George Zakusilo

The $400 million contract for Armored Teslas that @DropSiteNews got canceled now ranks as the single biggest savings made by DOGE after correcting for all their other errors. For some reason they don’t list it but you’re welcome nonetheless!

Here’s the thing: If the govt invests in cancer research, you may or may not make progress toward earlier detection or more effective treatment. If instead you buy crypto, you will definitely succeed in making holders of crypto, like Trump crypto czar @DavidSacks, much richer. So the decision is obvious.

Sometimes vaccine efficacy is subtle Sometimes it isn't

@PierreKory @MidwesternDoc This is the dumbest stuff I have seen today on this website, and there is a lot of moronic stuff here. But this... You need to shed all of your brain cells to believe in this crap

The most puzzling part of the COVID vaccine is its ability to "shed" and harm those who never got it. A peer-reviewed study just validated the thousands of shedding reports @MidwesternDoc evaluated. Please share your story so we can untangle this mystery midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-weve-le…

Who here has had an mRNA vaccine and is absolutely fine? ✋

It’s 4am - still debating the Republicans’ billionaire tax giveaway. We offered an amendment to say no tax cut for those making over $10m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $100m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $500m! Every Republican a no. See what’s going on?

It’s clear that Elon’s crack team of children ARE IN FACT CHILDREN, because only someone who had never really worked with data before would see a table like this and not think “I must be missing something about how this works”

Great Russian word - самодур (sum-o-durr, literally - self-idiot) - A person who stubbornly treats others based solely on personal whims and unchecked authority even if it goes against their own best interests. This word comes to mind every time I check the news.

Elon Musk is mad about Judge McConnell’s decision to unfreeze federal grants… So he posted a picture of his daughter, her full name, her position of where she works, and a page of a signed tax statement she filed. The judge’s daughter. 😯

Oligarchs vs. Workers Oligarchs: 💰Musk’s wealth - $402 billion 💰Zuckerberg's wealth - $252 billion 💰Bezos' wealth - $249 billion Workers: 🛠️60% live paycheck to paycheck 🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured 🛠️ 800k homeless
 End Oligarchy. Fight for working families.

@FriedrichHayek @mbeisen Yes, but now you will have not much to read even. I mean, instead of addressing that problem Musk just slashed the entire enterprise. That's as efficient as shashing car tires when the problem is a dirty windshield.

@mbeisen If I pay for the work, why am I denied access to read it or use it? Please explain why my research that I paid for is not public domain. Let's hear it.

“Why don’t universities pay research costs with their endowments” is a bad argument. Grants aren’t charity. These are contracts where universities are being paid to carry out work on behalf of the public. Why shouldn’t the government be expected to pay the full cost of the work being done on their behalf? Universities shouldn’t get everything they ask for - the government should absolutely only pay legitimate expenses, and I would fully support any effort to make sure that is happening. And many university endowments are absurd, and the push to accumulate large endowments has poisoned universities. If the government doesn’t like how much money they’re sitting on, they can tax them. But don’t ruin science to punish rich universities. If the issue is that people don’t want the government to fund biomedical research, well then don’t fund grants at all. Funding them, demanding that grantees do the work they’ve said they will, and then not paying for it is bullshit.

Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support staff, insurance, trash, toilet paper. This is what 'cutting indirects' did to every major biomedical center & hospital in the US.

Эдвард Мунк. «Стирающая девушка». 1896 г.

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier. By @nick_rapp

@slavov_n Without KO/KD that's exactly the assumption

This rate of validation suggests that antibodies should be considered non-specific until proven otherwise: 357 validated out of 1,124 tested. .

Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed? The culprit: a poorly validated antibody that went unchecked for years … until recently !!! nature.com/articles/s4141…

The Tris chloride pH law: The only Tris-Cl pH solution that you don't have in stock is the one you need for the next experiment

@TamaraTbilisi Как хорошо когда где либо есть подлый сосед, тогда можно все косяки свалить на него. Для Грузии это Россия, для России это США, для США это Китай, для арабских стран это Израиль, для Израиля это арабские страны, для Китая это США и Япония, для Пакистана это Индия, и так далее..

У нас не драка. Все намного печальнее. Если мы останемся лицом к лицу с подлым соседом на севере, нас просто не будет. Не физически. Из нас опять сделают коррумпированную вороватую нацию. Я не могу это вынести.

God save the queen, but let me reload