“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.”
Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.
www.ft.com/content/ff70...
can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons
This makes me SO angry!
We developed a vaccine that effectively prevents a deadly CANCER!
And the argument is "cancer is good because it keeps people from having sex".
It's evil, it's ridiculous, and yet people are saying it out loud and not being immediately shouted down.
Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.
61st and 62nd retractions for the IHU in Marseille.
49th and 50th for Didier Raoult.
Lack of ethical approval, retrospective approval, conflicts of interest with the ethics committee, and the use of code 09-022 for 258 articles.
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #ResearchPublishing #Academicsky 🧪
This is so, so well-articulated.
A project offering researchers up to 3,500 Swiss francs for finding errors in published academic papers is having trouble finding people to do the work.
My latest for @science.org:
www.science.org/content/arti...
@erichehman.bsky.social, @malte.the100.ci, @ruben.the100.ci, @conjugateprior.org
Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine.
They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal.
A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.
The CDC has paused testing for rabies and pox viruses, the family of viruses that includes smallpox and mpox — and by July will have no experts to advise states on clinical aspects of the diseases
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...
New South Wales is the first state in Australia to ban new coal mines!
This is a monumental policy shift and the first real acknowledgement by an Australian Government that fossil fuels must be phased out. #auspol
“Abortion is legal across Australia and this research shows a majority of Australians support access to abortion, whether they live in cities or country towns, or where they sit on the political spectrum.” - Ebony Bennett
Read more: https://theaus.in/4sUeAKp
U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”
“The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals”
Extractive, colonial, & depraved
1/2
I have now written up the issues with this study.
Turns out it's even worse than I initially thought!
gidmk.substack.com/p/multivitam...
Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed
“People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads”
One of the worst war crimes in modern history.
It was a school—not an IRGC base.
No happy #IWD 2026 marked by the grim reality that it took a dead man’s emails for the world to believe the testimonies of 100s of women & girls.
I urge scrutiny of how Epstein’s cabal & abuse have been health-washed
And for more attention to the survivors of #VAW 👇
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
The next time politicians say there is no money for health or humanitarian aid, I will remember this: $1 billion per day on war
The only remarkable thing about this is that the journal editors have not yet retracted every one of these papers.
Making up data - even if it is a case report - is an astonishing breach.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
I want to tape this to my office door:
"What’s more, this excessive reliance on AI leads me to the inescapable question: Why are you in this field?" mirandayaver.substack.com/p/in-defense...
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ICYMI: tonight’s full #4Corners, Scarred on gynaecologist Dr Simon Gordon is here. YouTube for international viewers. youtu.be/EwnqZ12O1sQ #endometriosis #medicine #surgeon
Heavy vehicle pollution costs us $6.2bn a year in health effects.
The study found that children attending childcare near major roads are exposed to pollution levels equiv. to 8 cigarettes a day.
No parent should have to worry that the air their child breathes at childcare could harm their health.
Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?
Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.
And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.
New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Australia's shameful history of the treatment of children in immigration detention springs to mind here. We have good evidence of the harms this causes.
These are dangerous places for children.
humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub...
France just cut its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 58 percent!
And here we are, writing: European nations must continue to stay engaged in global health, continue to provide humanitarian assistance...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
