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Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks? #healthpolicy 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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It’s the 20th anniversary of the WHO FCTC! As the first global public health treaty under @WHO, the WHO FCTC unites 183 Parties to combat the global tobacco epidemic. Over two decades, it has kept tobacco control on the global agenda, fostered cooperation, and guided national action. +

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Academic insurers Staysure, currently funding hate speech

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VACANCY - We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow (Grade 8) to join Prof. Petra Meier's Systems Science in Public Health research group. ⏲️part-time, 28 hours per week 🗓️closes 18th March 📩 @pmeierprof.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA604/r...

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Until the gambling industry is recognised as a corporate vector of harm & effective measures taken to restrict its influence & its marketing, prevention of that harm will remain unachievable. Thank you to @pamelawrites.bsky.social for covering our recent analysis usrtk.org/healthwire/g...

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The Collective Conversations continue! Next up: 'Examining the Power of the Alcohol and Tobacco Industries in the Philippines' where @giannagayle.bsky.social will present findings from her PhD thesis 📍Online, 🗓️3pm CET, Tuesday 18th March Read more and sign up: www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...

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Missing Millions - A cross-examination of British American Tobacco Kenya’s tax bill www.bath.ac.uk/publications... @ashorg.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social

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2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

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Reminder of this call for papers on scientific racism 👇 if you too are watching in shame as influential figures in the evolutionary behavioural sciences cheer on attacks on science & DEI in the US, consider writing about why academia continues to harbour scientific racism & what we can do about it

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“Tobacco companies denied health risks, cast doubt on science, and lobbied against regulations,” says co-author Professor Anna B. Gilmore. “The gambling industry is now doing the same to avoid accountability.” usrtk.org/healthwire/g...

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How do apps backed by the alcohol industry mislead users & risk increasing the amount users drink? In our latest blog, Elliott Roy-Highley & @markpetticrew.bsky.social look at the content of industry apps. "It exemplifies the subtle ways that industry actors use... www.ias.org.uk/2025/02/25/d...

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By Marion Nestle: A research, funded by the dairy industry with authors working for dairy companies concludes that restricting dairy foods does not reduce environmental impact but makes diets cost more -> Industry-funded research favors the sponsor’s interests ! www.foodpolitics.com/2025/02/indu...

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Very good video here by Stephen Reid👇 about the condition of Lough Neagh. Most of you will be familiar with the story of its ecological collapse. Stephen analyses the seven reasons behind this. youtu.be/HXT1yMD2kZA?...

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To my friends who are part of the scientific community, please consider signing. This is not a time to quietly acquiesce to threats to enlightenment values posed by the emerging autocracy.

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Whistleblower warns that the “neo-reactionary movement advocates a form of “techno-monarchism” where the CEO-ruler uses “data systems/AI/algorithms to rule & implement policies.” With Trump as the ‘tool’. This piece from @bylinetimes.bsky.social would have been unimaginable a month ago.

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🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International Mapping commercial practices of the pesticide industry to shape science and policymaking: a scoping review OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf001

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Covid denial was no accident. The playbook that Big Oil used to stall climate action was repurposed for the pandemic. The result? Fake science, think tank propaganda, & mass confusion. How did they do it? Read the full story, by new EAB writer Guy Chapman

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Ever wondered where TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views? Well it turns out they're being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump cash bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...

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A new study led by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and David Walsh reveals hugely concerning picture of worsening mortality and widening inequalities across England and Scotland since the early 2010s. gla.ac.uk/schools/heal... #HealthInequalities #Austerity

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RIP Rick Buckler.. youtu.be/x8aoHrDZGt4?...

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In some ways I'm glad my epidemiologist dad isn't around to witness this - the largest experiment in eugenics and social Darwinism in history.

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ARC, Heritage Foundation, MCC, New Cultural Forum, Net Zero Watch, Legatum, Policy Exchange, etc., etc. - all with the same roster of speakers - all with same message - fossil fuel production must continue - capital should move freely but people from certain countries shouldn't.

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The secrecy of special measures that allows operators, like Betfair, to avoid regulatory action is completely inadequate and allows for deaths to occur. I have now launched a judical review claim to challange the GC's decision not to investigate Betfair. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Feature. Not bug.

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This is an essential read for understanding the links between what is happening in the US, and the undercurrents in the UK. The replacement of democracy by a society led by a technocratic 'elite'; eugenics; etc.

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A reminder that @healthpromint.bsky.social is now accepting methods papers along with all our other terrific priority areas! We would love to also see more papers related to women's health, health policy, youth health, and the climate crisis. We also consider all types of review papers!

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I try not to post anything too unnecessarily terrifying here, but this piece from a SV insider that outlines the overarching vision Yarvin/Musk/Thiel and what they have planned (it is really sick shit, be warned) is worth a read if you have the stomach for it. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

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🚨How the Big 6 ad agencies all profit from greenwashing fossil fuel firms - and have also carefully greenwashed their own images to successfully escape criticism. Vital reporting from @desmog.bsky.social this week, as Ogilvy owner WPP is accused of climate and human rights violations.

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How is the fast food giant McDonald’s subverting attempts to stop it opening stores near schools? 🎧 Listen in our latest podcast episode Available at Apple: apple.co/3CTXE2f Or Spotify: spoti.fi/3X1DIkF Read the investigation bit.ly/42Y41vY

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Exposition aux pesticides : en France, une contamination «massive» des bouquets de fleurs Ce que révèlent les analyses menées en laboratoire par l’UFC-Que choisir :

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Roses are red - and just for clarity - DON'T-get-your-science-or-health-information-from-an industry-funded-'charity'

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How did Mr Tumble sneakily recreating the cover to Black Sabbath's debut album escape me for so many years?

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📍En écho à une publication récente 📈 ↘️

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Here is Ford's head of North America communications, informing us about the source of America's pedestrian safety crisis: Streetlights They've apparently gotten much worse in the last 15 years. Or something. It definitely has nothing to do with the gigantic SUVS & trucks that his company sells.

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Interesting paper - well worth reading.

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65% of alcohol products in AUS have the mandatory label about risks of drinking while pregnant, a study in @anzjph.bsky.social found. Prof Simone Pettigrew of the George Institute for Global Health and a PHAA member, spoke to the ABC about her team's paper. Listen: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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as always, Origin Story manages to be both entertaining and highly informative. Full marks to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

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Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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