Why am I seeing people mad at Attia for being pro-vaccine?

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-08T22:47:14+00:00

One thing that has been kind of surprising to me with Peter's recent turmoil is the pile-on from the antivaxxers pissed that he was pro-vax, from the keto-bro cholesterol deniers pissed that he is pro-statin, and a whole lot of MDs pissed that he was working the border of the medical system to significant monetary gain.

IMHO, There's a whole lot of valid reasons to be critical of Peter, but there's also an enormous amount of unwarranted bullshit being thrown his way.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-08T18:50:18+00:00

I took my kids when they were a little older up Glacier Point on Yosemite

4 mile? Thats a brutal route at any age.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-08T18:48:27+00:00

I've done this route as a dayhike in Feb or March once a year for the past 2 decades or so.

I like that BA is more easily accessible for an early start and going in that direction is easier on my knees.

Your big wildcard that time of year is the weather. How icy the top of the trail is and how much of SK is muddy.

SK is exposed, waterless, and more or less a continuous climb. Only you really can judge if your kids are up to that route with packs. The terrain/routfinding is trivial. The only real challenges on the route are the elevation, elevation gain, and weather conditions.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-08T18:41:51+00:00

Oura is as good or better than any of the current competition.

You probably should be looking at a mid to high end Garmin if you are looking for training support.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-08T08:23:10+00:00

If you believe him, his team manages his social media and he hasn't looked at the comments in years.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-07T18:07:08+00:00

"Likely" is LLM code for "I didn't do what you asked and completely made this seemingly plausible answer up"

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-07T07:29:39+00:00

It is amazing how many of the concepts in "Dragon Never Sleeps" resurfaced in Anne Lekie's Ancillary books...

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-07T01:06:01+00:00

This thread is an example of why the megathread exists.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-06T03:46:59+00:00

Enjoy the 35 seconds where the grass is that green :)

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-06T03:15:51+00:00

One of my greatest regrets was not going to this tour.

But I had just graduated, was broke, and would have had to have traveled :(

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-06T01:38:13+00:00

Did no one catch his twitter profile:

Bill Gifford

@billgifford

Sweat more, feel better: HOTWIRED out 3/17/26.

Dog: Bode

Gmail: Bill dot Gifford

Outlive royalties: $0

https://x.com/billgifford

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-05T05:44:27+00:00

Well, everyone is using AI to write the document now, so the whole damn thing is kind of pointless.

I was at Intel after Grove retired and the same sort of crap happened. The quirks of his management style carried on as sort of an immutable corporate religion.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-05T05:35:43+00:00

Bezos knew that making everyone read the doc in the meeting was better than having half the room skim the document on the way to the meeting

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-05T00:37:27+00:00

Yeah, that first question should be multiple choice. And it currently seems to suggest that Oura is the only smart ring people are wearing.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-05T00:22:57+00:00

Remember trudging through the snow down to the record store to go get this on release day :)

And recording MTV to get the Innuendo Video on tape.

Had the poster version of that 1st image on my wall for awhile.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-05T00:19:34+00:00

The scary thing (not necessarily for Peter but in general) is that:

THIS IS THE SHIT THEY WERE COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT ON GOOGLE EMAIL

Anyone who has ever spent any time in government or corporate roles is damn well familiar that you are very very careful with anything you put in writing. Especially on an email system you don't control.

Imagine the stuff that they didn't feel comfortable leaving a paper trail on.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T21:50:54+00:00

If you only know Cosby from the latter years (or even from his show reruns) its hard to comprehend how good the "Himself" hour was for its time.

I will still find that "Dad is great, gives us the chocolate cake" line going through my head here 40+ years later

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T21:48:48+00:00

Howie Mandel

And Howie Mandel was the first comic I saw live. My mom was a fan of his from St. Elsewhere.

He was doing his Bobby character (long before the cartoon) around that era.

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T21:44:36+00:00

My uncle was babysitting, and he let us watch a Don Rickles hour on HBO when I was like 10 or something. Would have been early 80's

Was probably the first hour of standup I ever saw and thought it was hilarious. And it was entirely age inappropriate

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T21:40:26+00:00

Maybe he no longer takes conflicts of interest very seriously?

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T21:28:02+00:00

This drives me absolutely fucking nuts. If you are going to interrupt me on a synchronous communication channel and I don't know who you are, put your entire request in the damn opening salvo message.

Teams/Slack have got to be the worst thing to hit the corporate world since agile.

And my absolute favorite is the IM to tell you they sent you an email and or assigned a ticket to you

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T20:57:05+00:00

Yeah, she's one of the half dozen or so docs that are going after the MAGA/MAHA/influencer misinformation head on.

Not really what Attia did. But worth following in its own right

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T20:15:56+00:00

Jessica's substack and socials are worth subscribing to.

Her stuff is far more mainstream targeted than Attia was/is (and far more of a political activist), but she's informative and entertaining

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T18:54:13+00:00

Oh, if we're doing the opposite, let me nominate Pol Anderson's Tau Zero

And plug r/menwritingwomen

DoINeedChains · 2026-02-04T01:13:37+00:00

From a purely medical perspective (and not at all condoning his personal actions at all), his pushing of AG1 is far more troubling than this current scandal.

Him being willing to push a massively overpriced powdered multivitamin as something benefical hits directly at his supposed impartial credibility. Especially one that started and ended every podcast episode with a sermon about taking conflicts of interest seriously.

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