Each year, more than nine million people in the United States do not take their medicines as prescribed owing to cost concerns Tighter price regulation would deliver fewer new drugs but improve global health, says Beth Woods go.nature.com/4nbVxrx

I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?) news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

Same people moaning about the costs of policing the Palestine demos will be calling for us to put 5,000 police on the streets of Birmingham next month to 'protect' the Israeli hooligans.

Watch this video. "it was Maccabi [Tel Aviv] fans attacking Amsterdam citizens and starting a riot... Maccabi fans were seen picking up metal poles" These guys will not be missed on our streets. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Employees inside the FDA and outside experts said they were worried the U.S. is headed toward a new era of drug regulation: one where political decisions lead, and evidence follows www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...

On the 6th of October Israel had about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners. Today, *after the exchange* Israel holds at least 9,000 prisoners, most of them have not been charged. Conditions in prisons became intolerable after Oct 7. Torture and starvation are standard.

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”. Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448

A 2025 review in the Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... shows that our current spending on new medicines skews overall health spend away from more effective interventions. But it looks like we are about to spend more on meds, thus depriving our population of more effective healthcare.

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Why are UK media not writing about this? @theguardian.com? @financialtimes.com? www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies. www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

In hours or days, Israeli tanks will roll into Gaza City. Thousands will die. This can still be stopped. Today. Impose sanctions now. End the genocide

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not. Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives! Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy 👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

The Trump administration has been discussing severe restrictions on medicines from China that, if enacted, could upend the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and availability of everything from generic drugs to cutting-edge treatments. Here's what to know.

David Lammy: Yes, it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, but the UK government has not concluded that it is acting with the special intention of being a duck.

By insisting on a largely business-as-usual approach, out-of-touch Western politicians are not only shielding Israel's war criminals from consequences; they are robbing the Israeli protest movement of meaningful arguments to end this travesty.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...

Today is day one of #thatshumanism! 🎉 – our popular social media campaign featuring our much-loved animations with Stephen Fry. To celebrate, we're launching a brand-new series of posters designed for schools, teachers, and anyone curious about the humanist approach to life. 🧵

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

🚨 Age checks kill anonymity 🚨 🫣 IDs link you to every click 🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse ❌ No anonymity possible Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.” Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...

He was arrested for backing Palestine Action. Jonathan Porrit, a former adviser to King Charles and Tony Blair, on Labour becoming more authoritarian than the Conservatives.

Yup Ben Oppenheim & Nicole Stephenson, who use techniques from both epidemiological & catastrophe modeling to estimate the risk of another pandemic & its impacts, estimate there's a "47-57% chance of another global pandemic as deadly as COVID in the next 25 years" www.cgdev.org/blog/the-nex...

A new study suggests that, after having a specialized AI tool taken away, clinicians were less proficient at colonoscopies. www.statnews.com/2025/08/12/a...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

The Palestine Action proscription is a signature Starmer move: overreach, double down, lose the debate

RFK Jr. knows the consequences of his rhetoric. “Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.” Gift link.

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

At least ChatGPT agrees that LLMs are so flawed that using it could kill people.

As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease. One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Sorry to pollute the feed with technical financial terms, but this is all fxcking nuts www.ft.com/content/8a16...

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

🧵 1/2 NEW INVESTIGATION: The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations. www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...

Clear from day one, that if left unchecked, this Israeli government will not stop at anything

In the arms race between viruses and their hosts, viruses have found a dependable ally..

"Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone— not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip. The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing. UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Bezalel Smotrich on French, British, Canadian recognition of a Palestinian state: "we just need to make sure there's nothing to recognise" (30 July 25)

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dec 23: Israel resumes fighting after Hamas releases 85 hostages March 25: Israel breaks the ceasefire after Hamas releases 30 live hostages. Hasbara brain for 21 months now: all Hamas needs to do is to return the hostages and the war would be over

Another email to Bhattacharya about his interview and his continued statements that NIH's gain of function research caused the COVID pandemic and killed millions of people. 1/8

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Happy August. Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel. 1/ www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...