Happy Gotcha Day Bella! 4 years of joyous pup.

#ygk The view from here - frozen and snow covered lake and garden. As per Gilles Vigneault’s song: “Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver …. Mon chemin, ce n’est pas un chemin, c’est la neige….”

French tarte aux pommes. (I know it should be Galette des rois today but I ran out of energy to make puff pastry….)

I have noted this for a while - the Finnish education system creates critical thinkers at very young age. AND the amount of mis-, and dis-information believed by Finns is much lower as a result.

Freshly baked Christmas Morning bread and amaryllis blooms.

Excellent work. Leaving me with my year end despair brightened by some hope. And when you consider those wordS there is wisdom there. After the darkness is shattered,will come a second enlightenment. A second renaissance

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Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

0700 zoom calls for a homemade cardamom bun

Frikkin amazing stuff.

First snow. First amaryllis bloom. The view from here #ygk

This is disturbing and, if related to the motives suggested, outrageous. Answers are needed form the committee. As someone who has served on numerous grant review committees, all that matters is: merit, originality of idea, feasibility and the potential for impact.

Googly-eyed pumpkin and some mini French apple tart treats. Happy Halloween 🎃

Trump's government meets all 12 indicators of democratic erosion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

(this very big mistake that killed an enormous number of people, if anyone's looking for the citation) www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality. Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

Don’t use X much anymore but just saw there’s a fake account purporting to be me there (@MDElizabeth_) Ignore her

Frost tonight so time to cut last of the summer dahlias…

Beautiful October day The view from here #ygk

Maybe a mechanism through which the CHALLENGE trial exerted its benefits in colon cancer er patients? (Though of course exercise in that trial not “combined” with immune Rx)

So sad 💔. Jane Goodall was an inspiration. She never stopped … www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Junk science and fascism. Dr.Gunter: “Dr, Timothy Snyder, a noted expert on fascism, offers the best framing–fascism, he writes, is ‘the triumph of will over reason.’ This strips away right-wing and left-wing ideologies, and just leaves us with the perversion of truth in the quest for domination.”

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of the great Dr. Balfour Mount, widely considered the father of palliative care in Canada. He will be greatly missed. Please read our message in full: e1.envoke.com/m/783fa9fc5f...

Amazing essay by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Is there a Nobel Prize for Buffoonery?

Fall has befallen us The view from here #ygk

This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

📅 Attending ESMO in Berlin? Don't miss this special CSO Symposium taking place on Fri Oct 17, 5:30-7:00 pm CET. Moderated by @winettevandergraaf.bsky.social, the panel will discuss recent CSO initiatives & activities in Europe & beyond. tinyurl.com/5yj9vm8b @qol.eortc.org #CommonSenseOncology

🎶It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 🎶 Free Covid, flu and RSV vaccines starting Sept 22 for Ontario. #Onpoli #VaccinesSaveLives www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My guess is there will be no evidence to support ANY of the things they recommend. Ever.

On Friday, the Trump administration claimed that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. They are doing this to gin up a reason for their unnecessary restrictions on COVID19 vaccines. We explain the science for how we know these vaccines didn’t cause pediatric deaths in our report.

beautiful Prince Edward Island

Science is under attack How can we fight back? Important, new book by two scientists are seeing the war on science up close @michaelemann.bsky.social is seeing climate science denial & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social is seeing vaccine denial www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

"He pointed out that Saskatchewan has a lot of wind and among the highest sunlight hours in the country, and so SaskPower should be putting its money and efforts into solar and wind power instead of coal." larongenow.com/2025/09/02/s...

Late summer flowers from my garden

@caulfieldtim.bsky.social interesting study on preemptive interventions to reduce belief in misinformation

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility go.nature.com/3HDx4wD cc Jay Bhattacharya

Wow! Terrifyingly similar approaches to gaslighting public to the detriment of health and science

Mercia Maas "For Some reason this affected me so much and I’ve been crying all day, their intelligence and curiosity is something so rare and I wish I could do more to protect them and the ocean #oceanconservatio"

I've researched health & science policy for over 3 decades. It has never been THIS bad. Not even close. But we can't let the BS win! 💪 #GoScience! My take: Politics and vaccine misinformation – A horrifyingly bad mix healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topi... via ‪@healthydebate.bsky.social

Excellent review on cancer screening - and the hype and hope of new technologies - by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My statement on Canada-U.S. trade:

At @thelancet.com today, entitled: "A crisis of credibility: the global cost of US vaccine misinformation" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Excellent interview. Filled with the kind of common sense we need. And underscores the $$ motive behind the so-called wellness industry. (I like to think of it as the “woo-ness” industry)