Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.

Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,

and you're listening to Season 3. On this week's episode. This week on Plenary Session, you're in

for a real treat. I've got Ben Mazur and we're going to talk about a few things that have to do on the interface of social media and the week's news.

And I've also got Tem Bendiputi, and we're going to be talking about caplysisimab, the new drug for TTP.

Is it really standard of care?

Should it be? Who should decide?

You won't want to miss this discussion. And first, I have a bit of a monologue, but I ran out of time, so I won't be able to say all that I think.

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I plan to listen. I planned a lengthy monologue, but you know the week got out of my control.

And so I really wanted to talk a little bit about the Scott Atlas censoring moment on Twitter.

Twitter, of course, removed a tweet by Scott Atlas where he voiced his view that masks don't work. I think it bothered me not as someone who supports Scott Atlas, but as someone who believes that, you know, the right

way to combat speech you disagree with is to argue why you believe it is incorrect. The wrong way is to remove it.

And I ended up in a longer discussion with someone who was a big proponent that we should remove these kind of anti-masks or anything that was in any direction other than rah-r-ra-rah masks.

And this person said that, you know, it could lead to bad things

happening to people. Well, it turns out every medical controversy proponents believe that it

could lead to bad things happening to people. So one other example that I tossed at this person

was, what do you think about mammograms? This person said, mammograms save lives. I said,

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