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In honor of the 1 year anniversary of Malignant book, we are releasing a free, 10 lecture series on cancer, drug policy, & EBM
@VPrasadMDMPH gave it to fellows for years!
Now to all
Here is Lecture 1 - Lay of the Land
[Thread will link to all lectures]
youtube.com/watch?v=RjS0T_FK…
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"The hope continues, which is that public health could aspire to be honest, to use its powers proportionately and judiciously, to exercise humility. Public health is far from these things. Public health could actually aspire to be bipartisan. Public health is not. It's becoming an increasingly entrenched left-wing discipline run by left-wing ideologues, reaching even more and more absurd conclusions. What public health can be and what it is are still light-years apart." - Vinay Prasad on Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 restrictions, and RFK jr.
reason.com/2026/10/25/public…
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Moderna's new mRNA flu shot is approved for adults 50 and up. Here's what most people won't be told at the pharmacy: For those 65 and older, FDA granted accelerated approval based on antibody levels, not proof of fewer flu cases. The study to confirm real benefit in that age group has a final report due in 2030.
And what about the adverse events?!
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"Fauci was wrong about almost every single pandemic policy he advanced," the former FDA insider tells Reason.
reason.com/2026/10/25/public…
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AI researchers take up smoking; You can see everything; Moderna hazard ratio
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“Prespecified descriptive OS analysis.” Those words should give us pause. Calling this a “positive OS result” in a phase 3 trial manuscript is misleading when OS was outside the formal testing strategy. The results are encouraging, but an OS benefit has not been formally demonstrated in this analysis.
I’m surprised this framing passed journal review. Oncologists and patients shouldn’t need to close-read a manuscript like English professors to understand whether a trial formally demonstrated an OS benefit. Put the bottom line up front.
@Timothee_MD @oncology_bg @SusanGKomen @BCRFcure @OncoAlert @Annals_Oncology @myESMO @ASCO @AACR @SABCSSanAntonio
📢 #ESMO26 concomitant paper - Overall survival with adjuvant ribociclib plus nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor in patients with high-risk HR+/HER2– early breast cancer: Six-year follow-up of the NATALEE trial.
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@LoiSher
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Apparently, following the money becomes less appealing when the trail leads home.
This guy’s own family made millions inside the academic biomedical system whose funding arrangements he defends. His mother was a medical school dean at Cornell with a salary near or above seven figures and a lavishly compensated bureaucrat at a Harvard hospital. His father made millions working inside NIH. They were powerful, rich insiders in the establishment he now protects.
Now he likely stands to inherit a family fortune. The status quo he promotes made his family rich and could ultimately make him even richer. His outrage conveniently stops at his own doorstep.
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Calley Means resigns due to frustration with lack of MAHA progress. politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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Founder Mode: People who cure their own cancer
8 questions to ask
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We have finished sharing our nine free "How to Not Get Fooled by the Medical Literature."
Today, on @Sensible__Med, we post the first of nine lecture for paid subscribers. Join us. It is a fun set of lectures. You will definitely learn a ton!
sensible-med.com/p/episode-1…
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NEW: A few years ago, Scott Gottlieb was helping the Biden administration censor conservatives on Twitter for Pfizer.
Last year, he was saying that Robert F. Kennedy was unqualified and lambasted plans for higher vaccine standards.
This year, he's back in the inner circle at FDA. Gottlieb endorsed Overton and his two top aides at FDA spoke with Overton before her confirmation hearing.
Kennedy's leadership was once seen as a direct rebuke of the censorship and Big Pharma capture that defined the COVID era. A lot has changed.
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For healthy people (or those with common conditions, e.g. HTN), genomic knowledge has little to no practical value via @VPrasadMDMPH
drvinayprasad.com/p/genomics…
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Nice little historical reminder from @VPrasadMDMPH that, good as genome sequencing is, the promise of "customized medicines for everyone" has not really come out at all.
drvinayprasad.com/p/genomics…
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Define irony, given his role in one of largest research scandals while at Duke
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Trust and Science
The scientific method is the best tool we have for arriving at truth. It is not much good for building trust — just look at the news. Is there a way to “science” our way to closing the trust gap? #STATSummit
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ALT A person in a suit is seated and smiling slightly. Text beside them reads: "We're all here for the same reason, which is doing social good, creating drugs that people can access, help people altogether, and so that, in fact, is the issue. The trust is to come from us." - Victor Dzau, M.D. Various professional titles and affiliations are listed. The image features Stat Summit branding.
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STAT has turned defending the biomedical status quo into a business model.
It convenes conferences to trot out the same failed establishment figures, packages their talking points as news, and publishes hit pieces against people trying to change the system.
Now it brings back Califf to disparage DOGE. Apparently talking straight means giving establishment hacks another microphone to explain why disturbing their preferred arrangements is a national catastrophe.
I’d be more interested in hearing these people account for their own failed leadership.
The fmr FDA commissioners are ready to, as I like to say, sit crooked and talk straight.
Right away, Rob Califf says that he thinks DOGE will go down as “one of the biggest disasters in American history.” #STATSummit
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How did Fauci become the best paid bureaucrat in history? His diary shows he was an expert swamp creature.
When he was fighting with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky:
- He fed a hit piece about her to the New York Times, then consoled her about that very same New York Times hit piece!
- He recommended a top to bottom review of CDC
- He went over her head at HHS (Sean Mccluskie) and the White House (Courtney Rowe) for greater control
