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Sen. Wm. McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity | Prof @McMasteru | Scientist @MAP_Health | Co-EIC @JECH_BMJ. Go @Ticats. Housing: chec-ccrl.ca
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America is bleeding power and influence around the world. Russia and China are laughing their asses off every single time Trump and Vance do something embarrassing—like today’s shitshow with Zelensky. We are a lot less safe with these clowns in charge.

submitted 8 hours ago • 44 comments

As I was saying, maybe a bit more forcefully. Europe, you are on your own. Do the following, right now: 1. Kick America out of NATO and bring Ukraine in. 2. Build an Army of Europe. Build nukes. 3. Ban Musk and all his products, especially this website. We are the Axis now.

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 149 comments

This about sums things up. These guys ain't the sharpest knives in the drawer. But they are very dangerous.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

submitted 6 days ago • 458 comments

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

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

submitted 100 days ago • 157 comments

Attention Canadians. Coming soon in our direction.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Lengthy and almost unbearable at times but an outstanding appraisal of these destructive shit-weasel halfwits.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

This is the most important thread I've ever written. If Pete said yes and Dem Leadership agreed to assess each Dem congressional and committee office to fund this, we'd only need a Dem Senator to sacrifice a "hideaway" office in the Capitol to serve as the press briefing room.

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

Reading the NP is a fool's errand, but it's worth debunking these complete lies about housing first as a model for curbing homelessness. First off: the author infers a causal link btw deinstitutionalization and rise in encampments. Except the study he cites... mentions precisely nothing about this.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 35 days ago • 131 comments

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Words to live by

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

In memoriam

submitted 61 days ago • 29 comments

Follow the money! The worst carbon producers aren’t doing anything about climate change, but the insurance companies are. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Recent developments confirm my belief that Trump 2.0 will be a lot more like Trump 1.0 than many of those close to the president-elect would like. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 65 days ago • 61 comments

This kind of rhetoric is very damaging. We need elected leaders to stand against it, not use it for political opportunism www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

submitted 98 days ago • 11 comments

Unsurprising but still shocking

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

In a world of scarce government resources, providing more support for Canadians living with disabilities should be a top priority, by Sean Speer thehub.ca/2024/11/14/s... #disability #inclusion

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Our paper examining the relationship between income inequality and working-age mortality in US states from 1989-2019 is now posted on the J. Epidemiol. Comm. Health website. Open access jech.bmj.com/content/78/1...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments