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simonchapman.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. Anon accounts rarely followed or responded https://simonchapman6.com/about/
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Net effect of vaping in whole population harmful. Large US cohort study finds for every beneficial transition out of smoking via vapes, there are 2.1x harmful transitions (ie never smokers starting to vape, exlusive vapers taking up or adding smoking to vaping. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39880060/

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'Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. '- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Profligacy!

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Cannot recommend a FB page more highly than this: Terrible art in charity shops. www.facebook.com/groups/68210...

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will the next be the last fair election in australia? another ad from the australien gov’t that’s surprisingly honest… @thejuicemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYI...

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What you see below is competence (on the left) and a white-privilege hire (on the right). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Just sayin' ... (data a few years old, but pattern still holds today)

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When are we all going to call enough, no more on the crazy excesses of garment labelling with instructions in 5 languages about how to wash etc. They would pile to the moon & back. What total waste.

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A rare photo of a baby carrot clinging to its mother just before being eaten by a vegan! Stop This Cruelty NOW!!

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I knew veteran Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore, 79, was "commanding" but no idea she was "small & dainty". Delighted she also will not let her staff "reach out" www.smh.com.au/national/que...

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#episky #epidemiology 🧪 Trickle down anti-science. Abruptly cutting off funding will hobble public health at all levels throughout the United States and internationally. This is not about judiciously cutting waste throughout the government. This is a chainsaw massacre. www.gapha.org/annual-meeti...

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All the grubs are now doing it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This could catch fire. What common American products could we boycott until the penny drops for Trump? I've not drunk Coke or Pepsi for 50 years. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

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#ACIP, the expert panel that advises #CDC on vaccine policy, will not meet next week. #HHS, which never gave final approval for the meeting, per sources, suggests it will be rescheduled, but gives no date. www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/a...

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Australian women & young people have been moving to the left when voting. Some hope to brighten your weekend. theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...

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Not a cat person at all, but making an exception for this. Taken in the 2019/20 NSW bushfires (photographer unknown). Koala seeking refuge. Puss considering ...

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Anti-windfarm fruitcakes love to say livestock hate wind turbines, get sick & diseased from infrasound (also generated surf, wind in trees, your sub-woofer, some fans BTW). But someone forgot to tell these sheep!

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Nice one.

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Modelling from 2016. Confident this all played out. Anyone confirm? @ketanjoshi.co

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Blame game. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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A very prescient @cathywilcox.bsky.social cartoonist, predicting several years back the dire situation for medical research in the US

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Fuck

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Pence popping up to throw out a truth bomb before diving for cover.

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Trump's childlike understanding of manufacturing, trade, economies. Very astute piece www.smh.com.au/business/mar...

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Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources. 1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

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Front page of the year so far?

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Vaping promoters often say "there've been no vaping deaths". Asbestos industry said same thing for years. Like lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease from smoking, latency period between first exposure & diagnosis. Here's mesothelioma data for different industries www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma...

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Will Putin give Trump his "special handshake" when they next meet?

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Let's hope the Rodin museum in Paris has put high security around its most famous statue before Trumpian US tourists get offended

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They renamed the Gulf of Mexico, so stand by for the pompous renaming of Arabic numerals before poor liddul US whitebread kiddies ask awkward questions about their provenance

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With Trump & Putin colluding away from Europe & Ukraine on the "end of the war", timely to re-view Arnold Schwarzenegger's message to the Russian people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCl...

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I stayed in a Singapore hotel which advised guests to eat up all your breakfast or we'll fine you $3 per 100grams for your leftovers. Interesting way of giving pause to gluttony & reducing #foodwaste #obesity

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New from Steinway: 5 key upright. Essential for every rap/hip hop composer needs

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Surely it's long overdue for @bsky.app to add a weeping button 😪 as an alternative to the 💗 response.

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Reuse, recycling & plastic abatement legislation are at the apex of reducing the burden of rubbish & landfill reduction. But high temperature incineration needs all our attention. Data here from Copenhagen's

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Jfc. No low is too low

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plus ça change ... #Trump #immigration #holocaust

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Smart dog anoints preferred candidate

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Your handy list of achievements of the Albanese Labor gvt. www.reddit.com/r/LaborParty...

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Sickening to hear NRL boss Peter V'landys pitching rugby league to Trump as emphatically "brutal". Not skilful, not exciting, just brutal. May live to regret that next time a brain damaged player sues.

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