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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Has anyone heard from Eva Mendes lately? Or Cindy Crawford, for that matter, the one who once demonized food dyes while her husband owns a tequila brand? Eva deserves an Oscar for her performative outrage over color additives in cereal, and her advocacy for MAHA as an extension of that. 1/n

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today, RFK Jr., a man with *ZERO medical credentials, ZERO scientific training, and ZERO experience treating a single pregnant woman with COVID-19 complications*, announced plans to eliminate routine COVID-19 vaccination guidance for children and pregnant women. 1/n

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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Big pharma vs the wellness industry, which is more profitable? Collab with @niniandthebrain.bsky.social.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

(Graphic stolen from the incredible @niniandthebrain.bsky.social)

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Often, people don’t understand how something impacts them until it stares them right in the face. That’s why so many dismissed the COVID-19 mitigation measures, believing their health made them invincible, while ignoring how strained hospitals and overwhelmed systems could still hurt them. 1/n

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

this may be because I am restricting my consumption of news media in a mostly futile effort to preserve sanity but I feel like politicians are really not connecting/messaging that health is instrumentalized as a foundation for freedom, a central tenet under which this entire country is founded

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If Miranda Priestly was in charge of public health communications:

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

At the moment, there is insufficient evidence that air travel safety has deteriorated (note: we have had staffing issues for some time now). However, the media is overamplifying events, often by conflating general aviation—primarily private planes—with commercial flight statistics.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Chronic disease: Americans are sick because our society is sick. Companies keep people in poverty by refusing to pay a living wage. Working two jobs means no time for exercise or even rest. We tie healthcare to corrupt health ins. companies that won’t pay. Structural racism harms people of color.

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Many do not seem to grasp the danger that RFK Jr. represents for Americans. The hallmark of pseudoscience is refusing to change one’s stance on a topic despite being presented with information that refutes it. Pseudoscience starts with a conclusion, not a hypothesis, and is unyielding. 🧵 (1/n)

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Want a great slogan for midterms? "If you FAFO and are struggling because of Trump policies, we understand. The Dems are here for you. Tell us how we can help you " You get the point. FAFO will be the theme. Be the solution.

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Tech bros are having a meltdown. What’s most ironic about China dropping AI (Deepseek R1) models that match our best performance but are significantly cheaper (96.4% cheaper to be exact) is that they are open-source as opposed to the proprietary framework we have here.

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Pseudoscience seeks to control you. Science seeks to empower you. That's the difference. At first glance, wellness misinformation and pseudoscience, with their unproven remedies, vaccine fear, and distrust of "big pharma," seem financially driven—but there is a far more insidious motive.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

New research finds that seeing scientists as intellectually humble increases public trust in them, their research, and their recommendations, highlighting the importance of humility in science communication across various fields. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #scicomm

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The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour

Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#idsky #medsky #pedsky 🧪 if you were to make a syllabus of things the general public should read if they want to understand vaccines, what would you suggest? Also what do you think is most important for the general public to understand about vaccines?

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niniandthebrain @niniandthebrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Raw milk advocates often argue that more hospitalizations and deaths are linked to pasteurized products than unpasteurized ones and thus raw products are safe! Except that only ~3% of the population drinks unpasteurized milk (and 1.6% eats unpasteurized cheese), relative to ~97% that doesn’t. 1/n

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