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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 4h

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 4h

This is so dumb.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 18h

Time cover likely has the shelf life of spilled milk.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I still remember my best friends #'s from when I was 8. I have no idea what the area code was. 😂

💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 1d

[dies of old]

r/CasualConversation • 2 days ago
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Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I don't say this often re: this publishing group, but this study is great. Really good control arm here. Probably as good as we are going to do in this sphere.

The effect size is not impressive for lower risk folks.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Association of 2024–2025 Covid-19 Vaccine with Covid-19 Outcomes in U.S. Veterans | NEJM

Amid the declining clinical severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and diminishing public uptake of annual coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, ...

www.nejm.org

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I agree with that. I continue to worry about junior authors who actually do a good chunk of the work, write the manuscript, and shepherd it through publication will continue to be devalued.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

If the ICJME criteria were actually followed and had some non-arbitrary rubric; they would likely pass some level of muster. The unfortunate reality is that most of them are pretty nebulous in definition.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Of the final 3; the first and third are laughable. During the covid rush of papers, we showed the #surgisphere papers were laughably bad and didn't pass even the slightest smell test. We are still waiting for consequences for the "co-authors". . . .

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

In the medical sciences, I think it would be wise to have some form of contribution to work. The current paradigm is kind of silly.

**kind of is drastically understating the level of silliness

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

As someone who has bought 50lb bags of flour; I'd only recommend this if feeding an army of teens.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

The algorithm pollutes the entire ecosystem; plus even the timeline got so much promoted garbage in it.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 4d

is that worth making a dot phrase for?

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

Any idea who gets the $$ if they are allowed to sell?

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

I have a feeling we are going to be giving a lot of mmr at 6 months.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

Same thing is likely true of studying for tests or innumerable other activities.

Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 5d

Cool thing about her is she trains *less* than most of her peers. I talked to a former NASA scientist about why it works:
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

The Secret Behind America’s Once-in-a-Generation Weightlifter: Not Lifting Weights

Olivia Reeves ended Team USA’s 24-year gold-medal drought in weightlifting. She became a champion by training half as much as her peers.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

I think a big part of the problem is that we largely live in lands of small effect sizes. The larger effect sizes are not doing things that will clearly worsen outcomes, like pulling back on access to Medicaid.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

HSR world is really hard. After getting out of academia, I mostly use research to avoid the land of useless interventions. Making things better is really hard, just look at all the wasted $$'s on sensible policies tested by CMMI.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

@christosargyrop.bsky.social The likelihood of the "over-diagnosers" are finding over-diagnosis borders on 1000%. Screening for cancer in 85 year-olds is dumb not b/c of "over-diagnosis", but b/c of competing risks and life expectancy.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

lol; was reading @fperrywilson.bsky.social's column. Without clicking, I said; I wonder what Gil Welch wrote this time. Hopefully, he didn't steal his ideas from a younger researcher, again.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Is the Rise in Cancer in Young People...Fake?

A study looking at the eight fastest-rising cancers in young adults concludes that the real problem is overdiagnosis. But not everyone agrees.

www.medscape.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 5d

The belief that gabapentin/pregabalin are "good" pain medicine is beyond my ability to comprehend. They have isolated indications where they have some small effect on pain and people think they are some magic bean type pill?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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