Harmful Misinformation
Two threads - one from a retired doctor on deducing misinformation and one from a current doctor frustrated with other doctors who ignore the information presented by patients. We have…
Marie Snyder
Harmful Misinformation
Two threads – one from a retired doctor on deducing misinformation and one from a current doctor frustrated with other doctors who ignore the information presented by patients. We have…
Covid and Crypto
I was a bit confused at the connection between Covid and Cryptosporidium Parvum. Tern has shown a clear correlation in cases, as Covid rises, so does Crypto. But Crypto is…
Covid and Crypto
I was a bit confused at the connection between Covid and Cryptosporidium Parvum. Tern has shown a clear correlation in cases, as Covid rises, so does Crypto. But Crypto is…
AI Enhanced
This cartoon really helped me understand something. My school board announced a new initiative, the mandatory grade 11 English class will now focus on Indigenous voices. I used to teach…
What is University For, Part 2
Does making it all easier make us lazier educators, or is neoliberal politics to blame?? The Quality of Teaching has been Strained: This is a back-in-MY-day story, but I think…
All for Health, Health for All
The World Health Assembly is meeting in two weeks for the 77th time. Their theme is in my clunky title up there as they claim collective solidarity around pandemic prevention,…
Self Organizing Criticality: Slowly, then All at Once
Alex Walker, Climate Finance Program Manager at Environmental Defence, wrote about spotlighting and mythbusting this week’s government studies on climate change and finance: “The Senate Banking commmittee had a study…
Funding Applicable Covid Research
Almost a year ago, the WHO put out a report clarifying the unpredictability of the viral evolution of SARS-CoV-2. But there’s so much that remained unsaid. The report doesn’t mention…
More Evidence the WHO is Complicit in Spreading Covid
More damning evidence that the WHO knew that Covid is airborne right from the get-go: Maarten De Cock wrote, “At the time when WHO was assuring the world: “Covid-19 is…
Conspirituality
George Monbiot has a compelling theory to explain what makes people believe conspiracies. “Those who believe unevidenced stories about hidden cabals and secret machinations tend to display no interest in…
Yup. Still Here. Still Need to Clean the Air.
Covid has been implicated in creating more cases of PANDAS – pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. A 9-year-old girl dramatically changed personality after a viral infection she…
Cell Phones and Cigarettes
I have some concerns with the new rules for schools as reported by the CBC. The biggest concern is that the funding cuts came Friday, but yet another cell phone…
What is University For – Part 1
In case you’ve missed it, many students on university campuses have been protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The police have been heavy-handed — or outright violent — with some…
Imagine If Goliath Won
A group of scientists backed by years of solid science couldn’t sway the mighty World Health Organization from their path of destruction, and we’ve all paid the price. I’m just…
Another School Came Around
Slides from Yale School of Public Health, one of the oldest school in Public Health and Epidemiology:
On Psychosomatic Illness
I don’t know anything about Fibromyalgia, yet I wince when someone says it’s psychosomatic. I wonder about almost any conditioned considered psychosomatic now. I realize I’m using the term in…
Canada’s Healthcare Crisis
A major backbone of Canada is falling apart, and much of it is from poor policy decisions that has led to a serious doctor shortage. Mary Fernando, MD, wrote about…
Hostility Creating Isolation
A recent study found that older adults are spending less time in public due to hostility against people in masks. “The study comes amid what the U.S. Surgeon General recently…
What’s Good for the King is Good for the Kids
We KNOW that Covid makes kids sick, which affects attendance, and we KNOW cleaning the air will help (since so many have been convince not to wear masks to class),…