Dave Atkinson

Academic Medicine, Adolescent Addictions, Neurobiology and Pharmacology. Anti-corruption, anti-Mafia, pro-dialogue. Political Compass: dead freekin' center.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

@DaveAtkinsonMD I think the definitive book on that case was written in 1995 by @DanMoldea - I reviewed it for The New York Times. Here is a paywall free link to the review.

https://t.co/TaG27zdLEu

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@DanMoldea @geraldposner I got the book, it's really good. Thank you Mr Moldea. Very factual without speculation or excess "interpretation on behalf of the audience". I'm only 1/3 through :-) learning as I go.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@geraldposner @DanMoldea It was recently released on audio book Listen to The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy by Dan E. Moldea on Audible. https://t.co/WqNX3CQfsB

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@default_friend Given that all decisions involve limbic areas, particularly the nucleus accumbens core, it's quite impossible to separate emotion and instinct entirely. Why is life good, why is mass death bad? Some of that relies on emotional valuation of life, it's all instinctual at some level

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

But was the crowd small because of the protestors?

[Eloise… dynamite with a laser beam! @WorldWearyWoman]

@geraldposner Free speech won in that the protestors were given their 10 minutes and then let the book promotion continue.

He cancelled further lectures because about half a dozen people attended the first two.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@geraldposner You have to keep speaking. Even If they kill you, your ideas will still walk the Earth with the legs of others... That's a rough paraphrase of the great Giovanni Falcone

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@angoffinet @PhysInHistory This might be from his shrooms days

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@default_friend @Christs_Scourge I'm gonna trust Katherine on this one

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@geraldposner Btw, I have been lambasted for saying Kirk was the most consequential American assassination since RFK, mainly by people who don't understand the word "since". I don't think I am wrong, although RFK was much more consequential.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@angoffinet @elonmusk Excellent question, some geniuses have tunnel vision. It also is very confusing when 'x' can also mean a variable, "ex-girlfriend" or MDMA

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@Christs_Scourge @default_friend That is a pretty bad argument SMJ, I don't like Dee's argument, but abusive name calling is a disgrace to those who properly calling out arguments that are inadequate.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@_SirSighsAlot_ The total fertility rate of people of reproductive age who opposed the lockdowns is much higher than the enthusiastic supporters. The culture of safetyism has led to a generation intolerant of risks to the point of self-extinction. Maximizing safetyism decreases human fluorishing

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@default_friend Because you are on an anti-anti-girlboss trend that makes your posts uncharacteristically predictable :-) you should subcontract this out to an AI

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@TheOfficerTatum At the risk of being contrarian, at least she lived her principles. Cowards die many times before their deaths, and true men (by which we mean, humans of both genders) die only once.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

The mural at the end of the video would last for 2 damn seconds.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Spencer Pratt hits it out of the park.

[Dave Atkinson @DaveAtkinsonMD]

@_SirSighsAlot_ Yeah... Like people are gonna be really enthusiastic about the next lockdown. In reality, there is no way many will comply based on a disease that is significantly more lethal than 0.6%

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

And we are missing infections.