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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

John Snow, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Alice Stewart, Herbert Needleman, Frances Kelsey, Rachel Carson, Jay Bhattacharya

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The others were legit, AFAIK. There was a pic on Reddit.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hence John Perry’s “Structured Procrastination.”

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While the trial PIs are under investigation for breaching ethics regulations.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Academic freedom means that mainstream science will be accepted. What a concept! 🙄

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even the companies warn that the products can give wrong answers. RFK Jr.’s visiting the VRC on Monday - TW day for the rest of us.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Using NotebookLM fof genealogy I can upload legal and census records and get a better understanding of a family’s history.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a compulsive list maker and I use AI at work and at home (genealogical research aid) but I don’t see where agents will help. As noted here and down thread, lists don’t capture routine tasks. And maybe we want to organize things ourselves?

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have kindness and basic human decency gone out of style?

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Would have been a great weekend if I hadn’t been laid up with gout.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He’s good. Turn the attacks into something else instead of going down the road of rebuttal.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister changed medical practice by washing and sterilizing hands and instruments before surgery and reducing the spread of infections. Jay Bhattacharya advocated for the spread of infection.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now they’re just rubbing our faces in it. Three months until retirement.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In his heart of hearts, does he really think he belongs in this pantheon?

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great title! (I see what you did there. 😉)

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

UK-catered cheesecake after sitting for hours in a smoky faculty meeting. Our bar for edibility was set very low.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Their “personal salvation” is the opposite of Reformed (and other mainstream) theology.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s clear that Trump only knows how to destroy - White House, Kennedy Center, scientific research, NATO - and the only building he can do are of monuments to himself.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Russell Vought wants to be in charge of #ScienceDeathPanels at NIH. Congress has made it pretty clear they don’t want political appointees in charge of funding decisions. Science community: it’s time to get loud (again)! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026

Yep; the best framings of it I’ve seen have treated MAHA as a hostile wellness-industry takeover of the health sector. Any strategic response that fails to take on wellness firms’ economic power will founder.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two of the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & grifters—Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr—headlining a conference held by the extraordinarily damaging anti-vaxx group Children’s Health Defense in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in 35 yrs tells you all you need to know about MAHA

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But, but, trace metals are in vaccines? /sarc

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now they have the power and will use it to reduce vaccine uptake. This also is the foundation of the MAHA movement - that physicians and scudbtusss do not have the public’s interest at heart.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking forward to it. I use AI for work and my home genealogy projects. There are volumes of transcriptions of handwritten court and land documents out there that can be put into something like NotdbookLM and analyzed. I’ve tried agents but they are less useful.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It was a long time ago, but I got fired in a corporate shakeup and ended up in a job that quickly became my dream career.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OK, I saw the first episode, The Man Trap (Mantrap?) the night it aired. Star Trek immediately became the coolest show on TV.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I also love his later work like “I HGot Right to Sing the Blues” where another trumpet in the band plays a straight version of the melody and Armstrong make a strong entrance and dances around the notes. youtu.be/OR08OlIGtjg?...

youtu.be

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Remastered - 2001)

YouTube video by Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars - Topic

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If they wanted NIAID to study infectious diseases they would have put it in the name. /sarc

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And really - it doesn’t matter. It’s not as if he’s a genius known for self control.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I knew the answer without reading. Hint: there are political barriers for even studying this.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Apparently, we don’t have to worry about emerging infectious diseases or pandemic preparedness.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And she didn’t think twice about saying “errand boy.” And the non-apology? Please.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is it possible to have reverse SAD? Because this relentless sun and heat is getting me down. It’s September!

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They body language and facial expressions from Sec’y Burwell…

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

While he was buying smallpox vaccines from Emergent and taking over the SNS, NIAID was preparing for the next pandemic.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The timing is sus. Quay is about to come in and he won’t be tainted with this loss of funds and influence, just like JayB came after RIFs and could claim he had nothing to do with it. But the RIFs continued and this giveaway will continue.

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