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says that coffee might actually protect your heart from atrial fibrillation? Maybe I saw this on a post by Dr. Domin who tells us that it may work, which is the right way to do it. It doesn't mean that this one study is valid. It just means there is a study. And so it's like a 50% chance that it's real. You know, if you look at all studies, about half of them turn out to be reproducible. About hal…

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ndry and make you breakfast and do some basically easy labor around the house. You know, the basics. Now, until somebody buys that robot, and it's probably not exactly for sale yet, until somebody buys it and tries it and tells me it works, I don't believe it.

I don't know how they made the demonstration work, but they probably limited the demonstration to one kind of breakfast, one type of laundry, and just trained the hell out of those few things. And I even wonder, is it AI driven? Because when I read about it, it didn't mention AI. So did they just skip AI and say, "All right, it's going to be more like your Alexa at home. You have to give it the right command and it's programmed to do those specific things, but you couldn't teach it to do anything else." I don't know. My guess is it's a little overhyped.

You knew this was coming before, but I have more to say about it. So RFK Jr., Secretary Kennedy, reminds us that Trump had asked him to look at childhood vaccines and to see why we differ from other countries and maybe they're doing it right. So after exhaustive review, says Kennedy, of the evidence, we're aligning US childhood vaccine schedules with international consensus, which a lot of people think was probably the more conservative and safer way to do it, while strengthening transparency and informed consent.

Now, every part of that sounds good so far. He says the decision to change the schedule protects children, respects families, it rebuilds trust. If it works out, yes, absolutely. So I'm a little unclear on the changes themselves, but what I read online is that they would go from 84 to 88 doses for a child, which would be given basically very soon after birth, down to around 30. Now, presumably that number of the ones that got cut from the 80s down to 30 were the ones that the science suggests might be a problem.

I think we're still in the territory of we can't be 100% sure how these all work together or which ones were the problems. But if you took a rational scientific whack at it and you thought, okay, we don't know how all this works together but these are the ones that have all the signals, so if we remove the signals but don't remove the parents' ability to get those when they want it, just wouldn't be required, that feels like really playing the odds right.

So here's what I'm hoping. It's too soon to know if this will maybe change the autism rates or change something else because maybe the data was bad. Maybe the one that was the problem is still in the mix. We d

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on't know for sure, but it looks like exactly the right process. You know, I always talk about a system is better than a goal. Well, the goal would be protect all the children. The system would be that we make sure we have the best science and we're looking at it continuously and all that. But what I want to add to this, this is so much in the category of something that only Trump could have gott…

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