Just arrived in São Paulo, Brasil. Dual mission of expanding our vaccine development for global health program and also helping to combat rising antivaccine activism here that accelerated in the Bolsonaro regime
Unfortunately, when it was discovered that they were attaching covid death statistics to people who died unrelated deaths but happened to have covid at time of death,the trust was lost on people. Inflating death statistics to push a public crisis narrative is sneaky and weird
I’m still hoping to remain on Twitter, but we’ll see how things go. This was and should be an important outlet for scientists, although far more challenging in its new form.
It’s absurd to expect scientists to appear on Joe Rogan. Do you really expect someone with a PhD to be prepared to explain his area of expertise and answer tough questions about it for 3 hours?
Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America.
More than car accidents and more than cancer. We can't let that become just another statistic.
Let's ban AR-15-style firearms and other assault weapons.
That would be a great suggestion if you could assure that the industry you were representing wasn’t completely captured by heartless monsters who have a history of some of the biggest criminal fines in human history because their deception has cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives. It would be a great suggestion if the industry you were defending didn’t occasionally look at human beings as an opportunity to generate insane wealth regardless of the tragic consequences. But you can’t do that, so… maybe it would be a good idea to have a fucking debate.
Transgender cyclist Austin Killips has won a North Carolina race by a whopping five minutes – prompting the second-place finisher to declare that her power was “not comparable” and suggest a separate category for trans athletes 👀