Bioethicist, Associate Professor, & CIHR Applied Public Health Chair at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Also Director, Western's Centre for Bioethics and Associate Director, Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Views are my own.
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Maxwell Smith, PhD
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Just published in BMJ Public Health: "Coercion in public health: a scoping review of definitions"
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“Cervical cancer elimination isn't just a public health objective. It's a moral imperative. No one should be diagnosed with or die from a cancer we have the ability to prevent."
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Just published in BMJ Public Health: "Coercion in public health: a scoping review of definitions"
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
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“$8 million funding announcement today from the Canadian government is a drop in the bucket – and it follows an outrageous $2.7 billion cut to Canada’s international assistance”
More than 14,000 deaths in Canada in 2018 were associated with resistant infections. Of these, 5,400 deaths were directly attributable to antimicrobial resistance. bit.ly/3NljSvK
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tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The decrease in trust in science has happened almost ENTIRELY on one side of the political spectrum.
Mostly created for political gain (MAGA/MAHA), the creation of wellness & influencer brands (eg, Rogan et al), selling unproven products (eg, ivermectin), and the profit of social media platforms.
The U.S. government has charged two scientists at NIH of criminally conspiring to smuggle biological samples into the country and lying about it. The researchers have pled not guilty. https://scim.ag/4uRHH2k
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Liz Szabo
Maxwell Smith, PhD
ProPublica
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Ahead of the September 26 UN General Assembly high-level meeting on AMR, the CCA revisited When Antibiotics Fail, a 237-page report from its Expert Panel on the Potential Socio-Economic Impacts of An...
Defendants face up to 5 years prison for alleged “smuggling” and “conspiracy”
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Alex Wild
Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes
Timothy Caulfield
Science Magazine
The Ebola outbreak is one of the deadliest in history & Canada’s response falls short.
Viruses don’t respect borders. What happens there affects us here. Canada needs to step up on funding, on vaccines & on global health leadership. Our collective health depends on it.
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Canada will place temporary import restrictions on livestock entering the country from affected areas in the U.S. after a case of screwworm was confirmed.
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The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
MP Heather McPherson, NDP Critic for Foreign Affairs and International Development, and MP Gord Johns, NDP Critic for Health, made the following statement:
