Poem: For Sanity Press Pause - InReview | InDaily, Inside Queensland This week’s Poet’s Corner contribution comes from Kathryn von Bergen.

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Poem: For Sanity Press Pause

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Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report “Since 1986 the average child, by one year of age, has gone from 3 injections to 29.” Overall, the vaccine schedule has expanded by 1-2 vaccin...

Misleading and False Vaccine Claims - a simple and well compiled explainer. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Enjoy Barcelona!!

What happened during the WHO mission in Wuhan?

I talked to multiple WHO members being there to reconstruct what they had witnessed.

Read this exclusive excerpt for free:
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Now that you’ve said that, I can’t unsee it! 🤣

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs.

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Voting in our national election yesterday at a voting booth in Bondi, Sydney. Quintessential Oz! 👍🤣 And solid support for progressive politics with the Labour Party resoundingly returned to government. Notable was the respect shown by both major leaders in their speeches. Proud to be 🇦🇺

Measles: we’re on the precipice of a disaster, experts say - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland Measles may become endemic again within 20 years if vaccination rates don’t improve, according to new modelling.

Frightening and unconscionable in equal measure.
Measured, evidence-based and empathy enveloped communication (not lecturing!) of the importance of childhood vaccination to the wider community is critical.

#VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #ScienceCommunication
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Wow, have you heard about this incredibly powerful innovation that can generate art, invent new languages, experience empathy, adapt instantly to environments, make ethical decisions, and even dream up ideas that have never existed before? It’s available today. No, it’s not AI, it’s the human brain.

A must read for anyone who appreciates excellent absurdist humour, encapsulated so exquisitely in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

It's like all their other impeding efforts.

You don't need to actually pass a law to make something illegal; you just need to make it very, very difficult to access, or create.

As an aside, and apart from it conveniently fitting their narrative, I’ve always wondered where the idea that “Big Pharma owns the media” comes from? 🤷‍♂️

Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

What might our future power grid look like? This illustrated guide explains Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a gri...

Excellent read/explainer on Australia’s energy needs now and into the future. Would be great if politics could stay out of the equation and we just do what’s logical.
energywww.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/renewabl...

💉 ICYMI - large study of COVID-19 vaccine safety hit by DOGE, #NZ researchers affected

It’s the sort of checking those concerned about vaccines ask for, now stopped.

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Unfortunately that’s just data…..not relevant when it doesn’t fit the pre-determined narrative 🤷‍♂️

To put something behind that comment.
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If you had access to the data you would find a spike of “respiratory infections” following attendance at any large gathering of individuals, anywhere in the world and as far back as you could find the data. It’s what respiratory infections do best, transmit when given the opportunity- not just COVID

The golden pendas are out in their autumn bloom all over Brisbane. Particularly stunning outside our place! Leaving a carpet of yellow.

US demands that EU companies comply with anti-diversity order US president Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in the US, especially in government offices, claiming that they were discriminatory.

Had missed this in amongst all the craziness. For a movement that has had freedom of speech/opinion as one of their prime grievances, it is ironic that most of the pronouncements over the last few months have been about silencing science or opposing views.
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Predatory journals even worse since “Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List” was accepted for publication The 2005 paper repeats the phrase “Get me off your fucking mailing list” for ten pages. The authors are still on the mailing list.

Predatory journals even worse since "Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List" was accepted for publication boingboing.net/2025/04/12/p...

And now for something completely different. We were exceptionally fortunate to be in Sintra, Portugal today and trekked up to the Pena Palace.
Stunningly beautiful - but the irony is not lost on me that over the centuries this was the home of a series of nobles, looking down on their peasants.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious……nah, it’s actually very funny…and tragic….and bonkers! 🤣

On Power and Stupidity Why do so many fools end up in positions of authority?

A wonderful piece of writing. Worth devoting a few minutes. Frighteningly real and accurate I’m afraid….and darkly humorous.
But in the end, just another piece that will miss its mark as it will pass majestically over those who it describes.
www.forkingpaths.co/p/on-power-a...

CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S. “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

NIH and CDC cut grants related to COVID and other agents of pandemic potential.

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Like watching a motorway pile-up in slow motion. So many aspects of US life being impacted - with repercussions across the world.
The only hope with this particular study is that instead of shouting from the darkness the skeptics might, now with resources, see the light!
I know, unlikely ☹️

Brisbane Olympics 2032 venue plan finally unveiled A new stadium will be built in Brisbane as the centrepiece of the 2032 Olympic Games, Premier David Crisafulli has revealed.

Well this certsinly caught my eye! 🤣🤣😱

“Rowing would be held in Rockhampton, on the Fitzroy River which is known to have crocodile sightings”

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UQ Lakes circa 1976. Poor quality B&W I took on my new Olympus OM1…was still learning(that’s my excuse anyway). But our UQ Lakes island used to be an amazing nesting and roosting site…..until it got bull-dozed away ☹️

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Seriously. The US is broken.
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