It is really weird that we have collectively chosen to memory hole this fact.

This point is one of the worst failures of conventional wisdom about Covid, especially on the right. You could entirely ignore the deaths of the elderly, and there was a separate pandemic just of the young that was among the deadliest events in all American history.

Covid was a story of American carnage for working-age men and women. It just was also a story of mass death for the elderly too, and a lot of people who wanted a framing to dismiss it decided that must have meant everyone who died was going to anyway.

Personally, I’m skeptical that taking healthcare away from millions of working-class people by imposing yet more red-tape — and causing many medically-preventable deaths — will give these individuals “a renewed sense of purpose.”

I agree with Paul Sax here. We need at least 1 RCT of COVID boosters in the immunity era. Notably, we have them for influenza vaccination across multiple seasons. Not too much to ask. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observa…

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for fifty years,” she said. “What’s happening now is worse.” This is in part because universities today are far more beholden to the federal government. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Sure there’s a reproducibility crisis in science. But a big part of that is related to where the initial observations get published versus attempts at reproducibility. The Potti (Duke) papers were published in NEJM & Nat Med while Coombes/Baggerly data showing it was all made up:

Dedicated NIH funding for reproducibility studies, high impact journals accepting those results (for the sake of trainees doing the work) versus “lack of novelty”, and tenure committees giving credence to reproducibility research are pivotal. None of these exist at this point.

“The youngest infants, they haven’t seen Covid before..we’ve all seen Covid so many times..But that’s not true for those youngest kids, they remain essentially naïve to Covid,” nytimes.com/2025/05/27/hea…

I participated in a call-in public radio show about Biden's cancer diagnosis and prostate cancer in general. kalw.org/show/your-call…

The science reformer-science nihilist convergence continues. politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

Overdiagnosis is more than a clinical challenge, it’s a societal one. In this episode of the AJR Podcast Series on Diagnostic Excellence and Error, Francis Deng, MD and Saurabh Jha explore where clinical vigilance meets ethical complexity. ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJ…

"A fellowship program will send Hopkins professors to do stints at AEI, and vice versa. The university is trying to normalize conservative perspectives on campus and in the university’s research and public-facing statements." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Must be all those vaccines 44-year-olds are getting.

Can you explain Dr. Martin Makary and Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD Is this the "gold-standard science" you keep talking about? Full thing: notus.org/health-science…

Imagine how Jay Bhattacharya and those guys would respond to this if a pro-vaccine administration had done it

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/… RFK Jr. has just put healthy young children at risk. He should step down at head of HHS. Enough.

Kennedy has said that his department will strive for “informed choice” and “radical transparency.” Public health by fiat, or by tweet, achieves neither. ⁦Dhruv Khullar⁩ newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

VA researchers have been ordered to not publish in journals without clearance from political appointees. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…