Stuart Jones
@stuart-jones3.bsky.social
Clinical Scientist. Luton Town fan. Evidence based testing fan.
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New for @doctors-net-uk.bsky.social
Private healthcare companies are offering whole-body MRI scans, with the promise of early warning of cancer.
But they may create new burdens for our struggling healthcare systems.
https://loom.ly/kyBMQoo
Private healthcare companies are offering whole-body MRI scans, with the promise of early warning of cancer.
But they may create new burdens for our struggling healthcare systems.
https://loom.ly/kyBMQoo
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
New for @doctors-net-uk.bsky.social
Private healthcare companies are offering whole-body MRI scans, with the promise of early warning of cancer.
But they may create new burdens for our struggling healthcare systems.
https://loom.ly/kyBMQoo
Private healthcare companies are offering whole-body MRI scans, with the promise of early warning of cancer.
But they may create new burdens for our struggling healthcare systems.
https://loom.ly/kyBMQoo
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Fascinating piece about how the fear of microplastics is almost certainly overblown.
One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Fascinating piece about how the fear of microplastics is almost certainly overblown.
One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Massive cautionary tale here about getting a "full body scan" to reassure you about your health - this bloke later had a horrible stroke that should have been picked up by the vultures flogging him the scan. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
A $2,500 full body scan said he was healthy. Then he had a catastrophic stroke.
Prenuvo promotes full body MRI scans to detect hazardous conditions early. But medical associations say they may cause unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Massive cautionary tale here about getting a "full body scan" to reassure you about your health - this bloke later had a horrible stroke that should have been picked up by the vultures flogging him the scan. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Misleading medical advice and oversimplifications from AI overviews risk real harm.
🔎Always check trusted, evidence-based sources.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
🔎Always check trusted, evidence-based sources.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Misleading medical advice and oversimplifications from AI overviews risk real harm.
🔎Always check trusted, evidence-based sources.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
🔎Always check trusted, evidence-based sources.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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A classic #WTAF? from the NHS. They have spent serious money deploying a tool to solve a problem that doesn't exist: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... ...
AI being used to help cut A&E waiting times in England this winter
Forecasting tool predicts when demand will be highest, allowing NHS trusts to better plan staffing and bed space
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A classic #WTAF? from the NHS. They have spent serious money deploying a tool to solve a problem that doesn't exist: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... ...
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If we think we need to make hard choices on public services like the NHS today. This is nothing compared to what the future looks like with net emigration & depopulation.
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If we think we need to make hard choices on public services like the NHS today. This is nothing compared to what the future looks like with net emigration & depopulation.
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once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.
🔺UPDATED: Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.
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Without discounting the experience of those men willing to talk about their experiences with prostate cancer, be very cynical about this push for general screening from the charities involved. There is not good evidence that the benefits offset the risks.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Without discounting the experience of those men willing to talk about their experiences with prostate cancer, be very cynical about this push for general screening from the charities involved. There is not good evidence that the benefits offset the risks.
Sounds great but be wary of Galleri. Never any discussion of possible harms from over diagnosis
Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers
The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.
www.bbc.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Sounds great but be wary of Galleri. Never any discussion of possible harms from over diagnosis
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Flu has arrived early this year! We are seeing a lot of flu A(H3) circulating.
Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉
#vaccineworks
Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉
#vaccineworks
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Flu has arrived early this year! We are seeing a lot of flu A(H3) circulating.
Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉
#vaccineworks
Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉
#vaccineworks
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In a parallel universe the world's trillion-dollar energy-abusive Large Metal Mickey machines are focused on finding a cure for cancer and a substitute for antibiotics. Meanwhile, we have sophisticated porn, depopulated public spaces and 20,000 non-human novels a day. Machina ex Deo, amen. 🤖
Nightmare fuel.
“One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO”
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“One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO”
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One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO
Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
In a parallel universe the world's trillion-dollar energy-abusive Large Metal Mickey machines are focused on finding a cure for cancer and a substitute for antibiotics. Meanwhile, we have sophisticated porn, depopulated public spaces and 20,000 non-human novels a day. Machina ex Deo, amen. 🤖
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Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵
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You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad?
Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK.
Superb thread.
Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK.
Superb thread.
IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
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We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad?
Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK.
Superb thread.
Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK.
Superb thread.
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What Wes said. 🧪
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wes Streeting rejects Trump claim linking paracetamol and autism
Health secretary joins medical experts in urging pregnant women to ignore US president’s remarks
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What Wes said. 🧪
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We often worry about the wrong things.
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪
September 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We often worry about the wrong things.
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪
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Anecdotal, but I’ve now lost count of how many men I’ve treated for massive heart attacks with minimal risk factors for heart disease except being on testosterone therapy that they never needed. They’re buying it online or getting it from functional doctors who convince them it’s a panacea
August 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Anecdotal, but I’ve now lost count of how many men I’ve treated for massive heart attacks with minimal risk factors for heart disease except being on testosterone therapy that they never needed. They’re buying it online or getting it from functional doctors who convince them it’s a panacea
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Today I learned... (Just in case any other Brits are also plagued by every Google doc defaulting to US English)
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today I learned... (Just in case any other Brits are also plagued by every Google doc defaulting to US English)
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Four-fifths of all the humans 🤰 who will ever be born may already have been born 🧪
That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies
The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike
www.newscientist.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Four-fifths of all the humans 🤰 who will ever be born may already have been born 🧪
That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
Mass murderer.
(gift link)
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
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This is one of those “oh yeh, that’s obvious” once you know it, but if it’s not an area you know about it might not be obvious until it’s pointed out.
Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.
Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.
Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years.
Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s.
But that's misleading...
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Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s.
But that's misleading...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is one of those “oh yeh, that’s obvious” once you know it, but if it’s not an area you know about it might not be obvious until it’s pointed out.
Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.
Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.
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hi i'm ben your ai chatbot
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
hi i'm ben your ai chatbot
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I remain unconvinced that we are going to see significant improvements in the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
May 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I remain unconvinced that we are going to see significant improvements in the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The concept of ultraprocessed food is unscientific because no one can agree on a definition. Leading proponents of the idea have suggested it includes "foods that can't be made at home" (though if you do make a UPF at home, it magically becomes ok) or "foods with ingredients you can't pronounce".
April 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The concept of ultraprocessed food is unscientific because no one can agree on a definition. Leading proponents of the idea have suggested it includes "foods that can't be made at home" (though if you do make a UPF at home, it magically becomes ok) or "foods with ingredients you can't pronounce".
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy