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Matt Oliver

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · Apr 18

Excellent reflect from most awesome friend and colleague @mark-ungrin.bsky.social.

"Five years ago, on April 3, 2020, the world’s top bioaerosol scientists warned the WHO that COVID was transmitted in infectious aerosols, tiny particles that drift in the air like smoke.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · Apr 18

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/18/t... by @mark-ungrin.bsky.social

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15h

“A pipeline rupture that sparked a 2024 wildfire in west-central Alberta was caused by a crack, says a report released Thursday.”

If we’re debating what can cause a wildfire still…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire | CBC News

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published its findings on the causes of the rupture of a natural gas pipeline near Edson, Alta.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 6h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15h

Some people are dead and several people are unaccounted for after an explosion at a military explosives company in #Tennessee, local officials say.

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Massive blast at military explosives plant in Tennessee leaves multiple people dead, several ‘unaccounted for’

Some people are dead and several people are unaccounted for after an explosion at a military explosives company in Tennessee, local officials say.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: 53 participants involved in the Vyvgart trial for Long COVID are calling on the government to fund research for the drug after they saw significant improvements that the study didn’t capture.

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Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Monica Gandhi was once affiliated with the dark money funded group called "The Urgency of Normal" w now current Trump appointees Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth-Hoeg. Great little article about all of that.

synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/202...

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 1d

Best part of reading family service records is finding out how many times they were fined for being AWOL.

And the first time I’ve seen “Attached to Experimental Station Suffield” which must be chemical warfare testing.

Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 1d

My next engineering epistemic trespass.

Engineer meta-reviews theoretical physics papers, concludes they all fail GRADE analysis and demonstrate no practical application to the real world.

(Bit of an engineer vs physicist dig in there for extra snark)

Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 1d

And that centre is going to churn out reems of papers just like this one.

Guessing there’s a long line of masters students whose ‘thesis’ will be a GRADE study just like that one.

Easier than the 21 months I spent locked in an anechoic chamber!

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All Hallows' D.Ve @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 1d

A poli sci issue after all lol.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

The most frustrating part is that they just don't *think*. Medicine's management class has spent so long hammering subservience and obedience-to-seniority into students and promoting the best sycophants that the entire leadership tier is totally out of their depth with anything they didn't memorize.

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All Hallows' D.Ve @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 1d

Betting ten dollars that if it were measured, my discipline (political science) would have superior handwashing compliance to hospital medicine. I'm catty like that lol.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out institutional medicine's Dunning-Kruger + ego + power to kill people + zero accountability model wasn't such a great idea after all.

Who knew?

🤷

Well yeah, ok, Semmelweis, obviously.

It was probably a clue that they're still crowing about the one thing they learned since 1846.

🤔

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 1d

It’s astounding that no one says - hey isn’t there a field of science specifically specializing in respiratory protection?

This is a bit like me sponsoring an electrical engineering review of neurosurgery papers. Hey it’s all electricity…

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baconsauerkraut.bsky.social @baconsauerkraut.bsky.social · 1d

Some positive news - despite EBM 🐂💩: ctif.org/news/after-d...

After decades, U.S. wildland firefighters finally get mask protection

The decision comes amid mounting evidence linking prolonged smoke exposure to cancer, lung disease, and other serious health conditions.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

There's easy money in EBM syntheses though, as long as you've got the right connections to get funded. Turn the crank, pretend you're doing actual science, inflate your CV, and you too can climb the ladder in institutional medicine and launder your silly opinions into policy and guidance.

The rise and fall of EBM.

B G Charlton, A Miles; The rise and fall of EBM., QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 91, Issue 5, 1 May 1998, Pages 371–374, https://doi.org

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, the best argument against using cookbook "Evidence Based Medicine" approaches in place of science is watching what happens when people do.

If it can't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

Rapid review: Evaluating the effectiveness of masks and respirators against wildfire smoke

"The evidence on the effect of wearing a mask or respirator on pollutant exposure and human health endpoints during combustion-derived air pollution episodes is limited. " 🙃

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Rapid review: Evaluating the effectiveness of masks and respirators against wildfire smoke

Evidence on effectiveness of masks in reducing health impacts from wildfire smoke and air pollution.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

See also "Rapid review: Evaluating the effectiveness of hard hats against head injury."

The #MedSky application of 'rapid reviews' to the laws of physics needs to die. ASAP.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

What sweet nothings is Rubio whispering to Trump? 🤫

Wrong answers only.

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 2d

I just discovered this great app called Grindr…

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 2d

Security Clearance is Canada's - and PIERRE POILIEVRE's - Epstein files

Keep throwing distraction Peep. We're not forgetting. Any... ANY party leader would have gotten it in response to public uproar.... if they could have

pretty clear Peep can't get it

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 2d

A nice final note for the history books for the public life of heartless Heather.

stevelambert.bsky.social @stevelambert.bsky.social · 3d

Updated: www.thereminder.ca/provincial-n... #mbpoli

Manitoba legislature approves fines for former premier and cabinet ministers

WINNIPEG — Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers were fined Tuesday for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.

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stevelambert.bsky.social @stevelambert.bsky.social · 3d

Updated: www.thereminder.ca/provincial-n... #mbpoli

Manitoba legislature approves fines for former premier and cabinet ministers

WINNIPEG — Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers were fined Tuesday for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.

www.thereminder.ca

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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