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The best official of the Vaccino against Food and Drug Administration, dr. Peter Marks resigned under pressure on Friday and said that the health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines was irresponsible and represented a danger to the public."It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather wants a subordant confirmation of its disinformation and lies," wrote dr. Marks to Sara Brenner, interim commissioner. He reiterated the feelings in an interview, saying: "This man doesn't care truth. He worries about what is following him".Dr. Marks resigned after being summoned to the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday afternoon and said he could stop or be fired, according to a person who is familiar with the matter.Dr. Marks led the cen...

When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. summoned the leaders of democracy to the White House in 2021 and 2023, clearly dismantled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, a man who once had described an "autocrates" who deserved to be guided by the voters.Tuesday, President Trump offered a much more pink evaluation of the Turkish president, even if the demonstrators filled the streets following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, the main political rival of Erdogan."A good leader," said Erdogan's president during a meeting of his ambassadors to the White House. He did not mention the arrest or protests.Since it came into office 66 days ago, Trump has transformed a central precept of American diplomacy to the head. He is embracing - rather than reporting - leader companions who abandon democra...

President Trump was less than subtle in his insistence on the fact that the United States "will obtain" Greenland in one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot "live without it".When he pronounced those words in the oval office, the high -level American political shipping force that has ever set foot on the vast territory had already landed to inspect the real estate prospects. But they were confined to the fence of a remote and frozen American air base, the only place where the protesters could not present themselves.Guided by vice -president JD Vance, American visitors quickly discovered what the past administrations learned at 1860: the weather conditions are as prohibited as politics. When Mr. Vance's plane landed in the Sun of Mezzogiorno, 750 miles north ...

Listen and follow "Hard Fork"Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | IheartradioThis week, we dig in the group chat that is swinging the Trump administration and talk about why contacting reporting to plan military operations is probably not a great idea. So, we are reached by the Podcaster Dwarkesh Patel to discuss his new book "The era of downsizing" and if it is still optimistic about the wide benefits of the AI ​​and, finally, a couple of weeks ago we asked if the IA was making you more stupid. Now let's hear your shots.Guest:Dwarkesh Patel, Technological Podcaster and author of "The Scaling Era: A Oral History of AI, 2019-2025"Additional reading:Credits"Hard Fork" is hosted by Kevin Roose AND Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn AND Whitney Jones. The show is modified by Matt Collett...

A constant figure in the anti-vaccine movement that contributed to modeling the thought of the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On a possible link with autism he joined his department to work on a study that examines the theory for a long time, according to people who are familiar with the matter.The new analyst, David Geier, has published numerous articles in medical literature that tries to tie mercury in the vaccines to autism. In 2012, the state authorities in Maryland discovered that they practiced medicine without a license together with his father, Mark Geier, who was a doctor at the time.The Maryland authorities also suspended Mark Geier's medical license following statements that they endangered children with autism and exploited their parents, according to state registers.F...

When an Israeli aerial attack torn a building in the center of Beit Lahia on Monday evening, the agricultural community in the northernmost part of Gaza was already at the limit of an Israeli evacuation order hours earlier.The events shook the residents of the city and reminded them of the dangers of the war between Israel and Hamas, but also contributed to catalyzing rare events against Hamas in Gaza. For three consecutive days, hundreds of people marched through the city to ask for the end of both the war and the 18-year-old rule of Hamas on the public Gaza-Proteste that spread in a certain number of other cities of the abused encycling."Hamas has to go away," Ahmad Al-Masri said 26, residing in Beit Lahia who helped ask for the events. "Otherwise, the spreading of blood, wars and destru...

President Emmanuel Macron in France promised Thursday that a "coalition of the will" would continue to support Ukraine in the war against Russia and would have contributed to safeguarding any peace, including, for some European countries, sending a "reassurance force" to Ukrainian soil after the end of the conflict.But Mr. Macron, who spoke at the end of a rally of European leaders in Paris, said that the contours of that force were still resolved and the details of those who were willing to do what to give the Ukrainian security guarantees were still scarce.This aggravated to a sense of darkness around diplomatic efforts to stop fighting, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.Even if the leaders met, Russia had to face the accusations that was developing the negotiations mediate...

In September, Openai presented a new version of chatgpt designed to think through tasks involving mathematics, science and computer programming. Unlike previous versions of the chatbot, this new technology could spend time "thinking" of complex problems before solving an answer.The company soon said that its new reasoning technology has overperformed the main systems in the sector on a series of tests that follow the progress of artificial intelligence.Now other companies, such as Google, Anthropic and Deepseek of China, offer similar technologies.But can Irs really think like a human being? What does it mean to think for a computer? Are these systems really approaching true intelligence?Here is a guide.What does it mean when an artificial intelligence system reason?The reasoning only mean...

The cases of measles in Kansas are more than doubled in the last week, bringing the counting to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has fallen 10 people, reported local public health officials on Wednesday.There have been several large outbreaks in the United States this year, including one in the western Texas that has spread to more than 320 people and hospitalized 40. Health officials have worried that the Texas epidemic may sow others.More than 40 cases of measles have been reported in New Mexico and seven were identified in Oklahoma. In both states, health officials said that infections were connected to the Texas epidemic.In Kansas, the virus has mainly infected the children not vaccinated in the south corner -ovest of the state. Genetic sequencing suggested a connection with the outb...

Turkey was immersed in a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a high -level rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with accusations of corruption. Ben Hubbard, head of the Istanbul office for the New York Times, explains the tumult.