Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292. Epub 2011 Nov 28. PMID: 22095331; PMCID: PMC3490543. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific […]
Trump got his covid vaccine update and flu shot at his second annual doctor’s exam of the year.
“Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year”
The people caught in the Mount Everest blizzard were not on Mount Everest.
I’m sure there was tons of AI generated stuff on facebook.
What was upstream of these data centers and the destruction of democracy?
I think there are quite a few things discussed that I’m quite sure that most people are unaware of if you haven’t been up to your eyeballs in this for so many years.
After healthcare visits, always check the notes entered into the record for accuracy.
AI errors are probably polluting healthcare records now. For the past couple of years I’ve been finding gross mistakes entered into my records, claims of me saying things I didn’t say at all or in fact I’d said the opposite, or just describing things that were not true or never happened in the visit. And […]
Right-wing media outlet editor proposed ultra violence against “street liberals”.
It brought to mind that old sketch on Monty Python’s Flying Circus about the gangs of old ladies beating up “fit young men” in the streets.
Youtube now says medical misinformation is important to disseminate because conservatives do it a lot and they’re influential.
Viewers beware. Basically it’s whoever can bully enough to spread whatever propaganda with enough money and power.
You have a week to learn the electric slide.
No letters or commentary today because I was on vacation. I was on vacation this past week camping and hiking and getting a year older, so no letters today. That leaves you with some time to learn or practice up on your electric slide line dance moves for your local No Kings event on October 18th. Maybe in Portland […]
Republicans want their voters to vote by mail in Pennsylvania.
And it looks like Republicans are going to be trying to make sure that their supporters get their mail ballots squared away. Democrats really need to make sure registered Dems are getting their mail ballots in order.
Little infant babies rely on the rest of us around them to get vaccinated to protect them.
We need to just keep unapologetically demanding better, because we deserve better.
This scam leveraged the expectation of technical failures and stuff that doesn’t work.
ATM cash trapping involves a criminal installing a physical barrier, similar to skimming devices, but to prevent cash coming fully out of the ATM, leading people to believe their cash simply didn’t come out of the ATM, when it’s hidden behind a barrier which later the thief comes back to retrieve.
Cardiac risks with covid shouldn’t be ignored.
CIDRAP – Report: Cardiac risks must be considered when treating COVID-19 – Stephanie Soucheray, MA Sept 18, 2025 at 4:10 p.m. A new major report published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology suggests repeat COVID-19 vaccination may be necessary to mitigate the cardiovascular risk associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The authors represent experts from across […]
The “enhanced” games concept is just another perverse aspect of kooky eugenics ideology.
This is not new for the monarchist far right libertarian nerd reich tescreal people.
Cryptocurrency magnates spending big on buying the US 2026 election midterms.
It’s pretty corrupt looking that the crypto industry people are openly talking about buying elections, and personally getting rid of politicians they don’t like.
Crypto connected real estate man revolving-doored in & out of the Shapiro admin and into data center consultancy.
Dodgy looking conflict of interest crypto & AI stuff in Pennsylvania.
Curtailing language studies makes Americans less safe and less informed, and there is no substitute to humans learning languages from humans.
Professor Timothy Longman, with a purview in political science and international relations, posted on social media speaking about the importance of language studies, from personal experience, and about the widespread demand that the Department of Education reinstate the Title VI program.
The The, The Beat(en) Generation, 1989
“And if they send in the special police, To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace”
I almost can’t believe quack medbeds are still a thing but it’s part of a bigger narrative.
The medbed thing is tied to the “quantum” craze & UFOs as climate contrarianism conspiracy theories about alien technology that will soon provide limitless energy that will solve climate change.
Hospitals are Trumpian about hospital acquired infections.
“If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” – Donald Trump, June 15 2020