The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) told ABC News that the patient underwent an organ transplant at an Ohio hospital in December 2024.
The resident died in January 2025 and “a public health investigation determined they contracted rabies through the transplanted organ,” MDHHS said.
I have questions! How the hell did they get a rabid organ donor?!? I guess rabies is not one of the things screened for, and I understand why, but holy shit! They are not releasing any more info on either donor or recipient, but I am left with the picture of some person dying of rabies and family donating organs. And, just, wow…
Yeah, that’s bizarre. I could see where a sub clinical case of rabies would explode in an organ recipient, due to all the immune suppressors they pump into them to prevent organ rejection, but the odds are staggeringly small given the rarity of rabies.
I had to stop early due to parallax painimation, but I don’t expect it to address my confusion in what’s left.
Let’s begin by assuming more-or-less rational markets.
As the cost to produce each widget decreases, and eventually prices fall too. And people move from using widgets where they’re the only tool for the job, to where they’re good tools, to where they’re increasingly bad tools, to where they’re worse than useless.
Okay, if we get there, we’re dealing with not-so-rational markets. cough bullshit machines /cough.
And the marginal use-value of a widget where it’s the only tool for the job is great, and where it’s worse than useless it’s not so great.
And the marginal use-value of the labor involved increases as the labor required per widget declines, and decreases as the marginal use-value of the widget declines. It’s not going to exponentially increase.
And in any case, in the long run, the pay depends on how powerful the workers are, not on how profitable the bosses are.
As someone who’s sat in on deep finance discussions within Fortune 500 companies and angel investment fund discussions of startups, this NAILS it. How much the company pays its employees has zero correlation to the value of the product. The difference between the lowest payroll they can get away with plus the material and sales costs of the product equals the profit, and that is earmarked for investors - which includes high level executives.
I have to wonder if this will survive the new DoJ leadership. Or if they are waiting for the “big players” to make a “significant donation” to the Republican Fascist cause?
"Courts have recognized that sharing information through an algorithm provider can create the same anticompetitive effects as a direct exchange between competitors.
Does anyone know how much competitors exchange data directly? It seems to me they can do it easily through secure computer communications. Or meeting privately at industry meetings.
It can be a bit of a prisoners’ dilemma when it is direct. A competitor can use the same information that allows collusion as a competitive advantage instead. They could be recording everything to report the illegal collusion.
The advantage of an aggregator algorithm is that it insulates participants from those direct competitive threats.
Good luck with that. He’s not the first to take on Oliver (and will definitely lose) and he’s not going to be the last.
ETA: And reading up on the details, yeah, the context doesn’t change the shittiness (pun intended) of this bean-counter-masquerading-as-a-doctor’s statements. If anything, it makes them worse. He’s totally going to lose.
I am guessing this will trigger a new round of funding cuts for lèse-majesté. Speaking out against this fascist gangster and his cronies will rapidly become grounds in and of itself for discipline and severe consequences.
The moves from Kennedy highlight escalating threats to science and medicine, the researchers wrote. Like Edwards, they called for researchers and health experts to stand up to defend evidence-based medicine.
Let me start by saying, it is not vaccines!! This has been evaluated an insane number of times, because it rises from the dead repeatedly. There are a number of potential exposures that would be legit subjects for investigation. Teflon cookware/PFOA exposure has been epidemiologically associated with autism, and a small mouse study back in the '00’s suggested a connection, but I have not seen any follow-up studies. Other epidemiological associations have been with environmental exposure to inorganic mercury, older fathers, improved diagnostic criteria, and probably most importantly, heredity. 80% of first-degree relatives of autistic kids demonstrate “fragments” (autistic characteristics that typically do not rise to the level of diagnosis.) I have a strong suspicion that these items will not be targeted by Junior’s (and Geier’s) “studies” which will, almost certainly, start with the desired conclusion (vaccines bad) and prune data to reach that. These are most certainly the stupidest of times. Just as an aside, let me put it out there that Thimerosal, the mercury-containing preservative previously used in vaccines, was phased out in '00, and the last batches outdated in '01. As you may have noted, this did not fix the autism “epidemic.”
“If we’re pissing away money over here, that’s less money that we have to actually go after the true reason,” Cassidy, a doctor, told Bhattacharya during his hearing. But Kennedy has also brought on a well-known vaccine skeptic, David Geier, to study the connection between vaccines and autism, the Washington Post and New York Times have reported.
But Cassidy voted for Junior. He is not one of the good guys.
Like the hiring of David Geier, RFK Jr.’s comment is a clear signal that HHS intends to produce rigged and fraudulent research that supports Kennedy and Trump’s pre-existing beliefs in a connection between autism and vaccines.
This isn’t previewing properly. The actual headline is “Deadly measles outbreak does little to counter vaccine scepticism in Texas” A lot of children are going to have to die before that happens, I suppose.
