D. Wigmore

The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.

www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Subpoenas? You don't need no stinkin' subpoenas.

I confess. I freely admit that I'm an opponent of ICE.

As are most Americans.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Shall have to check it out, given I was part of one of those movements. Where does Canadian University Press (CUP) fit in?

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return.

Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Norovirus Can Spread Through The Air — Clean Air Advocacy Ireland Here are some tips for avoiding it.

Did you know that Norovirus can be spread through the air? It occurs when infected people 🤮

There is a surge in noroviral infections in Ireland right now, so we've published this blog with tips on how to avoid #airborne transmission of Norovirus.

www.cleanairadvocacyireland.org/clean-air-bl...

The concept of "toxic experts" is extremely useful for understanding the attack on science happening around the world.

They're most prominent in the US right now, but behind the scenes in Canada and elsewhere too, enabled by pseudoscientific systems that grant them excessive authority in medicine.

Third, in the case of COVID-19, Greenhalgh et al. (2021) demonstrate that the exclusion and dismissal of heterodox scientists in the UK led to flawed health policies that prioritized randomized clinical trials over evidence of airborne transmission from physicists and engineers. This highlights how orthodox experts can become toxic when they reject interdisciplinarity due to hubris and overconfidence (Maclean et al., 2021).

🧵(1/2): Essential new paper: "Toxic experts in longevity business: A multilevel relational framing of emergence"

Draws on multiple examples, including the way medical pseudoexperts botched the pandemic.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#medsky #scisky #standupforscience #longCOVID #cdnpoli

Seriously bad. America axes pandemic preparedness programme.

Our new paper:

Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy

#episky #healthpolicy #medsky

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I wish someone would explain why it's "normal" to work on our health by exercising, dieting, managing stress thru "wellness" (from scents to yoga to supplements), etc., spending potentially $1000s and hundreds of hours each year--but wearing a $1 respirator to avoid a dangerous illness is "weird."

Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-gave-us...

@wendyorent.bsky.social we might have to record an emergency mini episode.

All the terrors we discussed have fused.

We’ve reached the MAGA/MAHA singularity in its full blown horror.

"I’m so annoyed that people seem to think the individual involvement absolves us from doing any kind of systemic analysis 🤡"

💯 this, and it's deliberate. Those the system empowers use the rare occasions when their peers get caught to distract from their use of that power to block any threat to it.

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...

If only there was something public health could recommend that would be effective at stopping influenza transmission regardless of strain...

If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick. It's amazing that they still have trouble understanding that concept.

A photo of a projection screen reading "Long COVID Web Impact Poster Awards: 1. Mark Ungrin 2. Kayli Jamieson 3. Kriti Agarwal 4. Jill Cameron

This poster contains too much text to fit in the ALT text box, or to condense to a meaningful summary that would fit. The full text is accessible in the PDF linked directly from the post.

The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!

PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...

MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...

Promoting the event Healthy Indoor Air: A Call to Action, a high-level side event at the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly, 23 September 2025, 3:30-5:30pm EDT at the UN Headquarters in New York.

It’s time healthy #IndoorAir was declared a fundamental human right. We spend 90% of our time indoors. Our President Kerry Kinney is speaking at the upcoming “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” at the UN General Assembly on 9/23 in NYC.

Register for the event: bit.ly/461pNPq.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: From Massively Overhyping to Limiting and Defunding Vaccines in 4 Years Who could be to blame for the lack of trust in mRNA vaccines?

Jay Bhattacharya claims he is limiting mRNA vaccines because trust in them is low.

3 short videos of his show who is to blame for that.

My latest.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-jay-bhatt...

Aerosol Technology: Properties, Behavior, and Measurement of Airborne Particles, 3rd Edition <p><b>AEROSOL TECHNOLOGY</b></p> <p><b>An in-depth and accessible treatment of aerosol theory and its applications</b></p> <p>The Third Edition of <i>Aerosol Technology: Properties, Behavior, and Me...

Strange thing is @carlzimmer.com doesn't use the word aerosol or mention William Hinds' key work in the field (www.wiley.com/en-us/Aeroso...), as far as I can see.

Remember, doug is still a corrupt oligarchist...

Decades of Deceit Why the case against the major fossil fuel companies for fraud and climate damages is so strong.

ICYMI: Our new report draws on dozens of internal industry documents, providing a decades-long review of the fossil fuel industry's campaign of disinformation and delay on climate action.

I remember when we fought US academics and others coming to Canada (in the 60s and 70s) because of effects on what we learned, our literature, how we run things, etc., while supporting draft dodgers. Happy to see US refugees who "get" our differences.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans ready to retire aren’t worried about ‘day-to-day’ market fluctuations President Donald Trump warned that the "economic revolution" won't "be easy" in a social media post.

This is why we shouldn't appoint multimillionaire oligarchs to be Treasury Secretary.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Personally I prefer "tetrademic"

Recognition of
Covid 19 with
occupational origin
A comparison with European countries

Muscle weakness post-COVID: a practical guide for primary care Since the earliest stages of the pandemic, muscle weakness has been a key symptom described by patients post-COVID infection. Estimated to affect up to 60% of those with long COVID, it can have a prof...

Our new paper, led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social:

Muscle weakness post-COVID: a practical guide for primary care

TL;DR: patients with muscle weakness after COVID-19 infection may have myelopathy, nerve damage or other organic pathology. Not always due to 'deconditioning'!

bjgp.org/content/74/7...

Northern Health Denies It Wrongfully Demoted Former Employee | The Tyee Amy Blanding is suing after she says she was targeted for making pro-Palestinian statements outside of work.

Northern Health has denied wrongfully demoting the former executive director of its inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility office for making pro-Palestinian statements outside of work.

thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...

I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia | Anatol Lieven ‘Risk’ analyses largely ignore the dangers of the climate crisis. Unless we wake up to them, they will soon outweigh all others, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

"The inability of our security and political elites to perform their core duty of the objective assessment of risk is, however, not due to some particular intellectual failing. It stems from layer upon layer of ancient inherited culture and immensely powerful institutional and economic interests"