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Mark Petticrew
@markpetticrew.bsky.social
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Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 4d
Remembering when the cast of Thunderbirds did adverts for Japanese Railways
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 5d
Corporate profit prioritized over public health. This is driving a catastrophic toll of preventable harm. Watch the official trailer for Unmasking Influence and find out why ignorance is not an option. #TrailerLaunch #UnmaskingInfluence @lshtm.bsky.social
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Unmasking Influence - The Official Trailer
This trailer is for a film called Unmasking Influence. Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major…
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 8d
The Moselys are still active in politics. Oswald’s grandson is UK CEO of Peter Theil’s Planatir that keeps winning govt. contracts. He wants AI to be piloted by ARC’s ideology. More in my article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11d
Standing up for science is one way to push back against political attacks on the university sector 👇 Experts in biology and anthropology have put together this statement to counter misinformation about race. Please consider signing and sharing
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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · Sep 2
Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10d
This is such a good article on how the undermining of universities is part of an anti-democratic movement:

“Anti-university rhetoric is the language of an international pro-authoritarian movement opposed to centers of learning that model liberal-democratic values”
Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)
Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 11d
Excellent trailer for what looks to be a brilliant film on the commercial determinants of health from @cdoh-rg.bsky.social at @lshtm.bsky.social !
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Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social · 12d
Corporate profit is being prioritised over public health. Discover how corporate power is driving public health crises in the upcoming documentary, Unmasking Influence. #CDOH #CorporatePower @maizie333.bsky.social
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 12d
New CDOH documentary upcoming on 3rd Nov, led by the redoubtable @maizie333.bsky.social ...
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Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social · 12d
Corporate profit is being prioritised over public health. Discover how corporate power is driving public health crises in the upcoming documentary, Unmasking Influence. #CDOH #CorporatePower @maizie333.bsky.social
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 12d
I'm coming back to @bylinetimes.bsky.social to head up investigations. Here's a major one with @peterjukes.bsky.social uncovering how Silicon Valley 'Dark Enlightenment' mogul behind Trump is systematically infiltrating British political infrastructure.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12d
🔴NEW 🔴

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How is MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics?

@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social talked to Lord Maurice Glasman to find out more about his connections to Vance, Thiel, Bannon and Yarvin

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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12d
My first question is going to be ‘which incredibly dodgy American corporation are we going to farm out the work on this digital ID?’
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 15d
Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 16d
With the new school year well underway, ADPH President @felly500.bsky.social asks whether we can really trust what our children are being taught given the influence industry backed educational materials have.

👀Read in full ➡️bit.ly/48rblTw
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 16d
"Pretty much everyone with a massive following who spreads climate denial derives money or power from fossil fuels. The sooner everyone understands that, the better."
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 19d
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 18d
...As does the animal 'research' that Neuralink has been involved in
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18d
Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip clinical trial in Canada raises ethical questions https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip-clinical-trial-in-canada-raises-ethical-questions/article_fb9ba6c8-4fad-5153-8382-fe7515f527cb.html

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Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. EV
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Pamela Ferdinand @pamelawrites.bsky.social · 18d
“The alcohol industry has a serious, and dangerous, conflict of interest between its health-related education and policy-influencing activities, and its commercial priorities,” researchers say. @usrighttoknow.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social

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Alcohol industry uses tobacco tactics to downplay deadly risks and block reforms, studies show
Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to curb alcohol-related disease and death, reports show.
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 19d
Please sign and share if you can to tell UK leaders to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas. only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...
Tell UK Leaders: Ban Bottom Trawling in Marine Protected Areas
The UK government has finally announced a plan to ban destructive bottom trawling in 41 offshore MPAs. The catch? It’s not a done deal. A public consultation is open NOW before anything is finalised —...
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Healthwatch Sheffield @hwsheffield.bsky.social · 25d
Would you like to take part in a research study later this year? The commercial determinants of health are business activities like the making and selling of goods and services that can positively or negatively affect people’s health. Contact Zoe to find out more: [email protected]
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VoteClimate.uk @voteclimateuk.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 More and more Britons think climate change is exaggerated.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

This is because of a concerted campaign by climate deniers.

Labour must do more to tell people about the absolute horror unchecked climate change will unleash.
Earth Day 2025: Where do Britons stand on climate change? | YouGov
Although just 4% of Britons believe that the climate is not changing, public scepticism towards climate policy is increasing
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Society for Social Medicine & Population Health @socsocmed.bsky.social · 22d
Interested in applying evidence synthesis to food policy?

Work with Dr Oliver Mytton (UCL) on an @nihr.bsky.social funded study evaluating the effects of voluntary supermarket policies that restrict the use of price promotions to sell unhealthy foods.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 21d
Pravda.

BBC News - Starmer and Trump: 'Completely different, yet genuinely get on' - BBC News
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Starmer and Trump: 'Completely different, yet genuinely get on'
The BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason and North America Editor Sarah Smith discuss what's at stake for both sides during the trip.
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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 25d
Albums released in September 1981 include Penthouse And Pavement by Heaven 17. Who'd have thought this track would be even more relevant now than then? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndP3...
[We Don't Need This] Fascist Groove Thang
YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · Sep 2
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Weapons of influence: tactics of a growing global arms industry and needed health actions
Mark Bellis and colleagues argue health professionals must do more to counterbalance the arms industry’s influence on government, media, finance, and science and its damaging effects on human and plan...
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Tracey Wagner-Rizvi @twagnerrizvi.bsky.social · 28d
Good to see this media attention around @spidermaani.bsky.social, Emily Adrion and Jeff Collin's analysis of transparency at the WHO Foundation gh.bmj.com/content/10/7...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 5
"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5
CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers?

REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes

C: It wasn't that they make mistakes

F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · Sep 4
"Yer Da paints roundabouts" and "Yer Ma shouts at hotels" sums it up.
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Al Mac @innsegall.bsky.social · Sep 4
have enjoyed these insults immensely: newsthump.com/2025/09/01/y...
‘Yer da paints roundabouts’ and other essential playground insults every child must know ahead of the new academic year
As children across the country prepare for their return to school this week, this season’s best playground insults will form an essential part of their informal curriculum.
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