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Michelle Cohen

@docmcohen.medsky.social

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rural Ontario family doc | writer | Queen's Family Medicine | OMA Women Committee | she/her Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine. 🔗 https://informedperspectives.org/expert/?id=001fK00000INrSnQAL

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: I wrote about the physical and psychological harms of Hollywood male beauty standards that idealize dehydration.

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys - Healthy Debate

Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal.

healthydebate.ca

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2h

Because of my weird love/hate relationship with health food stores, I often feel like I get a preview of the next wellness trend about to hit.

Anyway, beef tallow for your face.

Photo of 6 boxes of face cream lined up in a store display. The product is called "Whipped Tallow Balm."

Close up of the ingredients label of a single box of Whipped Tallow Balm.

The ingredients are: ”100% Grass-Fed Beef Tallow, Cold Pressed Almond Oil, Arrowroot Powder."

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Ghost Gurney @ghostgurney.bsky.social · 6h

UPDATE : in 2025, temp ER closures in #ONTARIO are @ 6️⃣3️⃣1️⃣hours, perm closure/hour reduction in #Durham #Minden #Chesley #Clinton are @1️⃣9️⃣2️⃣3️⃣0️⃣hr

Ghost Gurney @ghostgurney.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE : in 2025, temp ER closures in #ONTARIO are @ 6️⃣3️⃣1️⃣hours, perm closure/hour reduction in #Durham #Minden #Chesley #Clinton are @1️⃣9️⃣1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣hr

Ghost Gurney @ghostgurney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE : in 2025, temp ER closures in #ONTARIO are @ 6️⃣3️⃣1️⃣hours, perm closure/hour reduction in #Durham #Minden #Chesley #Clinton are @1️⃣9️⃣1️⃣0️⃣2️⃣hr

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1d

Mid October glory

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 3d

Warms my frozen little Canadian heart to see one homegrown grifter take aim at another. 🍁

William Makis tweet from 6 days ago:

CALL FOR HELP: Can someone please get me in touch with @MikhailaFuller or @jordanbpeterson ?

I am more than willing and happy to help Dr.Jordan Peterson with his neurological (CIRS, Neuropathy) and infectious issues which could be significantly helped with repurposed drugs (Ivermectin, Mebendazole)

Thank you 🙏

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 3d

And no amount of beef will cure it!

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 3d

Get that poor mold some IV Anti-Blowhard STAT.

Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 3d

Mold diagnosed with Jordan Peterson

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful

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✨️neuron divergent med student✨️ @fuqekgs.medsky.social · 4d

Highly convinced that RFK jr learns a new medical term one day and decides to talk about it the next without knowing what it is. Today it's placenta and circumcision, tomorrow it's hemolytic anemia

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 6d

Incels for most of my life have also have aired a whole lot of unhinged circumcision theories. Many of them likewise blame the Jews. But a lot of them blame their parents and John Kellog. I don't know how and when so many of them reached the broader manosphere, but the tapestry is rich now.

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 6d

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

Fucking disgusting

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

Also he's suggesting that a few days of Tylenol *doubles* the rate of autism? So every child who's broken a bone or had surgery has, what, an order of magnitude higher risk?

I know it's redundant to say this about an RFK quote, but it makes no fucking sense.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

Imagine dogwhistling about "early" circumcision without knowing that Jews traditionally give the newborn wine, not Tylenol.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

Now I'm just picturing a lecture with a slides of the placenta coloured Smurf blue because of RFK's fondness for methylene blue.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 5d

If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome just remember that Health Secretary Brain Worm thinks the fetus grows in the placenta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

"And the baby was in the placenta and the baby looked at me"

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

A Canadian doctor participated in an event where effigies of public officials were hung in nooses.

The speakers compared COVID mitigation measures to the Holocaust.

His medical college decided not to discipline him. He's still in practice in BC.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6d

If everyone who made a gross comment about their enemies being hanged at Nuremberg were charged with a hate crime, the entire antivax movement would be in prison by now:

Cold Spring Resident Accused of Threat

Arrested with women charged with defacing NYT building

highlandscurrent.org

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

So if I "prescribe" affordable access to high quality foods, will that make food deserts disappear?

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 6d

This is a really bad idea lol

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine

Doctors should prescribe food just like they prescribe medications, expert suggests

www.medpagetoday.com

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

By the logic of science JP must be a tip-only guy.

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

It's amazing how frail he is. The weakest strong man ever.

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

YES. I'm going to start writing that on medical forms. "Pt on leave due to spiritual attacks."

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d

JP's daughter: “We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks.”

Spiritual. Attacks. No better explanation.

Ok fess up. Which one of you has been spiritually attacking Professor Beef?
ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peter...

Jordan Peterson was ‘near death’ after ‘terrifying’ health issues

Psychologist Jordan Peterson spent about a month in intensive care and was “near death” after he was hospitalized for pneumonia and sepsis this summer.

ca.news.yahoo.com

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