M Sarkar

@EthicalSkeptic Congratulations! May it nudge the readers to accept that we are all just transients here, and there's more value in kindness than in greed and rat-racing.

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@varundubey I wish you success at solving those pain points. How will you balance honest expert advice and affordable pricing with the (obvious) need to show increasing profits?

The uncomfortable truth about hospitals is this: Patients never really know. They don’t know if the surgery is truly necessary. Or if it’s being recommended because that’s how the system makes money. Sadly today, people don’t go to hospitals expecting care. They go expecting a sales process. The data is clear, a medi-angels study showed that over 40% of all surgeries prescribed were not required. A recent FOGSI study showed 95% of hysterectomies were unnecessary. Which is exactly why we built Supersurgery, the most honest and hassle free surgery experience ever.👇 Honest Opinion from Zero Commission doctors With Supersurgery, you get an honest opinion because our doctors are full-time and salaried. There are no commissions, no sales targets or referrals. They take the time to listen to you and are focused only and only on what is best for you. Fixed Prices We have a fixed price for hte procedure. It is all inclusive and doesn't change whether you pay yourself or via insurance. It doesn't change even if your case complexity changes or whether you need more tests or scans. in fact if your doctor says you need to stay a few more days to get better, we don't charge for that either. we absorb the cost. Magic Discharge Unlike other hospitals where at discharge you have to wait for hours and hours and hours, at Superhealth we pre-commit the discharge time and it is instant. as soon as hte doctor confirms you are fit to go, you can get up and leave. there is no drama, no paperwork, no running to 10 departments trying to get clearances. Today we prescribe about 50% fewer surgeries than the industry. And if you do need it, then it should be simple, honest and high quality. I really hope you never need surgery, but if you do, don't settle for just surgery, get Supersurgery. Learn more at superhealth.co.in/supersurgery

@cenkuygur If it's true that behind every war there is an underlying failure of diplomacy, then what is behind the wars initiated by leaders who won democratic elections while promising peace? ...Lobbying? Kompromat?

Fuck. The war has started. Israel has pushed us into this asinine war. Everything that goes wrong is on them. America had absolutely no interest in this war. 8 out of 10 Americans are against it. No matter who we vote for, we get Israel and war. This is going to end in disaster.

@Fynnderella1 Thanks, I was thinking along those lines. Not sure how closely that angle (mRNA vaccination --> proteostasis disruption intracellularly) has been looked at. Found a mention of ER stress pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC20… but perhaps there's more to see.

When high‑molecular‑weight assemblies start forming unchecked, they don’t just clog up proteolytic machinery, they drain the very chaperone economy that keeps life organized against entropy. Crossing that threshold converts the proteostasis network from a dynamic balancer into a self‑propagating collapse. Life’s molecular order depends on keeping those complex assemblies below the red line.

(2023) Oldie but goodie: The aim of this study was to investigate myocardial 18F-FDG uptake on PET/CT scans in asymptomatic patients vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 compared with uptake in nonvaccinated patients. When patients were divided into groups based on the interval between vaccination and imaging, myocardial 18F-FDG uptake was higher in all vaccinated groups (median SUVmax range, 4.6–5.1 g/mL [range of IQRs, 2.9–8.6 g/mL]) compared with the nonvaccinated group Several studies have also reported that myocarditis incidents occurred no more than 28 days after patients had received their second vaccination (3–7,19,21). In our study, patients who underwent imaging 1–180 days after their second vaccination showed elevated myocardial 18F-FDG uptake on PET/CT scans compared with nonvaccinated patients

@iambigbread @mrsnhl @BlrCityPolice @mahadevapuratrf It is in the societal interest that readers learn how to (or not!) proceed in such situations, and what the red flags might be. @iambigbread best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Did not want to get involved in all this but such a biased story posted by @BlrCityPolice @mahadevapuratrf was the last straw. Honestly, I'm scared to write this. The police have our names and addresses. If any mishap happens to us, then please blame the police. Here's the first person account of the whole incident, and all the red flags that I was able to identify: We stopped at Belathur traffic signal on 14th Dec ~9:30pm. A speeding Mahindra Bolero truck rammed us from behind, the impact yeeted us to the middle of the signal and a crowd gathered immediately. Upon dialing 100, the police reached our spot within ~15min, and took an account of the whole accident. The truck driver appeared drunk and lousy, and we overheard the police threatening the driver with a 'drink-and-drive' and a 'hit-and-run' case. We obviously didn't know what further steps to take and seeked guidance from the police, who told us (and the truck driver) to go to Mahadevapura Traffic Police Station for further action. We later found out that Belathur signal clearly comes under Whitefield Police Jurisdiction (red flag #1) and we shouldn't have been transferred to Mahadevapura directly in the first place. We drove in the severely battered car from Belathur signal to Mahadevapura traffic station. The truck driver who'd agreed to come never showed up. Upon talking to the police official present there (at around 11pm), we asked to file a complaint and he just made an entry in the 'kaccha book' (that's what they call it), and told us to come the next day by which time they'd have caught hold of the driver and that we'd get a resolution (red flag #2). We leave our offices early the next day (15th Dec) to reach the station around 5pm, in the same battered car - hoping to have it as proof of the accident, only to find that no progress had been made. The police officer (called S further hereon) heard our account, then proceeded to call the driver (I'd taken the driver's number) - who didn't respond. S then dug up the phone number registered with the truck's number plate and asked the 'owner' (more on the 'owner' part later) to come to the station next day at 1pm. We asked whether we'd have to be there and he told that both the parties would need to be present in order to have a settlement. Upon asking to take a look at the car, S told that that won't be required and even told that it wasn't necessary to bring the car the next day to the station (red flag #3). We handed over the car at a nearby Hyundai service centre to get an estimated cost, to understand the extent of damage, hoping to have some leverage(lol!) in the communication the next day. Boy, were we wrong. We reach the station the next day - 16th Dec, had to take the day off off work, at 3pm - only to find out that the truck 'owner' hadn't reached yet. We wait for over an hour, get a call at 4:30pm that the person has arrived and go back to into the station. The service centre gave an estimated repair cost of around 1.5L at least (jfyi, the car had no other damage previously). We go in, demanding the full amount, hoping to agree midway. The truck 'owner' told he could do 3000 (imagine our surprise at that amount). S sent us out, there's a small veranda type area right outside the office, to discuss a figure amongst ourselves. Upon talking to the guy, we found out that he was just a clerk in the company, the truck business owner was in Hyderabad (apparently), and that the truck was just registered in his name (that's just how these yellow plate businesses operate). We tried to negotiate for over an hour, tried to talked to someone higher up in his company, but they just seemed to ignore us (and blocked our number after the second call). We go back inside, try to explain the situation to S, but he feigns ignorance and shows that he called the truck 'owner' registered on the number plate. We ask what the process of FIR was and we'd want to go ahead with that - and we hear the most elaborate process since the universe came into existence. Apparently (and idk if this is true atp but this is what we were told), to proceed with an FIR, we'd have to submit our car at the station, we'd get a court hearing after 90 days, after which the Bolero owner would be fined 3500 (only!), post which we'd still have to claim money back from our insurance, and S strongly recommended us to talk to our legal advisor (of course every 23y/o has one). He sent us back outside to contemplate on this. After seeing how these yellow plate businesses operate (the actual people accountable spend zero energy), we figured out that the time+energy we'd spend on this was totally not worth it, and we decided to forfeit the money. Upon going back in the office, I tell S that 3000 is meaningless anyways, and that we're just leaving, S totally flips out (red flag #4). He starts ranting that you guys should punish the other person, they're at fault and even if the money was just a rupee, we shouldn't let it go. He volunteered to go and convince the other guy to settle at a higher amount, and went to meet him in the veranda area, wherein we see them laughing and shaking hands. After 5 minutes, they come to us and S tells that the guy's agreed upon 7000, but that S has told him to pay 8000 since the 'insurance papers' will take a 1000, and S assured us that the police 'insurance papers' would be more than enough for the insurance claim (at least 90% of the amount would be covered by the insurance). Proceeding to assure that the case isn't closed, and that we could follow-up with the police if something went awry in our insurance claim process. Upon asking for S's UPI to transfer across the 1000 rupees, he told us to give the amount in cash (red flag #5). We gave the 1000 rupees, all these transactions happen in the veranda area which is out of CCTV coverage - there were a couple of more such groups fighting and this seemed like an everyday routine for the police. I asked S to start processing the insurance papers, and to my astonishment, he downloads BTP ASTraM on my phone and files a self-service complaint for the same, and tells that this was the insurance paper. I wonder where the 1000 rupees went. It was then that I realized how professionally we were gaslit, and we're expected to believe in the system..? Earlier today, our insurance claim (Reliance General (Motor) Insurance) was rejected and upon talking to the supervisor, it was due to "Misrepresentation of facts". At every point, all the details that we gave were thoroughly verified (including the google timeline history showing our whereabouts on the day of the accident). We were told that the only way forward would be through a legal process. We went back to the station today (after this tweet blasted), but we received so much pushback to file the FIR (and @BlrCityPolice we have proof this time of the amount of pushback) - it wasn't until we took the name of a famous MP who'd responded to this X post, and threatened to escalate, that we received some attention. Is this how an FIR is filed?

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru. And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less. My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel the need to stop. He slammed into them instead. I know he was drunk. She knows it. The highway police knows it. The truck owner knows it. No arrest was made. The truck driver never showed up at the station. The owner never showed up. Nobody cared. My sister and her friend - both injured, both terrified - kept going back to the station, back to the accident site, explaining what happened over and over, just trying to get a report filed. I was in the US. All I could do was talk to them on calls, helpless. Here's what the police told them: "If nobody died, an FIR doesn't make sense." "Just claim first party insurance." "Third party insurance doesn't pay much anyway." And then, quietly, one officer pulled them aside and told the truth: "These truck mafia bribe us. Nothing will happen." Nothing happened. The truck was KA04 AE6550. The police themselves said if they'd been on a two-wheeler, both would be dead. We had 100% insurance from Reliance. Claim rejected. Reason? "Misrepresentation of facts." These two, even while injured, kept showing up to represent the facts. Reliance still found a way to deny them. The law says if someone hits you from behind, the person behind is at fault. It was a red light. How does a truck driver not see that? Trust me, this isn't about money. I'll manage the repairs and the medical bills. I have savings. And I have a decent credit score; I'll take a personal loan if I have to. That's not the point. The point is this: my sister is afraid now. Afraid that anything can happen to her at any moment and there's no one - no system, no law, no institution - that will protect her. But how do I tell her the world is supposed to be fair? How do I tell her to trust the system? How do I explain that the drunk driver walks free, the truck owner was never questioned, and the police pocketed their bribe and closed the file? I can't say to any official, "What if this was your daughter? Your sister?" Because their daughters travel in cars with security escorts. They will never know what it feels like to be ordinary and unprotected. So I'm saying it to you, an ordinary reader. You're on the road. You stop at a red light. A drunk driver in a truck rear-ends your car. Your loved one is inside, terrified. And then you learn: there is no recourse. None. The truck owner pays off the cops. The insurance company rejects your claim. The system shrugs. This is Bengaluru in 2025. This is India in 2025. This is what your life is worth here. One more thing. The friend in the car? He's one of the smartest people I know. close to top 100 rank in IIT-JEE. AI engineer and one of the biggest data companies. At 23, he is valuable to be paid more annually than the cost of five such trucks, that too, in India. He's patriotic. He pays his taxes. He stays in India even though he constantly gets offers to move to the US. This is the confidence our system gives to someone who is clearly an asset to this country. All this unfairness - for a drunk truck driver. @blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice - tell me. I've always avoided raising fingers publicly. But what else can I do?

@EthicalSkeptic Thank you!

SARS-CoV-2 continues its long downward mortality trek. Week 1, 2026 UCoD deaths are 38% below last year and 79% below two years ago, now falling to 17% of flu & pneumonia mortality. With vaccine uptake now very low, this is a strong signal of population-level natural immunity and/or intrinsic virulence decline. The data point to mechanistic exhaustion and not a cyclical lull.

Even if you, like me, *think* you'd configured Gmail for reasonable privacy in the past, there might be newer settings worth a quick look. Took less than a minute. Hat tip to Ray.

@RayArmat Thank you, Ray.

You can TURN OFF Gmail scanning all your private emails and texts: In Settings, All Settings, Disable all SMART features, etc.⬇️ Share if You care

"Dan's goal, she says, was to see insurance companies held to a standard similar to doctors, making them liable for malpractice when they deny lifesaving care." cbsnews.com/news/state-of-…

@EthicalSkeptic @EvelynOther "Fear is rarely the doorway to knowledge." (TES blog). Yet, being afraid of my ignorance became my motivation for visiting theethicalskeptic.com blog...

@EvelynOther Considering on how to introduce the hypothesis to mainstream discussion, yet not terrorize innocent people over its implications. Not an easy decision for me.

ECDO Timeline v 7.3, 9 Dec 2025 The human activity/script gap, coinciding with the culling of 19 in 20 human Y-DNA signatures, is significant. The Y-D is important of course - but this event constituted a dark winter of man, that occured ~4400 BCE.

@SabinehazanMD Dr Hazan, several of the links on the progenabiome.com/clinical-trials page are to trials that have been withdrawn ("Company focus shifted"). Are you planning to reveal a summary of the preliminary results, even if the sample sizes or trials were not large or long enough? Good luck.

To the last 200 followers who have joined my feed know this!!! My name is Dr Sabine Hazan Steinberg. I am married to Dr Alon Steinberg who was the expert on the Michael Jackson Conrad Murray trial. I am the sister of Dr. Lydie Hazan who brought Ivm and Harvoni as well as hundreds of pharma products to market. My Other sister @CaroleHazanmd is a famous dermatologist in NY who specializes in Moh’s surgery. My brother-in-law is an oncologist in NY, my other brother-in-law is Gi, and his sister's father and uncle are all Drs in NY. My other sister-in-law is an ob-gyn. Over 10 Drs in the family, made me step into Covid to see the data myself because I don't trust much. I am a gastroenterologist by specialty who performs a procedure called Fecal transplant and have done hundreds of trials for pharma. I was called the queen of Cdiff by pharma because I was always the top recruiter for those trials. Cdiff is a bacteria that causes diarrhea. Patients would join the trials and if the trials failed, I would do a Fecal transplant. A fecal transplant is taking 💩of a healthy person and putting it in the colon of a patient with Cdiff. When fecal transplant fixed more than Cdiff, I paid attention. When 💩capsules became a clinical trial without understanding 💩 (the microbiome), I went rogue and started @Progenabiome. I wrote 57 protocols and started my lab. When no one funded us or supported us, I used my savings to see the truth. When Covid hit, I knew my ability to do fecal transplants would be on hold so I looked at 💩 for Covid because I knew it would be a big mistake to transplant infected Covid stools in patients. In 2020, @Progenabiome became the first lab worldwide to identify whole genome sequences of COVID-19 in the stools of all symptomatic patients clinically seen. We saw early on the impact of Hcq and Ivm on the gut and my team and I wrote 3 protocols which were submitted to @US_FDA and posted on clinical trials .gov since April 2, 2020. Those protocols were Hcq, Zpack, Vit C, D and Zinc and Ivm Doxy, zinc, Vit C And D. As we got approved early to run 2 protocols by @US_FDA, I noticed interference in research by the media destroying Hcq and Ivm but also we could not advertise on Fb and IG. In July 2020, while treating patients and running trials on COVID-19, we discovered that people with zero bifidobacteria had severe COVID-19 vs. patients exposed to COVID-19 who never had it. We then discovered the loss of Bifidobacteria was a feature of #longhaulers, #crohns, #Lymedisease, #invasivecancer, #alzheimers, V injured, #autism, #anxiety. We also discovered Vit C and Ivm increased the bifidobacteria for only 24 hrs. In late 2020, when the vaccines rolled out, I recruited patients to see the effects of mRNA on the microbiome. To my surprise, it killed the Bifidobacteria but also persisted in killing the Bifidobacteria. I was called an anti-vaxer who spread misinformation when in reality, I was spreading EARLY INFORMATION. Since then, I Saw the corruption in medicine when my hypothesis paper was retracted. Saw the politics of Medicine and the fact that the price of a stock mattered more than the price of a life. Since then TRUST IS COMPLETLY GONE. Since then I have published numerous papers, done a lot of podcasts, and spoken at hundreds of conferences on how the microbiome tells the story of COVID-19. All on @Progenabiome website. Since then Fecal transplants have not been easily done by GI Drs as pharma wants to push a pill. This will delay innovations in Medicine. Since then it has been very hard to publish all I have learned. Since then I have seen the narrative pushed by Lobbyists. Here we are November 2024 and I am the Keynote speaker at the American College of Cardiology. I guess Drs want to be misinformed.😜 This train is moving with or without pharma. With or without politicians. With or without businessmen and with or without Media because we all will be patients… Word of Mouth PR IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. Namaste Peeps

@JesslovesMJK The irony of powers-that-be rolling out vaccines at Warp Speed, and then dragging their feet when it's time to test them. I hope you, Kevin and Charles can please send an invoice to the current administration for the services rendered.

Please understand the implications of what we did in the past 2 days for almost no cost. The results shown in this short movie are the product of only a few hours of work and they prove fraud. Pfizer DNA content came up at 9 cts. 9!!!! @joerogan @joeroganhq @Kevin_McKernan @CharlesRixey @BretWeinstein It was absolutely the most fun I've had in ages working with Kevin and Charles. What a trio we are! It feels really good to have gotten my hands dirty on the bench and to be a part of the process. Let me tell you: when you see the results come up in front of your eyes at the end of a bit of prep and sequencing/PCR, it really solidifies the shock of what they did.

@AzRepGillette @ThePatriotOasis @strikercris05 @FBIDirectorKash What an irresponsible comment, inciting more violence in an already-polarized nation. Do better, Mr Representative. If you ever had a head injury, e.g. while serving, please consider a brain scan through your VA benefits, for the sake of family & constituents.

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) calls on Democrats to be “strike ready” and “street ready.” This is a CLEAR call to violence! @FBIDirectorKash

@Windows @Microsoft The workflow for opting into Windows 10 #ESU (extended service updates) has a hyperlink to Terms Of Use. But have you actually put the Win10 ESU TOU among your many service/products' terms at the link ? microsoft.com/en-us/useterms Please clarify. Thx.

@James_West_PhD Very apt!

Particularly appropriate topic for the sermon today at HPC: If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. Your generosity will awaken their conscience. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. - Romans 12:20-21

The aspiration: One nation, united for good.

@sambahreini @amasad That's a woof woof story :-)

@amasad Amazing! My 4th grader used Replit last night for ‘Try it Tuesday’ to build her app. She had a blast and is amped to get home and build more, even if it was a bark translator 😂

AI agents can prototype apps… But shipping real software takes hours of testing, debugging, and refactoring. Agent 3 is 10× more autonomous — it keeps going where others get stuck. The “Full Self-Driving” moment of software.

@mignano @oboelabs @NirZicherman Michael, congrats on the new product and the deep thought that went into it. I gave it a brief test, and have 2 questions: (1) How do you ensure the AI stays factually correct, doesn't hallucinate when forming its 'course content'? (2) No option to print its content output?

@oboelabs @NirZicherman oboe.fyi @oboelabs (3/3)

Introducing Oboe. Out now. Human beings are getting stupider. We all know it.  Meanwhile, we’ve spent trillions to make the most incredible technology in the history of humanity, and we’ve outsourced all of our individual agency in the process. (1/3)

@Dominanski @Hsolo275 I agree, very little could be done for the lady. Her killer made sure of that. We Americans expect politicians to fix the broken system in USA. Yet, how many career politicians would want to change a system that treats them well enough?

Ortho MD here, great thread, these injuries are very hard to manage even with adequate equipment and training but people should know the basics (pressure + airway control) and carry a first aid kit, having said that I can't even begin to fathom how to handle a traumatic severing of trach + artery... nightmare scenario...

Aight, I think many of us have seen the full video of Iryna Zarutska being murdered. I want to say a couple things, but my primary focus is on 1 specific topic which I’ll get to 1) Pray for her soul. Pray for her family. Pray for righteous anger, with temperance. With that..