Dr Chris Kirk

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

Spot on.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income 'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

UK workers using food banks, bosses feast.

Melrose CEO, 1,112 times the average employee wage.
Tesco, 375
Person, 355
Compass, 330
Marks & Spencer, 261
British Associated Foods, 218
Sainsbury's, 195

Can't rebuild economy/society without equitable distribution of income and wealth.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

Congrats Dr de Miranda 🙌🙌🙌

Bill Burr going along with this is a head scratcher.

The US is run by brain dead children.

Facism.

Tylenol, vaccines, and autism: the medical mayhem of the MAGA methodologists Are the MAGA methodologists out of control? The chief methodologists of the Make America Great Again cult are Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr—and, as with everything that Trump reigns over, the w...

Yep.

"The credo of MAGA: create a health crisis based on data that are unavailable & may not exist; misleading appraisals of the science; single studies that are preliminary, misinterpreted, or half remembered; and general amplification of misinformation."

MAGA mayhem www.bmj.com/content/391/...

If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.

Lancet editor: "I can’t forgive Bhattacharya and Makary...both know reliable evidence does not exist to restrict paracetamol use during pregnancy...both know evidence linking vaccines to autism simply doesn't exist. What are they doing?"

[politics - that's what]

www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

Badenoch could literally be the end of the Tories as anything of consequence in terms of the Commons. Her desperate mimicking of Farage and Trump just highlights their irrelevance.

The US military also vows to disobey unlawful orders & to protect the constitution. If the generals in that room obey Trump then they are: a) in agreement with him & therefore tools of facism; b) are not following the oath they took when they enlisted, which means their oath was meaningless.

One of the most disgraceful aspects of capitalism is allowing private firms to profit from things that are essential for life. All energy and water should be nationalised, no exceptions.
Whilst not essential for life, transport is fundamental to everything else - that should also be nationalised.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

ICE are the Brown Shirts.
We’re watching history repeat itself in real time.

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

“Fascism is a political system built on control, fear, and loyalty to a strong leader. Fascism attacks democracy.”

A quick primer on fascism and anti-fascism:

Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.

From the original Swedish researchers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

UK inflation is caused by profiteering

Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%.
Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%.
Shipping up by 650 times.
Health and social work up by 118%.

People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Ex-leader of Reform in Wales admits taking bribes in return for pro-Russia messages Nathan Gill pleads guilty to receiving payment for making statements in European parliament about events in Ukraine

Ex-leader of Reform in Wales admits taking bribes in return for pro-Russia messages - on.ft.com/42IFFFA

What a patriot.

No-one is ‘banned’, everyone can take part against others of their own sex.
The doubt casting work that you’re referring to is all extremely poor, using invalid methods, and comparing unfit overweight males to elite females. None of the work stands up to even basic scrutiny.

It’s not ‘gender eligibility’ as this is nothing to do with gender. These are about screening sex to ensure males don’t compete against females, which is a matter of sex, not gender.

Trump, questioning vaccine safety, pushes major changes to how kids get shots At a White House event, Trump linked vaccines to autism and urged major changes in how kids get their shots.

Decades of tolerating & normalizing pseudoscience & health misinformation created the foundation for this horror show...👇

What happens when we don't counter bunk? This.

Trump, questioning vaccine safety, pushes major changes to how kids get shots www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

And this time, they’re doing around the rich twat who has spent the last years crawling around on his belly underneath the barrel that got scraped into non-existence by the Tories. He’s the most damaging and insidious of the rich twats too.