Stuart Jones

Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.

Sounds great but be wary of Galleri. Never any discussion of possible harms from over diagnosis

Flu has arrived early this year! We are seeing a lot of flu A(H3) circulating.

Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉

#vaccineworks

In a parallel universe the world's trillion-dollar energy-abusive Large Metal Mickey machines are focused on finding a cure for cancer and a substitute for antibiotics. Meanwhile, we have sophisticated porn, depopulated public spaces and 20,000 non-human novels a day. Machina ex Deo, amen. 🤖

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad?

Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK.

Superb thread.

Wes Streeting rejects Trump claim linking paracetamol and autism Health secretary joins medical experts in urging pregnant women to ignore US president’s remarks

What Wes said. 🧪
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people.

We often worry about the wrong things.

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪

Anecdotal, but I’ve now lost count of how many men I’ve treated for massive heart attacks with minimal risk factors for heart disease except being on testosterone therapy that they never needed. They’re buying it online or getting it from functional doctors who convince them it’s a panacea

Today I learned... (Just in case any other Brits are also plagued by every Google doc defaulting to US English)

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike

Four-fifths of all the humans 🤰 who will ever be born may already have been born 🧪

That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

This is one of those “oh yeh, that’s obvious” once you know it, but if it’s not an area you know about it might not be obvious until it’s pointed out.

Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.

hi i'm ben your ai chatbot

I remain unconvinced that we are going to see significant improvements in the NHS.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

COYH! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

The concept of ultraprocessed food is unscientific because no one can agree on a definition. Leading proponents of the idea have suggested it includes "foods that can't be made at home" (though if you do make a UPF at home, it magically becomes ok) or "foods with ingredients you can't pronounce".

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

People like to think Asimov predicted the current technology known as "artificial intelligence". They are wrong. It was Douglas Adams when a computer spent untold resources just to return an answer which is both irrelevant and poses further questions.

Tim Spector is the last person I'd go to to comment on the demise of WeightWatchers given his vested interest in flogging an overpriced weightloss, sorry, "healthier eating" system. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

www.newscientist.com...

It's me, in New Scientist magazine, standing up for 'the kids' yet again, as they're subjected to an endless barrage of evidence-free accusations and paranoia

#Technology #Brains #Teens

Is certainly not 'simple' but this is a very important study..

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.

An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

No.

bsky.app/profile/adam...

I asked it the same question, told me to uninstall WhatsApp and delete my account 🤣

Prostate cancer - UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) - GOV.UK

Yes, and National Screening Committee make this very clear view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...

The PSA is a fearsomely crude test which throws too many false positives. It is not and should not be used for routine screening.

23andMe Is Under Fire. Its Founder Remains ‘Optimistic’ 23andMe’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has saved the genetics company from the brink of failure before. She sat down with WIRED to talk about where it goes from here.

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and its CEO Anne Wojcicki has resigned. A year ago, Wojcicki told WIRED she felt "optimistic" about the company. A profile: