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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 2d

Unless the rehydration is considered a therapy (by the way, oral fluids rehydrate too!), a “therapy” with zero benefit (like these) carry only risks.

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 3d

Googly-eyed pumpkin and some mini French apple tart treats. Happy Halloween 🎃

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's government meets all 12 indicators of democratic erosion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)

Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 5d

Bazinga!! Great graphic

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · May 12

(this very big mistake that killed an enormous number of people, if anyone's looking for the citation)

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/epidemiologist-jeremy-farrar-on-the-next-viral-threat-i-fear-we-are-at-the-beginning-of-an-era-of-pandemics-a-564b1dae-1c3d-4eb3-b76f-f3c5da6e8289#:~:text=DER%20SPIEGEL:%20But%20even%20the%20World%20Health%20Organization,enormous%20number%20of%20lives.

DER SPIEGEL: But even the World Health Organization didn't take the spread via aerosols seriously and didn’t issue a warning about it until the autumn of 2020 …

Farrar: Yes, you are right, that was a very big mistake. We could have prepared better if bigger decisions would have been made around aerosols, around face masks, around the best treatment options, personal protective equipment for nurses, doctors, about the capacity for intensive care units. That would have saved an enormous number of lives.

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 16d

#ygk

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 23

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 18d

Don’t use X much anymore but just saw there’s a fake account purporting to be me there (@MDElizabeth_)

Ignore her

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 21d

I might also add: get engaged with school aged kids and programs to help develop critical thinking / scientific method curricula.

It’s too late to teach critical thinking if you wait until adulthood.

Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 26d

Frost tonight so time to cut last of the summer dahlias…

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 28d

Beautiful October day
The view from here #ygk

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Oct 2

Maybe a mechanism through which the CHALLENGE trial exerted its benefits in colon cancer er patients? (Though of course exercise in that trial not “combined” with immune Rx)

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Oct 2

How exercise promotes the immune system vs cancer, working through a gut bacteria metabolite
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Oct 2

Because everyone needs MORE things to worry and catastrophize about….?

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · Oct 1

So sad 💔. Jane Goodall was an inspiration. She never stopped …
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live

The primatologist was a

www.bbc.com

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · Sep 30

Junk science and fascism. Dr.Gunter: “Dr, Timothy Snyder, a noted expert on fascism, offers the best framing–fascism, he writes, is ‘the triumph of will over reason.’ This strips away right-wing and left-wing ideologies, and just leaves us with the perversion of truth in the quest for domination.”

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Sep 29

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

The FDA Plans to Review Mifepristone

When junk science shapes policy, it's fascism

open.substack.com

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Palliative Care McGill @caremcgill.bsky.social · Sep 29

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of the great Dr. Balfour Mount, widely considered the father of palliative care in Canada. He will be greatly missed.

Please read our message in full: e1.envoke.com/m/783fa9fc5f...

An older man in a dark jacket smiles. A white dog sits to his left.

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 29

Amazing essay by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social

Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

substack.com

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 27

!!!!

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · Sep 26

This only happens to you once

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 27

I’ve long thought that instead of fact checking his speeches (to find the “misinformation/lies”) it would be easier to just highlight those things he says that are TRUE.

Would be very short, almost always empty, report

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 24

Is there a Nobel Prize for Buffoonery?

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · Sep 24

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Health Canada pushes back against Trump's claims about Tylenol in pregnancy | CBC News

Health Canada is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Tylenol use during pregnancy and childhood is linked to autism, saying it remains a recommended treatment for pain and fe...

www.cbc.ca

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 24

Fall has befallen us
The view from here #ygk

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · Sep 23

💯

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Sep 22

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Sep 22

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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