth is six thousand years old states?
Fine list of schools there, and who knew they all house mouse-killing factories? Who knew all of these fine schools host entire departments that acquire animals, give them cancer, write pretend articles about them, and then kill them? Cue Lenny, Of Mice and Men …
It seems a demoralizing sort of thing to do with the tax money you and I fork over… Makes us feel like idiots to know that for sixteen years we’ve been subsidizing bigtime a pointless bloody charade, a riot of animal torture in the name of careerism.
But at least the research fraud at Columbia University has seriously set back progress toward a cure for cancer! That much at least we can take pride in!
UN Reno’s new engineering dean owns a business – a bogus journal that for a couple hundred bucks a pop from its, er, contributors, will pump out, say, a seven-sentence article with five authors.
No questions asked. Publication faster than you can say No peer review.
Many of the articles were authored by said dean, his son, and his son’s wife – the sort of family affair that puts UD in mind of Italian university departments where much of the faculty shares the same last name (“The University of Bari, in the southern region of Puglia, springs to mind. The economics faculty must seem like a home from home for Professor Lanfranco Massari as he bumps into sons Lanfranco Jr, Gilberto and Giansiro, or his five grandchildren who work in the same department.”).
Nosy Andrew Gelman, hailing from a respectable university, brought the whole We Are Family thing to the attention of UNR’s student paper, which, as it takes down a dean, should be a contender for the same Pulitzer as that kid at Stanford.
*************
You know what’s gonna happen, right? After an indignant defense of the miscreant, the school takes forever to investigate. Eventually it issues a statement downplaying it all (“… made some mistakes…”), and then in a year or so it ever so quietly removes the dude from the deanship but keeps him in the engineering dept at the same salary (close to $400,000) he made as dean. Ta da!
**************
UPDATE: Students who spend $1,499 for Jones’s three-hour RFID certification course receive a free copy of his [self-published] book …
Gets better and better.