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If you are interested in the intersection of disease modeling and bioengineering check out our recent (concise) commentary on fibrosis biomimetics! nature.com/articles/s4157…
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Dan Matera, PhD
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Dan Matera, PhD
@DanMatera
Scientist & Leftist. Truth & nuance are inextricably linked. #FirstGen PhD from @umichgradschool.
Boston, MA Katılım Şubat 2021
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@DrJBhattacharya @gbdeclaration To this day there is no nuance on this issue- one could hypothesize some form of reduced activity ("lockdown") could improve outcomes during a period of hospital overwhelm. The policy was applied in a very flawed way & no cluster RCTs were ran- GDB provided no such nuance.
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In 2022, a prominent covidian Harvard prof. complained in the Guardian that @gbdeclaration 'sabotaged' the success of lockdowns. If a pandemic strategy is so vulnerable to failure because of criticism by three 'fringe' epidemiologists, it's probably not a robust strategy.
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I hear some ID clinics aren't recommending Paxlovid if 50+ and low risk. What's the reasoning?
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@esaagar A perpetual reminder that free markets can never exist- a marketplace is a set of arbitrary social agreements. Our current social agreements (i.e. capitalism) are beyond silly.
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Intuit, which owns TurboTax, Credit Karma, etc is nuking Mint (one of the most used/best budgeting apps) and instead switching people over to Credit Karma
Credit Karma will NOT continue to offer budgeting but instead just helps sell people credit cards and personal loans…
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@UpstreamPodcast @robpertray Censorship/alg probably has a role, but also
-Maybe you shouldn't have blocked everyone in your comments sections for having slightly different opinions than you, decreases post engagement and discussion
-A shift from well measured discussion to emotional tirades
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I have been repeatedly critical of mass administration of Ozempic, but there is no fucking way these drugs will add 50%!!! to total health care spending.
That just says the speaker does not know much about health care spending. I guess a lot like nutritional epi
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@VPrasadMDMPH It's already happening in the bioinformatics space, folks are training on thousands of NCBI omics datasets, all of which have totally different experimental designs. These datasets also rarely have a true "healthy" cohort- healthy people aren't getting biopsies for sequencing..
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This is exactly right. This is what big tech doesn't understand about medicine. An oncologist who reads the last 5000 papers just read a stack of shitty, irreproducible, uncontrolled studies. AI will not out perform cancer doc bc the barrier is biology not reading
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@VPrasadMDMPH Regardless of your views on Mehdi, his point is valid- the right has no consistency regarding free speech- they censor textbooks, the entire nonviolent BDS movement, support firing of people with "left" opinions, etc. - they just don't like when liberals do it to them.
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The only proven hypocrite here is Mehdi. He has repeatedly stated his support for holding people responsible for any of their views. He has not demonstrated that the leadership of this law firm is in fact 'the right' nor that they have expressed a criticism of cancel culture.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
For years, the right fulminated against ‘cancel culture’ and ‘snowflakes’ and in favor of ‘free speech’ no matter how ‘offensive’ and now…
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@lymanstoneky Classic arrogance from Lyman, who also pretends at the IDF is some reputable source of unbiased information. No one knows what happened & the IDF prevents any aid or journalists from entering Gaza. Meanwhile, IDF carpet bombs civilians when Hamas militants are underground.
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The jihadis accidently bombed the parking lot of a Gazan hospital full of civilians. This was obvious within minutes of the story breaking. The hospital building is intact and casualties overstated.
Many of you swallowed jihadi propaganda because you are not a fair judge of Jews
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I will never forget that the White House called those seeking a ceasefire “repugnant” and banned diplomats from calling for an end to bloodshed.
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@VPrasadMDMPH Modern science is more of an art than a science.
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Amazing that she has already grasped what 97% of medical researchers have not
Aella@Aella_Girl
the more i learn about statistics the more horrified i get at how much personal interpretive choice is at play at every step of the process. i came in expecting a hard science and feel like i'm getting slapped with way more art than i expected
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@rtglauser Few independent journalists can access Gaza & IDF and Hamas are not unbiased sources. Israel has a variety of munition types & factors like impact location affect the development of a crater- why even speculate.
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Morning is bringing new pictures of the courtyard. Notice the lack of a crater and a general shrapnel pattern. This isn't what a JDAM/artillery strike looks like.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
And we now have footage of the (partially) burnt-out parking lot at the Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Overall damage to the structures in the complex appears to be limited, a clay-tiled awning adjacent to the parking lot is still mostly intact.
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The company that makes the chemical that exploded in East Palestine poured $2 million into GOP coffers & now the rail safety bill is stalled.
@LeverNews is the only outlet to report this. Corporate media refuses to even mention the money & corruption. levernews.com/the-corporate-…
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New study: using EPA's $190/ton cost of carbon, a new study estimates how much it would cost businesses to pay for their pollution. Answer: it would consume 44% of corporate profits. grist.org/economics/true…
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Federal student debt payments have been paused for 1,264 days. Biden is set to resume them in 33 days while there is no broad scale relief. Simply bad policy that will devastate the economy and people's lives.
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@peterdaou Biden will protect democracy by taking on the GOP in the general, right after he destroys democracy during the primary.
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FACT: The 2024 Republican primary is more democratic than the Democratic primary.
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@mtaibbi Marxism = democratic control of the workplace aka the means of production
USSR achieved socialism as well as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea achieved democracy
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@EyewallPaul @ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 Ya know, a climate scientist may say you are confused about basic concepts and have been misled ;)
skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-tempe…
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@DanMatera @ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 It’s also very clear in the historical proxies that temperatures drive Co2, not the other way around.
The lag between the two is well known and well documented.
This is even apparent on shorter, contemporary time scales.
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Net-zero CO₂ by 2050 is possible if:
-8,500 coal plants stop burning coal.
-we stop heating homes.
-we stop driving the 1.4 billion cars in the world.
-planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.
-we stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.
-we stop shipping stuff.
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@EyewallPaul @ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 There is no convenient ignorance- natural (non man-made) variations in seasonal weather and climate have been present throughout the history of the earth, and are themselves a result of feedback loops within the climate system. You are confused.
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@DanMatera @ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 Where were these ‘feedback loops’ during the Medieval, Roman or Minoan warm periods where it was several degrees warmer than today?
It’s interesting how these are conveniently ignored by alarmists despite clear evidence for them.
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@DrJBhattacharya If you are going to trash flawed observational data when pro-lockdown folks use them, you shouldn't use similarly terrible & confounded results to push your own bias.
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Florida has lower cumulative all-cause age-adjusted excess mortality since the beginning of the pandemic than California.
Florida did a better job protecting the health of its citizens than California did with its lockdowns, extended school closures & mask obsession.
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@EyewallPaul @ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 We also aren't aware of all feedback loops, or how ecosystem collapse will affect our ability to access fresh water, farmland, etc.
No one knows how bad it's going to get, which is reason for more agency, not less.
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@ZombyWoof2022 @LeonSimons8 Except you’re completely wrong.
Co2 forcing decays logarithmically. By 400ppm it’s almost completely saturated and a doubling of Co2 doesn’t double the forcing.
Even this assumes we know the climate sensitivity to Co2 which we don’t so in the end it’s all completely speculative
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