Edward Nirenberg

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.

Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.

It is humbling to know I am not as good at histology as a pigeon journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Some days, all you have is guarana bean extract and spite. And that has to be enough.

I like how the people angry at a text convo in which Dr. Fauci notes a theoretical concern for teratogenicity from fevers in pregnancy provoked by COVID vaccines (before we had human data showing this isn’t a concern) are also people who wanted to ban the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy

I feel like this entitles vaccine experts to decide on foreign policy and tariffs. I mean, it's all interchangeable, isn't it?

A fun fact in case you have ever wondered about this like me: high homocysteine is bad (in part) because it can cyclize into homocysteine thiolactone (a γ-thiolactone), which is highly reactive and readily forms adducts with suitable nucleophiles especially amines (amides are hard to hydrolyze...

Not to just jump on the bandwagon of dunking on AI but... today Open Evidence told me that IgM+ plasma cells don't display surface immunoglobulin and thus surface IgM cannot used for targeting them. This is untrue. I get that it is not feasible to verify everything, but if it matters, try.

Why are lysosomal storage diseases?

Received a gift in the mail. It has a receipt. Under customer comments, it says "can you not include receipt. this is a gift." Life is funny

I just learned that if I am smiling, the Face ID on my phone thinks I’m a different person. Interesting.