The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic.
Boy, did they screw up.
Important post:
GMC plans to remove the need for medical training to be classed as qualified
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why does he have $25mn to burn
what does he even do
@drmk.link is 💯 spot on that:
"Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.
In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government.
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The ultimate cost isn’t to doctors’ careers. It’s to the diagnostic safety net that catches the atypical presentations - the ones that don’t fit the protocol, where pattern recognition from 1000s of cases matters. That’s what’s being quietly dismantled in an effort to save costs.
What’s more disappointing is seeing senior clinical leaders backing this to the hilt - endorsing scope creep, signing off inadequate supervision models, staying silent on MAPs/ACPs - rather than taking a moral stand and demanding better for the profession.
Treasury constraint is probably a simpler explanation - cheaper roles are attractive regardless of ideology. But institutional inertia and genuine belief in “taskification” narratives among policymakers shouldn’t be underestimated.
Hanlon’s razor aside, it’s not hard to wonder if the NHS specialty doctor recruitment fiasco and mass unemployment of doctors is failure by design. After all, policy direction suggests we don’t need doctors and instead just need “differently trained” advanced workforces.
It appears Trump wants to end a war and label it peace through almost total capitulation. This short-term approach will strengthen Putin’s resolve and increase the risk of future aggression against NATO’s eastern flank.
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
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What Martin said. Independent SAGE were not cranks, not extremists, not over-reacting. #covidinquiry
1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness
Yesterday Reform UK were given the Rusty Razor award for the worst pseudoscience of the year. From denying climate change to platforming quacks, Reform propagate dangerous nonsense.
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I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.
They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.
We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.
A statement of fact for Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025.
There is absolutely no link between Tylenol and Autism; however, there is an absolute link between Trump and Epstein. ✊💙
Front page of @apnews.com calling it like it is. These claims are unfounded.
#VaccinesSaveLives #TylenolisSafe #Tylenol #FireRFK #MedSky #Vaccines
That rhetoric and those protests are happening in the UK right now, which is why I am worried about the tide shifting.
I agree not everyone with conservative views is far right. But there’s an important distinction: wanting controlled immigration or lower taxes is mainstream right wing. Calling refugees “invaders”, pushing “replacement” conspiracies and attacking hotels housing asylum seekers is far right…
In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
Perhaps. But it feels that there tide is slowly creeping in that direction can that’s reflected in the rhetoric, protests and polls at the moment. Polls indicate may share the sentiment.
There has to be hope – ways to counter the lies and rebuild something better. What keeps you fighting for this country and countering the hateful spite coming out of far-right protesters at the moment?
Is there anything left worth fighting for in Britain? After 14 years of mismanagement and the last 3 months of open xenophobia and racism, it feels bleak. I’m tied here through co-parenting, but I fear for my daughter’s generation.
I was warning about the dangerous nonsense that Malhotra was spreading …over 3y ago. I even warned Nigel Farage in his GBNEWS show
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Vote Reform get dangerous cranks
This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
Just a reminder this man is still under GMC investigation as they agreed to reconsider their rule 12 refusal previously.
13/ We didn’t just raise concerns - we submitted detailed, verifiable evidence which could have been followed up. DAUK’s submission was ignored in full. Not even cited. That tells me all I need to know about how seriously frontline doctors were taken in this review.
12/ I want to share a tangible concern: what's to stop a PA in gastro from doing scopes? Nothing. Now add credentialled prescribing - and you have non-doctors sedating patients for invasive procedures...
