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If knowledge is power, and power corrupts, become totally evil about Halloween science by reading Halloween Science 2.0, on Kindle, paperback, and hardback.

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You're right about shingles and the rest is just weird alternative nonsense.

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received the vaccine." https://t.co/VKyZMDHJdj

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A mathematician walked by my truck and thought I was working on an equation.

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In 100% of clinical trials, the only lifestyle change that works is fewer calories.

Like Einstein, energy balance has survived all challenges.

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

What the post also shows is that no single dietary intervention has been shown, in a long term study, to improve long term human health. Not diets that substitute polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats; not diets that replace fat with carbohydrate.
Yet I doubt there is a single faculty teaching human nutrition anywhere in the world that ever makes this point.
Probably the most important study is the LookAhead study which tested dietary fat reduction in obese type 2 diabetes. After 9.5 years it was given up as a. hopeless failure. Which of course it was not. It was only a failure for those who, filled with cognitive dissonance, have and will continue to prescribe that diet in the hope that somehow their patients will respond differently.
Yet what diet does one think is prescribed by "evidence-based" doctors and dietitians, for most of the world's persons living with that condition?
On the other hand, the one diet that has yet to be properly investigated with long term trials is the low-carbohydrate high-fat diet.
Yet the reason most usually advanced by the "evidence-based" practitioners to explain why the low-carbohydrate diet should not be prescribed is "because there are no long term studies".
So instead the diets that are prescribed (because there are long-term trials - regardless of outcomes) are exactly those which long-term studies show are either harmful or without effect.
A strange situation is it not?
@garytaubes @bigfatsurprise @lowcarbGP @BenBikmanPhD @markkaplan20 @AKoutnik @LoreofRunning1

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60 years of selling antioxidant nonsense and the number of people helped by that supplement remains zero.

[Jake Pearson @JakePearson303]

Big Pharma makes billions pushing statins and blood pressure meds on men.

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Don't tell either of them psychology isn't science and this claim proves it yet again.

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All blood tests of the last 15 years have done a1c

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I have posted six threads in the last month. Over 400,000 views. Thousands of replies.

The same question keeps appearing. Over and over. In every thread.

"What tests should I actually get?"

Here are the five tests. Under $150. No prescription needed at most direct-access labs. Backed by studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA Cardiology.

These five tests would have caught my heart disease years before it almost killed me at 52.

Your annual physical does not include a single one of them.

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Places like California and Germany that subsidized and mandated solar before it is viable have seen electricity costs rise 100%, meaning now poor people can't even sleep as healthy as wealthy elites.

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

Harvard just proved bedroom temperature controls sleep quality.

Participants fell asleep in 6.2 minutes when cool vs 20 minutes when warm.

Yet most people still don't optimize this simple factor.

Here's the exact temperature range that triggers deep, restful sleep: 🧵

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They are still death sentences.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months.

Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in some of these patients. Not responses. Remissions.

BioNTech’s pancreatic cancer vaccine has 6-year follow-up data. 8 of 16 patients who mounted an immune response are still alive. For a cancer that kills 95% of patients within 5 years, that's incredible.

Topol’s pyramid here maps the trajectory. From broad checkpoint inhibitors at the base to personalized neoantigen vaccines at the peak. The technology is climbing.

[Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG]

To every medical resident and physician looking for a place to plant roots: New Mexico is calling. Free child care. Tuition-free college for your kids. And now up to $300,000 in student loan repayment for physicians. We’re working to make New Mexico The best place in America to practice medicine and build a life.

Applications for student loan forgiveness open June 1. Link in the first comment.

#NewMexico #Physicians #LoanForgiveness #NMHealth

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If *how* you take the product impacts the result, the result is not a real effect, it's only epidemiology.

[RealClearScience @RCScience]

"Research shows that garlic affects your lipid health as well as your taste buds. But how you take it plays a big role in how well it works." via @sciencefocus https://t.co/slYZkia0EC

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Who's laughing about my degree in theoretical phys ed now???

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

This person just got a PhD in human sexuality for a thesis about "How Queer Witches Heal Without Western Psychology" and why "magic" should be a "public health priority."

From the abstract:

"What can queer pagan liminal healing practices teach therapists and other practitioners? Investigating the dichotomies of clinical versus spiritual and history versus present, as well as the inherent liminality between queer memory and queer futurity, aid us in understanding the many subaltern patterns of queer witch healing that are created in the absence of support from mental health fields of practice."

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Don't tell the anti-science hippies who flipped to the Republican party that everything in the world is made of chemicals.

Here are the chemicals in a holistic, free range, certified organic egg.

Oh no, the science is killing us!

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. reveals FDA officials admitted they literally do not know how many chemicals are in the American food supply.

“When I came in, I asked FDA, ‘How many chemicals are in our food?’”

“They said, ‘We don’t know.’”

“‘We don’t have a list of them.’”

“It’s somewhere between 4,000 and 12,000.”

“In Europe, they only have 400 chemicals in their food.”

“The 9,600 extra ones that we have are all illegal there.”

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A US company had one ready to test over a decade ago but there's no need in the US and the Obama administration refused to fund it.

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Look for a few members of Congress to support Ebola exposure now.

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🚨REPORT: White House World Cup task force says Congo’s national team must isolate for 21 days or potentially be denied entry to the USA

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Tesla reports one major collision every 5.3 million miles with FSD engaged. The US average: one every 660,000 miles. That's approximately 8x SAFER.

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Americans can complain about American science uptake but the world leader in philosophical vaccine exemptions remains France.

And in one year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe proved it.

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"What is the greatest thing in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their female rodents." - Genghis Birb.

Most Gen X know the real version of this thanks to "Conan The Barbarian", which premiered on this day in 1982.

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Glioblastoma is a stone-cold killer. RIP

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Panera bread continues to confuse their bread and their laundry.