Mark Petticrew

@markpetticrew.bsky.social

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Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 2h

New study: Alcohol industry-funded charities still misleading the public:
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Previous research identified alcohol industry misinformation about pregnancy and infant health. Dr Gemma Mitchell's new study finds that misinformation continues in Aus, Can, Ire, SA, UK & US.

Do alcohol industry-funded organisations act to correct misinformation? A qualitative study of pregnancy and infant health content following independent analysis - Globalization and Health

Background Access to reliable, accurate, and up-to-date health information is a crucial component of global population health. Like other health-harming industries, the alcohol industry is known to pr...

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 23h

Join us for our London Global Cancer Week 2025 webinar on Thursday 27 November at 1pm GMT.

In this session we will dive into how the tobacco industry has influenced science to serve its interests and the history of the tobacco industry targeting health professionals.

www.bath.ac.uk/events/how-a...

How and why the tobacco industry influences science and targets health professionals.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The government recently announced plans to extend the opening hours for pubs and bars in England and Wales.

This proposal shows a failure to differentiate between healthy and harmful growth, say @spidermaani.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 2d

"the shift from nonfilter to filter cigarettes appears to have merely altered the most frequent type of lung cancer, from squamous cell to adenomcrarcinoma." @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #'RespEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nonfilter and filter cigarette consumption and the incidence of lung cancer by histological type in Japan and the United States: Analysis of 30‐year data from population‐based cancer registries

Shifts in the histologic type of lung cancer accompanying changes in lung cancer incidence have been observed in Japan and the United States. We examined the association between the shift in tobacco ...

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Rosaleen O’Brien @drrosaleenobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Does your team require high quality qualitative research support?

I set up my own research consultancy in January 2021 following a career as an academic social and public health researcher, and can offer my help with this on a freelance basis. My web: lnkd.in/e4feyBMw

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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 6d

This is one of the major concerns regarding zero alcohol products: that they only benefit wealthier people because they're more expensive than standard alcohol.

Reducing alcohol deaths among the lowest socioeconomic groups has to be the priority, (🧵)

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Why are alcohol-free drinks so expensive? Some fake spirits cost over £25 a bottle!

In this new series, our money and consumer editor considers the often perplexing reasons items cost what they do. As a new report suggests booze-free booze can cost 25% more than the alcoholic equival...

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Reposted by Mark Petticrew, John McLaren, Leah Stokes

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 8d

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

www.desmog.com

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Beyond Pesticides @beyondpesticides.org · 9d

🌱🐍 New Research Alert! Study reveals alarming findings about the combined effects of #glyphosate and #urea fertilizer on earthworms, highlighting how chemical #mixtures can have synergistic and species-specific effects, threatening the #soil #microbiome. #soilhealth ➡️ Blog: https://ow.ly/K61C50Xmwkf

Synergistic Effects from Glyphosate and Urea Fertilizer Magnify Earthworm Poisoning - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

Earthworm exposure to a mixture of the weed killer glyphosate and urea, used in synthetic fertilizers, experience enhanced, species-specific toxicity.

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10d

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10d

3/ #Unmasking Influence
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10d

2/Our deepest thanks to the inspirational interviewees and the film’s director & editor John Kelly at Wildfire Collective

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10d

🎬 🍿 Official Film Release!
We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285
There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.

Unmasking Influence - The Official Trailer

This trailer is for a film called Unmasking Influence. Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major…

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Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention @edinuni-cpsp.bsky.social · 10d

OFFICIAL RELEASE: The documentary Unmasking Influence is now publicly available! Explore how powerful industries shape science, policy, and public health - and what must be done to prevent harm.
Watch the full film: edin.ac/43Gd2cC
@maizie333.bsky.social
#GlobalHealth #UnmaskingInfluence

Unmasking Influence - Full Documentary Film

Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major public health crises we face today are largely driven by…

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13d

“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There’s no ‘patch’ for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, if you’re interested in reading about how the far right has begun to use LOTR and Tolkien, here is an interesting intro

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How Frodo Baggins Resurrected Italy’s Far-Right Movement - The New Fascism Syllabus

This weblog article was originally written for Dr. Jennifer Evans’ upper-division seminar, “Populism and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Europe,” at Carleton University. To view more entries [...]

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15d

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals

Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

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LadyFluffyOrca 📎 🇵🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 16d

Halloween artificial cobweb material:
It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16d

Nafeez Ahmed unveils a network of tech tyrants and MAGA figureheads as they look to plant their flag on a brand new territory: The United Kingdom.

The Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into Britain

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16d

After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.

In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom

It has been nearly five years since the 2020 presidential election, but President Trump continues to baselessly insist it was stolen.

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 17d

Same storm different boats

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@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social

Want to know how a public health team works in the middle of a pandemic? This is about as good a telling of the story as you'll find anywhere.

Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 17d

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

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Alice Kadri @alicekadri.bsky.social · 19d

Guardian articles in 24 hours:
“Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK

Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found

www.theguardian.com

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drive-in-radio.bsky.social @drive-in-radio.bsky.social · 20d

the mildest moment of pushback is worth something, it seems

Stewart Lee: How do all these rightwing astroturfers get on the airwaves? Doesn’t anyone Google them first?

From Aston Villa to George Abaraonye, every time the culture wars flare up, there’s a ‘concerned citizen’ from a previously unheard-of pressure group popping up. A little scepticism is needed

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Sasha Chavkin @sashachavkin.bsky.social · 22d

Governments in 21 countries have sued the tobacco industry for the health costs of smoking - and only two have seen any money

New story from @maria-perez.bsky.social breaks down how the tobacco industry has avoided paying up