April 9Apr 9 https://x.com/doug_hanks/status/1909943099465388224 A @MayorDaniella veto now looking almost certain for Miami-Dade’s ban on fluoride in tap water. Her political team, led by @culvert , released a poll this am that says fluoridation has more support than banning it from drinking water. Veto deadline is Friday
April 10Apr 10 Quantum mechanics turns 100 years old this year. Happy birthday quantum mechanics! Because of you, a photo of my junk is currently in a state of linear superposition between being seen and not seen in @mr_hunt's inbox.
April 10Apr 10 Boebert: "Bless my colleagues' hearts on the other side of the aisle, using women as a ‘gotcha’ for voting. I’ve never had to bring my birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter. I have an ID that has a different name than my birth certificate," the Republican said. "Since we're using women as bait here, maybe in the next round of debates, they can explain to us exactly what a woman is." How bad do you have to be to leave an opening so big even Boebert can drive through it?
April 16Apr 16 20 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:Would be funny if it was a skit. Being real is just scary
April 16Apr 16 I don’t know what to make of the troubling rise in autism rates but it’s absolutely something we need to look into. All our kids are vaccinated and I’d like to think they’re fine, but we also know a family who had a very smart, healthy son who, not too long after getting vaccinated suddenly became non-verbal and is now severely autistic. I still believe vaccines are lifesavers. One interesting hypothesis I’ve seen floated, not saying I buy it just that it was interesting, is that the rise in autism rates might be an evolutionary function rewiring human brains to handle the amount of information we encounter these days. Hopefully we figure it out someday
April 17Apr 17 32 minutes ago, The_Omega said:I don’t know what to make of the troubling rise in autism rates but it’s absolutely something we need to look into. All our kids are vaccinated and I’d like to think they’re fine, but we also know a family who had a very smart, healthy son who, not too long after getting vaccinated suddenly became non-verbal and is now severely autistic. I still believe vaccines are lifesavers. One interesting hypothesis I’ve seen floated, not saying I buy it just that it was interesting, is that the rise in autism rates might be an evolutionary function rewiring human brains to handle the amount of information we encounter these days. Hopefully we figure it out somedayAutism isn't new. We're just better at diagnosing
April 17Apr 17 7 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:Autism isn't new. We're just better at diagnosingNo one said it’s new, yes, we diagnose more but there are also still more autistic kids.
April 17Apr 17 RFK Jr is an idiot, who put an even bigger idiot on charge of his study on autism. I don’t know exactly what defines autism, but I know it covers a wide range of disorders. The damage this clown show is doing to science will take years to undo.
April 17Apr 17 2 hours ago, The_Omega said:I don’t know what to make of the troubling rise in autism rates but it’s absolutely something we need to look into. All our kids are vaccinated and I’d like to think they’re fine, but we also know a family who had a very smart, healthy son who, not too long after getting vaccinated suddenly became non-verbal and is now severely autistic. I still believe vaccines are lifesavers. One interesting hypothesis I’ve seen floated, not saying I buy it just that it was interesting, is that the rise in autism rates might be an evolutionary function rewiring human brains to handle the amount of information we encounter these days. Hopefully we figure it out somedayIt absolutely terrifies me that someone this stupid has raised kids.
April 17Apr 17 When the biggest idiots in CVON call someone else an idiot, I have to take notice of what that person says
April 17Apr 17 1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said:RFK Jr is an idiot, who put an even bigger idiot on charge of his study on autism. I don’t know exactly what defines autism, but I know it covers a wide range of disorders. The damage this clown show is doing to science will take years to undo.Zach Greinke won a Cy Young and that dude is definitely autistic. Dude has so many hilarious stories while in the MLB.
April 17Apr 17 I cannot believe these idiots are 'in charge."Rates of autism are increasing most among the same groups least likely to be vaccinated: poor non-whites.Understanding the cause of the increases may well go beyond better screening and broadening of the recognized spectrum of autism, but multiple studies have shown no correlation between vaccination rates and autism. Thus far the correlations point to epigenetic factors that are more complicated to understand and require further study in that direction. But that's not as simple to brain worm victims like RFK and those who listen to him need it to be. So vaccines are the bogeyman of choice.
April 29Apr 29 Interesting article about cancer treatment via immunotherapy with a 92% success rate. A New Immune Treatment May Work Against Several Cancer TypesYahoo NewsA New Immune Treatment May Work Against Several Cancer TypesSeveral types of cancer appear to respond to an immune-based treatment.In a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting, researchers report encouraging early results from research investigating a potential way to help some cancer patients avoid surgery.According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients who received only an immune-based treatment to help their own immune systems shrink their tumors—and no surgery, which is generally the standard treatment for them—showed no detectable signs of disease after two years.Maureen Sideris, 71, was one of those patients. The New York resident was diagnosed with gastroesophageal junction cancer in 2022 after she noticed it was difficult for her to swallow and digest food. When she saw a cancer surgeon, he told her that surgery to remove the tumor they had detected would be her best treatment option. He also informed her that she would need chemotherapy and radiation following the surgery to kill as much of the cancer as possible. "I was freaking out,” says Sideris. For a certain period after the surgery, she wouldn’t be able to talk or lie flat at night to sleep. Then there was the chemotherapy and radiation. "There were a lot of steps to the recovery.”But based on the genetics of her cancer, she was told about a study of a new approach being pioneered by Dr. Andrea Cercek, section head of colorectal cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Cercek was testing whether people like Sideris could be treated with a checkpoint inhibitor, a relatively new type of cancer treatment that frees the body’s immune cells to recognize and attack cancer cells. If the treatment worked, it would mean Sideris might not need surgery. "They told me it was all experimental—'Are you okay with that?' I said, 'Sign me up,'” says Sideris.Cercek had not treated people with Sideris’ cancer using this method yet. But in 2024, she published encouraging results from a small study of people with rectal cancer, in which all 42 patients who got the checkpoint inhibitor, dostarlimab, as a monthly infusion became cancer-free—some even remaining in remission after four years. Now she was studying whether the same benefit could extend to people with different types of cancers, including colon, esophageal, stomach, urothelial, small bowel, endometrial, and, in Sideris’ case, gastroesophageal junction cancers.According to the new results, among those with non-rectal cancers, 64% showed no evidence of residual disease on imaging or endoscopy exams after a year. Putting both the rectal and non-rectal cancer patients together, 92% did not have a recurrence of their cancer after two years. Even among those that did experience recurrence, the treatment reduced the number or size of their cancers."The bottom line is that everyone did benefit,” says Cercek. "No one was harmed. It takes home the message that therapy like this can lead to significant clinical complete responses, tumor downstaging, and significant improvement in the quality of life of patients.”It's the latest demonstration of the power of immunotherapy and other new methods doctors are testing to harness the immune system while avoiding the harsher, more invasive treatments like surgery, chemotherapy. and radiation. While immunotherapies also come with side effects—including fatigue, skin rashes, and, in a few patients, hypothyroidism—these are often manageable. For Sideris, the monthly 45-minute infusion for nine months was "innocuous. It was the easiest part of the whole thing,” she says. She continues to have imaging studies done to detect any small clumps of cells or hot spots that could become cancerous; if any appear, she has them ablated via endoscopy."I see this as utilizing an incredibly effective approach in early-stage disease where we can use immunotherapy and with the majority of these tumors, replace standard of care and surgery,” says Cercek.
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