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MarkH
@markhoofnagle.medsky.social
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Trauma Surgeon. Basic Scientist. UVA/UMD/UPenn. Now WashU/STL. Blocking is curating.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · Nov 12
So I decided to contribute.

People here are skeptical thinkers from a variety of fields not just medicine - including law, journalism and academia.

Let me know who I missed. go.bsky.app/P8Vnf7M
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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 8h
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 8h
I love this guy so much. He’s terrified of naked bicyclists and is serious about being nice to the capital police. When he and his son aren’t busy using the buddy system for porn, I hear he collects and catalogues fast food napkins. Just the best guy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 9h
The people must be told of Uter and his struggle.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 10h
He’s gonna headline the TPUSA alternative superbowl halftime show.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 10h
Young Republicans on the Telegram leak.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 11h
Perhaps most fascinating is that Ben Gvir confirms his treatment of her was torture. Just no shame.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 11h
Greta describes the beatings and abuse by Isreal when she was kidnapped off her flotilla.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 12h
Is it? When Germany shut down their nuclear plants they replaced that power with coal. Now this. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration opens more land for coal mining, offers $625M to boost coal-fired power plants
The Trump administration said it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 20h
Did a deep dive to find there is some 45K gallons of tritiated water, a beta-source, they intend to dump over years into a system that moves 14.1 million gallons per hour.

I think we’re gonna be fine.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 20h
I have been blocked from a discussion by fucking morons because I pointed out the real risk of accumulation of radioisotopes in the environment is from tons of aerosolized material from fossil fuel combustion, not miniscule exposures from nuclear power.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 20h
Yeah that chapter has nothing to do with this. So, kindly fuck off with fearmongering.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 21h
Trace accumulation of radionucleotides in a water system then diluted by 300x that volume per hour?

The real environmental threat continues to be fossil fuel combustion. The fearmongering around radiation is irrational as shit.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 21h
At what level? The release of tiny amounts of a beta emitter is not particularly concerning.

Just deep dived into this and the 45k gallons are dwarfed by the volume of the system and this is a tempest in a teapot when the hudson discharges 14.1 million gallons per hour.
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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Mar 7
Gavin Newsom trying to impress Charlie Kirk, an incel who “owns the libs” by wearing diapers at colleges:
The Norman Osborn “something of a scientist myself” meme, except it’s Gavin Newsom & he’s saying “You know, I'm something of a transphobic creep myself.”
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
You get more radiation exposure from cinderblocks, or a plane flight than you would in a year of exposure.

But kudos for recognizing the extremely subtle exception to the rule…
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
Yes. But so few people have that depth of understanding that exposure to radiation (without like actual particle accelerator stuff or neutrons like you mention) doesn’t make stuff radioactive. Same attitude about microwaves. In comparison to fossil fuel combustion it’s infinitessimal.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
They’re going to take out WONDER next. Count on it. We wont be able to see how they’re killing us anymore if we don’t aggregate the death certificate data. They’ll be able to kill us in the dark and outside of effective state public health (California and a few others) no one will be able to tell.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
The Simpsons unfortunately is responsible for such an unscientific view of nuclear as to be absurd and it’s probably hopeless at this point. The cooling water is not itself radioactive and isn’t exposed to the fuel. This scientific ignorance on both sides is going to doom us all.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
But that isn’t whats happening here. The water isn’t radioactive it’s just used by the plant for steam power/cooling.

Coal, for example, actually releases radiation in the atmosphere due to aerosolization of trace radionucleotides during combustion (and lead and mercury) which then bioaccumulate.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
This is antinuclear fearmongering. Nuclear plants use water to cool the reaction and make steam which drives the turbines, but this does not make it radioactive. That’s not how any of this works. Radiological water is just a fearminfering term.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
Honestly coal plants put much more radiation into the atmosphere by aerosolizing coal combustion byproducts. The water that comes out of a nuclear plant is safe as houses. It’s not radioactive any more than water you microwave. That’s not how radiation works.
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 23h
But this is bullshit right? “Radiological water”? Power plants dont make the water radioactive. This was just the cooling water for the reactor. It’s environmental threat is essentially zero. It’s paywalled so I can’t be sure but this seems to be radiophobia.
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d
I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 1d
Do they promise? That sounds like a voluntary reduction in force that would save millions of dollars while simultaneously ridding the NYPD of its most unprofessional officers.