Catherine Pope
@cjpope.bsky.social
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Professor of Medical Sociology, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Fuck. Ing. Hell.
sundersays.bsky.social
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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cjpope.bsky.social
Sigh. ....Guess I'll just have to keep fighting sexism by listening to #nuntastic @musicasecreta.bsky.social on the loud setting...
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madhupai.bsky.social
PubMed is in trouble

This is beyond bad for medical research

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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gregfolkers.bsky.social
Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

bit.ly/3IPC0PD
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laboursatvir.bsky.social
This week, I’ve secured £20 million for neighbourhoods in Millbrook and Redbridge, through Labour's Pride In Place fund. 💸

Even better, local people will decide how to spend it. 🎉

What would you prioritise? 🙋🏾‍♀️
cjpope.bsky.social
My words also! It's the league table that made me feel proud, tho clearly we need to encourage even more alert, conscious, alive and courageous thinking to beat Cambridge to that top slot.
cjpope.bsky.social
Thanks Trish. Working with a small but great team at Exeter - Jo Day and Rosemary Simmonds.
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bmj.com
The BMJ @bmj.com · 15d
"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."

Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee
cjpope.bsky.social
Normally would agree. But I think as he's just been subjected to a huge islamophobic attack on an international platform maybe we can let him do a bit of showcasing his achievements for a few hours.
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petescarbs.bsky.social
There's a reason why they want to invent a cause of autism. It's the same reason they want to claim they have a cure. It's to remove any emotional or legal obligations to care for or accommodate autistic people
cjpope.bsky.social
Thank you @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan for your continued dignity and for role modelling decency and moral values.
cjpope.bsky.social
Especially ...the importance of having a social group who support the belief system. ...'Without the group an individual might be unable to resist the pressure to abandon their belief in the face of disconfirming facts'
cjpope.bsky.social
All this talk of the Rapture reminded me of this 1956 social psychology classic: When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter.

Their 5 conditions /reasons why people hold onto beliefs also seem helpful for our current times .... 1/2
1956 book cover orange and purple
cjpope.bsky.social
Can't find the emoji for jealousy but am feeling it big time. Please give full updates - I know the paper will be awesome.
cjpope.bsky.social
This. Well said @nisreenalwan.bsky.social (We have made the wider context more unequal for 20 years. Shouting at the victims that it's their fault ain't gonna fix it)
nisreenalwan.bsky.social
Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
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martinmckee.bsky.social
Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review
Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector
www.theguardian.com
cjpope.bsky.social
Looks like me and @jjn1.bsky.social are both re-reading our Gramsci. I'm inclined to agree that this feels like the interregnum, and am wondering how much worse it can get - the birth pains of the new are becoming unbearable observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court o...
Gates, Zuckerberg and more pay homage to their Supreme Leader. Is this the new world order?
observer.co.uk
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martinmckee.bsky.social
I’m at yet another conference (this time in 🇨🇭) where a plenary speaker (African) is absent because he couldn’t get a visa.
This is a disgrace. And it’s a direct consequence of the pathetic failure by our cowardly politicians to challenge racism.
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