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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 6h

Systemic changes to make it harder to spread

Jujitsu based persuasion
Use opponents weight Present solutions that dont threaten ideology. Eg - Regulate fossil fuel industry as answer vs promote nuclear industry. One is with conservative ideology one v v much against

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 6h

FLICC framework for inoculation against misinformation - explain how it works. Nobody likes being misled
Fake experts
Logical fallacy
impossible expectation
Cherry picking
Conspiracies

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 6h

tactics used by those pushing misinformation
We cant do anything
Transition of misinfo from problem to solution
Emphasise downsides Individual level answers - Carbon footprints
Focus attention on demand side answers not supply side

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 6h

Elite cues
False balance. How journalists see balance professionally. Scientific v ideological
Capture of academia
Typology of susceptibility- immune, susceptible, vulnerable, amplifier. Can inform comms strategy

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 6h

Drilled
The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well? drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

It matters because it shapes our attitude to policy immensely

S14, Ep3 | The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe we should just cut to the chase and give the district nursing budget straight to multinational pharma companies and be done with it

More on the same topic in this expert opinion.

www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

expert reaction to reports from Politico that the UK government has drawn up proposals to increase the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for drugs | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

We then got talking the Naci paper on opportunity cost of NICE decisions, threshold / drug pricing / UK Life Sciences vs NHS budget / Trump pressure …….

Cue more tumbleweed….. and mutters about “that’s a gov policy decision ….. "meanwhile here’s some cool cutting edge innovations to talk about"

expert reaction to reports from Politico that the UK government has drawn up proposals to increase the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for drugs | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Was in conversation wirh a few innovation and med tec peeps recently

Was all a bit "modern stents and TAVI have saved lives. It’s cool. Innovation is going to save lives. And if it’s better than what replaced it then all’s ok...."

I mentioned my old friend “opportunity cost”.

Cue tumbleweed

expert reaction to reports from Politico that the UK government has drawn up proposals to increase the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for drugs | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

Screen time and academic achievement

"However, the data from this study doesn’t support that argument".....

expert reaction to study of screen time and academic achievement | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Very much so
We broadly know what to do
But there is an awful lot of capture of the narrative and of systems
Thus not alot of do ....
Avoidable harm is the result

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Beliefism
How to stop hating people with different beliefs
Beliefs about beliefs
Tolerating and celebrating diversity
The limits of beliefism in scientifically settled topics

open.spotify.com/episode/3yOs...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - Betting machine gamblers 'offered perks' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3638...

Coral said it takes its commitments to responsible gambling "extremely seriously"

Maybe THIS is what they mean by "responsible gambling"......

Betting machine gamblers 'offered perks'

Betting shop gamblers are offered drinks and free bets to keep them on high stakes machines, staff tell the Victoria Derbyshire programme.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Gill on cities for children
open.spotify.com/episode/15UL...
excellent
a lot on play, spaces, parked cars taking up space

Cities for Children with Tim Gill

open.spotify.com

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe MMWR is just a bit too woke?

Maybe turning off NORAD will be next

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Def no better

Two thoughts

1 -As @maizie333.bsky.social just observed - not dissimilar to the appalling incentive programs that drove elements of the opioid epidemic…

2- I've sat through a fair few licencing committee where operators say how responsible they are to chance of success

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 1d

Irish version of Gam Commission and what it is saying about harm reduction

SURPRISE!!!

recommendations on:
Counsellors
Education
Treatment
Awareness
More research

I guess it will all be ok then…….

grai-cms-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/cms-media/in...

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 2d

Yes not surprising

Makes it no less egregious

To note, I've heard plenty of licence applicants wax lyrically about their robust management of safety of players to both Cllrs on licencing committe (in pursuit of that licence)
And once, in court, to a judge

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Self regulation in action

Its almost too egregious to be true

Ill have it on loud repeat at every licensing committee meeting Im at

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

It always surprises me that minimum unit pricing isn't pitched as a plan to save the Great British Boozer.

Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like the solution to the "problem" of people not going to the pub could be to tax off-trade alcohol a bit more and narrow the price difference and incentives a return to the pub while also raising revenue. Would likely have health gains too.

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 3d

www.adph.org.uk/2025/10/alco...

Alcohol licensing reforms

From a public health point of view, it's... well a little disappointing...

Its almost as if there wasn't some concern about high and rising alcohol harm and it's impact on families, UKPLC and the NHS

Alcohol licensing reforms - ADPH

www.adph.org.uk

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 4d

And this is timely

Seven reasons why GP consultations are getting more complex

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Seven reasons why GP consultations are getting more complex

General practice has become more clinically complicated, alongside the diminishing workforce and increasing demand. Jo Best explores the causes—and possible solutions Steve Taylor has been a GP for a...

www.bmj.com

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 4d

Let's call it for what it is
The gizmo budget is basically the primary care budget

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 4d

Our old friend opportunity cost

Nobody likes to talk about him

But he is there.....lurking round the corner of every "amazing new thing" that makes the headlines ....

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 5d

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Plastic pollution is a worsening public health crisis, but there are solutions

Supply side solutions needed
Regulation of fossil fuel industry and its derivatives

Demand side answers mostly pointless

Plastic pollution is a worsening public health crisis, but there are solutions

We need to put humans and the environment before corporate profits, writes Bethanie Carney Almroth Plastics have become a concern at the forefront of public environmental awareness campaigns and in ...

www.bmj.com

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