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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 14h

Frost tonight so time to cut last of the summer dahlias…

Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful October day
The view from here #ygk

Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe a mechanism through which the CHALLENGE trial exerted its benefits in colon cancer er patients? (Though of course exercise in that trial not “combined” with immune Rx)

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 6d

How exercise promotes the immune system vs cancer, working through a gut bacteria metabolite
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 6d

Because everyone needs MORE things to worry and catastrophize about….?

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 7d

So sad 💔. Jane Goodall was an inspiration. She never stopped …
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live

The primatologist was a

www.bbc.com

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Linka von Sofia, Auntie @linkasofia.bsky.social · 8d

Junk science and fascism. Dr.Gunter: “Dr, Timothy Snyder, a noted expert on fascism, offers the best framing–fascism, he writes, is ‘the triumph of will over reason.’ This strips away right-wing and left-wing ideologies, and just leaves us with the perversion of truth in the quest for domination.”

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 9d

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

The FDA Plans to Review Mifepristone

When junk science shapes policy, it's fascism

open.substack.com

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Palliative Care McGill @caremcgill.bsky.social · 9d

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of the great Dr. Balfour Mount, widely considered the father of palliative care in Canada. He will be greatly missed.

Please read our message in full: e1.envoke.com/m/783fa9fc5f...

An older man in a dark jacket smiles. A white dog sits to his left.

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing essay by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social

Convincingly weaving the connection between literacy, reading, innovation, creativity and public engagement in democracy. And by corollary - the decline of literacy / reading a harbinger of democracy’s fall. Read it.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 11d

!!!!

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve long thought that instead of fact checking his speeches (to find the “misinformation/lies”) it would be easier to just highlight those things he says that are TRUE.

Would be very short, almost always empty, report

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 14d

Is there a Nobel Prize for Buffoonery?

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 14d

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Health Canada pushes back against Trump's claims about Tylenol in pregnancy | CBC News

Health Canada is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Tylenol use during pregnancy and childhood is linked to autism, saying it remains a recommended treatment for pain and fe...

www.cbc.ca

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 14d

Fall has befallen us
The view from here #ygk

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 14d

This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 16d

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16d

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16d

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17d

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Screenshot of my Tweet thread from Twitter

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Common Sense Oncology @csoncol.bsky.social · 23d

📅 Attending ESMO in Berlin? Don't miss this special CSO Symposium taking place on Fri Oct 17, 5:30-7:00 pm CET.
Moderated by @winettevandergraaf.bsky.social, the panel will discuss recent CSO initiatives & activities in Europe & beyond.

tinyurl.com/5yj9vm8b

@qol.eortc.org #CommonSenseOncology

Common Sense Oncology at ESMO. Join us at the Messe Berlin for a special CSO symposium. Panelists, from left to right: Dr. Winette van der Graaf, Dr. Chris Booth, Dr. Madeline Pe, Dr. Dario Trapani, Dr. Rachel Riechelmann, and Dr. Chris Cronin. Topics, from left to right: CSO and Clinical Trials, CSO Momentum, CSO and QOL, CSO and Education, CSO and Global Oncology, and CSO-EORTC Fellowship. Register now to receive location details.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 19d

🎶It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 🎶

Free Covid, flu and RSV vaccines starting Sept 22 for Ontario.

#Onpoli
#VaccinesSaveLives
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

www.cbc.ca

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 20d

My guess is there will be no evidence to support ANY of the things they recommend. Ever.

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 20d

To be clear: NO evidence to support this move.

Harmful, science-free, doubtmongering BS.

CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit wapo.st/3K9OBNV

CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit

They voted 8-3 to recommend delaying the use of a measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine that about 15 percent of children receive.

wapo.st

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 20d

What someone says cannot be used to justify their murder;

But also

Their murder cannot be used to justify what they said

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 21d

As per a famous Sesame Street jingle:
”One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?”

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21d

On Friday, the Trump administration claimed that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.

They are doing this to gin up a reason for their unnecessary restrictions on COVID19 vaccines.

We explain the science for how we know these vaccines didn’t cause pediatric deaths in our report.

Scientific evidence shows no link between COVID19 vaccines and child deaths | Defend Public Health

In response to claims by the Trump administration that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric deaths, Defend Public Health reviewed the scientific evidence from rigorous vaccine safety surveillance syst...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 21d

Have you seen any advice for repeating RSV vax? We had ours two years ago but unclear if boost needed!

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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 28d

Anyway, here’s my dog

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