Matt Oliver
@sameo416.bsky.social
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Matt Oliver
@sameo416.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/18/t... by @mark-ungrin.bsky.social
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health
The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.
canadahealthwatch.ca
Excellent reflect from most awesome friend and colleague @mark-ungrin.bsky.social.
"Five years ago, on April 3, 2020, the world’s top bioaerosol scientists warned the WHO that COVID was transmitted in infectious aerosols, tiny particles that drift in the air like smoke.
"Five years ago, on April 3, 2020, the world’s top bioaerosol scientists warned the WHO that COVID was transmitted in infectious aerosols, tiny particles that drift in the air like smoke.
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“When the agreement came out someone texted me saying, ‘The only thing missing from the agreement is Pierre Poilievre's signature,’ and I went yeah, I think that sums it up,” he said." 👀
In @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social’s first English-media interview since resigning over the pipeline MOU with Alberta, the former cabinet minister said the government isn’t being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments.
'Sorry prime minister, I'm no longer your man': Steven Guilbeault on leaving cabinet
In Steven Guilbeault’s first English-media interview since resigning over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to pursue a pipeline agreement with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the former cabinet m...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“When the agreement came out someone texted me saying, ‘The only thing missing from the agreement is Pierre Poilievre's signature,’ and I went yeah, I think that sums it up,” he said." 👀
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“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
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Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects!
Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance
Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects!
Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance
Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance
55% increase in US military aviation mishaps. 2020-2024
Nice image of a Hornet on the trap in burner.
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Nice image of a Hornet on the trap in burner.
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Recent data shows significant spike in US military aircraft accidents
Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with four years earlier.
www.militarytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
55% increase in US military aviation mishaps. 2020-2024
Nice image of a Hornet on the trap in burner.
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Nice image of a Hornet on the trap in burner.
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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“Twenty-eight cohorts with a total of 977,434,207 participants... We revealed a 40 % increased risk…of mental disorders in patients with COVID-19 compared with non-exposed individuals”
Read that again: A 40% INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086559/
Read that again: A 40% INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086559/
Association between COVID-19 infection and risk of mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed
Our findings suggest an association between COVID-19 and risk of mental disorders, as well as the prescriptions for psychotropic medications. It is imperative for individuals to become vigilant of mental health problems that may arise following COVID-19.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“Twenty-eight cohorts with a total of 977,434,207 participants... We revealed a 40 % increased risk…of mental disorders in patients with COVID-19 compared with non-exposed individuals”
Read that again: A 40% INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086559/
Read that again: A 40% INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086559/
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Hello
usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
usrtk.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hello
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"The unredacted classified report was sent to his buddies and bros on Signal much later on Tuesday night.” 🍸
@drpgolf.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social
@drpgolf.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"The unredacted classified report was sent to his buddies and bros on Signal much later on Tuesday night.” 🍸
@drpgolf.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social
@drpgolf.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social
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On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
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This seems to be pretty much what let COVID get out of control. A few senior pilots locked everyone else out of the room, and insisted designing a plane was a pilots-only problem - even though the engineers had already designed a plane for exactly this situation, and the plans were on the shelf.
🧵:
🧵:
The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This seems to be pretty much what let COVID get out of control. A few senior pilots locked everyone else out of the room, and insisted designing a plane was a pilots-only problem - even though the engineers had already designed a plane for exactly this situation, and the plans were on the shelf.
🧵:
🧵:
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An aircraft analogy can work.
Clinical practice is like flying a plane - it takes skill and practice, you need training and in-the-moment answers.
Making guidance is like building a plane. You want pilot input, but it better be led by aerospace engineers or you'll kill a bunch of people.
Clinical practice is like flying a plane - it takes skill and practice, you need training and in-the-moment answers.
Making guidance is like building a plane. You want pilot input, but it better be led by aerospace engineers or you'll kill a bunch of people.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
An aircraft analogy can work.
Clinical practice is like flying a plane - it takes skill and practice, you need training and in-the-moment answers.
Making guidance is like building a plane. You want pilot input, but it better be led by aerospace engineers or you'll kill a bunch of people.
Clinical practice is like flying a plane - it takes skill and practice, you need training and in-the-moment answers.
Making guidance is like building a plane. You want pilot input, but it better be led by aerospace engineers or you'll kill a bunch of people.
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Mark, do you have any guidance on what folks should say? I’m thinking that some analogies may be useful to help get across the ridiculousness of this - something like “it’s like if your mechanic refused to take input from the air bag manufacturer on how best to install it b/c of risk of ‘bias’”?
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mark, do you have any guidance on what folks should say? I’m thinking that some analogies may be useful to help get across the ridiculousness of this - something like “it’s like if your mechanic refused to take input from the air bag manufacturer on how best to install it b/c of risk of ‘bias’”?
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Sounds like the effort to permanently hand control of preventative health guidance in Canada to this group is being railroaded through, aiming to have it locked in by April 2026, before the public has time to react and start fighting back.
Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.
Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.
OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sounds like the effort to permanently hand control of preventative health guidance in Canada to this group is being railroaded through, aiming to have it locked in by April 2026, before the public has time to react and start fighting back.
Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.
Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.
usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
usrtk.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.
Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.
Rewatching Reservation Dogs season 1 episode 5. “Come and Get Your Love”.
Episode starts with Kaniehtiio Horn playing the Deer Lady getting picked up by a loud guy in a camero.
He asks where she’s going and she names a city in Oklahoma. He says it’s out in Apache country.
She says ‘Kiowa’.
Episode starts with Kaniehtiio Horn playing the Deer Lady getting picked up by a loud guy in a camero.
He asks where she’s going and she names a city in Oklahoma. He says it’s out in Apache country.
She says ‘Kiowa’.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Rewatching Reservation Dogs season 1 episode 5. “Come and Get Your Love”.
Episode starts with Kaniehtiio Horn playing the Deer Lady getting picked up by a loud guy in a camero.
He asks where she’s going and she names a city in Oklahoma. He says it’s out in Apache country.
She says ‘Kiowa’.
Episode starts with Kaniehtiio Horn playing the Deer Lady getting picked up by a loud guy in a camero.
He asks where she’s going and she names a city in Oklahoma. He says it’s out in Apache country.
She says ‘Kiowa’.
Unfortunately regulators often decline to accept complaints at the entry point, as it can often be done with no right of review or appeal, as there’s no substantive decision.
You’d need to obtain a court order directing they accept the complaint and process it, a mandamus in Canada.
You’d need to obtain a court order directing they accept the complaint and process it, a mandamus in Canada.
"The Virginia State Bar cannot initiate a disciplinary investigation based upon what you identify as “potential violations” of disciplinary rules, court rules, the Federal Records Act or U.S.Department of Justice regulations"
Can't or won't ?
How high is the threshold to even *investigate*?
Can't or won't ?
How high is the threshold to even *investigate*?
NEW: The Virginia State Bar has declined to open an ethics investigation into Trump prosecutor Lindsey Halligan — at least for now.
annabower.substack.com/p/virginia-s...
annabower.substack.com/p/virginia-s...
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Unfortunately regulators often decline to accept complaints at the entry point, as it can often be done with no right of review or appeal, as there’s no substantive decision.
You’d need to obtain a court order directing they accept the complaint and process it, a mandamus in Canada.
You’d need to obtain a court order directing they accept the complaint and process it, a mandamus in Canada.
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“Persons who have been incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack." reads the Pentagon’s Law of War Manual theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“Persons who have been incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack." reads the Pentagon’s Law of War Manual theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
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Really appreciate your first-hand perspective - thanks for sharing! Totally agree that, for this to all work, Canada (and the CF specifically) is going to have to move way faster and make a lot of improvements to HR, procurement, etc. - i.e. truly act like this is the crisis it is.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Really appreciate your first-hand perspective - thanks for sharing! Totally agree that, for this to all work, Canada (and the CF specifically) is going to have to move way faster and make a lot of improvements to HR, procurement, etc. - i.e. truly act like this is the crisis it is.
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It’s worth noting that this article Brownstone posted is by Tom Jefferson, author of that dubious Cochrane Review on masking who made statements to the media that Cochrane later had to clarify/correct, explaining they were not supported by their own research.
October 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It’s worth noting that this article Brownstone posted is by Tom Jefferson, author of that dubious Cochrane Review on masking who made statements to the media that Cochrane later had to clarify/correct, explaining they were not supported by their own research.
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The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.
It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
While Gorski and Yamey provided no evidence that Koch money funded the GBD signatories, the BMJ still published their piece….The BMJ article is full of errors that ought to have never found their way into any publication,” wrote Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator. brownstone.org/articles/cov...
Covid Bias at the BMJ ⋆ Brownstone Institute
This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias.’
brownstone.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.
It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
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@adriantomlinson.bsky.social I believe this may be pertinent to your interests :)
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social I believe this may be pertinent to your interests :)
And just saw they’re preparing 50 kits for libraries to help introduce people to native planting.
Want to recognize the awesome work of the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library, enabling the distribution of native seeds in eastern Canada, and teaching many about native plants.
I've been honoured to have some interactions with them, and it always brings me hope to see.
wildflowerseedlibrary.ca
I've been honoured to have some interactions with them, and it always brings me hope to see.
wildflowerseedlibrary.ca
Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library – The Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library
wildflowerseedlibrary.ca
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
And just saw they’re preparing 50 kits for libraries to help introduce people to native planting.
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Note that these grifters are farther ahead in the US, but they are *everywhere*. Medicine's management class selected for the worst of the profession, and now they're all scrabbling for power - and screwing us all over in the process.
Here's the $100M dumpster fire coming soon to Canada:
Here's the $100M dumpster fire coming soon to Canada:
OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Note that these grifters are farther ahead in the US, but they are *everywhere*. Medicine's management class selected for the worst of the profession, and now they're all scrabbling for power - and screwing us all over in the process.
Here's the $100M dumpster fire coming soon to Canada:
Here's the $100M dumpster fire coming soon to Canada:
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In this week’s Stop the Presses newsletter, I wrote about how Team Trump acts macho but is really a bunch of insecure man-babies. Hours after I posted, Pete Hegseth proved my point by using an admiral as a human shield to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
The males of MAGA manspread their insecurity
Trump & Co. bring down the country to lift their fragile egos
www.stopthepresses.news
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In this week’s Stop the Presses newsletter, I wrote about how Team Trump acts macho but is really a bunch of insecure man-babies. Hours after I posted, Pete Hegseth proved my point by using an admiral as a human shield to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
Well done article on the TK matter.
I’ve some thoughts too not yet fully formed.
Claiming you didn’t know raises an earlier question - did you sufficiently inquire into your family lore to do due diligence before declaring yourself Indigenous?
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
I’ve some thoughts too not yet fully formed.
Claiming you didn’t know raises an earlier question - did you sufficiently inquire into your family lore to do due diligence before declaring yourself Indigenous?
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Well done article on the TK matter.
I’ve some thoughts too not yet fully formed.
Claiming you didn’t know raises an earlier question - did you sufficiently inquire into your family lore to do due diligence before declaring yourself Indigenous?
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
I’ve some thoughts too not yet fully formed.
Claiming you didn’t know raises an earlier question - did you sufficiently inquire into your family lore to do due diligence before declaring yourself Indigenous?
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
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🧵New observational study:
Starting metformin within 6 days of COVID was linked to half the long COVID risk compared with patients given other meds (fluvoxamine, fluticasone, ivermectin, montelukast): 4.0% vs 8.5% (aRR 0.47). Small study, but aligns with #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #IDSky #SciSky 1/2
Starting metformin within 6 days of COVID was linked to half the long COVID risk compared with patients given other meds (fluvoxamine, fluticasone, ivermectin, montelukast): 4.0% vs 8.5% (aRR 0.47). Small study, but aligns with #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #IDSky #SciSky 1/2
Metformin at the time of Covid-19 infection and risk of Long Covid: A Target Trial Emulation Study
Background: Our objective was to evaluate metformin prescribed at the time of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the risk of developing Long Covid (LC) in electronic health record data. Methods: We conducted a n...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM