Co-use of cannabis and tobacco is associated with a nearly threefold increased risk of developing full-blown psychosis in individuals already exhibiting early or mild clinical warning signs due to the increase human body’s absorption of delta-9-THC. neurosciencenews.com/cannabis-tob...

“By 2030, nine million preventable deaths could occur due to these shifts. It is estimated that the direct consequences of aid suspension could push another 5.7 million Africans into poverty by the end of 2026.” Thank-you Donald Trump and Elon Musk. ghanaiantimes.com.gh/at-79th-worl...

Despite the evidence staring us all in the face, we need the WHO to declare the climate crisis a global public health emergency? It will make no difference to conservative politicians and populists who only serve the corporations doing most of the damage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How many countries are willing to follow Australia's lead to legalise prescription of psychedelics for clinical conditions - MDMA for PTSD, and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression? Will the therapies be scalable and how can safety be ensured? www.tga.gov.au/news/media-r...

A recent meta-analysis concluded that psychedelic-assisted therapy trials “are effectively always open label” and suggested that, under equal-unblinding conditions, psychedelic-assisted therapy “was not more effective” than traditional antidepressants. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A challenge to tobacco control is that the conservative media continues to advocate in favour of the industry agenda, while ignoring the broader medical fraternity: Why the “lower tobacco tax” emperor has no clothes simonchapman6.com/2026/05/18/w... via @simonchapman6

Amazing how the cookers keep finding new ways to spread science scepticism — now fear‑mongering about Hantavirus and putting people at risk. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

Forget the gold statues, this will be Trump's legacy: "Alligator Alcatraz is a stain on our nation and a blight on the Everglades, and I look forward to watching this depraved facility bite the dust.” msn.com/en-us/news/u...

@fda.gov If you’re asking whether the risks of youth vaping are outweighed by the supposed benefits of kiddy flavours for adult cessation, you’ve already accepted the industry’s agenda to hook a new generation to nicotine addiction and multi-tobacco harms. www.statnews.com/2026/05/11/f...

Dominion and Smartmatic may have a new lawsuit to file

The risks associated with the use of unregulated, injectable peptides is long including hormonal and blood sugar imbalances, mood swings, liver or kidney damage, blood clots, cancerous tumors, infections, and allergic reactions. mdsc.pe/4wiVuA3

"People who lost 50% of their lean tissue with GLP-1 (Semaglutide - Ozempic/Wegovy etc.), would be well advised to incorporate resistance training and consume an adequate amount of protein while losing weight". medscape.com/viewarticle/...

"COVID-19 can lead to blood clots, heart attack, and stroke because of the virus’s impact on proteins in blood vessels" While social media grifters continue to disparage prevention through vaccines. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

US health policy today - run by Christian nationalists and cookers: "The FDAs scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release".

Another neglected tick-borne viral haemorrhagic fever identified in India. Zoonotic diseases-transferred from animals to humans - will continue to increase with deforestation and increased human incursion into wildlife habitats. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

About time politicians started calling out a genocide as a genocide.

Donald Trump's approval on the cost of living. It's through the floor!

Another major pathogen is now developing resistant strains: "Shigella-attributed diarrhoea is common among young children in LMICs, with its escalating antimicrobial resistance posing a serious threat to global public health". thelancet.com/journals/lan...

America today - RFK Jr. is holding up $600M in vaccines for poor countries. The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Slow learners playing catch-up thanks to RFKs lies: "She posted an emotional TikTok clip aimed at the anti-vax crowd she used to be a part of - You can change your mind.” www.straitstimes.com/world/united...

Less than a year to wreck decades of development. The CDC was once the gold standard for public health leadership. Today, it's struggling to maintain scientific excellence, trustworthiness, and relevance, a result of the actions of the Trump administration. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The legacy of social media, or should it be the scourge of social media? 70%+ of people globally believe at least one false or unproven health claim, like that vaccine risks outweigh benefits or that fluoride in water is harmful. www.edelman.com/sites/g/file...

And fossil fuel lobbyists still want to claim that Australia cannot get baseload electricity with renewables. We lead the world in per capita capacity.

Worrying: A study of antibiotic resistance found that antibiotics like ampicillin/gentamicin were active against only 25% of cases in low resource settings in which they were used and had “limited coverage against locally prevalent, highly resistant pathogens.” www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

It is our gas, we deserve a fair return. www.ourgas.com.au?recruiter_id...

Nudges can also operate to provide negative behavioural outcomes if they are not well managed. @AlboMP will have to negotiate a tricky path to wind back NDIS to support only those with significant needs into the future.

Yes, China does make all these plugs, but they are also smart enough to realise that the Australian plugs are far superior in design to most others. Any world traveller will confirm it.

Are you listening @AlboMP ? Stop the war profiteering of multinational gas companies. They will still make billions with a 25% gas tax to support Australian businesses and the public. It’s our gas after all.

"Only Dags need Fags" was one of our kids' campaigns in the early 80s. Great to see it still has relevance in 2026!

The National Illicit Tobacco Ladder identifies Queensland and South Australia as clear leaders followed by a sharp drop-off across the rest of the country, with illegal tobacco linked to organised crime and increasing access to cheap cigarettes, stronger enforcement is needed.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

While cookers rail on about vaccines the scientific community understands the enormous benefits: Measles vaccinations halved deaths from the virus, saving ~20 million lives since 2000. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Drug-resistant Shigella infections are on the rise in the US, according to CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report; the bacterial infection, which causes diarrhea, increased 8.5% from 2011 to 2023. Will the Trump effect exponentially increase Shigella? www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy has no effect on later autism diagnoses. Cooker claims that it “causes autism” are not supported by the evidence. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How long do we have to wait @AlboMP before the mega profits made by multinational gas companies are redistributed to the people who actually own the gas-the Australian public.

And Obama was president for twice as long.

Hard to believe even while the gun lobby continues to say it’s people not guns that cause these deaths. It’s actually people who have easy access to guns that cause this daily carnage.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

We often imagine super‑AI as a malevolent force. But intelligence doesn’t have to mean hostility. It could dismantle nuclear and missile capabilities that threaten humanity and accelerate renewable technologies that protect life. A benevolent path is also possible to curb human frailties.

AI obviously not that smart, just yet. Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is there a sweet spot for tobacco excise, that would reduce illicit trade? Or are @nswpolice just kidding themselves to avoid taking action on enforcement which started the illicit trade and saw it flourish while they just stood by. @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

Cookers like RFK who have now highjacked the health agenda in the USA are now trying to hide evidence on the efficacy of vaccines. What a disgrace of an administration. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Will formula E one day take over from F1? One can only hope so as it’s the future of environmentally friendly vehicle technology.

C'mon @albomp.bsky.social stop cowering to the gambling lobby when the public has made it loud and clear they want gambling ads banned. It's time for strong reforms and this just ain't them. simonchapman6.com/2026/04/09/f...

Hard to argue with this professor of laws view of the cancer eating away at the rules based order. Worse yet is that the US and Israeli leadership are the main causes of the cancer.

Why would you do it? Just further undermining previously trusted institutions: "Gov agencies, health advocacy groups, and health-related businesses spent nearly $37 million over four years to advertise on news websites promoting misinformation." www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

l'm good being an "Insufferabilis EVmobilus" after buying my Audi 55 E-tron and loading 36 panels on my roof to service my 20kwt home battery - just in time! Oil crisis sees emergence of new human sub-species: Insufferabilis EVmobilus simonchapman6.com/2026/04/02/o... via @simonchapman6

Fancy that. A gas station. Where no car is tanking gas - but the EV chargring units are fully occupied. The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones – and the fossil‑fuel age won’t end because we run out of oil. It will end because better, more reliable technologies take over.

Now we are seeing the emergence of Type-5 Diabetes: a newly recognized form of the disease believed to be caused by malnutrition - typically associated with underweight, undernourished patients- preventing normal pancreas development. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/h...