Medical Oncologist / Hematologist and all-around scientist. Christian. Composer of 19th century style chamber music.
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David Young M.D. retweeted
There are medical accounts on X that mainly broadcast conclusions.
And there are accounts that actually help people understand infectious disease, uncertainty, evidence—and occasionally why something circulating online is simply nonsense.
One worth knowing: @DrNeilStone.
A short thread. 🧵
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David Young M.D. retweeted
Not my meme but you get the drift! SCHMITTING THE BED! 😂😜🤭 BIG FU @SenEricSchmitt
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David Young M.D. retweeted
Publsihed today @PNASNews
Mask wearing significantly reduces #SARSCoV2 community transmission. Analysis of the effect in 92 regions, 6 continents pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21…
by @gleech and colleagues
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One thing that you can be sure of. Urato will not disparage Nattokinase or any other "supplement" because they are pushed by anti-medical science, like him.
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David Young M.D. retweeted
Seems like @grok thinks you're full of 💩 @MakisMedicine...
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RT @PeterHotez: What? I worked as hard as I could going on news outlets like @CBC @CBCNews to help Canadians understand the importance of C…
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David Young M.D. retweeted
ABC News gets it dead wrong. Children's Health Defense is a vehemently antivaccine group, not "vaccine-skeptic".
Being skeptical implies a degree of rational questioning.
abcnews.com/Health/rfk-jr-te…
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David Young M.D. retweeted
Who adjudicated these cases and where are they?
.@SecKennedy: “We care about every child who dies from measles — they get headlines. We should care about the children — shouldn’t we, I ask you, care about the children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries?”
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David Young M.D. retweeted
BREAKING: your source is made up nonsense.
There's no such thing as turbo cancer.
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David Young M.D. retweeted
What it means is, that anybody who uses the term "turbo cancer" is a turbo idiot.
Where and when, exactly do you think turbo cancer started happening?
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@marklewismd
The South Korean scientists found a cancer drug, that if given in low doses, might improve cellular function, life span. (....or so they claim).
I would NEVER have guessed this cancer drug....
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Homoharringtonine is a plant alkaloid, developed in China. It is no longer approved in the US, simply, I think, because there is no need for it. When approved 14 years ago, the cost was outrageous. Here's the structure.
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David Young M.D. retweeted
"one of these bat coronaviruses, BANAL‐52, demonstrates even higher overall genome similarity with SARS‐CoV‐2 (96.8%) than RaTG13 (96.2%). This provides the most conclusive evidence that known viruses from WIV cannot be viewed as SARS‐CoV‐2′s templates."
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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David Young M.D. retweeted
Chimpanzees share 96% genome with humans.
They could not have produced SARScov2 from Ratg13
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David Young M.D. retweeted
If @RandPaul wasn’t jumping to conclusions, he’d understand that few point mutations didn’t turn distant bat viruses studied under the U.S. grant into SARS-CoV-2. If a lab origin occurred, it required a different precursor—an undisclosed sample or research outside u.s. funding.
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David Young M.D. retweeted
"... the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. " @TheAtlantic
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David Young M.D. retweeted
This is called "confabulation." It's a classic sign of dementia.
Parts of his mind no longer work, so the brain fills it in with falsehoods and crazy fantasy. But the dementia patient actually believes it to be true.
He's absolutely nuts. It's why there's a 25th Amendment.
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Trump was miles from Ground Zero on 9/11, speaking by phone from his office. He visited the area days later. His story of being lifted from the rubble by firefighters first appeared in 2021 and lacks corroborating evidence. politifact.com/factchecks/202… usatoday.com/story/news/fac… newsweek.com/fact-check-did…
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