Here's my favorite windmill to joust: what is a fever? Textbook says 98.6 is normal and 100.3 (or .1) is a fever. Ok, but almost nobody's temperature is 98.6. Average body temperature in the West has been dropping for years. Nobody knows why and nobody has really cared enough to figure out why. I say, if the text book says a fever is you burning enough calories to raise your temperature 1.5 degrees, then 1.5 degrees over whatever your baseline is, is a fever. If your baseline is 97.1 like mine is, then 98.6 is a fever. I used to be shy about this opinion. Then one day, during COVID, I came in to clinic and scanned 98.6 degrees instead of 97.1. I said, you need to swab me for COVID. (And it was positive, by the afternoon I was highly symptomatic.) I have a whole list of windmills.

I spent 4 years reading the literature on LNPs, from Moderna's and Pfizer's own data to the latest single-cell and cryo-EM work. The shot doesn't stay one thing. Inside the body, it becomes 5 different entities, each with different sizes, time frames, and fates/outcomes. Same product. 5 biodistributions. Like confetti. See my substack. Link in next tweet.

😖😫😤 So sick of posts presuming what’s happened to Education was ‘error’, or ‘misguided’ etc. If you don’t know every single bit of it was intentional, thoroughly planned, heavily funded and purposed to destroy the Western nations (and national sovereignty itself) and to deliberately destroy the rational mind and the functioning conscience and courage of the individual, the integrity of the family ….etc. If you think this is all some mishap - shake yourself and learn through the freely available (for now) public domain material demonstrating its strategic and tactical intent - from the getgo, now well over a century (and more!) in its tyrannical operation. The ‘theories’, the pedagogies, the methodologies…..were intentional, to do exactly what they have done and to bring about exactly what has happened. Full deracination and the crippling of agency. Stop talking about Education - through the marketing bullshit propaganda speak it was sold to you as. Recognize what was always only ever poison - deliberately deployed.

A single study conducted in Iran in 2006 was used to “recommend” Prozac to pediatric patients worldwide en masse. This has deadly consequences. In addition to Prozac causing akathisia, I am confident that Prozac caused Guillain-Barré Syndrome. I was never the same again.

After blocking phone internet for 2 weeks: 1) Sustained attention improved by an effect size comparable to ~10 years of aging 2) Depression symptoms improved more than the average antidepressant effect

Original Medicare has no annual out-of-pocket cap. Your retirement account is a hospital endowment that hasn’t picked a hospital yet.

But wait there’s more ! Here is a link to an open source PBM contract that NJ or any state or entity can use. drive.google.com/drive/folde… You won’t get them to say yes to all of it. But it removes all the Contractual Terrorism they try to squeeze in the contract and use to make revenue that you didn’t see coming If they won’t work from here, there are about 30 pass through PBMs that will

The @FDA just approved an mRNA flu shot in which 23 subjects died in the mRNA arm, versus 9 in the traditional flu-shot arm. That product is now being tested in children.

You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on. I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard. I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization. It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours. As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future. As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.

As a doctor who frequently guides people in maximizing the quality of their AI interactions regarding health, I agree. Last year the golems made people psychotic. This year ....well this year "super intelligence" is very good at helping people find health. @calleymeans

I just saw a claim that autists were the messengers of the “end times” and holy shit it does make a lot of sense

It will never stop being funny that all of the big brains on earth can't figure out why every single AI model becomes a raging racist any time its guard rails are taken down. You created the ultimate pattern recognition machine. What did you expect was going to happen?

Polypharmacy is now “the standard of care” in child psychiatry: 1. Put a kid on a stimulant to comply with authoritarian schooling. 2. Put them on an antipsychotic to stabilize that irritability caused by the stimulant. 3. Put them on clonidine so they can fall asleep. 4. Put them on an antidepressant since the other medication is leaving them feeling flat and unmotivated. 5. Put them on metformin to manage prediabetic insulin levels caused by the antipsychotic. The good news is that the destruction of their bodies and identity formation doesn’t matter. What matters is now they’re easier for the school or the stressed parent to manage.

Use your phone less. Use your phone less. Use your phone less. Use your phone less. Because attention is not free.

Many schools today hold smart kids back. They’ve eliminated gifted classes to address “historical inequity.” “This is so misguided,” says @MichaelPetrilli, of @educationgadfly. We show how that hurts ALL kids:

holy shit i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything" You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition. One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them. A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math? "Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up. My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes. "The social disruption will be enormous!" Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach. Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already? A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up. Accelerate.

I don't think this has occured to many people yet. The reason the tactic didn't work in silver in the 80s or GME more recently is because the politicians and banks pulled the circuit breakers and shut down the markets. Bitcoin doesn't have circuit breakers. It is the first fixed-supply asset with no circuit breakers in human history. For the astute readers, Bitcoin is also codified anarchy. The first sentence of the conclusion of Satoshi's original white paper is a claim to replace the entire system of fiat government as we know it. Civil government will always exist because humans love drama, but will be relegated to the status of "reality TV." The particularly astute readers will note that America has jumped well ahead of the curve by electing a reality TV star as president. This is "manifest destiny" right in front of us.

‘Retired NHS psychiatrist Peter Scott-Gordon wrote he had personally experienced akathisia & suicidal ideation as a direct consequence of trying to come of an SSRI..people contacted him on a regular basis to share similar experiences, several of whom later took their own lives.'

Mini thread for third grade today: I had forgotten that I have McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers, so we did real reading instruction too. And let me tell you all, the stuff McGuffey’s covers is rarely explicitly taught in the typical elementary school.