Julian Simon
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25 years since I went from the biggest skeptic to the biggest fan of arranged marriages.
#alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers
#alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers
September 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
25 years since I went from the biggest skeptic to the biggest fan of arranged marriages.
#alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers
#alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers
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Medical journals are an important bulwark against government censorship. Unlike universities, journals don't have enormous grant funds on the line when they stand up for their rights.
Last month, RFK Jr. demanded the retraction of a vaccine study in the scientific journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
Its Philly-based editor refused.
"He didn’t like the study Annals published," she told me, "mostly because it didn’t align with his beliefs." www.inquirer.com/health/chris...
Its Philly-based editor refused.
"He didn’t like the study Annals published," she told me, "mostly because it didn’t align with his beliefs." www.inquirer.com/health/chris...
RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused
Annals of Internal Medicine editor Christine Laine says she won’t retract the study, as demanded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and "we’re not changing what we do because of threats."
www.inquirer.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Medical journals are an important bulwark against government censorship. Unlike universities, journals don't have enormous grant funds on the line when they stand up for their rights.
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Fred Hutch bone marrow transplant pioneer Dr. Rainer Storb marked two major milestones this year: turning 90 and retiring after nearly 60 years in a career that helped shape modern hematology. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Hi7ptq
Two lifetimes’ worth of bone marrow transplant breakthroughs
Dr. Rainer Storb began studying bone marrow transplantation when the field was in its infancy. As he retires 60 years later, Storb reflected on the exhausting early days, lifesaving breakthroughs and ...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fred Hutch bone marrow transplant pioneer Dr. Rainer Storb marked two major milestones this year: turning 90 and retiring after nearly 60 years in a career that helped shape modern hematology. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Hi7ptq
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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
—-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
—-Abraham Lincoln
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—-George Santayana
—-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
—-Abraham Lincoln
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—-George Santayana
August 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
—-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
—-Abraham Lincoln
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—-George Santayana
—-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
—-Abraham Lincoln
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—-George Santayana
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Get to know Jennifer Dinh, an undergrad at the University of Washington, interning in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)!
#fredhutch #cancer #cancerresearch #undergrad #internship #science #womeninstem #chemistry #biology #phd #seattle
#fredhutch #cancer #cancerresearch #undergrad #internship #science #womeninstem #chemistry #biology #phd #seattle
August 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Get to know Jennifer Dinh, an undergrad at the University of Washington, interning in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)!
#fredhutch #cancer #cancerresearch #undergrad #internship #science #womeninstem #chemistry #biology #phd #seattle
#fredhutch #cancer #cancerresearch #undergrad #internship #science #womeninstem #chemistry #biology #phd #seattle
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Thanks @murray.senate.gov and the Appropriations committee for the bipartisan bill that rejects the draconian cuts to NIH science and restricts the harmful multiyear funding scheme!
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
Senator Murray Opening Remarks at Full Committee Mark Up of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Thanks @murray.senate.gov and the Appropriations committee for the bipartisan bill that rejects the draconian cuts to NIH science and restricts the harmful multiyear funding scheme!
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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A good explainer for #NIH funded researchers on why the multiyear funding scheme is going to squeeze NIH scientists and NIH science. open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science
Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A good explainer for #NIH funded researchers on why the multiyear funding scheme is going to squeeze NIH scientists and NIH science. open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
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NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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No explanation.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
No explanation.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
None.
It’s obscene.
I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.”
Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.
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A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes
May 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes
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The Republican administration continues to violate court orders to provide due process to men illegally rendered overseas.
Amidst everything else going on, don't lose sight of what they are—thus far—getting away with.
Amidst everything else going on, don't lose sight of what they are—thus far—getting away with.
Judge Criticizes Government Inaction in Case of Migrants Held in Djibouti
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The Republican administration continues to violate court orders to provide due process to men illegally rendered overseas.
Amidst everything else going on, don't lose sight of what they are—thus far—getting away with.
Amidst everything else going on, don't lose sight of what they are—thus far—getting away with.
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Vance and the pope, Hegseth's signal groups, Rubio unraveling the state department, RFK Jr.'s antics—it's a lot.
Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process.
278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared.
Gift link.
Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process.
278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared.
Gift link.
Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared (Gift Article)
The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Vance and the pope, Hegseth's signal groups, Rubio unraveling the state department, RFK Jr.'s antics—it's a lot.
Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process.
278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared.
Gift link.
Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process.
278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared.
Gift link.
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When mRNA is outlawed, only outlaws will have protective immunity.
During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When mRNA is outlawed, only outlaws will have protective immunity.
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They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.
NSF scraps most outside advisory panels
Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.
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Extraordinary story that illustrates the depth of RFK Jr.'s perfidy in assuring congress he is an antivaxxer no longer.
Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.
Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.
Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out
In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
www.wsj.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Extraordinary story that illustrates the depth of RFK Jr.'s perfidy in assuring congress he is an antivaxxer no longer.
Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.
Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.
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Late to the party. Has anyone else noticed the Trumpophila surge in the NYT Daily? First Greenland, then Europe and NATO and today “were the lockdowns WORTH IT?” Worth what? 100,000 lives? 1,000,000 lives? 5,000,000 lives?
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Late to the party. Has anyone else noticed the Trumpophila surge in the NYT Daily? First Greenland, then Europe and NATO and today “were the lockdowns WORTH IT?” Worth what? 100,000 lives? 1,000,000 lives? 5,000,000 lives?
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.