When the worms in his skull decided that Tylenol/ paracetamol causes autism, does that count as peer review?

The abrupt tone shift of the last few hours means nothing. They're temporarily paralysed by the possibility the political assassination is by one of them. The next 200 could be by one of them. It will only take one from the other side before all hell breaks loose.

The Coalition couldn't wish for a cohort more naturally inclined to vote for them than Indian immigrants. Substantially socially conservative, economically right leaning cohort. The indomitable challenge for the LNP is to, for the length of an election cycle, not seem racist.

I also think our (often valid) policing of language used by reporters can amount to infantilizing paternalism. “I read this headline, I understood it, I learned a new fact from it, but it’s BAD because less-savvy people could have their tiny minds warped by the phrasing and I must protect them.”

Big claim: HEPA filters can lower blood pressure Below I describe the weaknesses of the trial, but also why it shouldn't be ignored:

Big claims about rising cancer in young people globally, esp in Aus "Some increases.. might be explained by changes in the way they are diagnosed - but most cannot" How about: - Increased testing? - Detection of cancers that are more biologically indolent? - Incidental detections? #medsky

Had an encounter today that reminded me how we can hold 3 layers of belief - often contradictory: - Proclaimed: what we dare say publicly - Private: what we admit to ourselves - Revealed: what our actions show

Nurses when I ask to borrow their pen:

Yesterday, Pakistan nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bit quiet today.

A senior commander of Iran's revolutionary guard said that if Israel nukes Iran, Pakistan would nuke them back. Pakistan's defence minister denied ever agreeing to this. Pakistan has now closed land and air borders with Iran.

Am I hearing this correctly Star Entertainment a private company which runs casinos and is apparently about to go broke wants taxpayers to bail them out, and Qld LNP premier is considering it more corporate socialism

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

I've never seen the US media cycle so utterly unable to keep up. Every single day since Trump's inauguration, roughly 7-12 huge policies, or bonkers statements are reported. Each of them worth a week's coverage. But then, two seconds pass, and something else insane happens.

Hey #medsky, what do you think about the real value of Plasma pTau217 test for Alzheimer’s dementia?

Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.

[Nelson from Simpson’s voice]: HA-HA

I'm astonished at the breadth of issues affected by Trumps's myriad executive orders. Huge changes being presented as short, sporadic reports that understandably vanish with each update. The only thing that's surviving the 24 hour news cycle at this point is the Nazi salute.

Hey Aussie GP's - have you been ordering pro-BNP's since the rebate availability in November? #medsky

Maybe there could be a better place for that information

Fascinating #medsky

The appropriate balance is that heritage should be completely ignored when installing solar. In fact, just abolish heritage overlays.

Folks, I am telling you, this Aussie cricket team are the loveliest bunch we've had since like... forever. For all the talk about toxic masculinity in sports, now we've got a great bunch - get around em.

There is something Shakespearean about the specific tragedy of Kohli's career ending due to his inability to resist a ball outside off, and being undone by it every time. Desperately trying to recapture the magic he once possessed of the most glorious cover drive in cricket.

All night I dreamt I was in Adelaide, trying to get a beautiful woman to fall in love with me by mansplaining right censoring on a kaplan-meier curve. Didn’t work. What do women want?

Friendly reminder to have your 'see you next year' joke in the holster for a couple of days from now. Use wisely.

Did you know that Konstas in Greek means Bazball?

Dear #medsky GPs - when treating COPD patients 1) are you doing the 'ol stepwise approach, starting with tiotropium, or opting for a stepdown approach and starting sometimes with combination meds? 2) Do you look at eosinophils when choosing COPD inhalers, or nah?

All unattended food is fair game on call.

I estimate there are 40+ movies that I've only seen 70% of the way through. Because until age 13, at 8:30 PM mum would shut the TV and march us off to bed. I still don't know how Waterworld ends.

New NEJM trial on Tirzepatide for HFpEF. I have 2 questions #medsky Claim: Treatment led to lower risk of a composite of death from CV causes or worsening HF. Q1: Is it weird to claim a COMPOSITE win, when there were HIGHER deaths due to CV causes in treatment group? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"Most all" is a terrible phrase, and people who use it are bad. Under my dictatorship, these people will be marched off to the gulag first, followed by the "thanking you" crowd.

This was posted over a year ago

Gisele Pelicot's husband Dominique Pelicot has been convicted for rape and sentenced to 20 years prison. Good riddance.

The TV/movie highlight of 2024 for me was, by a mile, Shogun. How about you?

This is the way forward, we have far too much free sunshine to not install as much solar and as many batteries as we can

How the hell did 'sitting is the new smoking' ever catch on...

Unconfirmed reports that Assad has fled to USA and will shortly be appointed by Trump to the health department to write the new ophthalmology guidelines.

Now that Bashar Al-Asaad has fled, he should be treated like every other odious personality who is past their peak: be interviewed on Talk Tuah and fight Jake Paul.

👏normalise👏de-caf👏Tiramisu

I’m astonished that, in response to the murder of the American health insurer CEO, the main thing Americans are posting is their personal insurance horror stories. So much bad will towards the healthcare system. Incredible that American democracy is powerless to change a system that oppresses it.

I am seeing a lot on social media about a certain celebrity and “banter” and how some see it as harmless and women do not. There is criticism of women who speak out years after the event. A few comments as I have some experience of “banter” in medicine 1/? #MedSky

In 2 months, Australia will do something interesting. Boxes of paracetamol (acetaminophen) will be allowed to contain a maximum of 16 tablets instead of 20. I assume this has to do with a toxicity threshold met at 10 grams. #medsky

Goodnight

So this is nuts. Try it. “Hey siri, open Bluesky” Nothing “Hey siri, open blueskiii” works …. IS THAT HOW WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SAY IT?

What does #medsky #urolsky #oncsky think of surgery vs EBRT for localised #prostatecancer? I understand survival rates are similar. But this JAMA study shows prostatectomy is worse for incontinence & sexual dysfunction compared to EBRT. So why do prostatectomy? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I’m buying some furniture at the moment I’m amazed how often a $3K dining table is visually indistinguishable from one’s under 1 K. Who buys these?

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Australian media losing its mind. The cricket team lost because they are simultaneously too arrogant but also too nice.. If only they were less arrogant but also somehow less nice. Maybe then they would’ve won the ashes and the World Cup for one day, T20, and tests.

“Yeah, I’ll be there in 10 minutes.” *whispering under my breath* “10 washing machine minutes.”

Really enjoying watching the cricket being interspersed with TV ads promoting the NBN, which are glitching cos my NBN is fucking shit.