Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom

Working in HIV Prevention since the 1900s. Committed to promoting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and HIV Treatment as Prevention. I adore my 2 cats!

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

I hate to say this, but the French government’s response so far to thee outrageous violence, arson, and looting is simply proving Donald Rumsfeld’s famous point that “weakness is provocative.”

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

No, it’s because I live and own a home in France, and I want my children who are citizens to inherit a healthy society. But none of those things would be necessary for my basic sense of decency to be deeply disgusted by the sight of such depraved nihilism from a segment of the population who do not and cannot contribute anything.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@RadioFreeTom So... She's not a cagey cadger.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@NiallHarbison How can we google it without knowing what the diagnosis is?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@front_ukrainian "the aircraft wrre armed woth missiles..." NATO aircraft?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.

Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@jk_rowling 😵🤣

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

"There are no Amish with autism"

There are

"Vaccines aren't tested against placebo"

They are

"MMR has never been studied as a possible cause of autism"

It has. It's not the cause.

I apparently need to say this stuff over and over and over and over again.

And again.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@NiallHarbison "gentle little sow?" Looks nothibg like a sow🤔

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

There's something quietly unsettling about watching a member of Congress film herself injecting hormones into her abdomen and post the whole routine online — a day before a network interview in which she declines to rule out a presidential run and insists her ambition is "way bigger than that."

This isn't about the medical choice. Egg freezing is private, personal, and entirely her business.

It's about the reflex to turn every event into social media content.

We are raising a political class that treats the camera as a second nervous system. Every procedure, every vulnerability, every private calculation is documented and shared. The line between living a life and performing one has virtually disappeared.

Maybe this is generational, but I'm not ready for an Instagram president. We will get one eventually. The question is whether we'll still remember that some things are stronger when they stay off the feed.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@NiallHarbison 🙏🙏🙏

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.”
Their solution? They moved to America.
This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@SarahLongwell25 What in particular is disgusting?

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Many now understand that the once great Amnesty International has turned into an enemy of human rights.

As you can see in the thread below, Amnesty supports terrorists, tyrants, Holocaust deniers, and homophobes.

Join the true human rights movement: https://t.co/DftLEoSJxM

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

The journalism rule I live by
For four decades, across thirteen books and articles for the NY Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other legacy outlets, I never got to publish anything of consequence alleging wrongdoing without two independent, credible sources. On the most sensitive material, a lawyer also cleared it before it ran.

That discipline is not an editor's whim. It is the only thing that separates journalism from advocacy.

Nicholas Kristof's May 11 Times column, alleging Israel used dogs and carrots to rape Palestinian prisoners, was published without that discipline. It leaned on anonymous and Hamas-affiliated sourcing. It ran in Opinion, not News. The reaction was immediate and severe: Israel's foreign ministry branded it a blood libel, Prime Minister Netanyahu threatened legal action, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations formally condemned it. At the time, the Times stood behind it and moved on.

Now, more than a year later, we finally have the internal answer everyone in the business has been waiting for. Executive editor Joe Kahn, in a podcast interview with Peter Kafka, said plainly of the column: "It wasn't edited by the newsroom." Pressed on whether the news division would have run it, Kahn first offered "we probably wouldn't have," then corrected himself to something firmer: "No, we wouldn't have done that exact piece."

Read that again. The most senior news editor at the New York Times is telling the public that his own newsroom's standards would have kept the piece off the page. That is an admission that the sourcing and verification process opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury described in May — "a rigorous vetting process," fact-checked, reviewed by standards and legal, with "no errors" found — did not meet the bar the news side actually applies to comparable claims.

Two senior Times editors, a year apart, describing the same piece in irreconcilable terms. One says it was properly vetted. The other says his newsroom wouldn't have touched it. Both cannot be right, and nobody at the paper has explained the gap.

That is the real story here. Not the politics of Israel and Gaza, which will be argued forever. The story is a fundamental journalism failure — a serious accusation published without the sourcing threshold that any accusation of that gravity requires — and now, finally, confirmed from inside the building.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Hamas shooting a rocket launcher at an Ambulance driver and then celebrating.

It's crazy how much depraved footage of Hamas exists and Leftists seem to be incapable of criticizing them.

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@RadioFreeTom @TheRickWilson Thanks! I didn't know you were in a Netflix flick!

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

The first of another series of tips of the kind found in my new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege. https://t.co/BQo4vLDh3P

[Evidence-Based 🏳️‍🌈☸ Tom @tom501c3]

@Mylovanov Unintelligible English subtitles