Alison Meyer
@awithonelison.bsky.social
Science fan, anti-vax disliker. ADHD since 1960. Happily retired in Spain. She/her.
I asked her to name on thing that was sold as an alternative treatment by grifters that was later shown by science to be effective, and instead she tried to get me to buy a book about woo.
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I asked her to name on thing that was sold as an alternative treatment by grifters that was later shown by science to be effective, and instead she tried to get me to buy a book about woo.
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Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
Mike Johnson: “I haven’t had a vacation day in two years. I haven’t been off in two years, literally.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
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The best way to deal with pseudoscientific health practices is to be informed, honest, and forthright about them.
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Sure, but when you cure something in a way everyone doesn't believe, the cure makes you care less about the believing.
Condemning alternative medicine doesn't improve peoples' faith in western medicine, it just makes practitioners outcasts.
Condemning alternative medicine doesn't improve peoples' faith in western medicine, it just makes practitioners outcasts.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The best way to deal with pseudoscientific health practices is to be informed, honest, and forthright about them.
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
I need to talk to the guy doing renovations downstairs. If I know what his work schedule is, I'll know when it's safe to nap.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I need to talk to the guy doing renovations downstairs. If I know what his work schedule is, I'll know when it's safe to nap.
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Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
Well, this is unpleasant.
Transsexuals don't have the same rights as women. So, there is no stripping.
Transsexuals 'pass', so the spaces you're so desperate to use, you probably can unnoticed. Doesn't entitle you to women's rights. Legally, you are covered under the Gender Recognition Act...
Transsexuals 'pass', so the spaces you're so desperate to use, you probably can unnoticed. Doesn't entitle you to women's rights. Legally, you are covered under the Gender Recognition Act...
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well, this is unpleasant.
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Advocating for collective punishment…lovely.
BTW I’ve heard this complaint mentioned repeatedly on far right podcasts and via far right influencers on social media.
BTW I’ve heard this complaint mentioned repeatedly on far right podcasts and via far right influencers on social media.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Advocating for collective punishment…lovely.
BTW I’ve heard this complaint mentioned repeatedly on far right podcasts and via far right influencers on social media.
BTW I’ve heard this complaint mentioned repeatedly on far right podcasts and via far right influencers on social media.
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Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
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" We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned by recent federal public health communications that conflict with the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism"
#MedSky + #IDSky via nfidvaccines.bsky.social and more than a dozen other groups - www.nfid.org/nfid-led-joi...
#MedSky + #IDSky via nfidvaccines.bsky.social and more than a dozen other groups - www.nfid.org/nfid-led-joi...
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) (@nfidvaccines.bsky.social)
Non-profit focused on educating and engaging the public, communities, and healthcare professionals about infectious diseases across the lifespan #IDsky
nfidvaccines.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
" We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned by recent federal public health communications that conflict with the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism"
#MedSky + #IDSky via nfidvaccines.bsky.social and more than a dozen other groups - www.nfid.org/nfid-led-joi...
#MedSky + #IDSky via nfidvaccines.bsky.social and more than a dozen other groups - www.nfid.org/nfid-led-joi...
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"Everyone knows that mRNA vaccines can't possibly get into the cell nuclei and get copied into your DNA, right? Right??"
Why scientists have to become better communicators and learn how to engage different audiences.
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Everyone knows that mRNA vaccines can't possibly get into the cell nuclei and get copied into your DNA, right? Right??"
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Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination
Tattoo ink commonly reaches and persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.
www.pnas.org/doi/10....
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Tattoo ink commonly reaches and persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.
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Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination
Tattoo ink commonly reaches and persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.
www.pnas.org/doi/10....
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Tattoo ink commonly reaches and persists in this organ in most tattooed subjects, often lifelong.
www.pnas.org/doi/10....
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Thread.
The AI slop paper in Nature Scientific Reports will apparently be retracted. That’s a good and necessary first step. Let’s talk about what else to do.
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On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thread.
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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Con la humanidad atemorizada por la mortífera segunda ola del coronavirus, una revista científica publicó un estudio con la solución: los amuletos de jade podrían prevenir la covid. Su caída expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año
social.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Con la humanidad atemorizada por la mortífera segunda ola del coronavirus, una revista científica publicó un estudio con la solución: los amuletos de jade podrían prevenir la covid. Su caída expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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Racial profiling.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Racial profiling.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Studies and data don’t matter at the FDA.
He just knows!
He just knows!
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Studies and data don’t matter at the FDA.
He just knows!
He just knows!
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JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
So what does keeping trans women out of women's sports do to women? Makes things worse for women.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
So what does keeping trans women out of women's sports do to women? Makes things worse for women.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frikkin amazing stuff.