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Alexander Mazziotti

@entropyarrow.bsky.social
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Physician/Author MD, PhD Internal Medicine - Cardiology Books: 1 ‘Unraveling the Seven Riddles of the Universe’ Hamilton Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. 2 ‘Riddles of Quantum Theory’

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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#War Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes] -Bible
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#AI Trump’s previous prediction: “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” That’s what President Trump said about the Covid-19 early on and now he wants to tell us that AI fears are not real.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#Reporters “I’m not going to repost the filth the president wrote about Maggie Haberman, but suffice it to say she’s a great person, beautiful inside and out, an incredible mom and wife and colleague, and an amazing journalist,” Tapper said- “The president’s comments are disgusting ..” Huff.Post
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Cancer Instead of drugs that kill cancer cells we try to teach the patient’s own immune system exactly which cancer cells to eliminate. The new study on #Melanoma by Moderna and Merck using personalized tumor mutations along with Keytruda reflects a major conceptual shift in oncology!
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Democracy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#HeartFailure Many experts hoped that reducing inflammation would translate into fewer heart attacks, strokes, and perhaps better heart failure outcomes.However, in the large ZEUS trial, an anti inflammatory drug failed to significantly reduce major cardiovascular events compared with placebo.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Disability ‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Testosterone The prevailing endocrinology expert opinion is: No to universal testosterone screening of all military personnel! Yes to a low threshold for testing service members who have symptoms or who belong to higher-risk groups.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Cyclospora “The outbreak (cyclospora) comes as state and local health departments — which rely on C.D.C. funding to respond to food-borne illness outbreaks — face budget cuts and staff layoffs.” NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#Culture “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads)..” Joyce Carol Oates on Elon Musk The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#Obama “And a belief, he (Obama) continued, that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, those things matter in our public dealings, just as they do in our private lives.” These values, Obama concluded, are “our greatest inheritance.”
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” ..We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” JFK, June 10 1963 commencement address at American University.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#Democracy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Iran War Worsens America's Democratic Erosion
Measuring America’s democratic erosion.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#Science An observation about 2026 is that many breakthroughs are being made from combinations of fields rather than isolated discoveries — especially AI + biology, AI + physics, and quantum computing + chemistry.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#HIV “AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble. Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe..” NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#Vaccines A Stanford research team reported a vaccine approach that protected animals from multiple respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens. It works by stimulating a broad immune response in mucosal tissues. It is sometimes described as a step toward a “universal respiratory vaccine.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#Knitting Known as “Melt the ICE” caps, the pattern for the knitted hat — selling at $5 — has been ordered more than 85,000 times since being offered online in mid-January, according to the Minneapolis-area shop behind its creation. NYTimes
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#USA “Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this.” Marina Hyde The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#ICE The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power. NY Times
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#Trump Trump seems to have never learned about our revolutionary war with England. Taxation without representation. He is glad to take the Venezuela oil and be a distant King. Although not mentioned by the media he markedly risks increasing terrorist attacks in our own country.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#Trump “Every time people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful attack and exploit .. the fabric of civilization frays. If such aggression is not contained, the fabric unravels, the world can descend into chaos and war. It has happened before.” Robert Reich The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
#Trump “An anti-Trump political group organized a letter signed by more than 200 mental health professionals, warning that Donald Trump is dangerous because of “his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism”, which makes him “grossly unfit for leadership”. Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
#Diabetes “People with prediabetes who get their blood sugar under control may cut their risk of death from heart disease or heart failure by half, according to new research.“ NY Times — Early treatment should have major effect on the reduction of cardiovascular diseases!
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
#Vaccines “[Prasad] says he has evidence that this vaccine (Covid) killed 10 children, but that’s not the way it works,” Offit said. “.. you should back it up with extraordinary evidence. He should have submitted it to an excellent journal .. reviewed by subject matter experts.” The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
#University Northwestern’s deal with the Trump administration, while being a response to extortion, is, for Northwestern, ethically compromised and especially so for the medical school. Interfering with scientific medical research on transgender patients, which follows the law, is not acceptable.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
#Vaccines “A study published last year in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that since 1974 when the WHO launched its global vaccination program vaccines had averted ..146 million children deaths worldwide, iThe C.D.C. has cited vaccines as one of the 10 great public health achievements..”NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#Hunger “ U.N. Sounds Alarm On Catastrophic Hunger Crisis Following Trump Aid Cuts. Some 318 million people are expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse next year, more than double the number in 2019.” H. Post
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#Comey “In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence perhaps better evidence that would be presented at trial.” NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#Immigration ”.. two human rights groups had found that “more than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault,” ..at the notorious El Salvadoran prison named CECOT.” Guardian &NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#SNAP “They would rather go door to door, taking away people’s food, than do the right thing and fully fund SNAP for November so that struggling veterans, seniors, and children can keep food on the table,” she said. Rep.Angie Craig Minnesota NY Times
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#University “Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests ….” The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#Trump “America has always faced hunger, yet its leaders have long shown some responsibility to help poor people meet their most basic nutritional needs. That even this small measure of decency is seemingly a thing of the past signals the dawn of an unprecedented era of cruelty” Heuvel The Guardian
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
#SCOTUS “Sixty-five judges responded to a Times questionnaire sent to hundreds of federal judges across the country. Of those, 47 said the Supreme Court had been mishandling its emergency docket since Mr. Trump returned to office.” NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#Military “Would any military leader of any experience believe for even five seconds that one of the best ways to prepare troops to deter or (God forbid) fight our nuclear-armed foes is by walking through cities, picking up trash and occasionally confronting left-wing protesters?” David French NYT
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Is This Bible-Quoting Texan the Answer to Democratic Prayers?
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#dictator Bill Maher issued a stern warning to Republicans with an explicit metaphor on Friday. “You’re way past flirting with authoritarianism,” the “Real Time” host said. “Flirting? Let’s be real. You’re f*in it.”
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#Tylenol “There’s no credible scientific link that Tylenol causes autism,” said Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola, who advises the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on environmental issues.The studies .. are “too deeply and fundamentally flawed to draw reliable conclusions.” NY Times
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ABC Pulls Kimmel over nothing comment about MAGA using the death of Kirk. It's time to Boycott ABC. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments
Nexstar, one of the biggest owners o US f TV stations in, said will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel's late night show due to the host's Charlie Kirk remarks
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#USAID Lancet study developed forecasting models that predicted the Trump administration’s steep funding cuts to USAID “could result in more than 14.05 million additional all-age deaths, including 4.54 million in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.” Thomas B. Edsall - Think about that!
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#ICE The freedom “from arbitrary interference by law officers,” she wrote, is a constitutional guarantee. Yet, under Trump, it may no longer exist “for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little.” Sotomayor
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#Florida “Right now, Florida mandates that students have to be vaxxed against polio, diphtheria, measles, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus — also known as diseases that should only come up in ‘Oregon Trail,’” Stephen Colbert said on Thursday..common message is ‘You have died of Florida.’” —
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
#Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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​​Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#Quantum quantumzeitgeist.com/entanglement...
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Entanglement Complexity In Many-body Systems
Researchers establish a link between the structural constraints of quantum states and computational efficiency, demonstrating that materials solvable with size-independent positivity conditions exhibi...
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
#RFKjr Mr. Kennedy said he did not know how many Americans had died of Covid and whether the vaccines prevented Covid-related deaths. “The problem is they didn’t have the data,” he said, senator‘s reply: “You are sitting as secretary of health and human services. How can you be that ignorant?” FIRE
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#Voting A baseball analogy to Trumps voting plan. His team all bats from the right so he moves the right field fence in and at the same time he blocks any left handed pitchers of the opposing team from getting into the ballpark. How un-American can one get! A lot worse I suspect!
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
#Science “Analysts say authoritarians and their students fear science in part because its feats — unlocking the universe, ending plagues, saving millions of lives — can form bonds of public trust that rival or exceed their own.“ ..He hails the wizards of tech but undermines basic research”NYTimes
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
#Vaccines “Between school shooters and R.F.K. Jr., children in America are vulnerable in ways they don’t have to be. Officials are endangering children instead of shielding them.” Maureen Dowd -Vax Quack Lacks Facts - NYTimes
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#racism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials
President’s targeting of Fed governor Lisa Cook highlights his efforts to remove diverse voices from government
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