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Mark Petticrew
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Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 6h
The government’s licensing reforms process has been rushed, opaque, and dominated by industry - and could seriously weaken public health

🎙️In our latest podcast, we spoke to Prof Niamh Fitzgerald & Dr @jamesnicholls.bsky.social about the proposals🎧 @stir.ac.uk

Links: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gove...

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 9h
A new analysis of more than 10,000 first-time drink-driving cases reveals a troubling disparity.
Māori face harsher sentences than NZ Europeans for similar drink-driving offences – with lasting consequences
theconversation.com

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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · 2d
As the Soft-Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) is extended to cover milkshakes and pre-packaged lattes, it's worth taking a look back at some of the findings from the evaluation of the SDIL undertaken by @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues.

studies.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/sdil

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Dr Lynette Pretorius @drlpretorius.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s episode of “Academic Gatekeeping”: my paper was sent back because the paragraphs had 6pt spacing between them. Apparently the biggest threat to quality scholarship is… paragraph gaps. #AcademicSky

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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 3d
They are easily identifiable actually. Read the first paper in the Lancet Series.

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 4d
Worth noting that 'Safer Gambling Week' is a gambling industry initiative, and as such, is designed to covertly promote gambling, and mislead the public and policymakers. So perhaps you shouldn't be promoting it, and indirectly, industry front groups involved in it, like gambleaware.

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 5d
Good.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
British Museum ends ‘deeply troubling’ sponsorship from Japanese tobacco firm
Move welcomed by critics, who have been calling for end to ‘morally unacceptable’ deals since 2016
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Mark Petticrew, Gerald Friedman , and 2 more

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5d
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 5d
“Challenge scientific orthodoxy”

They just can’t stop sanewashing him
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms

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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 6d
Pressure is rightly growing on organisations to explain why they are taking money from an industry that kills more than half of it's long-term customers.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
London Philharmonic and Royal Academy defend ties with tobacco company sponsor - Arts Professional
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has called its continued partnership with an international tobacco giant "critical" to its work.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 6d
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
buff.ly

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Phillip Baker

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 7d
This new paper in the Lancet shows the power of social network analysis and data visualization to convey complex connections among the global political influence of the ultra processed foods industry.

I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Euan G. Ritchie, David Johnson , and 11 more

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Dana R. Fisher

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 7d
🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook.

⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇

👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 8d
Sum: $$$$

Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏

Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.

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Patient Experience Library @patientlibrary.bsky.social · 8d
Does transparency matter between drug companies and politicians? Find out via our Into the Web report: pexlib.net?249750 And use our APPG Influence tracker to see who is connected with whom among health-related All Party Parliamentary Groups: www.appgtracker.net

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 8d
Ultra processed food does harm to every major organ in your body. But hey, it makes them some very large profits, so the lobbyists keep working hard to sell it to you.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com

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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · 8d
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com

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James Larkin @jameslarkin13.bsky.social · 8d
"I'm not influenced."

"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."

"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”

Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference

@aimosinc.bsky.social

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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 10d
Bayer's sponsorship of the agriculture pavilion at COP30 is "a golden opportunity to greenwash its image" says @corporateeurope.org
I Challenge Thee
www.corporateeurope.org

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10d
Excellent and worth following.
"...It’s been dismaying to see so much of the media just repeating the claims of Big Pharma about the unfavourable business environment in this country."
criticaltakes.bsky.social Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · 10d
Fresh thinking about corporate power, only on Critical Takes:

- The duplicity of Big 4 accounting firms.

- Last year a UN panel set high standards for critical mineral mining. How's that going?

- Weak journalism and the UK's Big Pharma saga.

All that and more at:

criticaltakes.org/our-takes/

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criticaltakes.bsky.social
Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · 10d
Fresh thinking about corporate power, only on Critical Takes:

- The duplicity of Big 4 accounting firms.

- Last year a UN panel set high standards for critical mineral mining. How's that going?

- Weak journalism and the UK's Big Pharma saga.

All that and more at:

criticaltakes.org/our-takes/

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Marcus Grant, Ian Butler , and 2 more

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 10d
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban

UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com

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David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 10d
"A spokesman for the Institute of Makers of Explosives said the industry is highly regulated and views safety as its top priority."

This is what PR experts tell corporate and trade association leaders to say after workers are killed on the job.

It is never true.

Thanks @johnkeilman.bsky.social
Regulators Bypassed Building 602. Then It Blew Up.
The site of an explosion that killed 16 workers in Tennessee was part of an “industry that polices itself.”
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Frank de Vocht

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 10d
🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social

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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 11d
Huge thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for partnership on a new review article: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

@lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @socsocmed.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social
The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health
Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...
www.annualreviews.org

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Chris Gee / ◣ ◢ \ @chrisgeeuk.bsky.social · 12d
Chemical industry pollution - fishers/taxpayers paying the price www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...
Swiss authorities impose ban on sale of PFAS-tainted fish
Pike and perch from Lake Zug in central Switzerland are too contaminated by PFAS, so-called "forever chemicals". Their sale or distribution as food is forbidden with immediate effect.
www.swissinfo.ch

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12d
libertarian eugenics: “The high-tech fertility market privileges those able to pay for genetic advantage. The retreat of public health abandons the social minimum needed to ensure that all children can survive and thrive. And immigration policy redraws the body politic along racial lines”
The irresistible rise of libertarian eugenics
Social Darwinism is making a comeback in the US — this time wrapped in the language of freedom
www.ft.com