Jason Locasale, PhD
@LocasaleLab
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scientist (metab, cancer, AI, health), tenured prof former Duke, prev: Harvard MIT Cornell. Academic and scientific reform. DMs open. dr.jason.locasale@gmail
Raleigh, NC
Joined March 2015
I left a successful academic career in STEM after publishing 200+ papers. I believed in science and truth but learned the system valued optics over integrity, conformity over courage. In academia, bureaucracy replaced discovery, egos replaced expertise, and silence replaced.
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This is who some still consider a scientific leader: a former editor-in-chief of Science and past director of NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Science. He now seems vocally opposed to nearly everything the current NIH does.
Wokeness has a long history in the sciences. Barbara Barres was a biology professor, celebrated as a culture-war icon in science long before George Floyd or MeToo. After converting to “Ben,” she complained about her newfound male privileges and began pushing DEI. She worked
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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When the public face of infectious disease policy flaunts a lifestyle long associated with drug use and high-risk sexual disease transmission, it tells you how far credibility standards have collapsed.
@LocasaleLab A literal circuit queen within highest echelon policy circles. For those who aren't gay, perhaps the most insufferable, body dysphoric, and substance abusing subsets within the community. Beyond the CDC's ostensible incompetence, the rot is worse than I imagined.
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Wokeness has a long history in the sciences. Barbara Barres was a biology professor, celebrated as a culture-war icon in science long before George Floyd or MeToo. After converting to “Ben,” she complained about her newfound male privileges and began pushing DEI. She worked
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Medical schools keep class sizes artificially small. The result is many basic science professors who are supposed to teach have too few students, and since they aren’t high-performing researchers either, they often collect full salaries while doing very little. Expanding class.
For those of us who moved to DC or the suburbs from America, trying to find primary medical care has proven a nightmare. I’m shocked at what passes for acceptable primary care in DC. Doctors don’t take insurance, practice in a convenient area, have clean and modern facilities, or.
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In universities, sexual orientation became a defining career credential. Men with mediocre research records could declare they were gay or bisexual and suddenly gain visibility, new allies, and professional advantages. Weak science was overlooked so long as it was paired with.
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RT @BamaBonds: Just the man you want to advise on vaccination schedules for your kids. The CDC seems as hell bent on its own self-destruct….
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Science was politicized long before Trump. Under Biden, officials who flaunted satanic sexual imagery were elevated for their DEI credentials. That shows how far identity politics drove leadership in science.
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Agreed. It wasn’t about what he did in private - it was how he weaponized it publicly to score DEI points and advance as an infectious disease expert. That was tragedy: Biden rewarded spectacle in his scientists over substance.
@LocasaleLab It certainly has been frustrating to see these malicious, power-hungry deviants climb the ladder. and be celebrated for the very qualities that make them unbearable. Not what they do in their bedroom. But for how much that spills out.
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Through direct contributions, shared grants, royalties, endowment flows tied to its brand, and other channels, Harvard draws multiple revenue streams from affiliates. It may not appear as overhead on individual grants, but it functions similarly.
@LocasaleLab @amperro31 For clarification, the brand is further subdivided by affiliates which charge their own separate indirect rates. Harvard itself does not get a cut off the top from grants and contracts to affiliates, unless they have a subcontract.
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The CDC guy had one of the nation's top infectious disease positions. He’s cold and calculating. Bragging about his sexual fetishes, including bondage, was a way to distinguish himself over straight men. He was exploiting DEI for personal gain.
@LocasaleLab Mental illness is tragic.
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This person resigned from the CDC with a long, performative letter attacking RFK Jr — without once thanking RFK Jr or Trump for the opportunity to hold a high-ranking position in their administration. Meanwhile, he has posted extreme sexual images online, including satanic-themed
Here is a picture of the man resigning from CDC. Here he is wearing BDSM attire with a pentagram, a Satanic symbol, on his chest. He hates Trump and RFK Jr. These are the kinds of freaks who used to oversee public health in this country
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Thank you. I’m also accumulating incredible cancellations along the way.
@LocasaleLab You are accumulating incredible karma for telling the truth.
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Grant Hill, as a Duke board member, has legal authority over the university’s dysfunction. He was a good basketball player in his day - but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he has no expertise in fixing institutional rot.
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Thank you Professor - you’re correct, boards do have the legal authority. The problem is that they’re often stacked with celebrities and prestige figures who spend little time on governance and mostly rubber-stamp what administrators hand them. That empties faculty governance of.
@LocasaleLab Boards have the legal authority to run the university. Faculty do not. (Em Prof).
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Yes. The Harvard logo gets stamped on everything in Boston, but the real funding comes from taxpayers and grants that researchers bring in. The brand is a veneer — Harvard monetizes prestige while contributing little to the actual science being done.
@LocasaleLab You really start noticing stuff like this when you go to Boston area hospitals and all the health care providers have “Harvard” on their gray patagonia vests in some capacity and you realize “oh you’re a brand and have nothing to do for paying for all of this shit”.
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