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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAHA has never been about making America healthier. It has *always* been about making the 1% healthier at the expense of everyone else. Ironically, they don't realize that the most effective way to improve their own health would be to raise up the health of the other 99%.

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Vance is the Brett Kavanaugh of furniture. Kavanaugh prefers non-consenting teenagers. Vance prefers couches.

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The next POTUS should bulldoze Mar-A-Lago and afterwards have WH lawyers argue in court that doing so was necessary for national security.

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Actually, how TF is Brand even allowed out of the UK?

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Paul brothers addressed the Pentagon last week, so why not? 🤷‍♂️ Next week we'll have Kid Rock give a speech at the Dept of Energy. Maybe Andrew Tate can give a press conference at the DOJ?

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How is it that dentists still routinely perform screening x-rays in asymptomatic adults? There is literally zero evidence these films improve patient-centered outcomes. Zero. It is a money-making scam. (If you're going to @ me, @ me with a study.)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely this!

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ugh. It's been a year, and this scam site is still online.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I took an informal poll of housestaff a few months back as to how they were using AI on the wards. Not surprising: Most common tool was OE. Surprising: The most common purpose was to be told drug dosages. As if there aren't human-curated references that aren't just as fast and convenient.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The real headline here should be: Bar that enacted ridiculous policy shocked that it attracted ridiculous people.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not sure what is meant by the claim it's not fraudulent. If a submitted paper was largely written by AI w/o substantive human editing and revision, and AI's "authorship" isn't disclosed, I would consider that fraud, just as I would if a PI claimed solo credit for a paper written by a student.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The leadership of the Jehovah Witnesses have significantly eased prohibitions on blood transfusions. Whether to receive individual blood components (RBCs, platelets, plasma) is now considered to be up to the individual. For hospitalized JW patients, this is a big deal. www.jw.org/en/global-co...

jw.org

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Each Witness Now Decides Whether to Accept or Donate Main Blood Components

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I'm sure our attorney general will get right on that!

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 24/09/2026

This is the tech-bro bullshit that educators are up against. Meanwhile, my kids' Silicon Valley schools are holding seminars discussing the impact of an AI-laden world on practical career choices. Kids are being told they can no longer do what they love b/c it will be done better by a chatbot.

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Trump's DHS sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed were noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote. "On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

nytimes.com

From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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True on social media too. As one ex, YouTube channels that promote pseudoscientific garbage (always for profit) are vastly more popular than healthcare professionals trying to educate for free. And it's not always a matter of money buying slicker production. Bias-confirming BS just sells easier.

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When Trump and MAGA's antitrans agenda are gone, I hope people don't forget which hospitals turned their backs on some of their most vulnerable patients.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to the next president just bulldozing Mar-A-Lago to dust and afterwards having WH lawyers argue in court that it was necessary for national security.

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Obviously there are no deals. At least no legal ones. They are as fictional as every other mythical healthcare plan Republicans have talked about for the last 10 years.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the gym, we call this "bro science". And because the guys most into it are also juiced on steroids, they're huge, so people who don't know better attribute the results they see to the silly supplements and other garbage like cryotherapy.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For every one of these men who get a dramatic front page story, there are 25-50 postdocs who leave the country much less voluntarily.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm irritated by responses that are variations of "This list is crap because [my favorite show] should be much higher than 81-100." Anyone 100% convinced their favorite show belongs in top 10 of the century needs to see more quality TV. Unless that show is Andor, because then they're def correct.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This doesn't meet people who have committed actual crimes shouldn't face justice, but that we should be willing to extend olive branches to those who have acknowledged they made a grave mistake supporting Trump and are accepting their share of responsibility for the consequences of that support.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Trump allies start to jump the sinking ship of his administration, Democrats and "Never-Trumpers" should reach out a hand to incentivize their conversion back to reality. There is a greater urgency to restore sanity in DC than there is for Trump enablers to meet reprisals.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.

arstechnica.com

Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants

Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I agree that the nuclear arms race is the closest comparison to the "race" to build AGI. But the analogy breaks down when you realize it took entire nations and 1000s of people to build a nuclear weapon, while a company of a dozen people in someone's basement could develop AGI that kills us all.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Least surprising Congressional sex scandal of all time. (I have zero problem with Boebert's sexual orientation or decision to eschew monogamy, but affairs between members of Congress and their staff is a huge ethical lapse. She's also a horrible anti-LGBTQ bigot.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmxr...

youtube.com

Lauren Boebert Accused Of Bisexual Affairs With Staffers

YouTube video by The Rational National

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Also, an AI algorithm isn't picking that lock (even if 5 year old could do so with a small pocket knife)

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Traditional media outlets should stop holding back on this administration. Sane-washing the insanity that is coming out of the White House will not protect you. When they lie, call them liars. When they steal, call them thieves. When they kidnap children, call it child trafficking.

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