Tom Madden

@tom6931
49 Followers
109 Following
38 Posts
Bioinformatician (retired) working on alignment tools such as BLAST. PhD Physics. Sail flying scots in my free time. Opinions are my own.
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eK0R0a4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
pronounshe/him
At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

“We have lost so many exceptional scientists and other employees of HHS…the just decades of institutional knowledge that we have lost is absolutely devastating”. This was my comment about RFK Jr. saying that HHS is now hiring thousands of people after firing thousands of brilliant scientists.

Combative, Defensive and Occas...
Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy Walks a Fine Line

In four days of congressional testimony, the health secretary sought to please the White House and his MAHA base at the same time.

The New York Times
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake dis...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Statt einer CO2 Steuer in unsere eigenen Kassen zahlen wir jetzt eine Transitgebühr an Iran. Genial!
Die Blockade der Straße von Hormus und das Ausbremsen der fossilen Zerstörung ist ein Akt des grünen Terrors. Cem Özdemir muss sich schleunigst distanzierten!

Will Bunch:
"Sure, the demonstration was primarily about the war in the Middle East that costs nearly $2 billion a day and lacks congressional approval, and the secret-police brutality of the regime’s immigration raiders, and the big spike in healthcare costs, and the coverup of the Epstein files, and the massive grift. But for a few hours on a sunny yet bitterly cold Saturday, it was about more than the sum of its parts — it was something spiritual."

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-no-kings-protest-record-20260329.html
#UsPol #NoKings
1/

What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

The “No Kings” movement brushed off its doubters with a record turnout that gave protesters hope in an age of insanity.

The Philadelphia Inquirer