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Michael Hayward

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Autism mutations rewire protein interaction networks to drive neurodevelopmental pathology | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Autism mutations rewire protein interaction networks to drive neurodevelopmental pathology
Systematic mapping of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and determining how causal mutations rewire them in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) provide a powerful framework for uncovering disease ...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Can’t wait until AOC is president and the US Marshall’s start stopping every pickup truck driven by a dude in a baseball cap, wrap around sunglasses and a goat tee to check if they’re behind on their child support.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Science Under Attack! bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/04/2026
Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM
Graph showing NIH awards by year. 2026 lags far behind 2021-2024 average.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Did Trump bomb Iran to disrupt China's oil supply or to help Russia sell oil to the China?
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
No Kings in Albuquerque!
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Albuquerque, NM” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Albuquerque, NM · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
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Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I don’t know about y’all, but I could use a new Neil Young song about right now.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We need to sell guns to the mentally ill, think about the poor gun manufacturing industry.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Shout out to Minneapolis police!
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Sometimes a blackberry cider in August hits just right.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Its unbelievable that a group of disaffected scientists having failed to produce anything helpful to humanity, resorted to making a career out of fabricated controversies. Now these grifters are running the greatest scientific institution in the world. ftp.fiercedrugsafety.com/biotech/nih-...
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NIH director says public distrust prompted federal mRNA vaccine development discontinuation
The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has said the federal government’s discontinuation of mRNA vaccine development is because the platform is “no longer viable” due to publi | The d...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Life at this depth is a good argument for the possibility of life on other planets.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is basically like saying that cocaine is better for you than crack. abcnews.go.com/US/video/sug...
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Video Yes to sugar, no to high-fructose corn syrup; Coca-Cola’s history of change
A day after President Trump announced that the Coca-Cola Company agreed to change its U.S. formulation, ABC News’ Steve Osunsami looks back on the company’s recipes and fickle customers.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So if psychedelic drugs do work for some forms of depression, an unanswered question is whether you have to consciously experience their effects or not. A proposed trial:
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Testing the Role of Consciousness
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Best way to summarize the Epstein true believers: “They’re really big on this stuff, though - JFK, Epstein, the moon landing, chemtrails”. youtu.be/sjqEl6Dq2s4?...
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Epstein files fallout has ‘real potential to influence’ Trump’s key messengers: Isgur
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Me, setting up outdoor networked speakers
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a man wearing a baseball cap that says denver on it
ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap that says denver on it
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darwin1800.bsky.social @darwin1800.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Is Trump TRYING to be one of the biggest KILLERS in history? Does he admire other monsters (e.g., Mao; Genghis Khan; Stalin; the Christian God) SO MUCH that he would try to emulate their atrocities? "Golden Horde 2"?
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is NOT about the ethylmercury in thimerosal, which is cleared relatively quickly, as compared to methylmercury. This is about optics that will now be used as evidence to sway jurors' opinions in cases that our secretary has (or at least he's designated his son now).
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CDC advisory panel, selected by RFK Jr., recommends thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines
A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move but one that could sow doubts about safety.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
p-tau217, the breakthrough blood biomarker for Alzheimer's, picks up risk the earliest and its performance surpasses all other tau biomarkers, across ancestries www.nature.com/articles/s43... My review erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt...
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Comprehensive evaluation of plasma tau biomarkers for detecting and monitoring Alzheimer’s disease in a multicenter and multiethnic aging population - Nature Aging
Lan et al. demonstrate the high performance of plasma p-tau217 in detecting and tracking multiple aspects of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, outperforming other plasma tau biomarkers across two Chinese...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
So one person decides who gets a voucher? And this was a critic of the FDA claiming that it lacked transparency? WTH? F
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FDA launches new priority review voucher program for biopharmas that ‘align with national priorities’
The FDA is introducing a new priority voucher program designed to shorten the drug review process from 10 to 12 months down to one or two months, according to the agency. | The FDA is introducing a ne...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Disappointing that we continue to battle with AAV liver toxicity while developing these potential life-saving cures.
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UPDATE: Second Patient Dies After Receiving Sarepta’s DMD Gene Therapy Elevidys
Sarepta’s shares crashed 41% in premarket trading Monday morning to $21.01 after the biotech reported a second death from acute liver failure, a known side effect of adeno-associated virus-based gene ...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It appears that the science at NIH will be conducted similarly to all other Trump administration functions. Political and financial favoritism behind closed doors rather than transparent objective assessment.
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Gold standard or appalling? HHS’s $500 million vaccine bet on inactivated viruses puzzles field
Department selected universal flu vaccine work by NIH leaders without “transparency,” some scientists say
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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 03/06/2025
Looking beyond opioids for pain management: buff.ly/0eyHUDq Opioids are commonly prescribed for pain but carry a number of risks. Zeng et al. describe emerging alternatives for managing pain, including newer pharmacological targets and cell and gene therapies.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The false premise that most of the on-line health influencers base their advice on, is that health it is a matter of engineering. The reality is that biology is illogical, unpredictable and still mostly unknown.
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Longevity seekers misunderstand a fundamental truth about biology
The human organism is far too complex and unpredictable to program like a computer and optimize for longevity.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Next up, FDA requires Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna to add magnetism risk to COVID-19 Vaccines.
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FDA Asks Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna To Add Myocarditis Risk to COVID-19 Vaccines
The FDA had given Pfizer and Moderna until May 17 to propose changes to the labels of their COVID-19 vaccines or challenge the agency’s directive. The products' labels already include myocarditis warn...
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. promised "radical transparency" as Secretary of HHS. Apparently, he didn't mean it.
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Silencing the CDC
A recent study by the CDC showed how to prevent the most common cause of hospitalizations in babies. Why haven’t we heard about it?
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you don't think this terrorizing illegal (and legal) immigrants is going to blow up in our face, you were probably born after 9/11.
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Nature @nature.com · 09/05/2025
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology. go.nature.com/4jOQnB6
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How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This says it all. www.biospace.com/fda/biotech-...
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Biotech Stocks Fall After FDA Names Vinay Prasad To Succeed Marks at CBER
The oncologist and former University of California, San Francisco, professor has long been critical of COVID-19 mandates and the accelerated approval of cancer drugs.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The irony here, is that instead of leaving new therapies up to the private sector (i.e. capitalism) the Trump/Kennedy administration is going to try govt. funded drug development. I truly hope the succeed, but I can't get over the irony of a large govt. program competing with business.
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HHS unveils $500M universal vaccine initiative, calls Biden-era COVID vax accelerator 'wasteful'
The U.S. government is putting down $500 million toward the development of a “universal” vaccine—a shot designed to protect against multiple strains of a pandemic-prone virus at once. | The U.S. gover...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Loosening food safety standards and delaying approvals of vaccines. RFKjr is literally saying "Eat shit and die". www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-wi...
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USDA withdraws a Biden-era effort to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The United States Department of Agriculture is withdrawing a rule proposed to help prevent salmonella poisoning from contaminated poultry.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Who's going to volunteer for a trial where you might die from a preventable disease? www.biospace.com/policy/hhs-t...
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HHS To Require Placebo-Controlled Trials for All New Vaccines in ‘Radical Departure’ From Past
The new policy, revealed by the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, would make vaccines “less available and less affordable,” according to vaccine expert Paul Offit. It could also fu...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Anyone notice a pattern in this administration? Social Media driven government policy. Throw it on the socials, review the responses, revise accordingly. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/n...
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No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
His time has come.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A lawyer acting like a lawyer, believing you can somehow litigate the unknown. www.biospace.com/policy/kenne...
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Kennedy’s Hunt for a Connection Between Vaccines and Autism Is a Sham
The Health and Human Services Secretary said that he will find and eliminate the cause of autism by September, an idea that suggests how little he knows about the condition.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Of all the negative effects that recent changes in the govt have had on the FDA, this is probably the most deadly. Without this program, we go back to pre-1990's drug approvals. People have forgotten that this was largely driven by AIDS activists demanding faster approval of treatments.
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Threat to FDA User Fees Program Could Set US Back 35 Years
Experts express concern that last week's unprecedented FDA layoffs will trigger a little-known mechanism that could result in a "disaster" the Trump administration doesn't see coming.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Just an example of how the war against science will result in the US not just losing the battle with China over making plastic toys, next up will be losing to China over the production of life-saving medicines. www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/cong...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#handsoff-nm
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The funniest self own is that Trump wants Greenland because he believes global warming is happening.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In plain English, this means people will die or suffer when they didn't need to. www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-s...
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FDA staff cuts could disrupt drug reviews, putting agency's critical funding programs at risk: reports
As reports surface detailing the extent of Robert F. | Massive cuts at the FDA have hit staff tied to drug reviews and user fees, putting future approvals in jeopardy, according to multiple reports.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In my experience, much of the bureaucracy in the federal govt. has to do with accountability of finances and prevention of fraud. Firing the people who oversee govt. spending doesn't seem like a great way to prevent fraud, but I guess that's not really the goal.
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We are about to see a crash in the biotech market and those of us who work in the industry. No one's going to want to invest in an industry that receives nothing but hostility and derision from its regulatory agency in the govt. www.biospace.com/fda/marks-su...
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Marks’ Sudden Departure From FDA Magnifies Uncertainty, Sends Biopharma Shares Down
The stock market—and biotech insiders—reacted negatively to the allegedly forced resignation of CBER Director Peter Marks, who said RFK Jr. does not seek “truth and transparency” but rather “subservie...
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Michael Hayward @haywarmi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r... via @statnews.com
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Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts
The apparent choice of a major player in the anti-vaccine community to conduct an HHS study on autism has shocked vaccine experts.
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