Sean Murphy

Philosopher of science/bioethics. I completed Purdey’s research by discovering the true causes (oil pollution, mercury, & mycotoxins) of “Huntington’s Disease”.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

Cluster 2 of 6 (in pictures): “...the town of #JuandeAcosta contains the second largest population of patients with #Huntingtons disease in the world.”
https://t.co/j4rknufGKD #LetsTalkAboutHD #CureHD #FreezeHD #CuresForAll

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@FWD4Democracy @jaywill1346 @allenanalysis Yeah. A whole bunch of alternative and inferior angles that distorted the truth, probably intentionally. But conspicuously not the video you’re calling BS on. FFS…

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@FWD4Democracy @jaywill1346 @allenanalysis He doesn’t even look at/comment on the same video footage used in the post, sooo….??? Best he could do was video from behind that was far blurrier so he could more easily cast doubt on the truth. Shame on me for speaking the truth? Hmm. Nah.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@FWD4Democracy @jaywill1346 @allenanalysis Maybe watch the video shared in the post that started this thread, instead? Because that’s where he’s getting the still image from. And you’re just determined to make him out to be some nut. Shame on you.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

I am asked if I plan to “address the Scott Pelley firing or continue to run cover for Bari Weiss.” My reply:

I wasn’t aware I was running cover for Bari Weiss. I haven’t said a thing about her and CBS. I appreciated her as my editor at the WSJ and NYTs, and I thought she did a good thing founding the Free Press, but I have no idea how she is doing at CBS. As for the firing of staff, that’s normal with mergers and acquisitions, happens all the time, but when it happens with someone on camera then people feel personally invested and so get involved, whereas they ignore all the other people fired who are invisible to them.

[T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams]

Scott Pelley is 68 years old. He was born the year the Soviets hurled Sputnik into the stratosphere.

In contrast, Bari Weiss is 42 and Nick Bilton is 49. Forget Sputnik. Three of the four Space Race presidents were already dead by the time they were born.

Furthermore, the average age in the 60 Minutes audience is 65, which is not ideal for the show’s long-term prospects. The funny thing about geriatric audiences is they tend not to stick around.

If you don’t think the age gap and audience demographics played a role in Pelley getting the heave-ho, you’re fooling yourself.

https://t.co/pxCrUbYADx

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@AllenInstitute @Carolynyjohnson The article clearly implies that Huntington’s Disease, unlike Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, isn’t influenced by any factors (genetic or environmental) other than the HD mutation. That’s not true, though, is it?

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

Re: Scott Pelley/ @CBS--I've been on staff at magazines when an editor you like is replaced by an outsider you distrust. I've never thrown a fit like Pelley did. That's just not what you do. You make the new person feel at home and then stab them in the back as soon as you can.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@washingtonpost Per the article, Huntington’s Disease isn’t even influenced by genes other than the HD mutation or any environmental factors. This, however, is clearly wrong/medical misinformation. Please update your reporting to reflect as much.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@washingtonpost If Carroll is truly dedicated to curing Huntington’s, how’s he going to accomplish that by continuing to ignore the importance of environmental factors that ultimately determine disease onset and severity? Doesn’t make much sense if you think about it, does it?

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@washingtonpost And doesn’t Brandon Pearson’s NIH funded research support that even the HD mutation can be caused by exposure to certain pollutants (like I was saying publicly for years before it was ever published, or even in the works)?

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

This is a good thread revealing Scott Pelley as a partisan hack.

But notice also his facial expressions. The way he rests his chin on his hand. He is an actor - and a pretty good one. He is playing a part of a ‘serious and skeptical journalist.’ TV ‘news’ is performance.

[Jay Caruso @JayCaruso]

This CBS thing is annoying because people behave as if a news organization is supposed to revolve around whatever leadership was there previously, and it doesn't work that way. When I was at the Dallas Morning News, the editor of the editorial department retired. cont...

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I think what Larry Ellison and his boy-heir are doing -- buying as many entertainment, news and social platforms as they can to turn them into propaganda outlets for a foreign country (and, secondarily for Trump) -- is dangerous in the extreme.

But we don't have to rehabilitate or cheer the pompous, politicized corporate journalists like Scott Pelley and Leslie Stahl who have destroyed faith and truth in media with their rotted behavior.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

Fun fact (for me, at any rate): Carroll is an asshole. I’ve also seen him get nasty like this when somebody else (not connected to me) publicly criticized him for an undisclosed financial conflict of interest.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

When Jeff Carroll learned he had the genetic mutation that causes Huntington’s disease, he knew what he wanted to do next: find a cure.

He's part of a new effort to accelerate the development of targeted cures for a handful of neurodegenerative diseases. https://t.co/OMrNTpFv1a

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@washingtonpost Isn’t he from somewhere with multiple superfund sites/significant pollution problems (much like every documented Huntington’s clustering, including at #LakeMaracaibo)? And can’t pollution problems lead to genetic mutations, even heritable ones?

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@TIME So was the $1 million from Keck she mentions on pg. 125 donated in 1986, after securing other significant funding (like she says in book), or was it instead donated in 1983, prior to any significant funding, per the timeline that used to be on HDF’s website?

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

@Pablosquest @JamieAA_Again Never claimed otherwise. Nor was the problem described as one of making non validated inferences, but making inferences instead of just relying on data, as if the data ever speaks for itself/doesn’t need to be interpreted. Try harder w/ me, or don’t bother.

[Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987]

Did Nancy Wexler forget just how the “Gene Hunters” got started, or is she intentionally trying to rewrite history? Because not only does she get the year wrong (saying it was 1986 instead of 1983) in her new book, she also claims Keck’s money came after other significant funding