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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett
Robert Malone has a history of arguing against the data. He has called for an end to the use of mRNA vaccines for COVID despite the well-established fact that they reduce mortality and severe illness. He has promoted discredited COVID treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, dismissing studies that show they are ineffective against the coronavirus.
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4 weeks ago |
stuff.co.nz | Tom Bartlett
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4 weeks ago |
thepost.co.nz | Tom Bartlett
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett
When Reddit rebranded itself as “the heart of the internet” a couple of years ago, the slogan was meant to evoke the site’s organic character. In an age of social media dominated by algorithms, Reddit took pride in being curated by a community that expressed its feelings in the form of upvotes and downvotes—in other words, being shaped by actual people.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Tom Bartlett
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial infection that is prevalent across all continents and is caused by pathogenic spirochaetes of the genus …
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2 months ago |
theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett
On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy’s funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
stuff.co.nz | Tom Bartlett
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Mar 11, 2025 |
theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett
Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fields. The brick building was tucked in a cobbled-together neighborhood of scrapyards, metal barns, and modest homes with long dirt driveways. No sign out front advertised its name; no message board displayed a Bible verse. No cross, no steeple—nothing, in fact, that would let a passerby know they had stumbled on a place of worship.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
texasmonthly.com | Tom Bartlett
This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” The high school students begin the day by drawing one another’s blood, tying tourniquets and tapping veins before inserting needles. Afterward, they gather around a synthetic cadaver for an exploratory disemboweling. Airiana Guerrero, a senior, fishes out a faux kidney and gives it a little squeeze. “Feels like a chicken breast,” she says.
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Dec 4, 2024 |
lucianne.com | Tom Bartlett
Original ArticlePosted By: FlyRight, 12/5/2024 5:42:59 AMFor Eithan Haim, operating on patients provides a welcome break from the federal criminal indictment hanging over him. Haim, who is 34 years old, works as a general surgeon at a regional hospital in Texas, dealing with ruptured appendixes, gunshot wounds, and whatever else comes through the ER. "Whenever I go into an operating room, any stress is gone," he says. "It's a beautiful thing." Haim's alleged crime?