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Face of the day: Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

‘Would you dare take it?’: Plan to deregulate Chinese medicine in B.C. sparks outcry Tom Whitfield takes a ferry from Nanaimo to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in downtown Vancouver every Monday for acupuncture and other treatment.

Concern among patients and licensed practitioners around BC's plan to reduce regulations on Chinese medicine.

Weak move from the province to further reduce regulations in a space where regulation is already too lax.

#britishcolumbia #canada #health #wellness

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Please, we need REAL regulation of supplement marketing!

See:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by (my great colleague) @srmarcon.bsky.social 🙏

"Offering the veneer of regulatory oversight is not only wasteful but can further validate inaccurate & exploitative product claims..."

After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy

After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, CDC no longer trustworthy www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

@pauloffit.bsky.social: CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories."

"...a tragic day for public health."

CDC website changed to include false claims that link autism and vaccines | CNN Scientific information on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was replaced on Wednesday with anti-vaccine talking points that don’t rule out a link between vaccines and autism,...

To again paraphrase Nigel Tufnel...

"How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."

Yet more horrifying nonsense...👇

CDC website changed to include false claims that link autism & vaccines www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...

You don't need to be! It's just general information that anyone can understand.

Those marketing (totally bunk) "stem cell" supplements love lean on meaningless wellness-woo phrases, like natural, GMO-free, pure, organic, toxin-free...

Science-y nonsense + wellness nonsense = BS Supergroup!

Our study: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... cc @stemcellnetwork.ca @isscr.org

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

"Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say" gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Update from the clown car!

Stem Cell Therapies: The Truth Behind Wellness Scams Stem cells made a public splash with large research breakthroughs in the 90s and early 2000s. However, since then, stem cells have largely been adopted by the alternative medicine and wellness world a...

Stem cells wildly and recklessly promoted in #alternativemedicine and #wellness worlds by @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social

"Stem cell clinics essentially market themselves as the “We can cure your (insert condition, disease, concern here).”

www.acsh.org/news/2025/09...

Ultraprocessed Foods and Health This Medical News article discusses a new American Heart Association science advisory on ultraprocessed foods, cardiometabolic health, and policy recommendations for improving dietary patterns.

#CDC data shows that from 2021-2023 ultraprocessed food made up 62% of young people's diets in #America

Widespread consumption of real food needed - but a real challenge: cultural norms, price, time, availability, etc.

#health #publichealth #diet #nutrition

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Walz counters federal vaccine moves with state-level order to maintain broad access Minnesota moves to maintain access to vaccines after federal guidance last week ordered limitations on who has access to the COVID-19 booster shot.

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements in modern medicine.

Protecting access is vital to the health and safety of Minnesotans.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

A letter titled "Science Matters" presenting arguments from Canada's medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations about the need to counter health misinformation and support science. It includes points debunking popular health misinformation.

A letter continues titled "Science Matters" presenting arguments from Canada's medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations about the need to counter health misinformation and support science. It concludes with a list of signatures from medical, research, clinical, and healthcare organizations who support the contents of the letter.

#ScienceMatters

We all have a role to play in standing up for science.

Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada, and the world.

For the web version of this letter, visit ScienceUpFirst.com

#ScienceUpFirst

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True. And in Canada, NACI’s and the Canadian Pediatric Society’s “you do you” unwillingness to strongly recommend COVID vaccination for children despite @jamapediatrics.com declaring long COVID a leading chronic childhood disease has carried water for the restriction of vaccine access in Alberta.

Teachers: we really need supports for complex needs in classrooms, lower class sizes, better working conditions, and appropriate funding

UCP: best we can do is a book ban

Is the full list available somewhere?

List of books being banned by EPSB

List of books being banned by EPSB

List of books being banned by EPSB

List of books being banned by EPSB

Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians.

There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

Unbelievable but believable. Ugh.

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Yet another discredited voice using a discredited “study” (while ignoring a large body of evidence) used to support harmful BS.

Dark Age 2.0

So...

Can we talk about the fact that the Alberta Government has apparently banned COVID-vaccines for kids 12 and under?

(Unless they have a serious health condition)

This is in direct contradiction with the NACI guidelines.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Scary stuff!

1) Test your home for #radon! Kits are around $200 CAD and money very well spent.

2) If you are exposed to wildfire smoke - MERV up your furnace filtres for those seasons - the higher MERV, the better. Also consider a HEPA air-filter all year round

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Vladdy and I have a similar body type. Vladdy and I do not move that body in similar ways. #jays #bluejays

Instagram to let Google and Bing index public posts from professional accounts The new update could enhance content discovery in search result pages

Tomorrow #Instagram content from "professionals" will now be indexed (appearing) on Google search results.

It's vital for scientists and scientific orgs to be active on social media.

The attention wars are heating up. Truth and accuracy have much to lose.

thekeyword.medium.com/instagram-to...

FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two COVID-19 vaccines

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years.

COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers

Sum: NOT experts

Members of RFK Jr’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines www.science.org/content/arti...

"...new panel members have been authors on about 78% fewer vaccine-related papers than the ousted members.

4 new members have published no such papers at all"

Opinion: UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk A policy of ending pediatric COVID vaccination will disable, hospitalize and even kill Albertan children, leaving blood on Smith’s hands.

#Vaccines are so politicized that getting access for kids is becoming a challenge in #Canada.

Just unreal.

As @blakemurdoch.bsky.social writes:

"This is a lesson in how to administrate vaccination out of existence without technically banning it."

#health

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com @retractionwatch.com

"I don’t think anything is more of an immediate threat to people than bad medical research."

TikTok blocks #SkinnyTok due to extreme weight loss, disordered eating content | CBC News TikTok has banned the hashtag SkinnyTok from its platform after noting an increase in extreme weight loss and disordered eating content being posted under the hashtag. Search results for the term now ...

Sounds good from #TikTok to block hashtags "promoting disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss behaviours"

But a decade ago #Instagram banned pro anoxeria hashtags with little impact:
www.wired.com/story/instag...

Will this moderation work?

#health #socialmedia

www.cbc.ca/news/tiktok-...

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