Oh look it's RFK Jr.'s antivax group Children's Health Defense posting about tylenol supposedly causing autism a few days ago
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Oh look it's RFK Jr.'s antivax group Children's Health Defense posting about tylenol supposedly causing autism a few days ago
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I predict it will have something to do with doctors routinely recommending tylenol over ibuprofen (and other NSAIDs) in pregnancy because it's safer.
Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.
RFK's loves reanimating old zombie pseudoscience from crunchy mom spaces. He doesn't have any original ideas, but he has deep connections to anti-vax mama culture.
Prediction: it's mom's fault for wanting pain relief and it's mainstream medicine's fault for promoting folic acid supplementation (instead of "all-natural" folate). Tl;dr version: Big Pharma and bad moms = autism
I first saw this rhetoric in crunchy mom spaces over a decade ago. Tylenol is routinely blamed for everything under the sun and folic acid supplementation in pregnancy is often vilified as well.
I have doubts that her husband's problem is actually caused by her...
Congrats! 🎉
YES
"Chat, what should I call myself that's bigger than Goddess?" *Fingers crossed for something cool*
Or Empress of Primary Care? Too long?
Clearly I need to consider a rebrand. Is Science Princess taken?
I especially love it when these influencers have a little quiz that is invariably gamed to make sure almost everyone is told they could benefit from the influencer's product. It's not scientific. It's a marketing funnel. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
The Glucose Goddess is everywhere. She advocates for the wearing of a continuous glucose monitor even if you don't have diabetes, and she sells a supplement. Is she medicalizing normalcy? My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
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Exactly. There's already a relationship and there will continue to be one.
Great question. Seems like they're just embarrassed to have been caught communicating in public rather than in private.
You host a fascist because you want to hear some fashy ideas and make some new fashy friends. Not for "intel" JFC. How is anyone fooled by this argument?
This is how political partisanship melts people's brains. Any behaviour can be rationalized so long as it's MY team doing it. Hosting a fascist? Well that's bad if the OTHER team does it, but if MY team is doing it then it must be for good reasons only. You need a moral compass, not a team.
Many of these same people will also use their unexamined survivor bias to claim that we shouldn't have spent so much on the COVID response in the first place. Even though we absolutely embarrassed ourselves globally with our dismal LTC mortality rates.
Crunchy moms: "I'm not vaccinating my kids, they're not a SCIENCE EXPERIMENT." Also crunchy moms: "Anyway so here are the 10 different unregulated, untested and unproven supplements I give my kids everyday. Here are discount codes for 5 of them, and the other 5 you'll have to join my MLM to get."
I'm going to start using this line. So good!
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sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
In regard to the Florida surgeon general comparing vaccine mandates to slavery: this is a tactic as old as vaccines themselves. The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review (1880). @bachynski.bsky.social
I have elderly patients that lived almost their whole lives with the after-effects of polio. This is very upsetting.
I hope so. This is so scary.
Florida woke up today and chose polio, measles, and tetanus.
Yeah I think it could be a really cute dress (and I love mid-century fashion in general), but this bad fit is not helping.
House of God but instead of lusting after nurses, writing fake chart notes to trick attendings, and denigrating older people they advocated for better infection control practices to reduce nosocomial COVID.
I can't believe I sat politely through endless old man "back in my day" lectures from my attendings just to end up here...
Medical culture: 30 hours shifts? Pfft, in my day we used to do 72 hour call and you didn't see us complaining. You're a doctor, not a weak human. Also medical culture: Now just remember masks are hard to wear so no judging! Masks give you pimples and fog your glasses. We're only human after all.
Why does it fit so badly? The more I look at this photo the more that bugs me.
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
How am I supposed to keep my enemies list up to date? Or learn what utility bills I no longer have to pay?
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Sometimes I say "during COVID restrictions" or "before we all got vaccinated" if I'm in a situation where the discussion might be contentious.
Really "during COVID" just means "when govts cared about COVID" in my mind.
this, plus usually when people say "during covid" they mean "when there were government interventions that impacted my life" so I will say something that distinguishes this from the impact of the virus itself
Yup. Also I sometimes think/write about it as the period of time when govts around the world were engaged in meaningful tracking of cases, hospitalization, and mortality. It was a unique time of data transparency that went in the complete opposite direction after early 2022.
Definitely easier when your parents are able to keep an eye on it and set your routines.
Three times/day is hard to remember for most people, it usually means taking meds with you to work. And this is a nasal spray, which many people find gross. And also for prevention, not treatment, which means even less incentive to remember it in the middle of the day.
I say "early years of COVID" or something similar to refer to the first 2 yrs. Also: "prior to the widespread ending of COVID mitigations." Another useful distinction is "pre-vaccine period" to capture the intensity of 2020 specifically.
Sounds promising but nobody's going to use a nasal spray three times/day with regularity.
www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2017/04/what...
🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶
Can't wait to learn about all the infections the CDC plan to laugh off because they affect *certain people* more so than others.
The CDC forgot to laugh mockingly about mpox because they've gone back in time to the 1980s when diseases affecting gay men were hilarious.
We cannot stop talking about this: attacks on maternity units Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan...are deliberate tactics of conflict that target civilians. I argue this in Sick of It - politicians decry some cases (Ukraine), ignore others, but can't claim not to know. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
These hormonal middle aged men are too emotional and irrational to understand the science of contraception. Better enact some controls on their voting rights - who knows what kind of unscientific nonsense will spin their dizzy little heads? Anyway, I prefer when they just smile and don't post.
From the man himself, what the deletion of @joho.bsky.social’s channel at the hands of YouTube via Vinay Prasad means. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...
#neverforget
Caryma Sa’d and Adam Lee Wasserman have been harassing and stalking private citizens for years now. They are both dangerous menaces.
"Pleeeese Joe Rogan, have me on again. I agree with everything you say and all your points (even the openly racist ones) are soooo smart and insightful. Please let me say that to you in person."
Important thread about state violence enacted through bureaucracy to criminalize trans people's bodies and relationships.
Dog bites man headline. Since 2020 we have literally added a virus that most people now get once or twice per year. Add in that it also often comes with a post-viral condition. Why is it never mentioned that **of course** people are taking more sick days? Most predictable thing ever.
A "unique option for cognitive support." Unique??? That's not actually a positive term lol. It just means "no one else has had the stupid idea to squirt dye into an IV bag and sell it as a brain enhancer."
Oh wowww. So hard to imagine in the modern context.
The Smurfs movie no one wants to see: The Smurfs Go Intravascular
I'm captivated by how gross that photo looks. Yes please put that stuff that looks like crushed smurf directly into my veins!
A fair assessment. "Supporting health" is the way grifters make health claims while pretending for legal reasons that they aren't making health claims.
Just starting IVs out of the goodness of their hearts!
Doctors just want to stuff you full of artificial chemicals and ruin your natural immunity. Instead try this textile dye pumped straight into your veins... just like nature intended of course.
I've been 💔 about this case ever since I learned about it several months ago. Rheanna Laderoute deserved so much more than what she got at Southlake hospital. Terrific reporting as always from @wendyglauser.bsky.social, who has been holding Southlake and Marko Duic to account since 2018.
My grandmother has stories about reading a book while sitting on a park bench in Moscow in the dead of winter as my mom slept nearby in a stroller. I also did lots of freezing cold winter stroller/carrier naps. But I can't imagine sitting on a bench! It would feel so much colder!
This is my fave too.
Omg the freezer!
Yes, there were always open windows in my house - especially bedrooms - to fulfill the "fresh air" commandment. Just pile on the blankets! This is a semi-debate in my house now, as I like having the window open a crack when I sleep, but my husband finds it weird when the temps are very high or low.
Yeah I think this is still common throughout Scandinavia and also Russia. One of many cultural similarities between the 2 regions (which could be considered 1 region depending on how you look at the history). I didn't end up doing this with my own kids but I do think it's pretty adorable.
I was raised by ppl who could have been one of the babies in this photo. In turn, I was also bundled up and put outside to nap as a baby in the early 1980s in Toronto. Fresh air helps babies grow, don't you know.
I’m with The Weeknd: bring back the SkyDome
He's back like a stubborn pimple. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
And now government doctors got my entire channel removed. Don’t worry. I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
The Free Speech Gang strikes again.
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment. And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
So regressive & dystopian it feels like, um, The Handmaid’s Tale…👇 “…public school board is yanking more than 200 books from its library…” “…including literary classics such as author Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’” MAGA Alberta: edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto....
If you're American, looking for a COVID shot, read this thread, which includes updates further down.
Anti-trans bigotry is exactly what this is. Assuming a stranger in a bathroom is more likely to be a predator because they're trans is a perfect example of transphobia. Cis people are not automatically more innocent because they're cis.
Yes all of that, but also some psych clincs just flat out refuse to consult for a diagnosis. This is especially an issue for ASD and ADHD. "Sorry we don't do that, send back to FM for review." 🤬
I call this the Schrodinger's Decline: Issue is simultaneously too complicated for the specialist to see but also perfectly appropriate to dump back on the generalist. Psych does this to us All. The. Time.
The Canadian health care system is utterly dependent on immigrants at every level of health care worker.
Unfortunately he is indeed a real life doctor working in ON. But he's definitely lying about the fact that overwhelmingly patients who can't speak English come with a family member or friend who can translate. And every major hospital also has a translation service.
I think he's trying to be vague in the hopes it will escape notice.
This one? Yeah he's a very special boy. CPSO has gotten him a few times, including for social media activity.
Not that the racism isn't also horrific but the tweets that blame the victim for her own death because she got pregnant unintentionally and then sought an abortion are too disgusting to share IMO.
It's like saying emerg wait times are long because so many elderly patients forget to wear their hearing aids and it takes longer to repeat everything.
This is one of my recent faves of this genre because of how incredibly stupid it is.
The xenophobic urge to make every health care issue into an anti-immigrant smear. Either immigrants are clogging up the hospitals as patients.... Or they've overrun hospital staffing. Just... pick one. It can't be both!
I thought about sharing some of the really disgusting anti-abortion tweets I've seen, but I won't.
News: 2 women died of sepsis in ON hospitals after nurses repeatedly appealed to doctors to take their condition seriously but were ignored. Twitter: But did you know that some nurses are Black? And some are also immigrants?
ICYMI #medsky #emsky #womenshealth #onhealth #canhealth #canadasky
They're just being kept warm in a human-shaped NPC containment vessel until Bryan Johnson needs one.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Lmao. Perhaps they would be interested in selling some sperm along with a spare kidney or two?
The medical term is: spare kidneys on legs.
Look at all these poor people walking around with a rich person's kidney in their body.