Elizabeth Pathak, PhD

@bethpathak.bsky.social

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Epidemiologist and program director in Bethesda; @Wesleyan_U @UNC grad; pro-labor anti-racist scholar. I stan Black radicals. Solidarity forever 👊🏼 Private, NOT official opinions.

snow falling on a backyard deck

Emily Oster

Kennedy is Telling Americans How to Eat. It's Not Crazy Advice.

5 min read (NYT)

The revised webpage says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism'
is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

Satiric meme which reads "In order to appeal to suburban christian women, vaccine to be distributed through a pyramid scheme"

Spelling Bee game shows the word "tiffin" as not in the word list

photo of a rapid test for covid, rsv, and flu a/b

painting with overlay:
"cows kill more people than sharks"
"I'm surprised cows kill any sharks at all"

screenshot of a long text passage from Sarah Kendzior's latest newsletter.

NOAA report table of the most intense US hurricanes at landfall ranked by pressure.
#1 1935 FL Keys
#2 Camille 1969
#3 Katrina 2005
#4 Andrew 1992

Screenshot of website which says in part: “PDFs of the guidelines can be downloaded until August 16, 2024, when the website will be shut down.”

Quote from the article which can be found at the link … last sentence reads “The safety lock, akin to a firearm’s safety switch, can only be disabled by hand”

Mary Engelbreit drawing of a person with a watering can looking sad … caption “you gotta stop watering dead plants”

An infographic titled “How to Walk on Ice” … key message is keep your center of gravity over your front leg and take small steps like a penguin

Coffee - a warm delicious alternative to hating everyone forever

A chart showing incidence of Covid-19 in infants over time, with the highest incidence during the omicron variant time period of Jan-Mar 2022

Comic: Invention of clinical trials

adds “3. Check whether it works” before “adopt new idea”

Comic titled Curve Fitting Methods and the messages they send

Comic titled “types of scientific papers”

Comic:
My new year’s resolution this year was to reject empiricism.

How’s that working out for you?

What does that have to do with anything?

Press release from TX Attorney General Ken Paxton stating that hospitals and doctors will be criminally prosecuted if they provide abortion even under a court-ordered restraining order.

Detailed infographic describing a tick-induced allergy syndrome

JAMA Patient Page
What is Alpha-Gal Syndrome?

But you see, radical women always have ‘bad press’. Why wouldn’t you have bad press if you’re attacking, undermining the prevailing order? This brings up a very important subject which is the idea of reversals. We live in a reversal society. For example, the idea that Eve came from Adam is a reversal. It’s ridiculous. Who could believe that? It’s contrary to all biology. But with that myth in mind, people can justify somehow the idea that God is male. And therefore that male is God. And that he’s the origin. But he’s not the origin. The Bible is full of reversals. There are reversals everywhere. Orwell thought that when he wrote in 1984 about Doublethink. You know, the Ministry of Truth was where they made up lies, the Ministry of Love was where they tortured people. Everywhere you go there is Doublethink. There’s ‘natural’ make-up that of course is unnatural. Or think of ‘pro-life’. When they say ‘life’ they mean ‘death’.

Venn diagram joke opthamalogist

Venn diagram joke about adjunct introductory course instructors

painting of a blue stream winding through a wood

Venn diagram of my life - things I do does not overlap things that make money, things I like to do, or things I’m good at

Words said by no academic ever

Venn diagram joke “ put your hands in the air”

Cartoon of a teacher in front of a blackboard which says “Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying”

meme showing “ding ding ding”

Meme which states “if you change the way you look at things, the thing you look at will change”

“It’s not really my thing - but ‘good morning’ to everyone who celebrates it”

Take at least one - a chance

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