Writing a piece on how PROTEIN latest nutrition fad "health halo."

Search trends demos increasing interest, especially in January (we humans hilariously predictable).

Reality: most already get enough (yes, some pops need more), excess not better, mostly just marketing...

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

Solidly researched.
Evidence based.
Incontrovertible.

"An astounding 90% of autistic children consumed either breast milk or formula...ignoring potential confounders, control groups and statistical significance."

Hats off to @integralanswers.bsky.social for the fine work.

Being exposed to ADHD awareness increases false self-diagnosis.

Nocebo powerful phenomenon, especially in current chaotic media environment.

Education helps!

Study: Nocebo education reduces false self-diagnosis caused by mental health awareness

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

🧠 Why some people defend obvious falsehoods

New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.

🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

Screen Time and Standardized Academic Achievement Tests in Elementary School This cohort study evaluates whether there is an association between different types of screen time, including TV, digital media, and video gaming, and standardized academic achievement test results in...

📱 Screen time and school performance

A study of over 3,000 Canadian children found that more daily screen use at a young age was linked to lower reading and maths scores in later school years.

🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.37092

#SciComm #Education #ChildHealth 🧪

To our U.S. Colleagues,

Condolences on the loss of the CDC’s MMWR.

3 resources that may help
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oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god

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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

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People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation New research reveals misinformation’s real-world impact, including poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm.

Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al.

Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."

Experts unite against ‘knowledge crisis’ of health misinformation To help fight back against harmful health misinformation and move the needle on public perception, the U of A’s Timothy Caulfield has written a statement with more than 20 signatories, including the C...

Vital to stand up AGAINST health misinformation and FOR science.

Counter the lies, eg:
- Vaccines don't cause autism
- COVID vaccines don't cause cancer / sudden death

Story about our recent Joint Statement: www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202... via ‪@scienceupfirst.bsky.social @cmadocs.bsky.social

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surgeon general nominee Casey Means discloses financial ties to supplement industry Surgeon general nominee Casey Means earned hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements, per new financial disclosure statements.

MAHA = supplement BS + wellness woo + fearmongering nonsense.

Surgeon general nominee Casey Means discloses financial ties to supplement industry www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c... via @statnews

Don't believe the political spin, the support for mandatory vaccination is very strong (but should be even stronger)...👇

Most Americans Favor MMR Vaccine Requirement for Public School www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-america...

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

#bookban #UCP

New paper! Across two experiments we find prebunking against *failure* to engage in Actively-Open Minded Thinking (AOT) lowers susceptibility to misinformation & conspiracy thinking via enhanced AOT.

Led by the brilliant @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How Disney classics help me teach real-world economics Was Cinderella’s happy ending with Prince Charming really largely the result of personal ambition? This is the kind of question I address in the course Economics for Everyone.

Since I'm deep in course prep & mulling how to best engage my 1st year class in the foundations of #HealthPromotion, this was a timely read on teaching priniciples of economics through fairy tales (although I'd draw the line at Disney) via @ca.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-disney-c...

How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.

The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:

Powerful actors misleading public on climate: Global study - The Klaxon Secretive alliances comprised of fossil fuel companies, political parties, and thinktanks are the “primary agents” behind climate disinformation, according to major new global study.

Powerful secretive alliances comprised of fossil fuel companies, political parties, governments and sham "thinktanks" are the “primary agents” behind climate disinformation, finds major new global study...
theklaxon.com.au/5qor

FFS

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against #measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.

Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

How to be brave — 500 Women Scientists What does everyday bravery look like? How can we take strength and inspiration from ordinary people doing incredibly brave things? Think about what it takes for folks like high school teachers and...

Scientists - its time to be brave! We must stand firm in our commitment to rigor, to push back against further politicization of our work, to call out pseudoscience, and to ensure science is truly serving the public good. 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...

Graph with summary of data from the report. HRM Homelessness Snapshot for the week of May 28, 2025 Number of Individuals and Heads of Families Currently Experiencing Homelessness 1211 66% Experiencing Chronic Homelessness Homeless-Tri & Co Morbid 157 •Identify as Indigenous 257 Identify as being of African Descent 186 Identify as Male 58.53% Identify as Female 38.09% Identify as Gender Diverse 3.13%

Actively Homeless 1211 Identify as Male 710 Identify as Female 462 Gender Diverse 38 Gender Unknown 1

The number of unhoused has doubled since last count. The reasons should not surprise anyone- lack of income (including b/c of jobs that do not pay enough) to afford housing available in the market. People can't choose, if they have no options. #nspoli
www.ahans.ca

The Unqualified Hacks Hijacking Our Public Health Crucial decisions—like rules around Covid vaccinations—are being made by a cabal of ill-equipped bros.

“Crucial decisions—like rules around Covid vaccinations—are being made by a cabal of ill-equipped bros.” By our own @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The post-truth era and how science education keeps ignoring it The term “post-truth” has been used to characterize the contemporary era. Designated as the word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford English Dictionary, “post-truth” refers to “relating to or denoting c...

Key!👇

The post-truth era and how science education keeps ignoring it www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... by @sibel-erduran.bsky.social

We can't ignore "the political dynamics that engulf science as well as the antiscience campaign that is deliberately carried out & amplified in the public domain."