The RFK Jr-funded Danes who wanted to fly in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold the hep B vaccine birth dose from newborns have (finally!) thrown in the towel They are, of course, framing it as a great loss to science & arguing how unethical it is NOT to do the trial 🤯 It’s good the trial was stopped

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Using research funding to kill babies in one of the poorest countries “The study would deny hepatitis B vaccines to 7,000 newborns in the first 6 weeks of life, in a country where 1 in 5 adults have the virus. Hepatitis B kills 15%-25% of people with chronic infections, & newborns are vulnerable”

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The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. When Trump touts the stock market as a sign of a good economy, remember who is benefiting the most.

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Unfortunately, it seems this now needs to be said again and more loudly for the people in the back

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But because Gladwell and his ilk pull this shit in publications with circulation in the millions, quantitative social scientists - and increasingly physical scientists too - have to deal with people who think what we do is like what Gladwell does, and as easily rebuttable. But that's just not true.

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