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Paul Glasziou

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GP researcher @BondUniversity focused on 4 big neglected healthcare problems (non-drug treatments; overdiagnosis; AMR & waste in research); fan of #evidence-based decision making, uncommon sense & surfing. https://healthy-evidence.com/about-2/

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · Dec 13

Five lessons from my research & clinical career: work on big problems; explore problem with those effected; learn from past journeys; build better tools; stay alter for interesting “accidents” - a 15 minute video youtu.be/6t6Z_4_Zhfc?...

Professor Paul Glasziou AO: Lessons from a research and clinical career

YouTube video by Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 2h

Declining child mortality, fast and slow

The image depicts a line chart illustrating child mortality rates, specifically the estimated percentage of newborns who do not survive past the age of five. The chart has two distinct lines: one representing Sweden in blue and the other representing South Korea in red.

Starting in the early 1800s, the blue line for Sweden shows a gradual decline in the child mortality rate, fluctuating around 35% at the beginning and continuing to decrease steadily over the years, reaching nearly 0% by 2023.

In contrast, the red line for South Korea begins more steeply in the mid-20th century, experiencing a rapid decline after 1950, ultimately approaching a very low percentage by 2023.

The sources for the data are listed at the bottom as Gapminder (2015) and the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025). The entire chart is labeled as CC BY for Creative Commons licensing.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 3d

Ah Ha! The secret system experts use for creating #overdiagnosis ;-)

David Poulter @retlouping.bsky.social · 5d

Invent a problem, invent a test, invent a treatment, fix your test, voila! The state of health care across apps.

“Your wangle dangle is out & twisted. A few sessions of my TM wangle dangle therapy and your pain will be gone.”

Patient in future
“ I have wangle dangle syndrome”

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 5d

Friday tip for fast reviews. Our "2weekSR" process uses automated tools (see tera-tools.com): ReviewWizard (protocol), SearchRefiner, PolyGlot (translate to multiple databases), Screenatron (&Mechatron for AI-assist), SpiderCite (forward&backward), ... video overview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghW_...

Using the Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA)

YouTube video by The Accelerator of Evidence

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Trials Change Lives @trialschangelives.bsky.social · 8d

#CochraneDaily Read reflections from Andy Oxman, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou on the long and winding road of promoting informed health choices in this new James Lind Library article👇
www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/pro...

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Promoting informed health choices: the long and winding road. - The James Lind Library

Summary Those promoting evaluation of the effects of health interventions to inform health choices face numerous challenges. The list includes: uncritical reliance on inadequately informed opinions, i...

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 10d

Sadly yes - a variant of Brandolini’s Law “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

Brandolini's law - Wikipedia

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 11d

Acetaminophen (aka Paracetamol/Tylenol) NOT linked to autism: Swedish study followed nearly 2.5 million children born between 1995 and 2019, tracking them for up to 26 years. Analyses included pairs of siblings with/without exposure theconversation.com/paracetamol-...

Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows

Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 12d

How to Communicate Medical Numbers

The effectiveness of sharing numerical information depends on patients’ ability to understand and interpret these numbers. Understanding numbers may be difficult for patients with limited numeracy skills.

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How to Communicate Medical Numbers

This JAMA Insights provides evidence-based recommendations for communicating numerical information to patients.

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 12d

Elizabeth Finkel is the author of a recent & very readable book on scientific method(s): www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/prove-it

Prove It by Elizabeth Finkel

A compelling journey through science's big breakthroughs, by an award-winning Australian science writer

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 12d

“Our health, our agriculture, our environmental safety, our ability to ameliorate and adapt to climate change, to regulate AI and to fight the next pandemic, all rely on the proper functioning of the scientific machine. We must not stand by and see it dismantled.” theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it

Modern science emerged precisely to deal with the way everything can be manipulated – and scepticism over ‘facts’ goes all the way back to Socrates.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 13d

Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if #Australia stuck with #coal and #gas only.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with coal and gas only

Griffith University experts reveal the 30% increase in consumer power bills since 2021 would have been worse under fossil fuel-only scenario

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15d

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21d

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20d

It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren.

That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits

We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 19d

Not ambitious enough; but good to see specific resource allocation: a C+ “The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept” theconversation.com/the-albanese...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22d

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22d

A new review of multicancer early detection tests (MCED). Without any controlled studies in people without symptoms (and at increased risk), they are "not ready for popular use." @annalsofim.bsky.social
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 22d

Is this Australia’s climate wake-up call? Official report reveals a hotter, harder future if we don’t act now @theconversation.com theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

Is this Australia’s climate wake-up call? Official report reveals a hotter, harder future if we don’t act now

The sobering assessment is a national call to action. The sooner Australia mitigates and adapts, the safer we will be.

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 23d

Very helpful Substack article for making some sense of the diverse MAGA “factions” and their overlap & conflicting ideologies, especially Christian Nationalist cf atheist Tech Bros - thanks @asharangappa.bsky.social

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26d

Interesting thread/theory, and would fall in the “intra-faction conflict” part of my MAGA Map analysis open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 25d

Fascinating article. One amusing error -> “when researchers asked state-of-the-art models for the birthday of Adam Kalai, one of the paper’s authors, DeepSeek-V3 confidently provided three different incorrect dates across separate attempts: “03-07”, “15-06”, and “01-01”...”

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 28d

Trial-based economic evaluations of non-drug interventions in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions: a systemic review: "of 150 NDIs, 40% were cheaper and more effective, and 70% considered cost effective." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40889888/

Trial-based economic evaluations of non-drug interventions in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions in primary care: a systemic review - PubM...

Most of the HANDI NDIs that were included within this systematic review are cost-effective compared with a variety of alternatives including usual care or waiting list controls. HANDI NDIs warrant use...

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Sep 7

Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU.

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