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Mike Leipe

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire Ottawa, Canada

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Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · May 5

"We're all different. Every day. That's the point."

- @gregghurwitzbooks.bsky.social, "The Last Orphan"

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up in the mountains of northern British Columbia, and people often ask me how I could leave such a beautiful place. Every time I leave the house in the fall here in eastern Ontario I have an answer to that question. And even in winter, with all the gorgeous browns in the fields.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 2d

I also recall people saying that this coin was disrespectful to the monarchy, because it had a picture of the queen with a bear behind.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 8d

Feels a bit like passing the buck, including potential liability, from HHS to clinicians.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 8d

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I can't help but wonder how much of the "talk to your doctor about acetaminophen in pregnancy" guidance will result in malpractice lawsuits by mothers who were told by their physicians that it's okay to take it and ended up with children on the spectrum.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 14d

Doing it with cancer is even worse.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 15d

Our cottage neighbours, on whose property this stands, think it's funny as hell. I think it belongs on the cover of a @stephenking.bsky.social novel.

#creepy

A tree with a bunch of old shoes nailed to it.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 16d

I've got a black '76 Rickenbacker bass that I bought used in '79 and I always say that when the house is burning down, as soon as the wife and kids are safe, I go back in for the Rick.

Funny how you get attached to the things, eh?

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 16d

If you could only keep one of those four, which would it be?

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

If I was still working I'd probably be in the office every day, but that's just because we had a really great gym... 😉

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

I still see great business value in the spontaneous synergies that come from having people together in the office (I retired as a manager in a large tech firm just as the pandemic was winding down), but that's not every day. I like "collaborate in the office, get stuff done at home", i.e. hybrid.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

My employer and even the CRA provided some level of compensation for the costs of working from home through the pandemic. I wonder what the chances are that they'll do something similar for the costs of working in the office.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

Not to mention the hours spent sitting in traffic, pumping carbon into the atmosphere, which could otherwise have been spent working, parenting, exercising, etc.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks, John! One of our guests is thinking that his mom would enjoy "Fire Weather" and "The Tiger", and she is 75 years old, so not as fluent in English as younger generations are. Still, perhaps she'll choose to work her way through them in English - great souvenirs to bring home from Canada!

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · 20d

Got some book-loving friends here from Denmark and giving them my standard rant about my love of @johnvaillant.bsky.social's work - are any of them available in Danish, do you know?

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Sep 2

Those remaining mitochondria that hadn't already been destroyed by seed oils! 😉

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Sep 2

And when these and other vaccine-preventable diseases return with a vengeance due to low vaccine uptake, Kennedy and his ilk will blame it on the mRNA-based COVID vaccines having "destroyed our immune systems" or some such nonsense. I'd put money on that.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 31

Really didn't enjoy the riding surface. Lots of loose, coarse gravel, some deep sand, some wet, greasy sections, some very rough rocky patches. More a trail for a mountain bike than for my gravel bike, I think.

Did the old Wakefield steam train trail last week, it was gorgeous.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nice!

I'd forgotten about the balloon festival across the river on the Labour Day week end! We attended a few times when our kids were very young.

I made the mistake of cycling the Véloroute des Draveurs, northbound from Low, for 3+ hours today. Gorgeous day, not a nice ride. Won't do it again.

My bicycle parked at the Kazabazua rest stop along the Véloroute des Draveurs between Low and Gracefield Quebec. This is where I ate lunch - celery sticks, a boiled egg, and a cheese sandwich - today, about 2/3 of the way into my 60 km ride.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 21

And this man, famous here in Ottawa as "The Vasectomy King", renowned physician and gifted musician, a dear friend and former bandmate, October 29, 2024.

He had so much good in him, with the will and energy to share it with the world. Sadly, he didn't get the time.

apple.news/ArCvJBTvtRJ2...

How this Canadian doctor became the ‘Wayne Gretzky of vasectomies’ — and why he stopped — Toronto Star

Retired Dr. Ronald Weiss at his Ottawa home, where for years he performed vasectomies in his basement office. Medicine was a sharp diversion from his original plan, attending the Berklee School of Mus...

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm waiting for the increase in measles, diphtheria, polio, etc. that'll come with decreasing vaccination rates being blamed on the mRNA Covid vaccines "damaging our immune systems"...

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 19

5+ years into Stage IV colorectal cancer, I still get, "but you don't look like you have cancer!".

I continue to assert that cancer is not so much a battle as a grind, not something you fight but something you endure.

Thank you, @briannaabbott.bsky.social / @wsj.com.

www.wsj.com/health/termi...

A New Reality for Terminal Cancer: Longer Lives, With Chronic Uncertainty

Stage-four cancer patients are living longer, challenging the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. “The science just needs to stay a step ahead of me.”

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Aug 12

To get you started, check out this Science-Based Medicine article, in which the late, great Harriett Hall, a.k.a. "SkepDoc", refers to the Weston A. Price foundation's website as "one of the worst sites on the internet".

sciencebasedmedicine.org/sbm-weston-p...

Weston Price’s Appalling Legacy

One of our readers requested a post about the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). I knew it was not a trustworthy source of medical information, but I had not imagined just how atrocious it really

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Jul 28

Interesting!

I've had at least two PET scans, one only a couple of months ago, and I don't recall anyone ever suggesting that I alter my diet in advance. In the hopefully unlikely event that I end up having to have another one I'll definitely ask about this.

Thanks for your reply!

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Jul 28

"revenue issues for the big players" might not be a bad thing, but I worry that the AI-based question / answer model of "research" will further erode our collective critical thinking skills.

Mike Leipe @mleipe.bsky.social · Jul 28

Good luck!

I've got similar testing coming up in a couple of weeks so I can totally relate.

Just out of curiosity, where did the all-protein diet come from?