Compensated Anarchist
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Lenin Machin retweeted
I recall the famous Oxford Street Homeopathic Suicide Attempt - several scientists taking whole bottles of the strongest homeopathic remedies and reported feeling well hydrated.
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Most people know Dr. Peter Hotez from his television appearances during COVID, his defense of vaccination, and the relentless attacks directed at him on social media.
I know Peter as a friend. And I want to tell you about another part of his life that rarely enters those arguments.
For more than four decades, Peter has devoted much of his scientific career to diseases that afflict some of the poorest people on Earth. Diseases that cause enormous suffering but attract relatively little commercial investment because the people who need treatment often cannot afford to pay for it.
Hookworm. Schistosomiasis. Chagas disease. Leishmaniasis.
These are hardly household names. Their victims rarely make headlines, and the scientists working on them seldom become celebrities.
Peter chose this field long before COVID, long before the cable news appearances, and long before strangers began calling him a pharmaceutical industry shill.
His career deserves a closer look.
Because the work tells a story that is almost entirely absent from the accusations made against him.
Lenin Machin retweeted
Look! The fake "ivermectin cures cancer" study from ivermectin salesman, Nicky Hulscher & Pete McCullough, Lying TV Doc, Dr Drew & violent drunk, Kelly Victory and assorted other career scammers has been RETRACTED in record time.
El libro que más me ha hecho llorar.
#UnDíaComoHoy, hace 120 años, nació el matemático cubano Aurelio Baldor, autor de uno de los libros más consultados en escuelas de América Latina: “Álgebra” 👳🕌. ¿Cuántos de sus ejercicios realizaste?
Why is it that antivaxxer dweebs get triggered by one’s comments but immediately block answers to avoid further embarrassment?
Lenin Machin retweeted
This Simpsons joke about Catholic v Protestant heaven is welded into my brain, especially because in the narrative of the show Catholic heaven is meant to be undesirable despite Christ himself preferring it
Quitting Twitter, or X, or whatever the hell this godawful gutter is called today, is a constant temptation.
Lenin Machin retweeted
the right wing is doing the whole “I know more about the Bible than the Pope” thing again I see
Lenin Machin retweeted
A continuación les dejo un breve hilo con los 7 tipos de tuiteros y sus características: 🧵
1. El que verificó su cuenta y ya se cree famoso:
Este tipo de tuitero paga 8 dólares al mes, le sale la palomita y ya por eso tuitea como si fuera vocero del mismísimo Elon Musk. Arroba a políticos, les comenta a celebridades, etiqueta marcas y empresas internacionales y todavía se ofende si no le contestan. Su alcance real es un wey de su trabajo, dos bots y una cuenta porno que le dio “follow” por accidente, aún así se le ocurre tuitear avisos como “a todos mis seguidores”… no mames, wey, tus seguidores son 3 y entre ellos tu cuenta alterna.
Lenin Machin retweeted
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Rheumatology
Created for RheumNow by @MithuRheum
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I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering.
But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.
