Hey #scisky and #cdnpoli (and anyone else wondering why funding for rigorous research is so hard to get in Canada) what do you think of a grant competition for $5M to be spent over 30 months where the *applicant* is pre-specified?
www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOppr...
Now the overdiagnosis / overtreatment panic will have even more influence in the US.
This is why authoritarians love "Evidence Based Medicine" / GRADE etc - they're so comprehensively, conveniently subjective that whoever picks the pickers, picks the cherries.
#medsky#scisky#standupforscience
Why do dog eyes age so differently than human eyes? It’s not fair that their eyes start to go cloudy in their teen years but humans generally have many decades before that. Any vet eye specialists who have info? #vetsky#medsky#scisky
Particularly interesting as it's coming from a #cancer newsletter, not one focused on COVID impacts, indicating that the evidence of COVID harms is becoming obvious across fields.
Also NB it focuses on the immune aspects, which would synergize with expected p53 signal alterations.
#medsky#scisky
This is exactly what I mean by #misinformation "inside the house" being corrosive to public trust.
It's clear #malpractice, and a serious breach of medical ethics - some combination of unacceptable ignorance and/or intentional misrepresentation, endangering patient health.
#medsky#scisky
Institutional medicine's widespread culture of dishonesty has been one of the most shocking takeaways from the pandemic.
I knew there was a problem with bullying and authoritarianism, but the sheer scale and normalization of manipulation of science is breathtaking.
#medsky#scisky#polisky
This 2014 talk highlights the ingrained corruption in medical guidance circles promoting these widespread failures. In particular the character assassination and manipulation campaign Dr. MacIntyre was subjected to when her work showed N95s are more effective than medical masks. #medsky#scisky
Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky#sciskycovid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....
It's #LongCovidAwarenessDay.
#longCOVID is about justice - workers' rights, equity, disability, the environment (add up the carbon footprint of the hospital days!), fighting misinfo and pseudoscience.
If you care about any of those, you care about stopping COVID.
#polisky#cdnpoli#scisky#medsky