Brutkey

Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social
Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social

This is just nuts. A person showed up with bromism, a condition that was probably last seen in the early 80s, because a chatbot suggested bromide salt as an alternative to table salt.
Deskilling of GI docs using AI was also reported this week. What the heck are we even doing?

Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social

The vaccine technology proposed to replace mRNA is the one based on BPL inactivated whole viruses, i.e., how we used to make flu vaccines until the 1970s.
https://jheor.org/post/3120
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/hhs-nih-launch-next-generation-universal-vaccine-platform-pandemic-prone-viruses

IIRC, the Chinese, & Russian SARSCOV2 vax from 2020 were based on this tech

Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social

From one of the physician groups in FB. The patterns of increasing morbidity are becoming noticeable (some of these patterns will be presented by our group at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week meeting in November).

What can I say? Covid lifts all disease boats

Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social

RE: failure of Units of Study to promote literacy among US children. The essence of the method "children were expected to figure out the word from the first letter, context clues, or nearby illustrations"
is akin to how
#AI is trained
Predictable
#FAFO

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/lucy-calkins-child-literacy-teaching-methodology/680394/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share