Dr. Janet

PhD in Biomedical Science; eternally curious smart-ass, Meniere's warrior ☮

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Wait…Did he just say checkered past ? I’m 28 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, and an Epstein bromance short of his checkered past.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

You deserve guaranteed healthcare in the richest, most powerful country in the world. Don't let a corporation or a corporate-bought politician tell you otherwise. Pass Medicare for All.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Instead of holding North Korea style cabinet meetings where everyone kisses Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean—there is something wrong with Trump. There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen him in eight days.

Rubio: I assure this is not a president who sleeps or who is cognitively impaired in any way.

Lieu: I just showed you three videos of him sleeping.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@sanilrege You cured someone rapidly after being bedbound for 8 years?

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@sanilrege That was not my experience at all. Resting was restorative.

Convincing patients of this is far more effective than telling them to alter their mindset.

You are blaming the patient for their persistent symptoms.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@sanilrege Graded exercise therapy has been proposed for people with CFS/ME.

The level of rest you need is hard to imagine for most people.

I am extremely active, and it was intolerable.

Of course, that impact is viewed through the lens of past experience. How could it not be?

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@ComeAndFakeIt @SketchesbyBoze The audiobook version in Audible is exceptional. The narrator William Hootkins is brilliant.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Ronny Chieng had one message for Harvard grads during his commencement speech: destroy AI.

"Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI...

"And I know, I know there's someone sitting out here right now who’s just like, 'Well, you know, what about the use of AI to pioneer breakthroughs in medicine and physics?' Well, first of all, shut up, nerd. I'm not talking about that. Obviously, if you're using it for that purpose, you're not the problem.

"I'm talking about the accumulation of cognitive debt due to excessive use of large language models according to a study by MIT published in 2025. That's right, MIT. MIT did that study. I guess you guys were too busy giving each other A's. Feel free to boo MIT, by the way, and AI, and yourselves, I guess.

"Look, this is actually good news, okay? This is why you guys shouldn't be scared of AI, because I think AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI? They're always like, 'Hey, did you know that AI can now read my email, summarize it, and drop a response?' Yeah, you know who else can do that? Me. I can do that. You can't do that? How useless are you? You need artificial intelligence just to match me? I'm a dumb*ss who couldn't get into Harvard.

"From what I can see, getting an actual advantage from AI in the future will require a minimum escape velocity of intelligence that I'm assuming you guys from Harvard have. Everyone else who can't match that is just going to get dumber, and that's when you run up the score on them, assuming we still have a functioning society, of course.

"But to run up the score, you’re going to have to master your craft. And AI can be the fuel, but fuel is useless if you can't kindle the fire. For example, I recently used AI to use regression analysis to prove that a certain race of people are mathematically terrible at sports. I won't say which race, but thank you for not inviting Hasan Minhaj to Harvard. My point is, learning the fundamentals still matter. If I didn't know what a regression analysis was, and if I wasn't fundamentally racist, would I have been able to do any of that? No.

"Untalented people love bragging about using AI to help them draft their speeches and their scripts and their podcasts and their promo videos for UFC fights at the White House, which to be fair, even if they had filmed that for real, it would still have looked like AI. But what they're missing is this: the creating is the fun part. The best part of comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having accomplished a difficult thing. Why would I want AI to take that away from me?

"You know what problem I want AI to solve? I want the problem of AI making everything look like sh*t. I want AI to solve that problem. How about that?

"Or how about, can AI take away the part of comedy writing where my TV pilot gets passed on and when I ask if I can pitch it to someone else, the network says, 'We don't want it, but we also don't want anyone else to have it. We just want you to be sad.' Can AI solve that?

"I recently tried to introduce my friend to Buddhism through a book called Buddhism Made Simple. It was literally a book about Buddhism made simple. And instead of reading it, he used AI to summarize it in 10 seconds. Believe it or not, he didn't reach enlightenment. It turns out speed running Buddhism is completely missing the point.

"And I know this platitude is almost worthy of AI, but the reason shortcuts to skip to the end aren't always good is because the journey isn't just how we acquire skills. The journey is the point of all this. It is! It turns out maybe the real Harvard was the friends we made along the way.

"Look, I know this won't apply to everyone's industry, but I'm just saying whatever your chosen profession is, please don't let AI rob you of the fun part of it.

"I think your generation's upcoming battle won't be humans against AI. That's at least two months away. It's going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It's going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles."

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@bade1hp 34

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@uTobian "...people dying left and right from the Covid shots."

Big, if true. Please provide evidence for this.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@SenseReceptor @HowseLive It's from COVID, moron. This level of willful ignorance is painful.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on subclinical myocardial injury in the general population: the Trøndelag Health Study

🚨NORWEGIAN CONFIRMATION BOMBSHELL:
COVID infection leaves lasting, hidden scars on the heart muscle, even years later.

"An elevated cardiac troponin I (cTnI) level indicates the presence of heart damage!"

➡️Study:
- This was a prospective longitudinal cohort study within the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT), a large population-based survey in Norway,
- Researchers measured high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI), a sensitive blood marker of subclinical myocardial (heart muscle) injury, at baseline before the COVID-19 pandemic (2017–2019) in 37,823 general-population adults,
- The same marker was then re-measured after the pandemic wave (2021–2023) in the 19,550 participants who returned for follow-up,
- SARSCoV2 infection status was rigorously determined at follow-up via spike and nucleocapsid IgG antibody tests in blood, combined with self-reported infection history and any available laboratory confirmation of prior infection,
- Infection was defined using nucleocapsid IgG (specific to natural infection, not vaccination) plus spike IgG, self-report, and lab confirmation, precisely to capture true infections regardless of vaccination,

➡️Pre-infection result:
- Higher baseline hs-cTnI was associated with a lower risk of subsequent SARSCoV2 infection,

➡️Post-infection result:
- Confirmed SARSCoV2 infection (any definition) was independently linked to higher post-pandemic hs-cTnI concentrations and a significantly greater probability of an increase in hs-cTnI from pre- to post-pandemic levels, after full adjustment for confounders and baseline troponin,

➡️Vaccination:
- Study reports that 98.9% of participants were vaccinated and explain(in Methods) why they used nucleocapsid IgG (not spike) to avoid vaccine confounding,

➡️Limitations:
- Correctly sited and commented,
- No data on symptoms, asymptomatic/mild/severe cases, or hospitalization, but one may rightfully assume that the majority were mild SarsCoV2 cases,

➡️Conclusion:
“SARSCoV2 infection is associated with increased risk of developing chronic subclinical myocardial injury in the general population, but pre-existing chronic subclinical myocardial injury is not associated with increased risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2.”

‼️To all minimiser still shrugging off SARS-CoV-2 as “just a cold” or “over”: this Norwegian study proves every infection silently scars hearts across the general public with lasting subclinical damage, and with the now-established cumulative cardiac injury from reinfections, your denial is quietly killing many! WAKE-UP!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
https://t.co/7CwdsPsslD

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump has been having a hypomanic episode the past 24 hours. Post after post after post. All his trademark pathologies: Narcissism. Sociopathy. Paranoia. Sadism. All his trademark themes: Malice. Grievance. Division. Entitlement.
His gut is a simmering stew of agitation, rage, and desperation. His disordered brain is filled with paranoid fantasies of revenge alongside fantastical visions of regaining his grandiosity.
He hates being told his name needs to come off a building. He hates that musical artists are canceling from his show. He hates being trapped and stuck in Iran. He hates that Epstein won't go away. And he especially hates his own mortality.
Neither you nor I can EVER feel the kind of frenzied fear and fanaticism that Trump feels now. This is a man who knows he's in his final chapter.
He's confounded that he, all that he is, all that he ever said he was, his lifetime of secrets and lies and false constructs - is vulnerable to exposure.
How can he possibly sleep?
This is a malignant narcissist in decline. They always get worse, it's always messy, and they never want to go down alone.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@KayElleTweets @morgfair My neighbor has mystery hives that she is convinced are due to being stung by a jellyfish years ago.

Another one has MCAS and is now allergic to everything. SMH.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@fawfulfan @drgurner Again, no. Cumulative is not used in the sense that you are thinking. Epidemiologists use it differently. In this case, excess mortality is holding steady at around 9%.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@fawfulfan You are not interpreting this correctly. From an epidemiological standpoint, "cumulative" means within that time frame - not since the pandemic started. We are still seeing about 10% excess deaths.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@sfmcguire79 @bitterbichon NB I do not personally use AI for teaching nor do I use it in my personal life. I strongly discourage my students from using it. I coach on the first offense and give a 0 on subsequent offenses.

[Dr. Janet @acerbicwit12]

@sfmcguire79 @bitterbichon This is already happening. I use Blackboard Ultra, and it has AI built in. It decides what is substantive (which I disregard and override). When I first started, it did a poor job of this. Now it has "learned" over time. I fully acknowledge that I am training my replacement.