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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 18m

I wrote this back in March. Seven months ago. It is only more deeply true now. As it will be tomorrow. Canada isn't moving urgently enough to adjust to this new reality.

emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/american-d...

American Democracy is not in Decline, it's Dead

One of the reasons the insurrectionist assault at the U.S.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1h

Even chimpanzees think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice ;-)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17m

We should be scrapping the Ford government by November 14 instead.

Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com · 5h

Waterloo Region speed cameras will be scrapped by Nov. 14, says Ford
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Waterloo Region speed cameras will be scrapped by Nov. 14, says Ford

Doug Ford pushes through legislation to turn off speed cameras by Nov. 14

www.therecord.com

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 8h

If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections:

Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10h

Crime is NOT going up. On the contrary.

Immigrants (including undocumented) NOT associated with an increase in crime. On the contrary.

Perceptions regarding crime ≠ reality.

This needs to be said more.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 9h

“Bad actors are spreading lies to protect fossil fuel interests and delay the inevitable transition to clean energy. This weakens public resolve at a crucial moment, when we need courageous policy decisions to steer us away from the climate and health crises caused by burning fossil fuels.”

Online rumours during climate emergencies threaten public health, physicians and civil society groups warn - CAPE

New poll: 86% of people in Canada want Ottawa to curb online disinformation during extreme weather events

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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 8h

kindergartens are exposing children to mud, wild plants, moss, in Finland.

WELLBEING
Good intentions are not enough;
make Healthy Living the easy choice.

43 daycare centres awarded ONE million USD to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity.
bit.ly/4hxgNXL

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 8h

Schizophrenia exists.

Mental illness exists.

Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.

Psychotherapy can be life-saving.

Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.

Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 4h

Oh My Goodness...

The memes are getting better by the minute‼️

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 5h

Link to the talk

youtu.be/soJX37aXs3E?...

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 13h

Co-sign strongly.

And kids should be allowed to use the restroom when they need to.

Which shouldn’t be an outlandish statement yet here we are.

Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 14h

Tampons and pads should be in all public restrooms - ESPECIALLY schools. Stock them like toilet paper.

Scotland, New Zealand, even Kenya do it.

But not the USA, where men (and even some women) are so aggressively sexist that they fight AGAINST period products in schools.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 13h

Canadian provinces are doing this to us, right now, slowly destroying post-secondary education. Carney is about to do it to research too.

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 14h

It's really incredible that the USA has absolutely wrecked itself on higher education, tourism and scientific research.

So much of American soft power is based on it, and they just keep punching themselves in the balls.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 2d

Uncertainty is a feature of science, not a flaw.
Admitting uncertainty isn't the same as pretending both sides are equal.
Populists exploit this nuance to sow doubt on issues like medicine, climate and vaccines.
news.sky.com/video/n...
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Nigel Farage says 'science is never settled', reacting to Trump paracetamol claims

The Reform UK leader went on to say that 'when it comes to science' he 'doesn't side with anybody.'

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 2d

Science thrives on openness to new evidence.
But that openness isn’t a license to ignore consensus or amplify fringe claims.
The burden of proof lies with challengers, not the scientific mainstream.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 2d

“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence.
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
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'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

www.livescience.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 5h

This really is a shame.

In times like these we really should be commissioning more engaging, informative evidence-based shows, not fewer.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 6h

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6h

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.

Pathetic.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5h

My friend, the historian,
told me the students
in one of her seminars
have been conspiring
to all come to class
dressed up as her
for Halloween,
and when I asked
if this was flattery or mockery,
she said she absolutely loves it
for it means
that her students will be masked.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5h

Tim Mellon, Miriam Adelson, the Uihleins, Ken Griffin (Citadel) - all poured hundreds of millions into his campaign.

Qatar gifted him a luxury plane and invested billions in his ventures.

The list goes on and on.

Donald Trump is the most bought and paid for President in American history.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5h

The Heritage Foundation got him immunity from SCOTUS.

Elon Musk bought him the 2024 election.

Jeff Bezos paid $40M for a documentary about Melania.

Tim Cook got him a gold brick.

Zuckerberg (& the dickbags above) all donated millions to his inauguration and demolition of the East Wing.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 5h

Quebec minister steps down day after daughter criticizes special law for doctors https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/longtime-quebec-minister-lionel-carmant-steps-down-9.6959818

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Premier François Legault hugged Lionel Carmant after the announcement on Thursday morning. Carmant has been a longtime member of the CAQ government.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 7h

The US government is packed from top to bottom with racist violent settlers since they first washed ashore.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4d

SARS-CoV-2 interferes with p53 signalilng.

That may not mean much to non-specialists, but as a PhD in that area, it's the biggest possible red flag, and the flag is also on fire.

We don't yet know how bad it'll be, but with public health asleep at the wheel (as usual), there's no real upper limit.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Apr 19

The worst part of the potential for COVID to cause cancer is that it's entirely predictable, but the medical policy types have to control everything, so they locked science out of the room and tried to wing it.

Dunning-Kruger pandemic.

Mark Ungrin
@Mark_Ungrin
If I set an exam question on likely impacts of repeated, persistent infection of kids with a p53-suppressing virus, cancer would be the #1 answer.

Why is this not being taken more seriously? Is there some evidence I missed that says it'll be fine?

https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.871583/full

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 4d

Data c/o @1goodtern.bsky.social

Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!!

Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds.

These are AIDS-defining conditions.

“There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.”

Suuuuuure 👌

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