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Simon Chapman AO

@simonchapman.bsky.social

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Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. https://simonchapman6.com/about/

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Simon Fenton Chapman, AO is an Australian academic and tobacco control activist.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · Nov 15

7 of my books free here simonchapman6.com/books/
1. how most smokers quit (cold turkey)
2. Wind Turbine Syndrome: a communicated disease
3. Collected essays
4. Plain tobacco packaging
5. Cautions about prostate cancer screening
6. Gun control in Australia
7. Vol assisted dying
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View Page Quit smoking weapons of mass distraction. Sydney University Press (2022) FREE OPEN ACCESS e-book (8,363 accesses since Jul 25, 2022) $40 paperback Download Pre-publication reviews “In …

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 22m

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Hey RFK Jr. There's incontrovertible evidence that 99% of people who have car crashes before 9am have had coffee, toast or cereal in the 2 hours before. Obviously the cause. Please do something!!!

Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 44m

Hugely grateful to Hon Baaa-rnaby Joyce for adding Alzheimers to my list of 247 diseases & symptoms caused by windfarm exposure.Now 248, along with haemorrhoids, disoriented echidnas & alchohol abuse.See full list from p279 open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174... @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump was to win the Nobel Peace Prize it would be like a rabid dog winning grand champion at London's famed Crufts dog show

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's this "Noble" Prize he might get. This one was allegedly awarded to a flake electrophobioc dr. Trump is vain and dumb enough to lap it up

Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 3d

This is STRAIGHT out of the Nazi playbook. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

First Letter to All Judges | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Learn how the "First Letter to all Judges" increased the pressure on German judges to give verdicts and sentences according to Nazi principles and ideology.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 3d

Steve Cannane's brilliant 4 Corners expose of Australia's gambling reform hiatus highlighted imminent collapse of sport without gambling $$$. Exact same line used by BigTobacco when they fought as bans. Guess what? All sport survived & grew. 25 years ago!

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 6d

Add another name to the LNP rabble. And this one a bible clutching son of an Anglican minister. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Andrew Hastie quits Sussan Ley’s frontbench

The West Australian had staked out his own nationalist policy agenda on everything from migration to manufacturing.

www.smh.com.au

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 6d

Scene on British train as American couple on first overseas trip bemoan rain, scenery, English warm beer. "Honey, this country is the asshole of the world." English passenger overhearing "oh, just passing through are we?"

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 6d

Remind me ... which regime was it which used to do similar with Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people in Germany?

Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 6d

South Australia permanently shuts down 71 illegal tobacco shops, seizes >$4.2m of stock. Qld doing similar. NSW to start on Nov 5 when new 💥 🏋️‍♂️ legislation kicks in www.2firsts.com/news/operati...

2FIRSTS | Operation Shutdown in South Australia closes 71 illegal tobacco and e-cigarette stores, confiscates over $4.2 million worth of products

South Australia cracked down on illegal tobacco and e-cigarette sales, closed 71 illegal stores, and seized A$4.2 million (about US$2.77 million) worth of products.

www.2firsts.com

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent editorial review of the incoherent nonsense promoted by down-in-last-shower experts on how to curb Australia's rampant illegal tobacco trade. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Policy incoherence: Leadership needed to combat illicit tobacco and end tobacco oversupply

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 7d

“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Colbert rips into anti-windfarm wingnuts' claims about bizarre diseases & symptoms they reckon are caused by wind turbines. Item based on my research. youtu.be/VVcYpXKNGiE Our free book on it all here open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...

Stephen Colbert Wind Farms kill you

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 7d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone should take the time to read this speech from Trump.

We should not ignore just how f*cking deranged this racist sex pest is.

Read it and remember it is a speech to every General in the US military
www.sofx.com/president-tr...

President Trump Address to Pentagon Leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico – Full Transcript

(0:00 - 0:19) Ladies and gentlemen, the Secretary of War. Well, you've heard from me. So now it's the main

www.sofx.com

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 9d

Sth Australia has recently issued 71 28 day closures; www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yL... Qld has 3 month closures, scrapping former wrist-slapping "illegal tobacconist long weekend" closures of a few days. can also seize all illegal + legal products (non-returnable)

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 9d

All wondering when NSW will enact the weapons-grade penalties (closures, seizures, massive on-the-spot fines for illegal tobacco & vape sales, Nov 5 is armageddon day when the Act is proclaimed after assent of parliament on 11 Sept www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/... Expect many closures

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 10d

1 transgender shooter
GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!"

47,209 white male shooters
GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 10d

Another mass shooting in the US. Lucky the government has its priorities right ...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11d

Stark, raving, barking, howling mad

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11d

The wisdom of the crowd ...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13d

After President Trump of Magastan's gaffe on William the Conqueror to King Charles, Chuck has gifted him this book. www.facebook.com/granny.grue/...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13d

Australia's new on-stick health warnings, now on every cigarette. BigTobacco hates them, so what should that tell us?

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 16d

Matt Canavan & the Nats nightmare that won't go away: big & home solar + wind +hydro are smokin' coal in NSW, Qld, Vic,WA & coal not used in Tas, SA. Every day they check these data, the renewables apocalypse gets worse

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 16d

This 60-year old Supreme Court judgment may be the only thing that saves us from Trump

www.alternet.org/supreme-cour...
Trump’s lawsuit is governed by a 1964 Supreme Court ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan. One of the most celebrated of cases handed down by the court during the era known as the

This 60-year old Supreme Court judgment may be the only thing that saves us from Trump

Donald Trump is attempting to sue the New York Times. In a lawsuit filed on September 15 the US president charged that the paper, two Times journalists and also the publisher Penguin Random House comm...

www.alternet.org

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