A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
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A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
Has criminology ever examined the association between giving children bogan names & parental/offspring crime? Here's one from a report today. www.smh.com.au/world/oceani... and here are some liddul bewdies. manofmany.com/culture/advi...
Official photograph of Republicans in the House & Senate waiting for instructions
Not a huge vote of confidence for clairvoyant Trisha ...
@albomp.bsky.social When can we expect our Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism to show up and combat these antisemites? Will she be combating them in person or will she be fighting through the courts to stop their antisemitic march from going ahead? What is Jillian Segal paid for if not this?
Useful summary from ASH UK of how UK has dramatically reduced illicit trade in tobacco by LAW ENFORCEMENT, not dropping tax. And how highest illicit markets are in low income, low taxing nations. Lessons for Australia ash.org.uk/media-centre... @markbutlermp.bsky.social
#NCTOH Karla Sneegas discussing the April 1 purge of entire Office on Smoking & Health & other CDC workers. The #tobacco industry got what it paid for. Eliminated the most important national campaign ever— Tips from Former Smokers
One of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. Thank you for all you did Tony
Yay! Timely that FINALLY @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social is ON BLUE SKY! Give them a follow — top journal for tobacco policy research and analysis @mhef.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
Has vaping in NZ kids reduced their smoking, or slowed its decline? Statisticians battle it out, with confirmation bias the likely winner. My new blog simonchapman6.com/2025/08/28/e...
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Has vaping in NZ kids reduced their smoking, or slowed its decline? Statisticians battle it out, with confirmation bias the likely winner. My new blog simonchapman6.com/2025/08/28/e...
Got this little beauty from a brave keyboard warrior using a disposable email. Some news for him:I've not had a job for >9yrs. And does he apply his brilliant logic to oncologists, cancer nurses, undertakers--all not wanting smoking to fall to keep their jobs? see: simonchapman6.com/2021/02/27/v...
All reporting of Netanyahu's opinions on the Australian national interest should state upfront that he's an indicted war criminal subject to arrest if he comes here.
Spoiler alert: RFK Jr.'s "study" will find that the "certain interventions" that are "clearly almost certainly causing autism" will be vaccines, plus maybe another "certain intervention" or two to lend him plausible deniability to MAHA stans that the outcome of this study hadn't been preordained.
I wrote about us all trying to reduce travel in 2008 blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/04/... & 2010 www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01.... The silence and looking the other way from well-travelled friends & colleagues was like I'd clubbed a baby seal to death in front of them
Marie Josette Orsto, north Tiwi Island. On display at NSW Art Gallery (modern). Just stunning.
A timeless reminder
As Trump & his fake, dilettante Christians round up, incarcerate & deport (mainly) dark-skinned people, food for thought ...
Heartfelt solidarity from Sydney. Our open-access book has a large chapter detailing claims & tactics used by our local fruitcakes. Happy to say they are today all but totally neutered & ridiculed here. Good luck! open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...
Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost the Australian government $250 million in 2023. But it gets worse. Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol
Good to see ABCTV bannering footage of latest Israel IDF bombing of a Gaza hospital just breaking with "Israeli genocide". About time & keep it up!
When you see a kid in this, you cringe about the parents. When you see an adult in this, you know there's someone desperately insecure with no one who can have a quiet word with him
Said it before ...would be happy to ignore the daily outrages from the U.S...if these fuckers were not an existential threat to the entire planet. They will not 'cook' alone. nypost.com/2025/08/21/b...
Whatever government contract Microsoft has with the #auspol government, now is the time to burn it. www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
As foundation dep editor & then editor of your Tobacco Control journal for 17yrs, I many many others are curious why you do not allow your specialist journals to use this platform. @addictionjournal.bsky.social @ntrjournal.bsky.social & many others have active presence
It's a wasted opportunity that @bmj.com has a vigorous presence on @bsky.app but still refuses to let its other top journals, like #TobaccoControl, use this platform. It's almost like tobacco companies are working backstage! @mhef.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
Same thing happening here simonchapman6.com/2024/10/15/t...
i couldnt possibly comment. www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Sydney's mayor Clover Moore announces official song to be played at airport arrivals hall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=adD0...
see simonchapman6.com/2023/01/20/v...
Even in Trump's slash n' burn anti-regulatory nirvana, the FDA has just denied marketing permission to Imperial Tobacco's Fontem "blu" vape for the most basic of criterion fails: it doesn't help smokers quit or even reduce continued smoking www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/...
Jon, Jon .. as you well know, this is just a game played by those who know that no ethics c'tee would ever approve an RCT which would satisfy your evidence. So just keep repeating it, eh? simonchapman6.com/2023/01/20/v...
Umbrella review-of-reviews (n=56) finds consistent association between starting to vape & subsequent smoking in youth (vapers ~3x more likley to progress that non-vapers) + vaping harms tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...
SMH report on Australian musicians "fleeing" #Spotify over its boss investing in military drones, names just three (3!) www.smh.com.au/culture/musi... Why aren't there lots more? Perhaps because the drones are being sold to nations like Ukraine to DEFEND itself? simonchapman6.com/2025/08/06/w...
Anaesthetic entomidate found in vapes in Singapore healthyliferecovery.com/dangers-of-e.... Prime Minister announces gloves-off policy www.youtube.com/shorts/aiEZ1...
This is the definition of cringe
Breaking: Pope to cannonise Trump ahead of his death, as Nobel Peace Prize odds shrink to homeopathic strength.
When are our media & arts institutions going to grow a back bone and not be spooked by lobbyist letters making vexatious and defamatory claims. Have we learned nothing ? Are these institutions more concerned about cranky letter writers than war crimes they seek to distract from?
The Alaskan Symphony
Helping our kids understand...
I think this is the thing the public most widely misunderstands about then vs. now. There have always been sincere skeptics, and there have always been misinformation peddlers. These guys are neither. They really don't care about science; it just happens to be where they're waging their culture war.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare
SMH has ad today for Aussies to apply to go & live & work in the US. Love the model's crazy face they've selected. Next, ads to work in North Korea, Afghanistan, Gaza?
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
When I lived in London in the early 80s (in a Twickenham house once lived in by Keith Relf of the Yardbirds) I was a huge fan of the political satire program Spitting Image. This savage piece on the apartheid regime Iwas hugely popular. www.dailymotion.com/video/x64bid6
If Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize it would be like a rabid dog winning best in show at Crufts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
While US DOGE gets ever priapic axing regulations, here's my 2013 paen to 150 ways the nanny state is good for us. (Many links now dead, sorry but you'll get the drift) theconversation.com/one-hundred-...
Is there a verb for posting on @bsky.app as there is for "tweeting" on X/Twitter?
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
Here's a case study of how the Australian tobacco industry "fostered" a Bondi GP fruitcake who wrote 2 self-published books about how smoking was good for you. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/toba...
Ever wonder why we seldom hear or see Big Tobacco reps in the media? And why they use arms-length astroturf groups you've never heard of and useful idiot medical advocates? Read on simonchapman6.com/2020/02/15/w...
Up watching Supercup Paris St Germain v Tottenham with my grandson. Fantastic to see unambiguous message to Netanyahu on the screen. Pure evil
This stadium in the Netherlands has 4,200 #solarpanels on its roof and is 100% #solar powered. Shouldn't all buildings be this way? We have the solutions. Demand your govt implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climatecrisis #climate #energy #renewables
The Archimedes of birds
The crime wave in Washington DC
Menzie Chinn provides a useful roundup of some of the recent misrepresentations and basic misunderstandings of government statistics from Trump's nominee to be our next BLS Commissioner. The clear theme is a commitment to winning a partisan news cycle over the truth: econbrowser.com/archives/202...
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
Journal will NOT retract the Danish paper that found aluminum in childhood vaccines wasn't linked to increased risk of conditions like autism & asthma. Retraction calls — including from Sec. Kennedy — appear to be based on a dislike of the findings, editor says. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
The decades-old denier meme about wind farms and bird deaths becomes a real cudgel to beat an industry that's already way down, in the US New @jael.bsky.social piece -->> heatmap.news/sparks/inter...
new EPRI paper here (via @sashamtl.bsky.social) - the peak power consumption required to train AI models grows 2.2x every year The ratio of social utility : environment impact for this specific type of software is getting worse constantly www.epri.com/research/pro...
Stand by for a Liberal Christian wunderkind Hastie to propose Australia does similar www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
All the cowards in the West pretending to be journalists while covering up this depravity for the last two years need to meet justice. RIP
Wondering how many AFL fans would be truly appalled at this Trump fan in their faces. Meathead was the low watermark, this could go sub-zero. Wonder who fixed this in? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bdj...
#AFL announces that rapper Snoop Dog will provide "entertainment" at this year's grand final. Memo to self: make sure batteries in the remote are all good to mute the execrable, nursery-rhymed meter racket
This map says almost all i need to know about why i love the teal coloured countries best.
Australia found our solution to mass shootings in 1996: banned semi-autos & pump action shotguns. www.smh.com.au/national/stu...
from my perspective, local and national news has been all over the CDC shooting. i think the problem is more that we as a country are desensitized and have normalized violence against health workers and children, so this low casualty attack is fading fast for folks outside the field
We've had our EV since 2021. Often drove innerwest Sydney to Manly for grandparenting. Car game to guess number of Tesla we'd see. 8,12,15 typical. Game now abandoned. Like counting Honda or Nissan
When war criminals are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, what does ‘peace’ even mean? https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/when-war-criminals-are-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-what-does-peace-even-mean #Auspol
Instant karma in 2025 metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...
Next time you read some hack journalist faithfully megaphoning Big Tobacco & its useful idiots' talking points about the need to drop Australian tobacco tax to 2020, 2019, 2018 or even 2015 levels, send them this basic lesson in simple arithmetic simonchapman6.com/2025/08/07/l...
7 months into the odious Trump's return: Ukraine, Gaza ever worse, tariff fiasco, manufacturing down,unemployment up, farms lie fallow w no laborers, health care shredded, the rich get richer, but the poor still don't get the picture
Our (free, open access) book on the nocebo effect of hearing that exposure to infrasound from wind turbines is toxic. A "disease" you can get by hearing about it. open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...
A good long read on placebos and their evil sibling, nocebos. Had an old family dr in Bathurst who would write ABT for placebos on prescriptions (Any Bloody Thing). Local pharmacists knew what to do. www.smh.com.au/national/som...
Lowering tobacco tax to stop the illegal tobacco trade. At last we have a figure for the proposed reduction and it's an absolute doozie. simonchapman6.com/2025/08/07/l...
Lowering tobacco tax to stop the illegal tobacco trade. At last we have a figure for the proposed reduction and it's an absolute doozie. simonchapman6.com/2025/08/07/l...
Heard people say we should all dump #spotify because its boss is investing >$1billion in weaponry? Why this would be a mindless gift to tyranny simonchapman6.com/2025/08/06/w...
Prof @simonchapman.bsky.social writes: So proud of you Sydney: the massive #MarchforHumanity www.croakey.org/so-proud-of-... #AusPol #PublicHealth
Why I'm NOT quitting Spotify because its owner, Daniel Ek, has invested heavily in weaponry. simonchapman6.com/2025/08/06/w...
Why I'm NOT quitting Spotify because its owner, Daniel Ek, has invested heavily in weaponry. simonchapman6.com/2025/08/06/w...
Interesting to speculate that if those implaccably defending Netanyahu/IDF actions were to hold a rally in support in Sydney, what size crowd would they draw? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
How big was today's Palestine March for Humanity acfoss Sydney Hafrbour Bridge? Just watch this 48 second vision taken from a train www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Biggest march I've ever experienced. Surprised if it was <200k. Orderly, patient, superfriendly, multicultural, all ages. Chris Minns badly misjudged this in his opposition #FreePalistine. Saw not 1 medical emergency, fall, fight.
Sydney friends: Trish & I planninhg to march in the rain today across the Harbour Bridge with 1000s in support of the Palestinian people and against the Israeli government's ongoing and genocidal atrocities. Hope to see many of you there
Vey saddened at the passing of Prof David Isaacs, paediatrician, vaccine advocate & refugee activist. from Westmead Hospital leadingsteps.com.au/leading-step... A beautiful combination of being deeply principled and ethical in all positions he advanced & supported, & just delightful company.
Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers were simply not patriotic enough, and "once these disloyal statisticians are out of the way, the data will finally start to cooperate," @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
NOT a fan of cat pix, but have made an exception here
Canavan's tardis landed in the 1950s & can't get back www.sbs.com.au/news/the-fee...
On this bleak, cold wet Sydney weekend, something to bring a smile www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88F...
Trump's bingo card is full
Made my day. www.smh.com.au/national/jac...
And meanwhile in the U.K., similar evidence is emerging. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gvts can close businesses for health reasons --see these ACT examples.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/food-safety-prohibition-order-quadrupled-regulation/105588052 @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social's legislation closure orders (up to 12 months) for illegal tobacco very powerful.
Plus they have health care. Sob!
🔔 This week in InSight+ Australia’s progress in reducing adolescent smoking has slowed — vaping may be why buff.ly/pEqUuQ5 @drbfreeman.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @simonchapman.bsky.social
