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Robert E. Wright retweeted
As I said in January 2024, no one should be taking mRNA COVID-19 vaccines because of their terrible safety profile. But for those who had to take one, Florida’s public health data strongly implies that thousands of Floridians died as a result of receiving Pfizer instead of Moderna. The number of lives lost in the U.S. and internationally is staggering, based on this analysis. The culture of approving vaccines without adequate safety testing and assuming “innocent until proven guilty” with these products absolutely, positively needs to end.
“Twelve-month all-cause mortality after initial COVID-19 vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech or mRNA-1273 among adults living in Florida: Statewide cohort study”
Now appears as peer-reviewed study in Global Epidemiology!
In closely matched cohorts of nearly 2M Moderna & Pfizer vaccinees in Florida, the latter (Pfizer) showed substantial higher all-cause, cardiac, non-COVID and COVID mortality post 1st mRNA COVID vaccine dose.
These results were robust to adjustments on pre-vaccination cardiac hospitalizations as well as SARS-CoV-2 infections.
This study adds to a growing evidence that the mRNA COVID vaccines of Moderna and Pfizer may have different non-specific effects.
Recent study “In Vivo Blood Kinetics and Transcript Integrity of Three mRNA–Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccines in Humans” @acsnano showed significant differences in systemic persistence of nano-lipids and spike mRNA between Moderna and Pfizer mRNA COVID vaccines!
@MaryanneDemasi @FLSurgeonGen
Should we let parents vote for their minor biological children? Fathers for sons and mothers for daughters? And you have to actually call yourself a mother and not a birthing person?
Robert E. Wright retweeted
❤️📈 Decoding the Heart: Tricuspid Diagnoses Up ~200% Since 2020 + Latest U.S. HF Mortality Context
#HeartHealth #Trends #Insurance #Reinsurance #Collaboration
insurancecollab.substack.com…
Am reminded today of this blast from the past: latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-…
Robert E. Wright retweeted
Office hours at UATX. Professor J.P. Bastos teaches economics to freshmen.
Another election day come and gone and yet we remain in thrall to an illegal and extra-constitutional duopoly hellbent on doing what is best, for party stalwarts and them alone.
Robert E. Wright retweeted
On Halloween, UATX students, parents, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate America's 250th.
You won't find one!
"I do not recall being in an academic setting where the students were this engaged/smart/fearless..." — @MattWelch, on UATX
open.substack.com/pub/wethef…
Robert E. Wright retweeted
📈 What's driving a 203% increase in tricuspid heart valve cases in German hospitalizations?
Stay tuned for an upcoming #MissionPossible newsletter outlining the updated full-year 2025 case counts in German hospitalizations and comparisons to other morbidity/mortality signals.
Robert E. Wright retweeted
The University of Austin is hiring a new professor of classics. I have always said of @uaustinorg that if you asked me to dream up a fantasy solution to the problems of higher education, it would have looked a lot like this—only now it’s real.
If you are an academic with an abiding passion for the good stuff—reading classic texts with brilliant colleagues and students who draw out the best in each other—I’d love for you to apply. I know I have lots of followers who meet that description. Come build something with us.
jobs.lever.co/uaustin
Robert E. Wright retweeted
Our faculty is expanding. UATX is hiring professors at every rank to start in Fall 2027.
Teach focused seminars. Produce great research. Join an institution dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth: jobs.lever.co/uaustin
UATX, the new University of Austin, is looking for a few good historians! See links below for details: jobs.lever.co/uaustin/4fc9cc… and jobs.lever.co/uaustin/c74ac7…
Is it weird that my Intercity bus driver has a thick Scottish accent? I mean Austin Weird and all that but don't they drive on the other side of the road in the UK?
UATX, the new University of Austin, is looking for a few good historians! See links below for details: jobs.lever.co/uaustin/4fc9cc… and jobs.lever.co/uaustin/c74ac7…
Robert E. Wright retweeted
Special Advisor to the President @LorenRotner on how UATX keeps AI from shortcutting learning in the classroom.
Robert E. Wright retweeted
Did the Gracchi have to die for the Republic to survive? UATX Professor Isabella Reinhardt and UT Professor Max Lykins debated the fate of Rome’s most famous reformers, and what it says about populism today. Hosted by the Austin Union (@austin_union).
Robert E. Wright retweeted
From a forthcoming piece on rent controls:
Reviewing the historical reasons for the implementation of rent controls, a recent article in Cliometrica finds that they were rarely introduced in response to housing supply shocks, but rather to sudden increases in housing demand (sometimes associated with the concentration of stigmatized populations). Rent controls thus often emerged as political responses to shifts in demand rather than to an ailing supply.
But increasing demand for urban housing can also reflect better economic opportunities in cities, including higher wages. In other words, rent controls may simply be a policy designed to protect incumbent urban workers from newcomers and preserve the “economic rents” they enjoy from living in cities. This makes the pro-rent-control movement into a force for social exclusion under the guise of “blame the landlords”.
Robert E. Wright retweeted
Students in UATX’s Applied Engineering class, taught by The Boring Company, are building and programming rovers in our on-campus Innovation Lab. They’ll test them in an obstacle course of their own making at our Applied Engineering Lab in Bastrop. @boringcompany
