mRNA vaccines are a game-changer. Faster to develop, generally safer, easy to modify, huge potential for wider applications (e.g. cancer). If the vaccine has been approved, it's already been thoroughly tested in randomised controlled trials. Nobody's trying to poison anyone with these vaccines.
DECODE ME has published its results.
Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh.
Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness.
www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...
Deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of our dear friend, colleague and @who.int Envoy David Nabarro.
David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)
Nature is telling us, but we aren’t listening.
I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting."
Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.
WTAF was the World This Weekend doing giving credence to climate “scepticism” just now? I thought the BBC had finished with achieving “balance” by talking to both sides of the argument on global heating.
Who’s on RFK’s new vaccine advisory group? What are their conflicts of interest? Read and weep. open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...
If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
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We were so goddamn close.
You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
I'm usually immune to being shocked...
Emissions from Land use and forestry (LULUCF) are set to nearly double, and match emissions from transport (!) in the 2030s, as forests are harvested and become a major carbon source.
‘Staggering’ scale of injuries is ‘barbaric’, says surgeon in Gaza
www.channel4.com/news/stagger...
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
@krishgm.bsky.social I would be delighted to debunk the outrageous vaccine misinformation and spin we heard from your guest here.
I'm astonished that @channel4news.bsky.social felt it was newsworthy.
www.channel4.com/news/rfks-ne...
Everyone should watch the last 12min of BBC Politics Live. That was awful, a toe curling experience. A Labour government minister, his Tory shadow counterpart, and the BBC chief political correspondent all trying to defend the new hostile environment in the presence of a foreigner impacted by it.
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Michael Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist & academic, he’s a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Here narrating his own poem 👇
There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.
A brilliant article, a cut out and keep.
The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
"People will die... but we will never know."
That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
So I return from Munich to Lithuania with dark thoughts on my mind. And while I accept that the statements made by the US Vice President were the necessary medicine for a lethargic Europe, I just pray the cure doesn’t kill the patient.🧵17/17
This is not a draining of the swamp or “low-productivity workers” that the Trump administration imagines filling seats at the CDC—but the future of our epidemiology infrastructure.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
This is not good science. It’s flawed in so many ways. There is a huge body of evidence showing that vaccines do NOT cause neuro developmental disorders.
Our new investigation found:
- Last year, the UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides considered so hazardous they are banned here
- Including: enough bee-killing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to spray an area larger than England
- Syngenta was responsible for 98% of these banned pesticide exports
One Donatello sculpture would have killed them?
