Mark Petticrew
@markpetticrew.bsky.social
Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
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The government’s licensing reforms process has been rushed, opaque, and dominated by industry - and could seriously weaken public health
🎙️In our latest podcast, we spoke to Prof Niamh Fitzgerald & Dr @jamesnicholls.bsky.social about the proposals🎧 @stir.ac.uk
Links: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gove...
🎙️In our latest podcast, we spoke to Prof Niamh Fitzgerald & Dr @jamesnicholls.bsky.social about the proposals🎧 @stir.ac.uk
Links: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gove...
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The government’s licensing reforms process has been rushed, opaque, and dominated by industry - and could seriously weaken public health
🎙️In our latest podcast, we spoke to Prof Niamh Fitzgerald & Dr @jamesnicholls.bsky.social about the proposals🎧 @stir.ac.uk
Links: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gove...
🎙️In our latest podcast, we spoke to Prof Niamh Fitzgerald & Dr @jamesnicholls.bsky.social about the proposals🎧 @stir.ac.uk
Links: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gove...
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A new analysis of more than 10,000 first-time drink-driving cases reveals a troubling disparity.
Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequences
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A new analysis of more than 10,000 first-time drink-driving cases reveals a troubling disparity.
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As the Soft-Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) is extended to cover milkshakes and pre-packaged lattes, it's worth taking a look back at some of the findings from the evaluation of the SDIL undertaken by @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues.
studies.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/sdil
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studies.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/sdil
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As the Soft-Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) is extended to cover milkshakes and pre-packaged lattes, it's worth taking a look back at some of the findings from the evaluation of the SDIL undertaken by @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues.
studies.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/sdil
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studies.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/sdil
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Today’s episode of “Academic Gatekeeping”: my paper was sent back because the paragraphs had 6pt spacing between them. Apparently the biggest threat to quality scholarship is… paragraph gaps. #AcademicSky
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Today’s episode of “Academic Gatekeeping”: my paper was sent back because the paragraphs had 6pt spacing between them. Apparently the biggest threat to quality scholarship is… paragraph gaps. #AcademicSky
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Ultra processed food does harm to every major organ in your body. But hey, it makes them some very large profits, so the lobbyists keep working hard to sell it to you.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Ultra processed food does harm to every major organ in your body. But hey, it makes them some very large profits, so the lobbyists keep working hard to sell it to you.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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This new paper in the Lancet shows the power of social network analysis and data visualization to convey complex connections among the global political influence of the ultra processed foods industry.
I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This new paper in the Lancet shows the power of social network analysis and data visualization to convey complex connections among the global political influence of the ultra processed foods industry.
I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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They are easily identifiable actually. Read the first paper in the Lancet Series.
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
They are easily identifiable actually. Read the first paper in the Lancet Series.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
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“Challenge scientific orthodoxy”
They just can’t stop sanewashing him
They just can’t stop sanewashing him
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“Challenge scientific orthodoxy”
They just can’t stop sanewashing him
They just can’t stop sanewashing him
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Pressure is rightly growing on organisations to explain why they are taking money from an industry that kills more than half of it's long-term customers.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
London Philharmonic and Royal Academy defend ties with tobacco company sponsor - Arts Professional
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has called its continued partnership with an international tobacco giant "critical" to its work.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Pressure is rightly growing on organisations to explain why they are taking money from an industry that kills more than half of it's long-term customers.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
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Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
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classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
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🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook.
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook.
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Does transparency matter between drug companies and politicians? Find out via our Into the Web report: pexlib.net?249750 And use our APPG Influence tracker to see who is connected with whom among health-related All Party Parliamentary Groups: www.appgtracker.net
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Does transparency matter between drug companies and politicians? Find out via our Into the Web report: pexlib.net?249750 And use our APPG Influence tracker to see who is connected with whom among health-related All Party Parliamentary Groups: www.appgtracker.net
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Sum: $$$$
Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏
Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.
Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏
Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Sum: $$$$
Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏
Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.
Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏
Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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"I'm not influenced."
"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."
"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”
Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference
@aimosinc.bsky.social
"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."
"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”
Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference
@aimosinc.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"I'm not influenced."
"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."
"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”
Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference
@aimosinc.bsky.social
"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."
"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”
Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference
@aimosinc.bsky.social
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Chemical producers dodging responsibility for their products, while lobbying to prevent more effective controls…..
Chemical industry pollution - fishers/taxpayers paying the price www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...
Swiss authorities impose ban on sale of PFAS-tainted fish
Pike and perch from Lake Zug in central Switzerland are too contaminated by PFAS, so-called "forever chemicals". Their sale or distribution as food is forbidden with immediate effect.
www.swissinfo.ch
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Chemical producers dodging responsibility for their products, while lobbying to prevent more effective controls…..
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Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org
I Challenge Thee
www.corporateeurope.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org
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Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Excellent and worth following.
"...It’s been dismaying to see so much of the media just repeating the claims of Big Pharma about the unfavourable business environment in this country."
"...It’s been dismaying to see so much of the media just repeating the claims of Big Pharma about the unfavourable business environment in this country."
Fresh thinking about corporate power, only on Critical Takes:
- The duplicity of Big 4 accounting firms.
- Last year a UN panel set high standards for critical mineral mining. How's that going?
- Weak journalism and the UK's Big Pharma saga.
All that and more at:
criticaltakes.org/our-takes/
- The duplicity of Big 4 accounting firms.
- Last year a UN panel set high standards for critical mineral mining. How's that going?
- Weak journalism and the UK's Big Pharma saga.
All that and more at:
criticaltakes.org/our-takes/
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Excellent and worth following.
"...It’s been dismaying to see so much of the media just repeating the claims of Big Pharma about the unfavourable business environment in this country."
"...It’s been dismaying to see so much of the media just repeating the claims of Big Pharma about the unfavourable business environment in this country."
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"A spokesman for the Institute of Makers of Explosives said the industry is highly regulated and views safety as its top priority."
This is what PR experts tell corporate and trade association leaders to say after workers are killed on the job.
It is never true.
Thanks @johnkeilman.bsky.social
This is what PR experts tell corporate and trade association leaders to say after workers are killed on the job.
It is never true.
Thanks @johnkeilman.bsky.social
Regulators Bypassed Building 602. Then It Blew Up.
The site of an explosion that killed 16 workers in Tennessee was part of an “industry that polices itself.”
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"A spokesman for the Institute of Makers of Explosives said the industry is highly regulated and views safety as its top priority."
This is what PR experts tell corporate and trade association leaders to say after workers are killed on the job.
It is never true.
Thanks @johnkeilman.bsky.social
This is what PR experts tell corporate and trade association leaders to say after workers are killed on the job.
It is never true.
Thanks @johnkeilman.bsky.social
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🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
@eupha.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
@eupha.bsky.social