Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.” usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

Cool little achievement. Thanks to everyone who has read, subscribed, and shared! open.substack.com/pub/theedgeofe…

I had no idea that humans lost our natural defense against HIV to fight an even worse retrovirus that no longer exists Old world monkeys still have this immunity - we share the same gene (Trim5-α) - but ours was repurposed millions of years ago Ep w Jacob Kimmel out tomorrow

Government taking ownership of private business, determining how much Canadian lumber we can import, the price of clothes of China and how many dolls our kids need. Prescription drug price controls. Favors for donors & allies. Republicans are now the central planning socialists.

New post: how warmer weather and urban life are shifting mosquito, tick, and sandfly risk in 2025. maps, mechanisms, and what to do this week. theedgeofepidemiology.substack.com/p/infectious-d…

nothing will blackpill you on first-principles slop more than spending a few years developing expertise in a field and then watching IQ130+ laypeople start opining during some hype cycle if the boomers will be vindicated on one thing it's their cult of domain experience

I cannot imagine spending my entire career tirelessly advocating free trade, free markets, and fiscal responsibility....just to end up in an administration where I publicly defend big tariffs, big deficits, and govt. ownership of industry.

Alex is misrepresenting data here. THC stays in a persons system for weeks after use, alcohol is cleared within a day. A positive test in autopsy is meaningless. I guess now that COVID fear mongering is no longer profitable he is returning to his anti-cannabis roots.

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this explains a lot about what's going on, for those of you paying attention

I will make this very simple. Just as Professor Dyson told me at Princeton in the 1980s: “There are not facts, other than the best observations. There is no truth other than in religions. Science is observations using newer and newer tools and falsifiable postulates” That is it

New post: The Doctors’ Riot (1788). When New Yorkers fought back against body-snatching medicine. Why cadavers were scarce, who got dug up, how “unclaimed” bodies became policy, and what that says about consent today. open.substack.com/pub/theedgeofe…

Foster looks like he knows he should be fired. This is embarrassing. Julio Frenk

This is a flashpoint in #UCLA football's history -- an opportunity for your voice to be heard. 247sports.com/college/ucla/l…

Only three games into the season, our Dylan Hernández writes that it's time for UCLA to move on from coach DeShaun Foster. latimes.com/sports/ucla/st…

Letters to Sports: UCLA fans aren't happy with state of football program latimes.com/sports/story/2…

Single-dose lysergide (MM120) beat placebo for GAD and the effect lasted to 12 weeks without trial-provided therapy. Promising signal ≠ green light. We still need an active placebo, pragmatic eligibility (keep usual meds), and functional outcomes. open.substack.com/pub/theedgeofe…

whoever's responsible for putting DOOM x Madlib's ALL CAPS in the new Claude ad i salute you 🫡

Brain dead commies fuck up boiling water one time in the 80’s and boomers are scared forever of nuclear power