The Washington Post fired Karen Attiah because she quoted Charlie Kirk, saying, "Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot." She added no comment -- merely an ACCURATE quote. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washingt…

Many thanks for ⁦Houston Matters⁩ ⁦Houston Public Media⁩ for hosting me today discussing our new book #scienceundersiege by ⁦Prof Michael E. Mann⁩ ⁦Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)⁩ ⁦PublicAffairs⁩

Precisely.

Embarrassing for any person of faith

If the #SFGiants had gone 5-11 instead of 1-15 during that awful stretch of home games, they would hold a playoff spot right now. If they had gone a mere 9-7 they would've already clinched!

But none of this is true: outside of annual flu vaccines it’s closer to 30 immunizations, all or most tested in placebo-controlled trials. We’ve gone from immunizing kids vs 8 diseases when I was a resident in the 1980s, to 16, including 4 for bacterial meningitis, 2 for cancer

In 2004, Bonds got his 36th intentional walk on May 31

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Our immune system is an evolutionary masterpiece. Every day it protects us from the thousands of different viruses, bacteria and other microbes that attempt to invade our bodies. Without a functioning immune system, we would not survive. One of the immune system’s marvels is its

Speaker Mike Johnson K H P 🇺🇸 Hey Mike, you’re on my payroll. HR says you & your team have only worked 12 of the last 84 days. Can you email me a list of 5 things you did this past week to make life better for Americans? Or is low quality shitposting what we pay you for now?

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Today in nature we report a new prime editing strategy that can rescue a common cause of many genetic diseases in a disease-agnostic manner. This approach converts a redundant endogenous tRNA into an optimized suppressor tRNA, enabling a single prime edit to rescue premature

More balls than most of the men on the world stage.

The metabolic engine of cognition: microglia–neuron interactions in health, ageing and disease go.nature.com/489uho7

Polio vaccine is safer than polio Diphtheria vaccine is safer than diphtheria Measles vaccine is safer than measles Tetanus vaccine is safer than Tetanus And yes Covid vaccine is safer than Covid That's The Whole Point Of Vaccines

IMO the most important scientific event this week was the publication of David R. Liu’s new Nature article 🧵👇in which he presented a new and promising Gene Editing modality named PERT - Prime Editing-mediated Readthrough of premature termination codons. This new modality - which

6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

Summary of Governor Gavin C. Newsom’s Advanced Imaging Results

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.