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Frank de Vocht
@frankdv.bsky.social

24-hr butler to a little girl and a little boy.
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in spare time. Tweets are my own.

Public Health 37%
Environmental science 19%

Weirdest question in my daughters Key Stage Two #Math practice book.
Is it maybe a #philosophy question?

Luckily we regulate on adverse health effects, not random biological responses, or society would be unlivable...

Reposted by Ben Barr

We’ll be presenting our latest research on restricting #advertising of unhealthy products and #publichealth at #EvidenceWeek with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social on 4th November:

senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

@noahlawmp.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social

We’ll be presenting our latest research on restricting #advertising of unhealthy products and #publichealth at #EvidenceWeek with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social on 4th November:

senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

@martinwrigley.bsky.social @maxwilkinson.bsky.social

RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
reut.rs

The plural of anecdote is indeed misinformation.

Here on #5G and #wellbeing:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38889394/
The plural of anecdote is misinformation.

Reposted by Frank de Vocht

The plural of anecdote is misinformation.

"These findings suggest that co-exposure to 5G- and GSM-modulated RF-EMF at SAR levels up to 4 W/kg does not produce conclusive evidence of marked biological effects under the tested conditions"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Effects of Simultaneous In‐Vitro Exposure to 5G‐Modulated 3.5 GHz and GSM‐Modulated 1.8 GHz Radio‐Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Neuronal Network Electrical Activity and Cellular Stress in Skin F...
The widespread deployment of 5G wireless networks alongside existing GSM technologies has increased the need to assess potential biological effects of co-exposure to multiple radiofrequency electroma....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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We’ll be presenting our latest research on restricting the advertisement of unhealthy products at #EvidenceWeek with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social 4th November in parliament

senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

@houseofcommons.parliament.uk @frankdv.bsky.social

📷 @adfreecities.bsky.social

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In the last 6 years, we have…

Partnered with 42 organisations 🤝 including:
👨‍⚕️ 11 NHS partners
🧑‍🎓 4 academic partners
🧑‍💼 7 local authority partners

👉 Find out what we achieved together: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
👀 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest #ARCimpacts

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GBD updated

A gift

microsite:
www.thelancet.com/gbd

Cause & risk summary:
www.healthdata.org/gbd-tool-acc...

Data viz:
ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2023

Country profiles:
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...

That AMAZING data viz tool looks to have been updated
vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/

"Post hoc ergo propter hoc" in the world of electromagnetic #radiation (#EMF).....

30 years ago this year 🫣

youtu.be/PQsvXQSIggU?...
Rollins Band - Full Concert [HD] | Live at Pinkpop 1995
YouTube video by Pinkpop Archive
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This is, by a mile, the dumbest response to the Parliamentary inquiry about a UK 'digital ID'.
The UK activist 'EM Radiation Research Trust' seems to think its some device emitting radiation rather than, well a number, so raises issues of public health 🤪:
radiationresearch.org/rrt-responds...
RRT Responds to Today’s Alarming Digital ID Headlines – Radiation Research
radiationresearch.org

#Causal #inference using Directed Acyclic Graphs ( #DAG); originally known as ADGs 🤔

Artist unknown (to me), but this encapsulates electromagnetic radiation #EMF and #health activism so well (as i am sure it does for many other fields):

This is quite disingenuously desperate from ICBE-EMF:
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

..I hope someone involved from #WHO and/or the (#RF #EMF #mobilephones) reviews has the time and stamina to respond to this.
The WHO-commissioned systematic reviews on health effects of radiofrequency radiation provide no assurance of safety - Environmental Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned 12 systematic reviews (SR) and meta-analyses (MA) on health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF). The health outcomes selected for those reviews (cancer, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, cognitive impairment, birth outcomes, male fertility, oxidative stress, and heat-related effects) were based on a WHO-conducted international survey. The SR of the studies of cancer in laboratory animal studies was the only one that did not include a MA, because those authors considered it inappropriate due to methodological differences among the available studies, including differences in exposure characteristics (carrier frequency, modulation, polarization), experimental parameters (hours/day of exposure, duration of exposure, exposure systems), and different biological models. MAs in all the other SRs suffered from relatively few primary studies available for each MA (sometimes due to excessive subgrouping), exclusion of relevant studies, weaknesses in many of the included primary studies, lack of a framework for analyzing complex processes such as those involved in cognitive functions, and/or high between-study heterogeneity. Due to serious methodological flaws and weaknesses in the conduct of the reviews and MAs on health effects of RF-EMF exposure, the WHO-commissioned SRs cannot be used as proof of safety of cell phones and other wireless communication devices. However, the animal cancer SR, which was rated as “high certainty of evidence” for heart schwannomas and “moderate certainty of evidence” for brain gliomas, provided quantitative information that could be used to set exposure limits based on reducing cancer risk. The multiple and significant dose-related adverse effects found in the SRs on male fertility and pregnancy and birth outcome should also serve as the basis for policy decisions to lower exposure limits and reduce human reproductive risks. The report of harmful effects (e.g., cancer, reproductive toxicity, etc.) at doses below the adverse health effect threshold claimed by ICNIRP demonstrates that current exposure limits to RF-EMF, which were established by applying arbitrary uncertainty factors to their putative adverse threshold dose, lack scientific credibility.
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com

This is an incorrect inference. There is no direct comparison of co-created vs non-co-created lifestyle interventions. The added value of co-creation is not investigated and remains unknown (although probably beneficial)

The government on #gambling harms
'I do think there's a case for gambling firms to pay more,' said the chancellor when asked if she would consider increasing the taxes gambling firms pay

'They should pay their fair share of taxes, and we'll make sure that that happens'

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'I do think there's a case for gambling firms to pay more,' said the chancellor when asked if she would consider increasing the taxes gambling firms pay

'They should pay their fair share of taxes, and we'll make sure that that happens'

What does a strong opinion and a lack of scientific grounding looks like in practice? Is it easy to recognise?

Yup!

www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-5g-menac...
The 5G menace that government pretends doesn’t exist - The Conservative Woman
The 5G menace that government pretends doesn’t exist
www.conservativewoman.co.uk

In addition to all the other criminal acts by "the bear/paper tiger", here is yet another one:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days
Ukrainian officials among those concerned Russia is manufacturing crisis to keep hold of frontline plant
www.theguardian.com

Known lack of funding, a temporary blip, or the way the scores are derived..but no, the DailyMail and ideologically driven "thinktank" Civitas, supported by the morons at the Campaign for Real Education, believe it has to be 'cause #woke:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Yay #Bristol Uni though
Britain's 'wokest' universities named and shamed
Oxford and Cambridge, once crowned the top two in terms of pushing contentiously progressive ideologies on students, came joint-fourth in The Times Good University Guide 2026.
www.dailymail.co.uk