Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky #scisky
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This hits hard because it talks about how institutional medicine breaks people.
The surface story, but also the deeper problem of a culture that normalizes *never* accepting blame - which medicine's empire-building management class uses to excuse themselves for wasting an enormous number of lives.
I full agree Lilo - that’s a great approach.
And maybe. Just maybe, we tell people that it’s airborne, and always has been. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
For more than 2000 days, we have had the power to stop Covid transmission in healthcare facilities with adequate respirator masking, and we haven’t, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of disabilities.
It can stop anytime we decide to stop making bullshit excuses.
That’s just awful. How the heck?
I’m so sad - Dwight, you were one of the good ones. 🧪
Oh my god! I have written so many letters for him over the years.
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
Oh gosh it was not me this time, but I had been guilty of this….😬
COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We've Learned. To start, we need cleaner air, which requires a change in medical culture, by @crof.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca
I would love to see that.
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Lol
I judge people on how they treat animals.
And children.
How people treat the less powerful, more vulnerable and those who can do nothing to help them get ahead, is the greatest testament to character.
"History is best told as a story of organised crime." - I've always felt this way, that in fact the ascension of societies or peoples was not really progress as much as those willing to betray, lie, or kill overtaking those who felt bound by other norms.
Our society as a case in point.
Prime minister. Judge. Chief Electoral Officer. Mayor. Your child's doctor. And now city planner.
There's no end to the jobs Danielle Smith wants to do.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out
;)
One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.
From Twitter to X to Bluesky, I have really enjoyed watching you raise your son, from a tiny person to teenager. You do such interesting things, and your cooking….😋.
It was a few decades ago that I arrived as a dumbass kid with an F-1 student visa - I am forever grateful for that opportunity.
everyone with undue power is playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
On CBC Radio we're hearing about the #CAUT travel advisory for Canadian academics.
They are warning us not to travel to the US.
#ElbowsUp
www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
Headline in Canada Healthwatch from today, April 13 - What makes a good public health leader?
Excellent op-ed on why Dr. Henry is not the right person for the next Chief Public Health Officer of Canada role 👏🏼
Cc.
@mark-carney.bsky.social @chiefscican.bsky.social
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Screamingly huge red flag. If elected, Poilievre will interfere in Canadian science funding policies.
With everything going on in the US right now, this is a comment that you only make very deliberately.
