Coddled Affluent Professional(@feelsdesperate):What’s the evidence that Musk defunding US AID ‘clearly killed people’? What is it? Back of the envelope calculations or actual high quality epidemiology supporting a causal linkage? Thompson is an ideologue who elides the fact that all these models presume causation, so what we’re dealing with here is just a tautology. It’s important for people to understand that Thompson’s rhetoric is based on extremely weak evidence with baked in assumptions and that it’s politically motivated and not reflective of any sort of considered analysis of the evidence.

Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate

2026.06.27 04:38

What’s the evidence that Musk defunding US AID ‘clearly killed people’? What is it? Back of the envelope calculations or actual high quality epidemiology supporting a causal linkage? Thompson is an ideologue who elides the fact that all these models presume causation, so what we’re dealing with here is just a tautology. It’s important for people to understand that Thompson’s rhetoric is based on extremely weak evidence with baked in assumptions and that it’s politically motivated and not reflective of any sort of considered analysis of the evidence.

Derek Thompson@DKThomp

2026.06.26 14:42

There are some center-to-right wing accounts I follow that are more offended by the possibility that some public health sources are over-estimating the death count from Musk carelessly destroying US global health programs than by the core fact that Musk really did carelessly destroy US global health (and bragged about it relentlessly) in a way that clearly killed people. These people know who they are, and they're wrong.

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