Dr Tahir Turk
@tahirturk.bsky.social
Adj Professor Dow University of Health Sciences. Behavioural scientist and practitioner. World traveller to locations most avoid. Passionate about public health, the environment, being active and supporting positive change in the most vulnerable.
Well he Wood, wouldn’t he? “One had to see where antisemitism originated, why has it suddenly emerged recently.” What a clown! Let Labor get on with the job and stop wasting taxpayer funds on lawyers identifying the bleeding obvious. #PigsAtTheTrough
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Well he Wood, wouldn’t he? “One had to see where antisemitism originated, why has it suddenly emerged recently.” What a clown! Let Labor get on with the job and stop wasting taxpayer funds on lawyers identifying the bleeding obvious. #PigsAtTheTrough
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
@SMH joins Murdoch media to stick the boots into Labor by providing a former conservative treasurer with a double page to spread more division in the community. #BondiAttack
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@SMH joins Murdoch media to stick the boots into Labor by providing a former conservative treasurer with a double page to spread more division in the community. #BondiAttack
"The future of public health policy must be shaped by independent evidence — not by companies that profit from addiction." Nice and very true for advocates naive enough to be lured in by novel tobacco products. acosh.org/big-tobacco-...
Big tobacco tax tantrums lead to dirty ashtray gongs - Australian Council on Smoking & Health
Big tobacco tax tantrums lead to dirty ashtray gongs British American Tobacco’s (BAT) efforts to roll back taxes on tobacco, reframe regulation and rehabilitate its image, has earned it this year’s Di...
acosh.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"The future of public health policy must be shaped by independent evidence — not by companies that profit from addiction." Nice and very true for advocates naive enough to be lured in by novel tobacco products. acosh.org/big-tobacco-...
Despite $100 million in fines, Star Casino still allows a pensioner to launder close to a $1 million in dirty money. And @AlboMP Australian government is still reluctant to address this miserable industry destroying lives and fuelling crime.
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Despite $100 million in fines, Star Casino still allows a pensioner to launder close to a $1 million in dirty money. And @AlboMP Australian government is still reluctant to address this miserable industry destroying lives and fuelling crime.
When the Australian government sees gun violence, they don't just offer condolences to the victims, they act to ensure there are less guns on the street to prevent it from happening ever again. They put people's lives before gun lobby profits. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
When the Australian government sees gun violence, they don't just offer condolences to the victims, they act to ensure there are less guns on the street to prevent it from happening ever again. They put people's lives before gun lobby profits. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
This is what powerful health communication looks like. We made this TV spot and poster in WA in the 1980s. The resultant media interest provided an additional 62 mins of “hot news” content cementing Yul Brynner in the minds of message receivers four decades later.
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is what powerful health communication looks like. We made this TV spot and poster in WA in the 1980s. The resultant media interest provided an additional 62 mins of “hot news” content cementing Yul Brynner in the minds of message receivers four decades later.
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We had 0 Measles before Fucking Asshole CON ARTIST TRUMP got back into Office. NOW over 400 cases of Measles this year & it's growing! Blame the FUCKING PARENTS? THEY GET SOME BLAME FOR KILLING THEIR CHILDREN BUT IT'S TRUMP, RFK JR, OZ & OTHERS ARE KILLING KIDS & PEOPLE! VACCINATE YOUR DAMN KIDS!
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We had 0 Measles before Fucking Asshole CON ARTIST TRUMP got back into Office. NOW over 400 cases of Measles this year & it's growing! Blame the FUCKING PARENTS? THEY GET SOME BLAME FOR KILLING THEIR CHILDREN BUT IT'S TRUMP, RFK JR, OZ & OTHERS ARE KILLING KIDS & PEOPLE! VACCINATE YOUR DAMN KIDS!
What happens when you have cookers running your health policy. "Of the 111 measles cases recorded in the state’s northwest region, 105 involved people who were unvaccinated while three were partially vaccinated." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates
A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What happens when you have cookers running your health policy. "Of the 111 measles cases recorded in the state’s northwest region, 105 involved people who were unvaccinated while three were partially vaccinated." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“Authorities seized 2.53 billion cigarette sticks and 435.46 tonnes of loose-leaf tobacco—equivalent to over 2,091 tonnes of illicit tobacco—preventing an estimated $4.36 billion in duty evasion during the financial year.” That's got to hurt the gangs! simonchapman6.com/2025/12/09/a...
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“Authorities seized 2.53 billion cigarette sticks and 435.46 tonnes of loose-leaf tobacco—equivalent to over 2,091 tonnes of illicit tobacco—preventing an estimated $4.36 billion in duty evasion during the financial year.” That's got to hurt the gangs! simonchapman6.com/2025/12/09/a...
One has to wonder how many deaths could have been averted had industry groups not repeatedly diverted scientific evidence on harms in order to continue to sell products they knew were killing their customers. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Study on popular weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC News
An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t...
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
One has to wonder how many deaths could have been averted had industry groups not repeatedly diverted scientific evidence on harms in order to continue to sell products they knew were killing their customers. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates and approves vaccines, including seasonal flu shots.
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid
Prasad’s arguments “misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record.”…
arstechnica.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates and approves vaccines, including seasonal flu shots.
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Thank-you Elon.
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Thank-you Elon.
“We’re now seeing patterns of recreational access to a drug (Cannabis) rather than medical access.” Just as we predicted when you have a loose regulatory regime. Snakeskin shysters online making a quick buck at the public’s expense.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“We’re now seeing patterns of recreational access to a drug (Cannabis) rather than medical access.” Just as we predicted when you have a loose regulatory regime. Snakeskin shysters online making a quick buck at the public’s expense.
Trump is not only a disgrace to the US Presidency, he is a disgrace to the human race! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Trump is not only a disgrace to the US Presidency, he is a disgrace to the human race! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
"The rise of youth-appealing, unauthorised ‘cessation aid’ flavoured inhaler devices in the US closely mimicking e-cigs in look, flavor, and ritual, and marketed as quitting aids despite no FDA authorization" - What happens when you don't close the gate on novel tobacco products.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"The rise of youth-appealing, unauthorised ‘cessation aid’ flavoured inhaler devices in the US closely mimicking e-cigs in look, flavor, and ritual, and marketed as quitting aids despite no FDA authorization" - What happens when you don't close the gate on novel tobacco products.
NZ is often cited as the industry's poster child for "harm reduction" but international tobacco control knows the truth: Policies have reversed world-leading reforms, sabotaged Indigenous tobacco-free aspirations, and supported alarming vaping rates among youth. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand receives 'Dirty Ashtray' award for poor progress in tobacco control
Researchers say New Zealand is attracting international attention for all the wrong reasons.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
NZ is often cited as the industry's poster child for "harm reduction" but international tobacco control knows the truth: Policies have reversed world-leading reforms, sabotaged Indigenous tobacco-free aspirations, and supported alarming vaping rates among youth. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
"Industry groups are now pressuring Jacinta Allan to call for a reduction or pause on the federal government’s excise." More industry interference supported by Murdoch Media NewsCorp who always put business interests ahead of public health. www.tobaccotactics.org/article/alli...
Alliance of Australian Retailers - Tobacco Tactics
https://www.australianretailers.com.au/ AAR website The Alliance of Australian Retailers (AAR) is a tobacco industry front group financed by Philip Morris, Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacc...
www.tobaccotactics.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"Industry groups are now pressuring Jacinta Allan to call for a reduction or pause on the federal government’s excise." More industry interference supported by Murdoch Media NewsCorp who always put business interests ahead of public health. www.tobaccotactics.org/article/alli...
The doomsayers already predicting the end of the world —at least as kids currently know it. If you want to change social and cultural norms for the better, bold moves are needed. Now let them be kids again and interact directly with their peers in healthier more meaningful ways. #SocialMediaBan
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The doomsayers already predicting the end of the world —at least as kids currently know it. If you want to change social and cultural norms for the better, bold moves are needed. Now let them be kids again and interact directly with their peers in healthier more meaningful ways. #SocialMediaBan
Imagine the carnage of an airborne virus with a fatality rate of 50% if it ever went global? This is what we face with the growing mobility of populations and the mutation of deadly viruses including zoonosis which account for more than 60% of infectious diseases. www.lokmattimes.com/internationa...
Death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak rises to five - www.lokmattimes.com
Death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak rises to five - Addis Ababa, Nov 24 The death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg virus disease outbreak has risen to five, the ... Get Latest News on Internationa...
www.lokmattimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Imagine the carnage of an airborne virus with a fatality rate of 50% if it ever went global? This is what we face with the growing mobility of populations and the mutation of deadly viruses including zoonosis which account for more than 60% of infectious diseases. www.lokmattimes.com/internationa...
Since their inception nicotine levels in vapes have increased 5-fold. It’s no accident that the industry wants to get kids hooked for life faster. x.com/i/status/199...
Dr Tahir Turk @tahirturk.bsky.social on X: "Since their inception nicotine levels in vapes have gone up by a 5-fold increase. It’s no accident that the industry wants to get kids hooked for life faster. https://t.co/XFe07ShKdF" / X
Since their inception nicotine levels in vapes have gone up by a 5-fold increase. It’s no accident that the industry wants to get kids hooked for life faster. https://t.co/XFe07ShKdF
x.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Since their inception nicotine levels in vapes have increased 5-fold. It’s no accident that the industry wants to get kids hooked for life faster. x.com/i/status/199...
Just another reason online social media platforms need to be held to account for preying on the young and most vulnerable while making billions in profits. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Meta forecast $24b revenue from scam ads, internal documents show
Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are exposed to fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos, and the sale of banned medical products.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Just another reason online social media platforms need to be held to account for preying on the young and most vulnerable while making billions in profits. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It's impossible to tackle individual level behaviour change with corporate promotion of UPFs: Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ. World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health. 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 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
It's impossible to tackle individual level behaviour change with corporate promotion of UPFs: Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ. World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety-Scientific Reports-Int Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health-Nicotine & Tobacco Research-Internal & Emergency Medicine. We await retraction of manuscripts from lying industry funded advocates claiming no COI. www.lemonde.fr/en/investiga...
The nicotine lobby's secret expert
Greek cardiologist Konstantinos Farsalinos, an influential nicotine researcher, received thousands of euros from the vaping industry via an offshore company, according to documents seen by Le Monde.
www.lemonde.fr
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety-Scientific Reports-Int Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health-Nicotine & Tobacco Research-Internal & Emergency Medicine. We await retraction of manuscripts from lying industry funded advocates claiming no COI. www.lemonde.fr/en/investiga...