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Jeffrey B. Benyacar

@drjeffreyb.bsky.social
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Health policy wonk/ biostats, healthcare econ & what the data actually say| "Despair has its own calms"| KNICKS, Mets & Jets fan| sic labitur ætas

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice glasses 👓 professor. Now listen carefully: “Mass suicide of the elderly” is not edgy intellectualism but adolescent provocation and eugenics dressed up as contrarian brilliance, with a Yale affiliation doing the intellectual heavy lifting. 🤡
nytimes.com
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? (Gift Article)
Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even credentialed (in ancillary fields) professors embarrassingly glide to each step w/o any corroborating evidence. Possible signal → association → plausible mechanism → causation → clinically important harm → population level danger🚨🚨🚨
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FFS. 🤦‍♂️Conspiracy mongering dressed up as scholarship. Paper gets rejected, therefore censorship, Big Pharma, corrupt editors...No evidence, no demonstrated causal mechanism, just throwing 💩 around. This is embarrassingly unserious, especially for an MIT prof. What are his credentials exactly?
Screenshot of a post by Retsef Levi claiming that scientific journals censor discussion of vaccine injuries. He says a preprint titled “Reporting on Prolonged Adverse Health Impact Among V SAFE Enrollees” was rejected by the journal Vaccine and by medRxiv. Levi suggests the rejections reflect pharmaceutical industry influence over scientific publishing and questions the integrity of peer review.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting Op Ed from George Will: "In this year of an inconclusive war, a soaring deficit and stubborn inflation, many Republican candidates seem most worried about transgender matters." ‼️Graham is comically and dangerously unqualified. Hope South Carolinians see the light and vote for Andrews
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Independence-minded South Carolina has an alternative to Darline Graham
Democrat Annie Andrews provides a ballot alternative to a Republican who'll cater to Trump's whims.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fleetwood Madge
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Nor'easter. In September. In New Jersey. Stop the ride. I want to get off. ⛈️🌪️
Screenshot of a post from New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announcing a State of Emergency for eight counties ahead of a Nor’easter. The post warns of strong winds, heavy rain, and significant coastal flooding beginning tonight, with Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Salem counties facing the greatest risk.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My proposed rule: if a DiD paper requires a 40 page appendix to explain which previous DiD estimator it corrects, we probably have reached saturation. How many lectures do we need to sit through, nod, and pretend there's some new breathtaking revelation? ⁉️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Geez New Jersey is cursed with virtually endless scandals and malfeasance. It's to the point where we expect nothing else. 🙄
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‼️The headline is doing exactly what it purports to criticize: substituting cheap psychodrama for reporting. What an embarrassingly juvenile way for a serious publication to frame a consequential First Amendment dispute! 🙄🤦‍♂️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Coffee and statistics have a lot in common. Without enough of either, your confidence intervals get very wide. ☕☕
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If I didn't know this was a documentary, I'd think it was a psychological thriller. Can't wait.....🎥
youtu.be
You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Mr. Albanese said he expressed his disappointment to Mr. Altman on how the government was alerted to the breach — in an email to a general public inbox." FFS🤦‍♂️ Skynet
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I get very grumpy after 💉 Will report to VAERS tomorrow Could be a blockbuster revelation.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flu and COVID shots done. Science: still pretty damn cool. Of course I had to sport my vaccine 💉 ❤️shirt! #medsky
A happy dude wearing his I ❤️vaccine shirt getting flu and Covid Vaccinations!
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"A little water clear us of this deed." Nope. Like the manipulative and ruthless Lady Macbeth, Cassidy will forever be haunted by the public health catastrophe that can never been cleansed. It's not just this administration's legacy but HIS. ‼️"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" ‼️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wishing all who observe a meaningful Yom Kippur. G’mar Chatimah Tovah. 🙏
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I enjoy a good horror flick (guilty pleasure) but hooo boi was this awful and gory. Pointless video-game inspired dreck. 👎👎
Resident Evil poster
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎯This is weapons grade medical bullshit. There is zero evidence that slicing vaccines into five doses prevents autism. It is crank science being broadcast from the presidency as public health policy. Of course stretching 💉over additional visits also leaves us with more unprotected children! 🤦‍♂️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎯Dental care IS health care. The ADA spent decades resisting incorporating dentistry into conventional public health insurance. Today it wants broader dental coverage. Fine. But this wall did not build itself. Institutional capture! They even opposed simply adding dental benefits to Medicare Part B.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 'cheapest' gas ⛽️ in town. Line was around the block. I take Premium and the pump in this pic is barely getting started. How is all this 'winning' treating you? 🤦‍♂️
Close up of a Costco gas pump showing regular gas at $4.679 per gallon and premium at $4.679 per gallon.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
San Francisco, where even the billboards are arguing with AI about who gets to do the thinking. 💭 🤔
San Francisco billboard reading “Instructions for agents,” altered with handwritten graffiti to say “Instructions for you,” “Don’t let AI think for you!” and “Your potential is infinite.”
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macbeth feels frighteningly modern.The endless spectacle. The obsession with power. The conviction that tomorrow’s outrage will justify today’s. The noise becomes the point."Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” feels less like Shakespeare describing medieval Scotland than a prescient warning.
From Macbeth
Act V Scene v
Macbeth. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
(April 23rd 1564 - April 23rd 1616)
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyone remember these bad boys on planes? 💰💸💵
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Fentanyl is a deceptively dangerous drug and our children deserve to know the truth," Miami Police Department officer and head of MPD Productions, explained. "I don't think anyone is more qualified than the POLICE when it comes to both the education of the public on drug safety...... Clay 🎯😂
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Highly recommend @profgoldberg.bsky.social book on tackle football and brain injuries. 🎯 industry influence does NOT require corrupt or biased researchers. I should note Friday Night Lights is a fav. So no, I won't abstain from watching football, but I will be MORE aware. @itaibavli.bsky.social 💯
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An antivax long time friend sent me this clip. Aaron Rodgers has apparently discovered a new branch of epidemiology: ask the people you hang out with and generalize to 330 million Americans. Virtually anything shared by MAHA should be discounted without substantiating reliable evidence. 🤦‍♂️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ouch! 👌🙂‍↕️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can never forget the horror. The smoldering soot. The signs plastered everywhere, desperately seeking information about the missing. Aaron Brown on the CNN rooftop, calmly keeping us informed as the unimaginable unfolded. Some images never leave you. May their memory be a blessing! 💔
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨"One french fry equals one cigarettes" Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD 🤡 Patently absurd. “Both contain aldehydes, therefore one French fry is equivalent to one cigarette” is roughly the nutritional epidemiology version of “both water and bleach contain oxygen, therefore…” #nonsense #misinformation
youtube.com
Dr. Cate Shanahan: One French Fry Equals One Cigarette
YouTube video by animal.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎁"Republicans, God bless them, were split on whether graft under Mr. Trump has gotten worse or better or stayed the same, which makes that polling question a case study in how bright people are capable of not seeing what they don’t want to see."
wsj.com
Opinion | The Art of the Self-Deal
Thoughts on how Trump-era corruption is affecting Americans as a people.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Don't know how the country recovers from the sheer brazenness of THIS Administration’s corruption, and then the Democrats roll up with whatever the fuck this is. Apparently rock bottom has a basement.
nypost.com
OpenAI hires Chuck Schumer’s daughter as Big Tech cozies up to Democrats ahead of midterms: report
OpenAI has reportedly hired Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter Jessica Schumer for a top policy job as Silicon Valley increasingly works to shore up ties with Democrats ahead of Novemb…
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The misinformation ecosystem hits home. Family Member: I refuse the flu shot. I always get the flu. Me: No. Not possible. Think of the discomfort as strengthening your immune system. You see, the immune system releases signaling molecules called cytokines... FM: I get the FLU from it!!! 😱 🙄
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"because he doesn’t want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity."😳 Remember when we worried about cellphones causing brain cancer, Y2K, and porn? Now it's the end of humanity.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I saw Buddy and for those of us who remember the overly saccharine Barney prancing about warbling that overplayed song or those annoying teletubbies, there was something eerily satisfying about a psychotic unicorn. This gets bloody and the ending is unsatisfying, but I guess that's the point. 🎥🦄
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎥Excited to see this although the trailer is like a horror movie teaser. Elizabeth Holmes from the Theranos fraud allowed them to make a documentary 34 days before being incarcerated. Here she's speaking in a voice two octaves higher than that goofy affected baritone. #theranos #fraud #movie
youtu.be
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Official Trailer (2026) Elizabeth Holmes, A24
YouTube video by KinoCheck.com
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jason Pargin, Clay's bestie, stumbles on these problems that baffle him and many of his followers. This seems fairly straightforward (math!), but I will put it out there: what is the correct solution and why? (Hint if you need it: think percentage dilution). #math #riddle #claysbestie
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A story in two parts. Whew. We can all stop worrying about measles now because VJ Gupta, followed by Jay, says so. It's training our body's immune system something something something. Natural something something. 😳🤡 Why trust our experts when we have VJ?
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literature is supposed provoke us, make us uncomfortable. No student complained. Her chair and dean defended her. The president (aka Mr. Brocklehurst) objected. She lost her job. 🚨"The triggering story was 'Bettering Myself' by award-winning writer Ottessa Moshfegh"
persuasion.community
I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.
Academic censorship is very real.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with." SEMINAL PAPER. #datatampering #retract
retractionwatch.com
Procrastination study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering
A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published…
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy Rosh Hashanah! Here’s some matzah, because apparently Judaism has one food! 🤦‍♂️
A supermarket display beneath a large sign reading “HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH,” accompanied by a photo of apples, honey, and pomegranates. Directly below it, however, the shelves are packed with boxes of Streit’s and Manischewitz matzah, a food traditionally associated with Passover, not Rosh Hashanah. The mismatched holiday display gives the scene an unintentionally comic feel.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨Please don't do this. Traditional Oreos are the 🐐. Double stuff. Fine! Anything else? NO! This leads to insanity like Grey Poupon Ice Cream, Heinz Tomato Ketchup Caviar, and Eggo Waffle Cereal. Rich is an Assistant Dean now so he's clearly inundated with the start of the new semester. THANKS.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bayes problem that tripped up a very talented stats intern. A summary of data: Disease prevalence: 1% Sensitivity: 90% Specificity: 90% 100 people are tested. Exactly 10 test positive. What’s the probability that at least ONE of those 10 actually has the disease? #stats 🤔〽️
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Used Python today and sulked over the AWFUL package management. Dependency conflict over some package I never heard of? Oh, 'and' and "or' don't return Booleans, of course not (they return objects). 'Tuple' object does not support item assignment...Oh yes, Tuples are immutable 🫠 #stats #rantover
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Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
He wants to trick that poor family into thinking he and Children's Health Defense are on their side just like they did in West Texas with the two unvaccinated girls there who died from measles. Despicable. bsky.app/profile/cphi...
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🎁 RFK jr. is horrible. "But the governor made a mistake by not speaking carefully enough. In a polarized environment where vaccine-hesitant Americans lean Republican, his approach was geared toward the wrong public: affirming to liberals and alienating to the very people he needs to reach."
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Not to Announce a Measles Death (Gift Article)
Josh Shapiro announced two measles deaths. Things went downhill fast.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why isn't there more scrutiny of Dan Ariey's work? Isn't his (alleged) data transgressions just as disgusting as Gino's? What is Duke's response? 🤔 #stats #data @rbly.bsky.social
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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🙏"Neither John nor Anna has strong feelings about vaccination. Anna told me she wasn’t sure why her parents didn’t get her any shots. Choosing not to immunize their children wasn’t a political statement, and they didn’t make the decision after extensive research. They just didn’t do it."
theatlantic.com
The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son
The family at the center of Pennsylvania’s measles controversy tells their story.
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