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'Something is very wrong': Ex-Trump insider flags 'alarming' news about president's health www.rawstory.com/trump-someth...
And with the disproportionate focus on metrics over content (paralleling the narrow perspective in the corporate world, (pump stock $ short term damn safety a La Boeing) the institutions aren’t really interested. B/c the worst offenders are likely those with the best metrics, just like Boeing.
Well, this is entirely on point. From experience with multiple institutions, Canada's research integrity processes are completely inadequate. They automatically cover for influential individuals no matter what they do, even when lives and health are on the line. H/T @mjnabuurs.bsky.social
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#ThePitt star Noah Wyle: “I find it infuriating that we still can’t come to a consensus that masks cut down on transmission of disease. I find it infuriating that we still won’t acknowledge that vaccines are an important way of eradicating disease.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lFErS
The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
I recall learning about Lysenko in most, if not all of the science classes I had in high school and university. Did the USA stop teaching about Lysenko? The USA has become a slightly different version of the Soviet Union and it's heading in the same direction.
Perhaps this is their opportunity to build something better.
Good interview. One of the things not talked about is the environmental exposures to toxic materials and the subsequent increased risk of exposure. A real OHSA issue that not many want to hear about. This will be an increasing risk in NA and Western Europe - relaxation of environmental standards
AGAIN, poor assessment and management of risk and abandonment of the precautionary principle. This must be so frustrating for those like you who hold the precautionary principle in high regard. As Taleb would say, those making the rules and guidelines have no skin in the game. Not a good thing.
That say there should be no regulation, business should be allowed to operate and the market will control things like worker protection. Except wasn’t that why worker protection, child labour laws and occupational health were created in the first place?
I’ve wanted to ask David Michael’s opinion on today’s deregulation given how many years it took him to get silica on the list of OSHA controlled compounds. Listening to a podcast on democracy in the USA through history (Scene on Radio season 4), interesting the libertarian forces at work.
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"What specific book-banning lists are going to do is limit the amount of material that's available to students, limit the amount of topics that can be discussed and just create a culture of fear in the classroom." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The PHA still gives the CMOH that authority but there’s a whole section about the minister and orders in council now. I was surprised to hear her declare that cabinet made the decisions after reading the PHA. Not many reasonable paths of interpretation supporting deferral to cabinet.
In AB the PHA was written to place that authority only with the CMOH. In a challenge the court concluded cmoh orders were unreasonable as they were based on an unreasonable interpretation of the law that placed the decision making authority with cabinet (PICC) www.canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/d...
Yeah, in an ideal world there would be more independence between legislators and public health officials, i.e. they (public health) suggests an array of options which are all relatively sound and legislators pick one.
That’s what I’m saying. She deserves to be condemned.
If I could, I'd draw cartoon. 1. Stool 3 legs: Vaccines, public education, ppe & engineered controls. Diversity of ppl sitting 2. Public ed leg shortened, ppe leg replaced by masked disabled, immunocompromised, racialized ppl holding up stool. Ppl on stool partying under Vax N Relax Banner
And if you fear that you will now be at higher risk of death and complications because you cannot stay up to date on vaccines, please consider for a moment that that is the burden you’ve been happy to put on disabled and vulnerable people for several years.
If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.
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It's like Americans saying they're trying to save democracy. Dude, it's gone. Fight to get it back.
waiting patiently for me to trap him under the fitted sheets when making the bed
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. (Published Dec. 2024)
A rationalisation for keeping her lavish paycheque? I wish all MOHs stood up and refused to toe the line. That would've been something. "We stand for Public Health, not harmful political BS." But I also hoped the world would stand up & refuse to trade with the USR.
IIRC there were big cuts to public health in ON prior to 2020 which resulted in many people leaving which may have paved the way for the 2020 failures. Of course it might go back to 2003 and not learning from Sars1.
Any claims that this was sudden are bizarre so many years into the decline
Might have brought it into stark clarity earlier. We have a Court of King’s Bench decision saying the CMOH unduly fettered her authority, but came out long after the fact. I’ve made mistakes, but so far never one that a court said involved violating the law (refusing to use authority).
How is it better that she was a lapdog? I hear this argument a lot but principled action would have changed perspectives in important ways. The only reason to capitulate is attachment to her lavish paycheque.
This is a super article - discovered the first director of the CDC in USA was an engineer, and it had a unique discipline, public health engineering. www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16...
I have a very limited understanding of public health history gleaned from museums and plaques but it seems like engineers got involved early on to resolve systems problems and then after years of things gong well, medicine took over and pushed out systems thinking.
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If only the people in charge had been receptive to incorporating different ways of thinking and solving problems they might not have been perceived as political and expendable by so many people.
She said that 'elected officials are the decision-makers'. Which is fine, except when it came to public health the law placed that decision-making authority in her office.
I agree! Suspect in earlier times PH leaders would have said, "no fing way" followed by "if you fire me I'll be on every talk show for months explaining how you're lapdogs to corporations". In Alberta our CMOH willingly gave over authority she held in law to the cabinet covid committee.
We needed independent aerosol engineering experts + healthcare/epidemiological experts. We got MOHs reporting directly to Ministers of Health, thereby politicising it. Politicians listened to corporations and small businesses, pols avoid costs. The system worked as designed, to our detriment.
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If you search “Dalhousie University” on posts in LinkedIn then you can get a sense of the institutional harm caused by the president’s decision to lock faculty out on Aug 20—just wall-to-wall outrage. Still locked out btw. No email, no Brightspace, no library resources, no office… #KeepDalStrong
To end the lockout, Dalhousie Board of Governors has asked the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) @dalfaculty.bsky.social to engage in *interest arbitration to reach a new collective agreement. *What is this? ca.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/7-517-3011?
I have a lot of sympathy with Dalhousie's financial position in these negotiations, but the offer to enter arbitration now, and start class next week, is complete B.S. We've been locked out a week, which means the university has pocketed ~$3M of salaries from Dal faculty. 1/4 #KeepDalStrong
Perhaps you have seen the newest presser by @dalhousie.bsky.social (www.dal.ca/dept/hr/labo...) about interest arbitration. Note: THEY CONVINIENTLY LEFT OUT THAT THE @dalfaculty.bsky.social WOULD HAVE TO DROP ALL UNRESOLVED ITEMS They have had since May to bargain and have not. #KeepDalStrong
We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...
"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."
The air is so bad here from the fires that people are staying indoors all over the state and this is what they do.
What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently
This is true. My mathematician husband had a comic on his office door for years, ranking sciences by reliability on an x/y axis. Most reliable: math Least reliable: sociology. 🙄 And he wonders why he doesn't see danger coming, & why his writer/artist wife has to explain things to him.
Yes!! And what if those same scientists weren’t so willing to trade in and lob off their humanist, art, and social scientist colleagues they claim are the reason their funds are threatened, flatly misunderstanding the very nature of the politics of their actions and of this moment.
When we were in the throes of the early COVID pandemic, I BEGGED a molecular biologist on Twitter to contact the media with his findings. Me: "You're a scientist, they will respect you, & you could save lives. Trump is lying!" He was like, "That's not my role, I can't do that!"
Genuinely embarrassed for the scientists and science-defenders who are responding to and QPing that thread with comments that indicate baseline bad reading comprehension your whole schtick is "we respect data" but do you read? anyway this is why I had to write that white empiricism paper
I’ve got news for you. The foundations of public health cracked in 2020 when they mostly flubbed completely the response to sars2. Using ascientific approaches and telling outright untruths (sterilizing vaccine anyone), plus the ‘unsure if masks work’ bs. That completely undercut PH credibility.
Another excellent piece out by @drjudystone.bsky.social. Please read it and spread the word that RFK Jr. must go. Now.
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That is as true as needing one and one-half turns of threads past the nut. (an engineering rule of thumb)
2/ Link to the research paper - "Engineering Infection Controls to Reduce Indoor Transmission of Respiratory Infections": www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
1/ This large review of research evaluating the effectiveness of air cleaning technologies was written by a preponderance of medical people, & only 2 engineers (including William Bahnfleth, Fellow/Presidential Member of #ASHRAE): theconversation.com/most-air-cle...
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
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In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
"The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero."
It’s probably true
Absolutely not. That sounds like something that might not be ready for prime time The shift to an inflammatory hypothesis makes a lot of sense. Both the shingles and now an rsv vaccine have been associated with reduced dementia risk
In the interests of public education around what breaches of research integrity look like, here are the examples given in Canada's "Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research (2021)" on a bingo card.
It’s very cool that you can still see that river lot/Dominion grid system interface in the roads in Lockport, Manitoba. I’ll be there next month will try to drive this stretch.
Four years later I finally finished knitting Frog and Toad. Took years to work up the courage to seek the eyes. 🧶 Scheepjes Stone Washed Pattern: Frog and Toad by Frog and Cast
many Métis were given land grants far from the close family groupings which was the default. Or were allowed to be purchased by land speculators. Some reports suggest over 80% of Métis lands were lost this way, launching the 100 years of darkness as the road allowance people.
pieces of riverfront to be owned by one person. And like the Scot’s experience with survey, the Métis ultimately lost most of their landholdings when the Manitoba Act of 1870 wasn’t implemented to ensure the honour of the Crown was fulfilled. Rather than keeping their settled lands as promised,
Unlike today’s valuations where the mansions go on the river bank. The Métis use of the French seigneurial system emphasized the commons, guided by a set of rules and protocols for use of the prairie. It was a radical affront to the English desire to impose a grid system. The grid allowed big
The green overlay is a modern road map showing that zig zag pattern still exists in the roads today. As do the shape of the river lots with some amalgamation. Red River is off the bottom of the map. The narrow lots gave each family water access, and access to shared hay lands in the prairie.
My ancestors fled Scotland partly as a result of these actions. To end up in the Red River Settlement where the Dominion Land Survey was one tool used to displace Métis land holdings This 1877 map shows long narrow river lots meeting the Dominion grid system in St Andrew’s parish.
Ordnance Survey (OS) maps originated in 1747 after the Jacobite Rising of 1745. King George II commissioned a military survey of the Scottish Highlands to suppress dissent. The primary aim was to provide the British Army with detailed military maps to control and suppress the local population.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
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The constant is Settler Colonial structures being unable to recognize established and mature societies that were superbly adapted to live and thrive in a particular environment, something Europeans were still struggling with. home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/06...
“When you look at the scale of farming, this would require the kind of labor organization that is typically associated with a much larger, state-level hierarchical society," said Dartmouth archaeologist Madeleine McLeester. Unless it was a labour org of a different sort.
But of course, where lands were cultivated, the Settlers didn't recognize that either as it didn't fit the European understanding of agriculture. Witness 'stunned archeologists' after finding unknown 330 acre network of raised garden beds. archaeology.org/news/2025/06...
The 'land...as waste' here is a well-known colonial trope. Lands used for fishing, hunting, ceremonial purposes that weren't actively lived on and cultivated were seen as 'waste' in colonial framing. As everyone civilized knew that cultivating land was a mark of mature society.
A decision like this should spark the province to begin good faith discussions with the Nations and landowners in order to find a resolution that preserves "justice and humanity". That's all Indigenous have wanted since first contact, to have the terms of your Settler laws lived out fully. /fin
This one will go all the way to the Supreme Court b/c the government is terrified at the impact of being held to the 'humanity and justice' standard. That appeal route is unlikely to be of much relief, given the common law trends of the past few decades. www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/d...
The province also said it preferred to resolution through negotiation, attempted by the nations and not accepted by the province. B/c negotiating over miles of forest and mountain that's mostly Crown land is one thing, a piece of Vancouver quite another. "Outrageous!" you can hear the comments.
regardless of how it was obtained, is unclear, the entire colonial enterprise may fall. Unfortunately, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the lack of treaty-making in most of BC makes this a legally predictable outcome. The province immediately announced intention to appeal, b/c of course it did.
BC, Canada and Richmond all argued it was too late to undo history, and that fee simple title to lands is absolute and Aboriginal title should be suspended or considered extinguished. Predictable responses when the bedrock of Settler colonialism is so directly challenged. If your title to land,
From the article: “The ancient fishing ground on the Lower Fraser of the Cowichan nation, where 700 to 1,000 Indians have been accustomed to assemble to catch fish for their winter food, has been sold and now belongs to a white non-resident,”
Instead the chief commissioner for lands in the colony purchased the lands in question through Crown grants, using a land agent likely to conceal his identity. Officials at the time recognized the issue but nothing was done. For Red River Métis this is a familiar tune. The song that never ends.
Douglas assured the Quwʼutsun Nation that Queen Victoria required him to treat the Quwʼutsun with “justice and humanity.” "justice and humanity" being made whole in BC Supreme Court decision. The lands in question should have been made a reserve. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
“All other land is to be regarded as waste, and applicable to the purposes of colonization,” Archibald Barclay, the Hudson’s Bay Co. secretary in London, wrote to then-Vancouver Island governor and soon-to-be governor of British Columbia James Douglas in 1849.
1/ Imagine being a researcher who only discovers, in the 6th year of an #OngoingPandemic, the veracity of what people living with #LongCOVID have been saying for 5+ years - theconversation.com/long-covid-i...
Ooh, one for @mark-ungrin.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social @gosiagasperophd.bsky.social !
To be fair, Hitler briefly negotiated with a bullet in the Führerbunker and Mussolini briefly negotiated with gravity at Piazzale Loreto.
I agree. I suspect the regime is actually seeking a change in international law that land seized militarily may be transferred to the aggressor legally by ‘negotiation’. Aka if I am threatening your life you may be willing to sign anything. And he’s already said they’re looking north for water.
Dangerous — absolutely. Ignorant? The preponderance of evidence behoves us to begin with the presumption of nefarious intent. Everything trump does is consistent with the fact that he and putin are on the same side, and the narrative they spin will always drive their fascist ends. 🥴🤘