Those marketing (totally bunk) "stem cell" supplements love lean on meaningless wellness-woo phrases, like natural, GMO-free, pure, organic, toxin-free... Science-y nonsense + wellness nonsense = BS Supergroup! Our study: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... cc @stemcellnetwork.ca @isscr.org

"Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say" gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Update from the clown car!

Stem cells wildly and recklessly promoted in #alternativemedicine and #wellness worlds by @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social "Stem cell clinics essentially market themselves as the “We can cure your (insert condition, disease, concern here).” www.acsh.org/news/2025/09...

#CDC data shows that from 2021-2023 ultraprocessed food made up 62% of young people's diets in #America Widespread consumption of real food needed - but a real challenge: cultural norms, price, time, availability, etc. #health #publichealth #diet #nutrition jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements in modern medicine. Protecting access is vital to the health and safety of Minnesotans. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

#ScienceMatters We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada, and the world. For the web version of this letter, visit ScienceUpFirst.com #ScienceUpFirst

True. And in Canada, NACI’s and the Canadian Pediatric Society’s “you do you” unwillingness to strongly recommend COVID vaccination for children despite @jamapediatrics.com declaring long COVID a leading chronic childhood disease has carried water for the restriction of vaccine access in Alberta.

Teachers: we really need supports for complex needs in classrooms, lower class sizes, better working conditions, and appropriate funding UCP: best we can do is a book ban

Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians. There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.

Unbelievable but believable. Ugh. Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump... Yet another discredited voice using a discredited “study” (while ignoring a large body of evidence) used to support harmful BS. Dark Age 2.0

So... Can we talk about the fact that the Alberta Government has apparently banned COVID-vaccines for kids 12 and under? (Unless they have a serious health condition) This is in direct contradiction with the NACI guidelines. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Scary stuff! 1) Test your home for #radon! Kits are around $200 CAD and money very well spent. 2) If you are exposed to wildfire smoke - MERV up your furnace filtres for those seasons - the higher MERV, the better. Also consider a HEPA air-filter all year round www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Vladdy and I have a similar body type. Vladdy and I do not move that body in similar ways. #jays #bluejays

Tomorrow #Instagram content from "professionals" will now be indexed (appearing) on Google search results. It's vital for scientists and scientific orgs to be active on social media. The attention wars are heating up. Truth and accuracy have much to lose. thekeyword.medium.com/instagram-to...

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years. COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

Sum: NOT experts Members of RFK Jr’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines www.science.org/content/arti... "...new panel members have been authors on about 78% fewer vaccine-related papers than the ousted members. 4 new members have published no such papers at all"

#Vaccines are so politicized that getting access for kids is becoming a challenge in #Canada. Just unreal. As @blakemurdoch.bsky.social writes: "This is a lesson in how to administrate vaccination out of existence without technically banning it." #health edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com @retractionwatch.com "I don’t think anything is more of an immediate threat to people than bad medical research."

Sounds good from #TikTok to block hashtags "promoting disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss behaviours" But a decade ago #Instagram banned pro anoxeria hashtags with little impact: www.wired.com/story/instag... Will this moderation work? #health #socialmedia www.cbc.ca/news/tiktok-...

New piece out on research with @marcozenone.bsky.social "Google is enabling an advertising option that contributes to the harmful spread of inaccurate and damaging cancer misinformation." CC: @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, @blakemurdoch.bsky.social theconversation.com/google-searc...

RFK Jr ends #Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy kids & pregnant women. He announced the change in a video posted on the hell-scape known as X. His announcement comes as a new Covid variant has begun circulating in the US. NB.1.8.1 has been surging in China www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Yikes

As commented below by @davidmalakoff.bsky.social (/2): Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool.

New word: Twee Meaning: excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental

Setting the example - for your health!

Time to make more #pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum. To date Ottawa secured agreements with only four jurisdictions: MB, BC, YK, PEI, by @danyaalraza.com @monikadutt.bsky.social www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... via @hilltimeshealth.bsky.social

I wrote this months ago. Already it is depressingly & urgently more relevant. Politics & vaccine misinformation: A horrifyingly bad mix healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social Health bunk increasingly about politics. Needed: evidence-informed strategies to counter this trend.

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

I don't know if I'll ever tire of revisiting Miles Davis' 1970-1974 patchwork "Get up with it" comp-album. The first track, "He loved him madly" especially is just so haunting, entincing, beguiling. Magic. #worktunes #soundtrack #deskjams #stata #regressionanalysis #stats

Dr. Hall announces retirement - a senior investigator at the #NIH conducting some of the world’s only controlled trials on ultraprocessed foods. “Events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science." #MAGA #MAHA www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/h...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

"Despite the lack of evidence, many doctors began prescribing GLP-1 medications off-label for their type 1 patients, especially those who also have obesity." Safe to say consumer demand was likely a big factor. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h... #ozempic #mounjaro #health #diabetes #obesity #weightloss

What if COVID doesn't just make sick, but makes us easier to infect? Experts say the virus is chipping away at our immune systems. But some aren’t convinced. I spoke with doctors, scientists, and parents caught in a relentless cycle of illness, and here's what I found:

DID YOU KNOW? Vaccines are PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE? I know. 🤯

Why the Right Still Embraces #Ivermectin. Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread #misinformation about it, by Richard Fausset www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u... via @nytimes.com #COVID19

US right wing (Trumpian) propaganda and Russian propaganda are entangled.

Lest we forget: Trump's favorability today (March 28 2025) by demographic. Source The Economist: www.economist.com/interactive/... #Trump #USA

A simple truth needs to be said over and over... Trump has created a patently evil regime. U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

I don't think I’ve ever seen one face shill for so many brands. How can a science educator stay objective with conflicts of interest seemingly in every corner of health and cosmetics?

Study: Psychological booster shots targeting memory increase long-term resistance against misinformation "...text-based & video-based inoculation interventions can remain effective for one month..." www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social et al.

"We have seen that the vaccine coverage for measles has dropped [in Canada]... the measles vaccines is one the best ones we have" - Dr.Sumon Chakrabarti www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p... #Canada #CBC #vaccines #measles #vaccinesavelives #vaccineswork

Still not a word from the Alberta Government or any public health or emergency response officials in Edmonton about the huge spike in EMS calls for drug poisoning. The week of Feb 24 we hit a record high -- 232 or 33 per day. #yeg #ableg

Powerful piece from my colleague @blakemurdoch.bsky.social "demanding clean air just as we demand clean water is the solution... to stop the spread of #COVID-19 and to avoid the worst outcomes of the next pandemic" healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi... CC: @healthydebate.bsky.social #health

Dow Jones drops 950, one of the worst days in recent memory, and this is the front page of #FOXnews "News"

How truth gets lost! Highly recommended series: "Engines of Outrage" by @jbenbradford.bsky.social Provides a succinct and powerful overview of the history of information ecosystems in the #UnitedStates covering social, financial, and technological drivers. Part 1: www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

Ya know, using resources efficiently: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Canada Faces Rising Measles Cases: Public Health Urges Vaccination Amid Growing Threat infectioncontroltoday.com/view/canada-... "With 227 cases already reported in the first 2 months of 2025—surpassing all of 2024—the situation is becoming a growing public health concern..."

How do antivaxers explain these numbers? Red are vaccinated Measles sufferers in the US by year. It's almost like the vast majority of Measles cases are relegated almost exclusively to the unvaxxed. 😮‍💨🤔 Whatever could this mean...