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Simon Chapman AO
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Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. https://simonchapman6.com/about/

Simon Fenton Chapman, AO is an Australian academic and tobacco control activist.

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7 of my books free here simonchapman6.com/books/
1. how most smokers quit (cold turkey)
2. Wind Turbine Syndrome: a communicated disease
3. Collected essays
4. Plain tobacco packaging
5. Cautions about prostate cancer screening
6. Gun control in Australia
7. Vol assisted dying
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My books
View Page Quit smoking weapons of mass distraction. Sydney University Press (2022) FREE OPEN ACCESS e-book (8,363 accesses since Jul 25, 2022)  $40 paperback   Download Pre-publication reviews “In …
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Olive, 18months. Putting on the Ritz for Christmas

Please join me to press for enquiry into the state of ABC finances that permits them to screen the 2011 Xmas edition of Antiques Roadshow tonight. Nursing home fare for the nation. Pension off Macca on Sunday morning & use the saving to get us up to speed.

Taking higher bids ...

Trump's nauseating boundless vanity & egomania has surely seen its apotheosis with him adding his name to the Kennedy Centre. Is there anyone on hearing this who didn't gag with embarrassment for the US people? The judgement of a 2yo.

What nations do not require a gun license to buy firearms? (Not in 44 US states + Yemen)

Check names of Australia's mass firearm killers (5+ deaths). Add the Australian Tarrant who massacred 51 in mosques in Christchurch & a familicide in Osmington, WA (6 dead) name of Miles, plus the Bondi killers. Notice how many were Islamic #PaulineHanson. 2 of 16 #bondishooting

Not quite the spirit of Christmas near our place

Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 6 books for Sydney University Press free, open access. 254,469 accesses. simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...
Readers or royalties? why now I make my books open access
[Updated 22 Dec, 2025] I wrote my first book in 1983. It was a small manual of tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry’s promotional strategies, described by a tobacco industry snoop at the …
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A lot of us feeling this way ...

Made mine 34yrs ago

Who knew that handling air rifles in childhood could produce air heads in adults

What? Did you actually read the 10 point plan? Gun Safety Alliance is the opposite of a shooters alliance

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Just when I think @davemilbo.bsky.social surely can’t top his always incredibly thoughtful & beautifully written pieces comes this absolute must-read gem.
It’s as moving as it is incendiary. 👇

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:

He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.

C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Here is Australia's Gun Safety Alliance 10 point plan for serious gun control reform. This is the template against which talk about "serious reform" needs to be calibrated. www.gunsafetyalliance.org.au/updates/gun-...
Gun Safety Advocates Support a Ten-Point Plan for Firearm Reform
Australia’s leading public-health, community-safety and firearm-harm prevention organisations today issued a joint call for urgent reform of Australia’s firearms laws...
www.gunsafetyalliance.org.au
This is an important article by @katherinejwu.com on the destruction of infectious disease research - and the man behind it.

As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity
While NIH director Jay Bhattacharya focuses on podcasting, his second in command is dramatically remaking the agency.
www.theatlantic.com

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The conservatives forces using the Bondi Massacre to instigate a crackdown of freedoms of speech and the right to assembly are completely disgusting.

Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com

US gun nuts in current freefall about how Australia's 1996 reforms "failed". Our evisceration of an academic NRA darling's woeful critique of our 20yr review in @jama.com ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au

Damian Cave in @nytimes.com on Australia's Bondi gun massacre.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/sydney-shooting-antisemitism-path-forward.html

I've donated to Wikipedia for many years.In this AI-dominated world where algorithms often privilege volume over accuracy, & media like Murdoch & Trump's tentacles are megaphoning fake information in galactic proportions, never a more important time to support WP. Pls donate wikimediafoundation.org
Home – Wikimedia Foundation
We support protect fund openhuman knowledge We are the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia. We support the people, technology, and policies that enable reliable information to be shared with the world. Hel...
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And the take of a rather different kind of politician on when's the right time

Noticing a persistent topic of conversation among my gen (I just turned 74) is "am I slipping into dementia?" These points of difference should be helpful

Opposition leader & numerologist Susssan Ley advises us on the news tonight that now is not the time to consider gun control in Sydney

My (free) book on how Australia passed our gun laws outlawing semi-autos & how we stopped mass shootings (5 or more) for 22yrs after having 13 in the 18 yrs before open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...
open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au

Over the next days we'd all do well to re-view the Peter Charley/Al Jazeera investigation into One Nation's efforts to raise support from US gun lobby www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/... #bondibeachattack

Gun lobby often argues that mass shootings typically committed by those with criminal and/or mental health histories. Not the case. Bondi shooter(s) were licensed shooters with registered guns