#War Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes] -Bible
Alexander Mazziotti
@entropyarrow.bsky.social
Physician/Author MD, PhD Internal Medicine - Cardiology Books: 1 ‘Unraveling the Seven Riddles of the Universe’ Hamilton Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. 2 ‘Riddles of Quantum Theory’
#AI Trump’s previous prediction: “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” That’s what President Trump said about the Covid-19 early on and now he wants to tell us that AI fears are not real.
#Reporters “I’m not going to repost the filth the president wrote about Maggie Haberman, but suffice it to say she’s a great person, beautiful inside and out, an incredible mom and wife and colleague, and an amazing journalist,” Tapper said- “The president’s comments are disgusting ..” Huff.Post
#HeartFailure Many experts hoped that reducing inflammation would translate into fewer heart attacks, strokes, and perhaps better heart failure outcomes.However, in the large ZEUS trial, an anti inflammatory drug failed to significantly reduce major cardiovascular events compared with placebo.
#Disability ‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty The Guardian
#Testosterone The prevailing endocrinology expert opinion is: No to universal testosterone screening of all military personnel! Yes to a low threshold for testing service members who have symptoms or who belong to higher-risk groups.
#Cyclospora “The outbreak (cyclospora) comes as state and local health departments — which rely on C.D.C. funding to respond to food-borne illness outbreaks — face budget cuts and staff layoffs.” NYT
#Culture “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads)..” Joyce Carol Oates on Elon Musk The Guardian
#Obama “And a belief, he (Obama) continued, that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, those things matter in our public dealings, just as they do in our private lives.” These values, Obama concluded, are “our greatest inheritance.”
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” ..We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” JFK, June 10 1963 commencement address at American University.
#Science An observation about 2026 is that many breakthroughs are being made from combinations of fields rather than isolated discoveries — especially AI + biology, AI + physics, and quantum computing + chemistry.
#HIV “AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble. Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe..” NYT
#Vaccines A Stanford research team reported a vaccine approach that protected animals from multiple respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens. It works by stimulating a broad immune response in mucosal tissues. It is sometimes described as a step toward a “universal respiratory vaccine.”
#Knitting Known as “Melt the ICE” caps, the pattern for the knitted hat — selling at $5 — has been ordered more than 85,000 times since being offered online in mid-January, according to the Minneapolis-area shop behind its creation. NYTimes
#USA “Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this.” Marina Hyde The Guardian
#ICE The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power. NY Times
#Trump Trump seems to have never learned about our revolutionary war with England. Taxation without representation. He is glad to take the Venezuela oil and be a distant King. Although not mentioned by the media he markedly risks increasing terrorist attacks in our own country.
#Trump “Every time people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful attack and exploit .. the fabric of civilization frays. If such aggression is not contained, the fabric unravels, the world can descend into chaos and war. It has happened before.” Robert Reich The Guardian
#Trump “An anti-Trump political group organized a letter signed by more than 200 mental health professionals, warning that Donald Trump is dangerous because of “his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism”, which makes him “grossly unfit for leadership”. Guardian
#Diabetes “People with prediabetes who get their blood sugar under control may cut their risk of death from heart disease or heart failure by half, according to new research.“ NY Times — Early treatment should have major effect on the reduction of cardiovascular diseases!
#Vaccines “[Prasad] says he has evidence that this vaccine (Covid) killed 10 children, but that’s not the way it works,” Offit said. “.. you should back it up with extraordinary evidence. He should have submitted it to an excellent journal .. reviewed by subject matter experts.” The Guardian
#University Northwestern’s deal with the Trump administration, while being a response to extortion, is, for Northwestern, ethically compromised and especially so for the medical school. Interfering with scientific medical research on transgender patients, which follows the law, is not acceptable.
#Vaccines “A study published last year in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that since 1974 when the WHO launched its global vaccination program vaccines had averted ..146 million children deaths worldwide, iThe C.D.C. has cited vaccines as one of the 10 great public health achievements..”NYT
#Hunger “ U.N. Sounds Alarm On Catastrophic Hunger Crisis Following Trump Aid Cuts. Some 318 million people are expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse next year, more than double the number in 2019.” H. Post
#Comey “In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence perhaps better evidence that would be presented at trial.” NYT
#Immigration ”.. two human rights groups had found that “more than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault,” ..at the notorious El Salvadoran prison named CECOT.” Guardian &NYT