🚨 The dangerous #peptide trend? Wellness influencers. 🚨
Health Canada warned against buying peptides online. CBC News easily bought some www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
"...limited evidence of safety and risks that include hormonal imbalances, the growth of cancerous tumours, & liver or kidney damage."
Ivermectin needs a fraud investigation and an exploration of who is profiting
And peptides. More n of 1 experimentation without proper oversight, protocols, or data collection
THORNY: "we inhabit a continually shifting, lawless terrain, where ethics and integrity are at constant risk of being sacrificed for the benefit of productivity and commodity. The onus falls to us—the publisher—to put in place guidance on the acceptable and responsible use of generative AI"
Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”
Nothing to kill or die for…
If you watch a lot of local TV news in the morning like I do, you really see how traffic violence is background noise in our daily lives. Crashes in the traffic report, stories about pedestrians being hit, cars into buildings, road rage. The danger on our roads is a constant feature.
Museum Day in València
Top bowler in the Axis of Resistance League 2026
I feel like this will be Canadian universities next year…
Random València on a Wednesday
Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data.
But this can change!
Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.
Flamingos in Albufera Natural Park in Spain today
*Injecting
It’s like everyone into peptides is performing an n of 1 study but they haven’t a clue about data collection, are not following a supervised protocol, and are infecting questionable quality medication. But by all means let’s have “medical freedom”!
And IV drips!
In Spain right now. They still smoke a lot here. Making me appreciate the many long decades that public health physicians worked in Canada to help reduce smoking. Sustained effort at a national level can change habits
Valencia Easter
Corporations as vectors of chronic disease, @nejm.org
Calling out 6 commercial products that contribute to 31% of all deaths globally.
Chemicals include pesticides, PFAS, manufactured.
And counterstrategies to address
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Seen in Valencia
Don’t smoke. Don’t vape. Don’t drink. Drive defensively. Wear your bike helmet. It’s boring but true.
"The story here isn't that publishers profit from research. It is that they are quietly occupying the infrastructure around it.... Universities are not just buying access to content, but are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures." #highered #cdnpse #HE
We’ve got our own casinos. At least some of our dirty casino money does things like supports kids sports. Stay home and gamble people.
Random pics Madrid. Loving all the pedestrian friendly streets. Not sold on riding a bike tho’
Amplify Tim!
Timothy Caulfield says celebrity culture and algorithms fuel health misinformation www.sasktoday.ca/regina-today...
🙏🙏🙏!
Did you ever think you would be typing the phrase “peptide conversation” in a sentence
