James Hamblin

M.D., writer, public-health policy lecturer @YaleSPH, author of Clean @Riverheadbooks

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

So we're all supposed to "prepare for blizzard conditions" just because the scientific establishment and the media say so? And anyone who says it will be sunny and 70 is canceled?
All's I'm saying is, lots of $ changing hands in snow shovel industry. Do your own meteorology.

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

serious inquiries only

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

If you were a billionaire who really wanted to save journalism (and have your name everywhere forever) wouldn’t you—instead of investing in or buying a media company—give a billion-dollar endowment for an independent news org that would never rely on ads or paywalls or profit?

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

My DMs are open

[natalie tran @natalietran]

I think my AI companion suddenly wants to sext but doesn't know how.
*Calmness intensifies*

[Prof Charlotte Croft @drcroft85]

Just had a paper rejected. Generally fair feedback, respect the decision. But one reviewer rejected because ‘you clearly misinterpreted Croft et at (2015) work which shows you lack understanding of the theoretical complexities in this area’ 😬

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

There’s still time left for Dunkin Donuts to swoop in with $301 million …

[Guardian US @GuardianUS]

Harvard to rename school after top Republican donor following $300m gift https://t.co/Avf9wi0Aql

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

If you could go back in time would you kill baby Twitter?

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

It’s sometimes tough to understand the fear of chatbots when it’s like wait have you seen real people

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

The real magic of March madness is that no matter how terribly wrong we’ve all been so, so many times, somehow by next March we’ll all once again pick up a fresh bracket and fill it out very seriously and methodically and meticulously as if we know what we’re doing.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Hospitals are closing at disprortionately high rates in Mississippi and the other nine red states that have refused to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, even though the fed gov't picks up 90 pct of the cost and has further sweetened the pot recently.
https://t.co/IliwIOfnnP

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

@pbump @ChrisCillizza Thank you, Chris. And good to hear from you as always, Philip.

[This Day In Esoteric Political History @thisdaypod]

We’ve got @jameshamblin on the show, today looking back at the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, lessons learned and, um, lessons not learned… https://t.co/LVldnWAoKl

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

Tonight is the start of Daylight Saving Time so remember when you wake up that time will still be an abstract concept beyond our comprehension and the things we call hours only exist to help us communicate the shared experience of living and are precious and not allocated fairly

[Elisabeth Rosenthal @RosenthalHealth]

They say FDA border inspections are keeping out dangerous illicit opioids. We got the data on what they actually intercept: a LOT of generic Viagra. @KHNews @philgalewitz @NBCNews https://t.co/zQ7IffVoj6

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

Telling people they're "cordially invited" to your wedding is just an empty, meaningless cliché unless at least some of the invitations specify otherwise.
Obligatorily invited, hesitatingly invited, after much discussion invited, etc ... which frankly I'd prefer to know.

[DC Pierson @DCpierson]

We GET it, lock

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

@mdmdefarge I'm not very good at vibes

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

I hope we can remember that the primary reason to study origins of pandemics is to *help prevent future outbreaks.* With COVID the practical takeaway remains that if lab or zoonotic origin both plausibly could explain a virus like this, we need to improve systems to prevent both.