Shae Mehring

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[tate brown @realTateBrown]

This is why I’m pro-Ozempic

You can insist obese people lose weight naturally but the data demonstrates the problem is that they’ve clearly refused to do so

Whatever side effects come with GLP-1s are likely far less destructive compared to the damage obesity does to the body

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Some people find it odd that Moderna was working on a Hantavirus mRNA vaccine. This is the difference between people who are forward thinking and those who are reactive conspiracists

[Hardwood Paroxysm @HPbasketball]

The Wolves are some tough sonsabitches

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Anthony Bourdain has to be one of the coolest people to ever do it.

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Make one bracket and stand on it

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

The “Ozempic body” insult is just aesthetic snobbery dressed up as health advice. When someone loses 20–30% of their body weight, blood pressure drops, sleep apnea improves, joints hurt less, and their risk of heart attack falls. If that offends an influencer’s sense of beauty, medicine will somehow survive.

And the irony is thick: Saladino rails against “pharmaceutical shortcuts” while selling a cabinet full of supplements that have far less evidence than GLP-1 therapy.

Yes — eat real food. Yes — move your body. I recommend the Mediterranean pattern all the time. But pretending obesity is solved by telling people to “eat like your great-grandmother” ignores genetics, metabolism, medications, environment, and decades of clinical research.

GLP-1 drugs aren’t a shortcut.

They’re the first effective medical treatment for obesity we’ve had in a century.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

I’m not an avid hockey guy, but this is one of the coolest sports moments I’ll never forget.

[Siyab Panhwar, MD @DrSiyabMD]

This story gets increasingly infuriating and insane as you read it.

- Mom decides not to vaccinate kids against measles, because of the “unnecessary stuff” in the vaccines and the “damage” she has seen in other kids who got the vaccine. (???)

“Why do we need to add so much to our children’s bodies?” she asked.”

- Decide to believe antivax nonsense rather than your own doctors. Absolutely idiotic decision, but hey, it's your decision as a parent, fine.

- Kids get the measles (totally unnecessarily), and expose others in the community too. Brothers get lucky and recover. This kid unfortunately gets sicker.

- Parents say hmm, that’s weird, why is he getting weaker and drifting in and out of consciousness? I thought measles was supposed to be harmless and a quick recovery! (Guess the anti-vaxxers didn't educate them about the risks of measles encephalitis?)

- Kid taken to local, smaller, ER, admitted, and placed on antibiotics. God knows what chemicals and “unnecessary stuff” is in these IV fluids and antibiotics, but that doesn’t matter much now, obviously

- Unclear diagnosis at this time, doctors recommend transfer to a larger center for evaluation. Totally appropriate thing to do. Parents decline, and say, hey if ALL you're doing is just giving him antibiotics, we’ll just take him home and keep an eye on him and help him get better at home.

- He goes home, gets worse, unsurprisingly. Taken emergently to the large hospital. Damn near dies, in the ICU, hooked up to IV lines, tubes, pumped full of fluids and God knows what chemicals, to keep him alive.

- MRI consistent with brain swelling, etc, basically: measles encephalitis. Kid is essentially paralyzed.

Reminder, this is a serious and potentially deadly complication of measles. No cure. Totally vaccine-preventable condition, so this whole ordeal is totally unnecessary.

- Mom says, I STILL wouldn’t give my kids the vaccine, even if I KNEW this would happen. God has a plan.

So you would totally let this happen again to another kid of yours?

????????

How cooked are people's brains that they will sacrifice their own kids to... own the libs?

This is so tragic. That poor kid. Completely preventable. Basic public health should not be a partisan issue.

This administration could have done so much to rebuild the public trust in our public health institutions that was eroded during the pandemic, but nope.

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

The super rare GLP-1 side effect you're obsessively chasing (or just inventing) is probably not as bad as the side effects of staying fat.

[Wilder Adams @whatsontapnba]

Jaden McDaniels is almost as untouchable as it gets. Key word… almost.

It’s Giannis Antetokounmpo y’all

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

He’s wrong (again). And he’s also lazy or careless refusing to learn the science. Every vaccine tested to date has been conclusively shown not to cause autism. That includes MMR, aluminum containing vaccines such as DTP, thimerosal containing vaccines, and vaccine spacing. Equally important is the lack of plausibility since autism occurs in early fetal brain development

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The 72 doses number is misleading — it includes COVID vaccines that haven’t been recommended for healthy kids since May 2025 and counts annual flu shots year after year. ‘Aligned with peer nations’ is false — the UK, Germany, Canada, and Australia all have schedules similar to ours. Denmark is the outlier. The federal government has never mandated childhood vaccines, including COVID. And informed consent has been federally required since 1986. Nothing in this post is accurate. The only thing that collapsed here is the pretense that this was about evidence.

[v! @Vullety]

Anthony Edwards is averaging 30 PPG and no where on this list. My franchise player is really an ethical hooper 🥹

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n The article says that they want to take away 6 vaccines by no longer "recommending them" but rather to give them through "shared decision making." This is total nonsense. In my pediatric residency in Boston in the 1980s, all vaccines were administered through shared decision making. Our training was all about explaining to parents the benefits of vaccines vs. the risks of the diseases they're designed to prevent.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

This shouldn’t be a philosophical debate. It’s a misunderstanding of how infectious disease works.

Vaccines aren’t perfect. The measles vaccine is 97% effective with two doses, not 100%, so some vaccinated people remain vulnerable. More importantly, some people can’t be vaccinated at all: infants under 12 months, immunocompromised patients, people with anaphylactic reactions to vaccine components. They depend on the rest of us not spreading a highly contagious virus to them.

Measles has an R0 of 12-18, meaning each infected person spreads it to 12-18 others in an unvaccinated population. The virus can linger in the air for two hours after an infected person leaves a room. At that level of contagion, you need 92-95% vaccine coverage to stop community transmission. When coverage drops, outbreaks happen, and the people who pay the price are often those who had no choice in the matter.

“My body, my choice” makes sense for decisions that affect only your body. Transmissible disease isn’t that. Your choice not to vaccinate can put a 6-month-old in the hospital or kill an immunocompromised kid who couldn’t get the shot.

The question isn’t “why does it matter if I take it.” The question is whether your comfort with risk should override someone else’s right not to get infected by you.

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

Our politics MUST become this again, if we are to survive as a country...