Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬

@michaelzlin

Prof. of Neurobio & BioE @Stanford @MichaelLinLab ☘️🧪🦠🧠🔬📖🇺🇲🌏 Neurons, viruses, medicines. Inventor of the Paxlovid predecessor. Bots/bad manners blocked

Harvard→UCLA→HMS→UCSD→Stanford linlab.stanford.edu Joined July 2015

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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin Jul 31, 2023

Click the thread below to get to my SARS-CoV-2 mega-metathread.

That thread previously had its own intro tweet, but I deleted it by mistake. This being Twitter, there are no free undos. So instead this tweet will parachute you into it.

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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin Jan 2, 2023

First, a link to the COVID-19 metathread of 2020-2021
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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin 1d

Thread aged well

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin Feb 11, 2025

People don't want to analzye facts, and Elon is the wrong target.

Just say something people understand viscerally: Americans did not elect Trump to let the extremist Stephen Miller run wild destroying safety programs that hardworking Americans rely on.
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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin 2d

"Now"? I guess NYTimes forgot that Trump and the Clintons were from NY (sure, the Clintons only later but Hillary ran from there), and Schumer was the senior US legislator in the Biden years

Would love for NYTimes to write on whether NYorkers governing the US has been net ⊕/⊖

Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin 2d

It's been apparent that the traditional media has an unspoken incentive to stoke arguments to get soundbites and sensationalize the news. When they do it between identifiable groups of people (by religion, or ethnicity, or gender) it can have lasting harmful effects on politics

Joe Wrote Verified account @joewrote 2d

The media spent October obsessing over Abdul El-Sayed's "problem" with Jewish voters. The Washington Post, the NYT, NPR, and the AP ran constant articles.

In the end, El-Sayed got 60% of the Michigan Jewish vote, 1.3% less than Elissa Slotkin did in 2024. Michigan has 8M registered voters, and its population is 1.3% Jewish. So, back-of-the-napkin math means the media tried to center an issue that only mattered to about 1,350 voters in a race decided by over 300,000 votes.

The mainstream media is a joke.
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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin 3d

GOP elected officials on who to blame for election results

Phillips P. OBrien Verified account @PhillipsPOBrien 3d

Watching all these Republican attempts to explain why they lost the election is painful, because they cannot come out and say one simple truth. They handed the party to a corrupt, criminal, dictator-loving, economic and strategic idiot--who proceeded to be all of these things.
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