🧪 For the five people out there who are interested in T-cell malignancies, one of the last papers we wrote with Dr. Waldmann is now out as early access at Blood Advances. It is a modest phase 1 trial of IL-15 and Campath with interesting results.
Two excellent episodes of Healthcare Unfiltered 🎙 in two weeks:
More podcasts with both would be a very good thing. Highly recommended!
“This is not the Apollo program; we’re planning to stay there for a whole month,” said Jim Green, NASA’s former chief scientist. He added, “The concept of acquiring materials and having habitats on the moon is viable.”
2025 is the year of the first Artemis launch and I can’t wait.
Also, if this week has already burned you out, Quanta Magazine is an excellent source of optimism.
“We all got fooled by the 1990s . . . We got fooled into thinking that liberal democracy is easy and natural. It’s not — it’s hard and it’s unnatural. And so we need to start taking it seriously.”
This interview with Haidt is outstanding. Must get the new book once it’s out.
🧪 For the five people out there who are interested in T-cell malignancies, one of the last papers we wrote with Dr. Waldmann is now out as early access at Blood Advances. It is a modest phase 1 trial of IL-15 and Campath with interesting results.
“There can be found, inside every American, a miniature Puritan yearning to grow large and seize control.”
📚 Starting the morning with some Gerd Gigerenzer. Hope he doesn’t get into trouble for implying the media and health agencies are spreading disinformation.
Oh, who am I kidding? It’s in a book, no one will see it.
“Whatever its flaws, the NBA is one of the more functional institutions in American society.”
Yes! And Jokić is the MVP.
“Science gets entangled with politics; it always has and it always will. And every time it happens the reputation of science get damaged. I am of course not a scientist and cannot speak authoritatively to these matters; but I can at least point to some intellectual problems that need to be addressed.”
Full post here. As a scientist of sorts, I can only nod my head in agreement.
“So, Barack Obama has taken up fighting disinformation. NYT notes how his administration didn’t regulate tech. When I started writing about it, a decade ago, the pushback I got from the Obama universe was intense, and is hinted at the below profile of me.”
So starts a Twitter thread from Zeynep Tufekci on groupthink of an administration. Maybe he should have jumped straight to narrating Netflix docu-series.
The Good Science Project is underselling how good it is. More like this, please. (signatures below the manifesto are a good — heh — example of quality over quantity)