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I've just discovered faketrumptweet.com... This could become addictive! :-D

Like I said, removing the mitigations against covid opened the door wide to removing all kinds of safety measures. 'First of all do no harm' was thrown in the sharps bin, and they took out the used needles and reused them instead. x.com/i/status/15900…

🚩 I keep coming back to this 2002 article: Teen Michael J. Fox caught a virus on set of a sitcom in the late 1970s. Years later, he and 3 coworkers from the same show all developed Parkinson’s. Japanese researchers found a virulent flu strain can invade the same brain region Parkinson’s destroys… Pathogens = neurodegeneration

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

People without chronic illnesses really don't get just how bad many doctors are at their jobs.

"No one should be taking medical advice from some dude who looks like an overly frizzy John Oates."

Fantastic explanation of the ongoing threat of COVID and the psychological underpinnings of mass denial.

@1goodtern @threadreaderapp please unroll

I'm in a lull on twitter without much visibility, so probably hardly anyone will see this, but here's an important thread on "why everyone's sick all the time". No, you are not imagining it. Sickness is increasing. Sickness absence rates are increasing.

📉 Kent MenB outbreak ⚠️East Kent Trust failed to report their first case for 2 days⚠️ Here's what you need to know. TLDR: Peaked 13th March. No new cases since - with reporting delays, but that's even better news than it sounds. 1/🧵 👇 @laurabundock @SkyNews

Just imagine if these rags led with headlines like: • OIL GIANTS BANK RECORD PROFITS WHILE BRITAIN FREEZES • SUPERMARKETS RAMP UP PRICES AS EXECUTIVES POCKET MILLIONS • BILLIONAIRES BUY UP HOMES — FAMILIES PRICED OUT • BOSSES CASH IN WHILE WORKERS SKIP MEALS A girl can dream…

Oh he is so flipping good. FOLLOW PACO.

So, ahead of the next covid wave, can we all be absolutely clear on this: Covid is airborne. Each new covid infection adds to your risk of developing long term health problems. Masks work (n95+/FFP2+ ones). Can I get an amen?

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense” - as TWO staff in hospital. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting” 🧵

These are incredibly important points! But is a shame @Kevin_Fong didn't mention Hallett's recommendation to improve the air quality in healthcare by improving ventilation and installing HEPA filters - because that would have a direct impact on the health of healthcare workers.

@cv_cev @RubyPeacock19 @The_TUC @covidinquiryuk @threadreaderapp please unroll

@RubyPeacock19 @The_TUC The benefits of air filters to reduce risks to reduce the cliff edge and how to wear a better mask. Plus, our thanks to the @covidinquiryuk for making the one of the safest rooms the country that you can be in! 👏🙏💨 28/ END

🚨FINAL CVF EVIDENCE We would encourage you to watch @lara_wong 's inquiry evidence in full. However, out amazing team have clipped these extracts for you! 1/

Astronauts, A-list Movie Stars, Gold Medal Olympians, they're masking... ... but masking in hospitals? "Masking in hospitals, however, can result in a psych referral." Excellent article from Tess Finch Lees... Please read and share widely! independent.ie/opinion/commen…

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I could not be more grateful for the freedom that clean air knowledge has brought me. For the first time in my life, I can truly breathe. 6/6

I was recently told that I need to be "liberated" from thinking that covid is still dangerous to my high risk family and worth masking for. I reflected on this, and realized it's the other way around. Masking brings me many kinds of liberty I never had pre-pandemic... 1/6

This should never, under any circumstances, ever, be considered ‘normal’.