Penny Timms

To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor: I was quoted in your publication: https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/ Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies. "They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said. The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution. However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks. d.

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?

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Regulator cracks down on medical cannabis prescribing, releasing Australia’s forest guidelines for prescribing the drug. It comes amid a surge in single-product Telehealth companies selling cannabis
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The bizarre reason this nurse – who served in Iraq – is facing a career block www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

What you really need to know about new cosmetic guidelines www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

Magda Szubanski’s cancer diagnosis explained www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

Patients reassured as hospitals firm collapses, but nursing union said it should serve as a warning
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Life-changing move, with GPs to diagnose and treat ADHD www.theaustralian.com.au/health/gps-w...

Compliance or defiance? Cosmetic injectables industry in turmoil www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

‘Hit feds up for health care boost’: report (prompted in part by allegations of toxic workplaces) warns health spending has been lacking and far more is needed www.theaustralian.com.au/health/unsat...

What’s legal and what’s not: everything you need to know about cosmetic injection laws.
We put the industry’s questions to Queensland Health authorities
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Cancer blunder hits 500 patients of Sydney hospital www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

Australia’s largest medical cannabis company (which has pending legal action brought against it by the drug regulator) is starting a working group to set Telehealth standards … it has even appointed an ex health minister to lead it www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...

Latest advice issued for cosmetic injectables industry following Queensland Health’s advice that seemed to ban nurse led clinics where no prescriber is onsite.

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Should there be minimum standards before a practitioner can inject someone’s face?
Or are regulators ok with for profit businesses to keep deciding when someone is competent?
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What else is happening in Australia’s cosmetic injectables industry that regulators need to know?
Doctors say it’s beyond time to act & are calling for the rollout of stricter guidelines to be sped up
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Legal stoush looms over cosmetic injectables rules www.theaustralian.com.au/health/legal...

Queensland’s cosmetic injectables industry in panic www.theaustralian.com.au/health/queen...

Heat Survey 2025 Share your experience of trying to stay cool in your home over the summer.

ACOSS is surveying Australians to understand the impacts of heat on people experiencing financial stress.

If that's you, please help them out by completing this survey before the 20th of Jan. 👇

Australia’s long awaited National Autism Strategy is being released tomorrow as part of a $42m package www.theaustralian.com.au/health/42m-f...

Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.

NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Night sweats, low libido & hot flushes; menopausal hormone therapy has made a comeback. I interviewed three doctors to get their take on where it’s all at.
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Soldier’s Struggles Began Before Las Vegas Tesla Explosion, Nurse Says A Green Beret who had served several combat tours fatally shot himself in a Cybertruck that exploded outside a Trump hotel on New Year’s Day.

When an Army nurse started a relationship with a soldier in 2018, long before he shot himself and blew up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas this week, she recognized many of the symptoms in her new boyfriend that she had seen working with combat veterans with brain injuries.

‘If we don’t operate, you’ll die’: The night Geoff’s life changed forever. In less than 2hrs, Geoff Lester went from seemingly fit and healthy to being told he would die without immediate surgery. Exercise has been crucial to his recovery. This is his story.
www.theaustralian.com.au/health/if-we...

Powerful lobby group claimed 665 pharmacies would close The Pharmacy Guild claimed 60-day scripts would force pharmacies to shut and cause 20,000 job losses. Here’s what happened.

Interesting read:
‘It was the policy change that one of the country’s most powerful lobby groups warned would lead to hundreds of pharmacies closing and put thousands of people out of work, and reduced its president, Trent Twomey, to tears.’
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Ugh, wtf is up with the shitty audio, Netflix? Our queen deserves better!!!
Beyonce is everything tho

‘Perimenopause shook Katherine’s confidence. Now she’s taking it to the boardroom.’
This is part of our new health series on menopause & perimenopause. We’ll speak with women, as well as doctors & researchers who’ve dedicated their careers to understanding it
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Why do we still have no consensus on how to approach menopause?
#menopause #perimenopause
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Bupa offers ‘admin payments’ to doctors amid Healthscope fallout
#bupa #healthinsurance #health
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For those like me who have traveled overseas on the cheap and our kids who followed our footsteps, we feel this very profoundly. This could be my kids or me back in the day.
I am very upset by this sad news.

Second Melbourne teen Holly Bowles dies in Laos from suspected methanol poisoning, bringing death toll to six Holly Bowles, 19, has died in a Thailand hospital from methanol poisoning linked to Laos, which also claimed the life of her friend, Bianca Jones.

This is beyond devastating. My heart breaks for all the family and friends of all these victims.

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