Aleks Mineyko🇨🇦🇵🇱
@aleksmineyko.bsky.social
Director Learner Resources PGME; #UCalgary; #Meded; #MedSky #PediatricStroke Neurologist; confident & imperfect (she/her/ona/elle); tweets/opinions are mine.
This is an example of the bothsidism fallacy. There are not two sides to discriminatory behaviors and practices.
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports
“I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
www.them.us
August 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is an example of the bothsidism fallacy. There are not two sides to discriminatory behaviors and practices.
Influenza can result in neurologic complications including devastating, life-threatening ones. Vaccines save lives. Flu vaccines are important too!
#vaccinesmakeadults
#vaccinesmakeadults
#Influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy in US children during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 influenza seasons showed high morbidity and mortality.
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ja.ma/4oinX4Q #MedSky #PedSky
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Influenza can result in neurologic complications including devastating, life-threatening ones. Vaccines save lives. Flu vaccines are important too!
#vaccinesmakeadults
#vaccinesmakeadults
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Still a great first stop for anyone newly diagnosed with FND: @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social ‘s neurosymptoms.org site.
High-quality, relevant info written in clear language. 🙌
High-quality, relevant info written in clear language. 🙌
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) – A Patient's Guide to FND
neurosymptoms.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Still a great first stop for anyone newly diagnosed with FND: @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social ‘s neurosymptoms.org site.
High-quality, relevant info written in clear language. 🙌
High-quality, relevant info written in clear language. 🙌
Climate change and climate disasters arw tanking our global economy. This is a bipartisan issue. It's frusteating that our leaders are not addressing this appropriately.
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Climate change and climate disasters arw tanking our global economy. This is a bipartisan issue. It's frusteating that our leaders are not addressing this appropriately.
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I wrote this piece 👇 in 2020. Even MORE relevant now.
For far too long we normalized – or laughed off ("haha, jade vagina eggs!?") – health bunk.
This helped to facilitate the descending Dark Age 2.0.
Speak up! 💪
Pseudoscience – enough already www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For far too long we normalized – or laughed off ("haha, jade vagina eggs!?") – health bunk.
This helped to facilitate the descending Dark Age 2.0.
Speak up! 💪
Pseudoscience – enough already www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already
The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk.
www.nature.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wrote this piece 👇 in 2020. Even MORE relevant now.
For far too long we normalized – or laughed off ("haha, jade vagina eggs!?") – health bunk.
This helped to facilitate the descending Dark Age 2.0.
Speak up! 💪
Pseudoscience – enough already www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For far too long we normalized – or laughed off ("haha, jade vagina eggs!?") – health bunk.
This helped to facilitate the descending Dark Age 2.0.
Speak up! 💪
Pseudoscience – enough already www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The consequence of dehuminization leads to justification of cruelty and infringement of human rights against groups. It's repeated all over history in all countries. Signs include referring to groups of people as monsters (eg. Ghouls), animal references (monkeys, dogs, etc.), trash/waste. Beware.
July 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The consequence of dehuminization leads to justification of cruelty and infringement of human rights against groups. It's repeated all over history in all countries. Signs include referring to groups of people as monsters (eg. Ghouls), animal references (monkeys, dogs, etc.), trash/waste. Beware.
Joy is callous and Gret Thurnberg exhales carbon dioxide with every breath! 🤣
p.s. We're having a lot of "Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly 'people should bike more' really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who..." on this thread.
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’…
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July 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Joy is callous and Gret Thurnberg exhales carbon dioxide with every breath! 🤣
Why do we tolerate AI making stuff up? Shouldn't we expect more from artifical intelligence? If not perfection, then at least, an estimate of how far off it's best guess is, and, that it is guessing. Am I the only one who grew up on sci fi? Machines are supposed to be annoyingly accurate.
July 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Why do we tolerate AI making stuff up? Shouldn't we expect more from artifical intelligence? If not perfection, then at least, an estimate of how far off it's best guess is, and, that it is guessing. Am I the only one who grew up on sci fi? Machines are supposed to be annoyingly accurate.
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Our KeyLIME+ Summer Rewind series continues!
Explore the biggest myths in education with Dr. Paul Kirschner like multitasking, learning styles, and the belief that Googling can replace knowledge: keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/summer-rewin...
#MedEd #MedEdSky @paulkirschner.bsky.social
Explore the biggest myths in education with Dr. Paul Kirschner like multitasking, learning styles, and the belief that Googling can replace knowledge: keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/summer-rewin...
#MedEd #MedEdSky @paulkirschner.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Our KeyLIME+ Summer Rewind series continues!
Explore the biggest myths in education with Dr. Paul Kirschner like multitasking, learning styles, and the belief that Googling can replace knowledge: keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/summer-rewin...
#MedEd #MedEdSky @paulkirschner.bsky.social
Explore the biggest myths in education with Dr. Paul Kirschner like multitasking, learning styles, and the belief that Googling can replace knowledge: keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/summer-rewin...
#MedEd #MedEdSky @paulkirschner.bsky.social
Personally, one of the most difficult grifts and misinformation rabbit holes to sift through is the menopause bologna. The scientific data are poor b/c it's not well defined but the mythology is immense: eat this, avoid that, this magical solution fixes everything.
My new article: You’re Not Imagining It. Health Misinformation Is Everywhere thewalrus.ca/before-you-s... via @thewalrus.ca
And now it is all about politics.
Once a topic becomes a proxy for political principles, the discourse becomes nastier, and it is more difficult to change minds.
And now it is all about politics.
Once a topic becomes a proxy for political principles, the discourse becomes nastier, and it is more difficult to change minds.
You’re Not Imagining It. Health Misinformation Is Everywhere | The Walrus
And yes, some of it has probably gotten to you
thewalrus.ca
July 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Personally, one of the most difficult grifts and misinformation rabbit holes to sift through is the menopause bologna. The scientific data are poor b/c it's not well defined but the mythology is immense: eat this, avoid that, this magical solution fixes everything.
@cmadocs.bsky.social
Important to data as it reflects what we can expect in Canada 🇨🇦 We need to prepare and face this as a nation.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Important to data as it reflects what we can expect in Canada 🇨🇦 We need to prepare and face this as a nation.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Completely horrifying❗👇 Dark Age 2.0
"Only 35% to 40% of US pregnant women & parents of young children say they intend to fully vaccinate their child..."
Most US pregnant women, parents of young kids don't plan to accept all recommended kids' vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
"Only 35% to 40% of US pregnant women & parents of young children say they intend to fully vaccinate their child..."
Most US pregnant women, parents of young kids don't plan to accept all recommended kids' vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Most US pregnant women, parents of young kids don't plan to accept all recommended kids' vaccines
Intent to vaccinate was similar among pregnant women and parents, at 35% to 40%.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
July 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@cmadocs.bsky.social
Important to data as it reflects what we can expect in Canada 🇨🇦 We need to prepare and face this as a nation.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Important to data as it reflects what we can expect in Canada 🇨🇦 We need to prepare and face this as a nation.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Fixing health care is more than a policy issue - it's a nation-building priority. As federal, provincial and territorial leaders gather in Muskoka, the CMA is urging them to include health care in Canada's economic future. 89% of Canadians agree: improving #AccessToCare is key to a stronger country.
Canadians agree: fixing health care will help build stronger Canada
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is heading to Muskoka this week to remind Canada’s leaders of the important role health care can play in building a stronger, more resilient nation. “There have...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“When doctors are ready to step forward and help underserved patients, what good is a system that shoves them back?”
Dr. Allison MacQueen, a family doctor from Calgary, shares her experience with crossing provincial borders to provide community care and the complicated red tape that comes with it.
Dr. Allison MacQueen, a family doctor from Calgary, shares her experience with crossing provincial borders to provide community care and the complicated red tape that comes with it.
Why physician mobility is a win for doctors and patients
Allison MacQueen stopped counting at 300 emails. The family doctor had more than enough work in Calgary. But when she saw an ad for a working vacation in Newfoundland and Labrador she was intrigued by...
www.cma.ca
July 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“When doctors are ready to step forward and help underserved patients, what good is a system that shoves them back?”
Dr. Allison MacQueen, a family doctor from Calgary, shares her experience with crossing provincial borders to provide community care and the complicated red tape that comes with it.
Dr. Allison MacQueen, a family doctor from Calgary, shares her experience with crossing provincial borders to provide community care and the complicated red tape that comes with it.
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Our mortality survey of Doctors Without Borders staff and their families reveals almost half of people killed in the war in #Gaza are children.
We call on Israel to stop the genocidal campaign against Palestinians and to lift the siege.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
We call on Israel to stop the genocidal campaign against Palestinians and to lift the siege.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
July 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our mortality survey of Doctors Without Borders staff and their families reveals almost half of people killed in the war in #Gaza are children.
We call on Israel to stop the genocidal campaign against Palestinians and to lift the siege.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
We call on Israel to stop the genocidal campaign against Palestinians and to lift the siege.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
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"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing and we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing"
Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing and we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing"
Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Book censorship doesn't work, often backfires, and is contradictory to this government's promise to protect freedom of speech. It stifles critical thinking. This is not in the best interest of Albertans.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit | CBC News
Alberta's education minister says sexually explicit content must be gone from school library shelves as of Oct. 1, but says the announcement is not about book banning.
www.cbc.ca
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Book censorship doesn't work, often backfires, and is contradictory to this government's promise to protect freedom of speech. It stifles critical thinking. This is not in the best interest of Albertans.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Immigration does not increase crime.
For example, our health care system highly relies on immigrants.
Discussions about immigration are actually tightly entwined with racism.
Bipoc are assumed to be immigrants despite being born here and people don't believe I am an immigrant.
For example, our health care system highly relies on immigrants.
Discussions about immigration are actually tightly entwined with racism.
Bipoc are assumed to be immigrants despite being born here and people don't believe I am an immigrant.
Reality: immigration ≠ crime.
Studies consistently show that immigrants do NOT increase crime (on the contrary).
The lie has been so normalized (usually via scary anecdoates) that few politicians or news outlets speak up.
Eg: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Studies consistently show that immigrants do NOT increase crime (on the contrary).
The lie has been so normalized (usually via scary anecdoates) that few politicians or news outlets speak up.
Eg: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Does immigration really increase crime?
Study shows that migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase but false perceptions endure.
www.mcgill.ca
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Immigration does not increase crime.
For example, our health care system highly relies on immigrants.
Discussions about immigration are actually tightly entwined with racism.
Bipoc are assumed to be immigrants despite being born here and people don't believe I am an immigrant.
For example, our health care system highly relies on immigrants.
Discussions about immigration are actually tightly entwined with racism.
Bipoc are assumed to be immigrants despite being born here and people don't believe I am an immigrant.
Danielle Smith and all politicians should stay out of the private decisions made between patients/families and their physicians. This ruling agrees.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta judge grants injunction blocking a transgender health-care bill
An Alberta judge has put on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.
www.ctvnews.ca
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Danielle Smith and all politicians should stay out of the private decisions made between patients/families and their physicians. This ruling agrees.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Parents deserve information they can trust. The AAP has published the childhood immunization schedule for decades that has been grounded in science and relied upon by pediatricians and families alike. If you have questions, your pediatrician is your best source for answers and guidance.
June 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Parents deserve information they can trust. The AAP has published the childhood immunization schedule for decades that has been grounded in science and relied upon by pediatricians and families alike. If you have questions, your pediatrician is your best source for answers and guidance.
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I chat with Dr. Rebecca Fontanetta about the psychology of pseudoscientific grift in the wellness industry. 😊✌️
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podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I chat with Dr. Rebecca Fontanetta about the psychology of pseudoscientific grift in the wellness industry. 😊✌️
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
Fantastic article on approach to central sensitization syndrome.👇
April 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Fantastic article on approach to central sensitization syndrome.👇
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Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Nature - Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
go.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
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You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds.
Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.
www.nytimes.com/2020...
1/5
Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.
www.nytimes.com/2020...
1/5
February 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds.
Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.
www.nytimes.com/2020...
1/5
Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.
www.nytimes.com/2020...
1/5
The one thing that pushes me closer to voting for Carney is Rick Bell's constant, unwaivering, and escalating reminders that he annoys Smith. It might be my "one issue" vote.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Bell: Mark Carney is now on a collision course with Danielle Smith
Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are headed for a confrontation if Carney doesn't nix anti-oil and gas laws
calgaryherald.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The one thing that pushes me closer to voting for Carney is Rick Bell's constant, unwaivering, and escalating reminders that he annoys Smith. It might be my "one issue" vote.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...