Jeffrey Flier

@jflier

Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.

Boston, MA
Joined June 2009

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  1. 12 hours ago

    A criminal who happened to be elected president.

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  2. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Since the president is now talking about it, you should probably read this alarming story about his emergency powers

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  3. 13 hours ago

    Nice piece on by . A real advance in health care. Learned about it from Tom Delbanco and my daughter the primary care doc

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    "I think she dishonored herself. And I think she dishonored her family," Trump says, then calls it "highly disrespectful to the US of A" re new rep saying Dems will "impeach this motherf**ker." Trump in '16 repeated a woman's use of "pussy" to describe Ted Cruz from a rally stage

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  5. 13 hours ago

    Great thread from calling out Senator Warren for her misinformed and misdirected tweet about pharma. 👇

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  6. 14 hours ago

    How I defeated “Reviewer #2” of our Ahima et al 1995 paper on leptin ⁦⁩ - hadn’t looked at this for 20+ years. Pretty decisive, if I do say so myself! Wish they had signed their review!

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  7. 15 hours ago

    How robust is the support for democracy in the US? Not robust enough, according to two Yale political scientists.

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  8. 19 hours ago

    My most cited paper, with then fellow Rex Ahima, demonstrated the fundamental role of leptin in signaling starvation to the brain. It was published in ⁦⁩ in 1996. While cleaning old files today, found the initial rejection letter.

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  9. 19 hours ago

    To remind those who don’t know, in 1975 when I found these circulating antibodies: 1. No receptors had been molecularly identified; 2. No antibodies to receptors were available as tools;3. Causal role of receptors in disease unproven. This finding was pretty cool.

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  10. 19 hours ago

    While cleaning out lab office, found my original NIH lab notebook from 1975. Here is my first experiment revealing autoantibodies to insulin receptor in a severely resistant patient. Led to a ⁦⁩ paper several months later - launched my career.

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    Why the growing practice of requiring all professors at a university to submit a "diversity statement" to get hired or promoted is a bad idea; it opens the door to ideological litmus tests. By , former dean of Harvard Med School.

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    Diversity is necessary and just. But required diversity statements should be anathema:

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    20 hours ago

    Again, I agree with on this. One can be pro-diversity (as I am) but against "diversity statements". If you think they are not political litmus tests, ask yourself how a diversity statement from a political conservative (e.g. ) would be received.

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  14. 20 hours ago

    Why required diversity statements are bad practice. My opinion piece in Chronicle of Higher Education is now live.

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  15. 21 hours ago

    Cognitive impairment must be ruled out soon. Or guilty of appealing to the cognitively impaired. Not sure which is worse.

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  16. 22 hours ago

    Ed Boyden giving an amazing talk on new tool development for dramatically enhanced biological imaging - brain and elsewhere- it seems many of these will be transformative.

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  17. Jan 3

    Though you are an intelligent individual, , this demagoguery is both false and insulting to the many people who work hard in the biopharma industry to develop therapies for unmet medical needs. Trump-like in its shallowness. You should be embarrassed.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 3
    Replying to

    As an employee at a giant drug company I can say this is absolutely false. We make money by developing new drugs which have the property of treating diseases which currently have no treatment. Maybe your time would be better spent complaining about tobacco or gun companies.

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    Jan 3

    Many things in life just feel so good, all those guilty pleasures, and of course mud-throwing against industry-associated research. One would never convict in court based on associations, but so much fun to poke with sticks, conclude nothing, then run away to do it again later

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    That’s totally not true. Drug companies employ people at all levels who care deeply about patients, many of whom entered the industry because of personal/family stories. If you want to make a difference in drug pricing (a noble goal), don’t try to make good people into villains

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