Greg Piper

Reporter @justthenews. Formerly @collegefix and @comm_daily. Nathentoffian. This feed is mainly to keep track of story ideas. Obviously my opinions, not JTN's.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

How to deal with a journalist: a short 🧵

We are "on the record" by default. If you don't want any of what you say to end up in a story, or conveyed to other people, tell them "off the record" from the start.

[Jessica Adams @RxRegA]

I skimmed this BMJ opinion piece and genuinely don’t know how much more of this I can take.

The reflexive defenses of Fauci are becoming maddening. Cherry-pick the least supported or most inflammatory criticisms of him, knock those down, and then use that to avoid grappling with the legitimate issues and the much more complicated record.

Then point to people asking legitimate questions about that record and say they’re the ones damaging trust in science.

This kind of intellectual dishonesty is itself politicizing science. And I increasingly think it’s part of what is destroying trust in it.

And then comes the obligatory concession: “Scientists are not beyond criticism, but any criticism must be grounded in evidence and not conspiracy theories.”

Yes. Exactly. Engage seriously with the evidence and separate the legitimate questions from the unsupported ones. Don’t cherry-pick the latter and use them to wave away the former.

This has nothing to do with being MAGA or not. It has to do with scientific integrity.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

The Biden administration outsourced censorship to the private sector. Police agencies do the same with their Flock cam networks. https://t.co/f6kCJrxLAk via @daytondailynews

[Jessica Adams @RxRegA]

The mRNA vaccine platform entered widespread use based on the premise that COVID presented an extreme emergency, initially through EUA, then later transitioning to full approval amid clear political pressure that helped drive out two veteran senior FDA vaccine officials. Now we’re supposed to treat a pivot of the same platform into seasonal flu vaccines as no big deal, entirely logical and seamless, as if the origins, institutional pressure, and remaining open questions never happened.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

The public letter Anthony Fauci should write, according to @VPrasadMDMPH.
https://t.co/B1k1Sr4Inz

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

Flock pitched turning Uber and Lyft drivers into a mobile surveillance network https://t.co/STy4eXTIF8

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

How can you rave about Angine de Poitrine without mentioning their use of microtonality, @saxdavid? The Hollywood Reporter is posing.

Why Gen-Z Is Embracing Old Tech
https://t.co/hO2ooD3p4w

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

@bruce_arthur You just love male colonizers. https://t.co/HUtC5XCGgv

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Now do this guy

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Remember when @JillFilipovic said SAHMs are "emotionally worse off... by just about every measure"? Turns out, she's wrong. New data on
✔️ Meds
✔️ Depression
✔️ Alcohol consumption
paint a very different empirical tale than the one told by Filipovic.👇🏽

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster Selectively Edited Disgraced Scholar Jason Arday’s Memoir To Soften Now-Toxic Reputation

Reporting by @benryanwriter
https://t.co/RuCBBbfIFi

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

@KDansky It's not a barb at you but my genuine perplexity that it's rarely acknowledged, especially by conservatives.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

"Women are not men with cute names and lowered testosterone." And funny how Lia Thomas, née Will, is a confirmed autogynephile yet that rarely gets mentioned by critics.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

There is literally no difference between this and Lia/Will Thomas competing in the 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships. None.

"But Lia transitioned and lived as a woman and this guy is just faking it for a political stunt!"

"Lia" changed his name and suppressed testosterone for one year before calling himself a woman and competing on the UPenn women's team and changing in the women's locker room. Calling himself Lia and suppressing testosterone does not make him a woman. Women are not men with cute names and lowered testosterone.

"Trans" is not a civil rights movement. It's all a hoax. It's a combination of aggressive industry, tech, and men's sexual entitlement. None of it is actually real. We have all been lied to.

Men are male and women are female. It's not complicated.

"You're just a MAGA Trump supporter and a bigot!"

I have literally never voted for him. I'm a lifelong Democrat and a feminist.

More at https://t.co/gLfEkHIwc5.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

I have only seen one source for this claim, Moms for Liberty, and no explanation how they obtained the letter or confirmed its authenticity. I'm not ruling out its authenticity, but I'm concerned that we've stopped expecting such basic information accompanying these claims.

[Moms for Liberty @Moms4Liberty]

“A transgender boy was peeking through my stall and then he pushed the door open and embarrassed me. I was crying… My school did nothing… They said boys can use the girls bathroom. I feel scared to use the girls bathroom now.”
Her father has filed a Title IX complaint and is collecting signatures to recall the school board.
Parents — this is what happens when schools put ideology over a little girl’s safety.
Stand with the Rivera family.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

@Moms4Liberty How did you obtain it?

[OutKick @Outkick]

First Enes Kanter. Now Royce White.

The WNBA’s 2027 draft class is getting WILD.

(cred: @JackThompsonFOX)

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

The theoretical benefit of mRNA products is faster development time, but a former FDA regulatory reviewer notes that's not helpful in the context of how we choose strains for flu vaccines.

[Jessica Adams @RxRegA]

My initial impression really is that this mRNA flu vaccine approval does some damage to FDA’s credibility.

We have traditional flu vaccines with much longer and better characterized safety profiles. Against that, we have lingering safety questions, what appears to be a fairly modest efficacy advantage, and a potential manufacturing time advantage that remains entirely theoretical. Intuitively, being able to select strains later sounds beneficial, but we don’t actually know whether whatever additional time that manufacturing advantage might provide would meaningfully improve strain matching. More importantly, the twice yearly, hemisphere specific strain selection process has not changed to take advantage of that potential flexibility. So far, this remains a theoretical advantage, not a demonstrated one.

To be clear, I appreciate that this was studied in a very large trial, and the approval standard does not require a new vaccine to demonstrate some major advantage over existing options. There is certainly an argument for benefit here. But benefit risk is ultimately about weighing those benefits against the risks and uncertainties, and taken altogether, this just does not strike me as an approval that strengthens public trust in FDA.

The full approval documents have not yet been posted, so there may be additional context still to come.

And that’s without even getting into the political donations and other circumstances surrounding this approval, which raise a separate set of questions.

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

DSA candidates are comically transparent liars when it comes to denying their past comments that make them persona non grata with voters in the general election. https://t.co/wdoOzsBQoa

[Vanessa Sivadge @V_Sivadge]

I read every page of the $10 million settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital.

The headlines barely scratch the surface.

Here are 5 things hidden in the agreement that surprised even me.🧵

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

@atrupar What's vile about the joke? You don't think Dylan Mulvaney is stunning and brave?

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

The New York Times knows full well that Matthew Shepard's murder had nothing to do with his sexuality, as a subsequent investigation confirmed, yet spreads disinformation by invoking him in a story on an alleged anti-gay assault. The reporter is Jack Healy (@jackhealyNYT).

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

At 6’10” and 250 pounds, Enes Kanter Freeeom is going to absolutely dominate the WNBA.

A great moment for intersectional feminism