Mike White
@genologos
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Associate Prof. of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis. Blogging at https://t.co/YV23LQFPRD. Opposed to stupidity, including mine.
St. Louis, MO USA
Joined October 2011
Deep learning with data beyond the genome: Our paper on active machine learning to model regulatory DNA is out today in Cell Systems. With functional assays and DNA synthesis you can generate any training examples, not just genomic sequences. 𧾠https://t.co/Qu26knjiTt
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Apparently Gen Z calls a fresh, cold Diet Coke a "fridge cigarette". Today, I investigate whether it is, in fact, so bad for you. Answer: no https://t.co/oUtKYc1DU4
parentdata.org
Emily Oster examines the evidence on Diet Coke, debunking claims about cancer, autism, weight gain, and pregnancy risks â and clarifying whatâs actually safe.
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Recruiting smart contrarians with novel perspectives would be great, but thatâs not what RFK Jr. is doing Heâs turned the federal vaccine committee over to fringe figures who promote unfounded, discredited theories And now they are wreaking havoc
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His handpicked âexpertsâ just voted to roll back hepatitis B vaccine guidelinesâand reverse a historic public health victory.
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The anti-vax movement is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.
đ¨ NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped. Results? ⢠74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 ⢠25% lower risk of all-cause mortality ⢠No increase in 4-year mortality ⢠Vaccinated people had lower risk of death
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And crucially, there is no new safety signal driving this decision. Weâre rolling back a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing birth-dose policy with decades of reassuring safety data and no evidence of harm from the vaccine itself. Thatâs a reckless and dangerous way to make vaccine
đ¨NEW -- Sec. Kennedy's handpicked vaccine panel voted to make the Hep. B vaccine at birth optional. They are favoring a theoretical risk from the vaccine over the certain risk of a cancer-causing virus. GIFT:
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This is laughably wrong. We live in the safest, healthiest, most comfortable era in human history. Extreme poverty has collapsed, air travel is much safer, medicine is miles better, and everyday tech has made our lives much easier. Pessimism sells, but itâs not reality.
It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of everything -- food, clothing, entertainment, air travel, roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, etc -- has declined in observable ways. Even newer inventions
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Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel votes to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording."
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The CDCâs vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted on Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
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New from @AcademyHealth: Major changes to federal loan caps & âprofessional degreeâ definitions could shrink pipelines for nursing, public health, social work, and moreâhitting nontraditional and marginalized students hardest. Read more: https://t.co/sPiTjpC5x4
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What happens when your live under an idiocracy
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
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As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a
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Wow. The comparison of dosing schedule of two different vaccines yellow fever and Hep B by the new chair of ACIP reveals a lack of understanding of immunology or vaccines. Different vaccines, different schedule, different immunology. If you use one egg in a pancake then itâs
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Contrary to much of the nonsense you may read on here, mRNA vaccines don't cause deaths - they prevent them This massive study from France showed that not only did mRNA vaccines not increase mortality but they reduced deaths and saved lives
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12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find https://t.co/WK9VwGxUg1 I report for @NBCNews: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary RFK Jr.âs claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
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No technological innovation, no works of philosophy, no new religion, nothing in the entire history of human thought did anything at all to reduce the long run child death rate of 40-50% before the 19th century. It only changed with technological progress based on modern science.
Kings and queens of the past would envy the lives of ordinary people today.
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Vaccinating girls against HPV before age 16 lowers their risk of cervical cancer by 80%. The vaccine is safe, with no associated serious side effects, according to a massive new review of scores of studies.
VACCINE NEWS: A pair of Cochrane Review papers provide the strongest evidence to date that the HPV vaccine is very safe and highly effective. Girls who are vaccinated before age 16 have an 80 percent lower risk of cervical cancer. HHS secretary RFK Jr has disparaged the HPV
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PhD or MD, you should call people âdoctorâ only in the appropriate professional context. It matters - the NYT used to run stories on biomedical research in which a PhD expert was called âMrâ while a less qualified MD was called Dr. Very misleading to readers.
This is ruffling a lot of Pheathers, but I agree. People with PhDs just look insecure when they insist that everyone calls them âdoctor.â I donât even like my students calling me âDr. Gwyn.â Maybe if my PhD was in Physics, Iâd feel differently. Mineâs in Englishâwho cares?!
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The aluminum in vaccines isnât foil or metal. Itâs a compound of aluminum salts. Rather than doing harm, these adjuvants help shots work better. @celinegounder reports ⤾ď¸
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that the aluminum ingredients in vaccines cause a variety of harmful reactions, from allergies to autism. Scientists say thatâs wrong and warn of risks if...
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This is achingly beautiful and almost too painful to read in places (but you still should). The cruelty of cancer, the longing to be with your children â and the twist of fate, being RFK Jrâs cousin as he unwinds U.S. health research funding. https://t.co/j8dEKy8KZe
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When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldnât be happening to me, to my family.
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