Just heard the doctors gave Jeremy Cameron some Panadol, so now he has autism I guess. #AFLGF

From the original Swedish researchers.

Folks, we've got an epistemological crisis and it's not going well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today might not be the best day for Sussan Ley to kick Albanese for not meeting with Trump. #Auspol

In the same presser he said babies get 80 vaccinations "like a horse". He's just making shit up and outlets should not merely regurgitate it.

This is currently at the top of the New York Times app when I open it up. It is very good to see such a clear headline that this ignores scientific evidence. But to have this level of misinformation streaming out of the highest office of the land is a public health threat that is hard to overstate.

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”

This is how you write a headline for these kinds of occasions. #ScienceCommunication #SciComm

Spare a thought for the people trying to fact-check this mess in real time.

Journalists need to be very very careful reporting on the paracetamol story. This is no time for straw man reporting or headlining Trump's statement without commentary, because all most people will see is the headline and take it as gospel. 1/

"Gold-standard science" is based on feelings over in the USA's political administration.

Organised anti-vax campaigners are absolutely furious their hero RFK is now (falsely) blaming the wrong boogeyman for autism. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

Okay, but wait until Americans find out what BBC stands for.

Hey kids, this summer is going to be the coolest summer of the rest of your lives. Enjoy.

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have

Thanks, Obama.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

If you don't stop calling us fascists, we're going to have to use the full power of the state to investigate and punish all our political opponents.

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Grok is a propaganda instrument that is tuned to cohere with ideological fantasy rather than mind-independent facts. If sums were politicised tomorrow, you can bet that 2 + 2 wouldn’t stand a chance

BlueSky has become largely irrelevant. Here’s another 2500 word piece on how BlueSkyism is destroying America.

If people want to come to university campuses to debate people with different ideas, they could just ... enroll in a course?

Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science. w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social

What you see on social media is a bi-modal skew of people's actual political views.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

"While preppers are likely to feel the state would fail to protect or provide for them in a SHTF scenario, sov cits oppose the legitimacy and legality of the state altogether. They exist in opposition to the nation state and, in extreme cases, are willing to use violence in an attempt to destroy it"

Florida will end vaccine mandates for children. I am not a fan of rigid mandates, but it's also poor policy to suddenly cease them and while undermining vaccines. Katie Attwell, Nancy Baxter and I unpack this story in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au theconversation.com/can-florida-...

Hahahaha

More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign thehill.com/policy/healt...

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

You'd think a so-called data guy would be aware the majority of Bluesky users aren't American, let alone are Democrat voters.

Lots of rumours that Trump is critically unwell. All I can say is I hope he's following any and all medical advice RFK jr is giving him.

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for dijon mustard or RFK Jr. asking for a vaccine ban that will kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, there have been unusual requests on both sides of the aisle.

Bluesky is for sure the (?) top platform for scientific chatter currently (with LinkedIn). But frankly, more engagement is needed here and transitioning from #academictwitter is part of broader fragmentation. And 🦋 is still incredibly US based, also for research. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Exclusive: Hundreds of previously unreported Facebook posts, Telegram messages + Instagram comments show how Dezi Freeman openly fantasised about killing and torturing police officers in years leading up to the alleged Porepunkah police shooting www.crikey.com.au/20...

Vaccines don't cause autism. I wish it was that simple, but it isn't. It's largely a genetic condition. There is about to be a deluge of ridiculous misinformation about this in the coming days.

The great thing about Australia is we can change a controversial cheese brand without dropkicks going berko for longer than 24 hours.

In a world of Kid Rocks, be a Jack White.

It's only August of the first year of Trump 2 and we're already at "slavery wasn't bad for EVERYONE" from the President

Huge if true.

am looking forward to seeing this on four corners tonight www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... Dr McIntyre says these movements are "affecting our institutions of law and the efficacy of our law and therefore it's impacting upon our society".