Blake Murdoch
@blakemurdoch.bsky.social
JD, MBA. Canadian health policy academic, bioethicist and science communicator.
The state of societal and moral regression:
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The state of societal and moral regression:
Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.
The press release says phase 2 is "all other Albertans", but the guidance posted for phase two says "all other Albertans aged 12 and up." They are banning covid vaccination in most children under 12 while hiding it in the press release!
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
August 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The press release says phase 2 is "all other Albertans", but the guidance posted for phase two says "all other Albertans aged 12 and up." They are banning covid vaccination in most children under 12 while hiding it in the press release!
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
The press release says phase 2 is "all other Albertans", but the guidance posted for phase two says "all other Albertans aged 12 and up." They are banning covid vaccination in most children under 12 while hiding it in the press release!
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
August 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The press release says phase 2 is "all other Albertans", but the guidance posted for phase two says "all other Albertans aged 12 and up." They are banning covid vaccination in most children under 12 while hiding it in the press release!
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
New study where human muscle was exposed to sera (blood component) of patients with long covid and ME / CFS, and the tissue went into a hypermetabolic state then quickly atrophied and underwent mitochondrial deterioration.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
August 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New study where human muscle was exposed to sera (blood component) of patients with long covid and ME / CFS, and the tissue went into a hypermetabolic state then quickly atrophied and underwent mitochondrial deterioration.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Good luck to anyone in Pinehouse Saskatchewan today.
1119 PM2.5 reading.
1119 PM2.5 reading.
July 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Good luck to anyone in Pinehouse Saskatchewan today.
1119 PM2.5 reading.
1119 PM2.5 reading.
Northern Manitoba is on fire today. 😞
May 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Northern Manitoba is on fire today. 😞
New Paediatric Long COVID study in infants and toddlers: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
May 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New Paediatric Long COVID study in infants and toddlers: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
On parental neglect:
"And yet these are the same people that are very particular about how much screen time is taken by their kids, how much sugar they eat. My brothers in Christ, you have much bigger problems to attend to than that currently."
"And yet these are the same people that are very particular about how much screen time is taken by their kids, how much sugar they eat. My brothers in Christ, you have much bigger problems to attend to than that currently."
May 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
On parental neglect:
"And yet these are the same people that are very particular about how much screen time is taken by their kids, how much sugar they eat. My brothers in Christ, you have much bigger problems to attend to than that currently."
"And yet these are the same people that are very particular about how much screen time is taken by their kids, how much sugar they eat. My brothers in Christ, you have much bigger problems to attend to than that currently."
Schools, subjectively touted by schools as the safest place for kids, are one of the worst (i.e. least safe) places for kids. This is backed up by thousands of studies about indoor air quality and serious harms from covid infection, yet people argue against it as they would argue against gravity.
May 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Schools, subjectively touted by schools as the safest place for kids, are one of the worst (i.e. least safe) places for kids. This is backed up by thousands of studies about indoor air quality and serious harms from covid infection, yet people argue against it as they would argue against gravity.
False table in article:
This article is used to justify the restriction of COVID vaccine availability and loss of the general public's freedom to seasonally vaccinate. Straight up disinformation. @nejm.org , government authority /= science. Stop being a willing party to anti-science interests.
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This article is used to justify the restriction of COVID vaccine availability and loss of the general public's freedom to seasonally vaccinate. Straight up disinformation. @nejm.org , government authority /= science. Stop being a willing party to anti-science interests.
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May 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
False table in article:
This article is used to justify the restriction of COVID vaccine availability and loss of the general public's freedom to seasonally vaccinate. Straight up disinformation. @nejm.org , government authority /= science. Stop being a willing party to anti-science interests.
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This article is used to justify the restriction of COVID vaccine availability and loss of the general public's freedom to seasonally vaccinate. Straight up disinformation. @nejm.org , government authority /= science. Stop being a willing party to anti-science interests.
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The @nejm.org is cratering its credibility by publishing an article by Prasad and Makary that contains factual errors about Canadian vaccination policy. They include a table implying Canadian COVID vaccine recommendations are limited to high risk groups.
Read it and weep, liars.
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Read it and weep, liars.
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May 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The @nejm.org is cratering its credibility by publishing an article by Prasad and Makary that contains factual errors about Canadian vaccination policy. They include a table implying Canadian COVID vaccine recommendations are limited to high risk groups.
Read it and weep, liars.
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Read it and weep, liars.
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The study explains your first question in the text.
Two, there is a long tail (and growing with reinfections) to the harms of covid, yes.
Two, there is a long tail (and growing with reinfections) to the harms of covid, yes.
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The study explains your first question in the text.
Two, there is a long tail (and growing with reinfections) to the harms of covid, yes.
Two, there is a long tail (and growing with reinfections) to the harms of covid, yes.
COVID infection tripled the risk of inflammatory heart diseases and was associated with 68% increased risk of any cardiovascular symptoms in kids with normal hearts.
Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
COVID infection tripled the risk of inflammatory heart diseases and was associated with 68% increased risk of any cardiovascular symptoms in kids with normal hearts.
Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New RECOVER study (preprint) of 465,717 kids. Long COVID risks highly elevated on reinfection with Omicron compared to first infection.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Reinfections with Omicron are mild” is a straight up lie fabricated to lubricate societal machinery so people can live in denial.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Reinfections with Omicron are mild” is a straight up lie fabricated to lubricate societal machinery so people can live in denial.
April 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New RECOVER study (preprint) of 465,717 kids. Long COVID risks highly elevated on reinfection with Omicron compared to first infection.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Reinfections with Omicron are mild” is a straight up lie fabricated to lubricate societal machinery so people can live in denial.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Reinfections with Omicron are mild” is a straight up lie fabricated to lubricate societal machinery so people can live in denial.
How it started (quoted post):
How it's going:
How it's going:
April 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
How it started (quoted post):
How it's going:
How it's going:
Poilievre trying to win votes by telling millennial women he’s thinking about their uteruses all the time
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if that works out for him
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if that works out for him
March 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Poilievre trying to win votes by telling millennial women he’s thinking about their uteruses all the time
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if that works out for him
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if that works out for him
Alberta’s spring 2025 COVID vaccine guide is out. Doses for six months-11 years old are only available until expiry on June 17.
This implies under 12s including infants (unconscionably) won’t have access to Covid vaccination. Not offering shots in the fall would be in keeping with UCP ideology.
This implies under 12s including infants (unconscionably) won’t have access to Covid vaccination. Not offering shots in the fall would be in keeping with UCP ideology.
March 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Alberta’s spring 2025 COVID vaccine guide is out. Doses for six months-11 years old are only available until expiry on June 17.
This implies under 12s including infants (unconscionably) won’t have access to Covid vaccination. Not offering shots in the fall would be in keeping with UCP ideology.
This implies under 12s including infants (unconscionably) won’t have access to Covid vaccination. Not offering shots in the fall would be in keeping with UCP ideology.
Frankly one of the dumbest pieces of effectively pro-infection propaganda I’ve ever read. This infectious disease doctor thinks lockdown-induced immunity debt may have caused the Ontario measles outbreak even though this same Toronto Star article points out 96% of cases are along the unvaccinated.
March 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Frankly one of the dumbest pieces of effectively pro-infection propaganda I’ve ever read. This infectious disease doctor thinks lockdown-induced immunity debt may have caused the Ontario measles outbreak even though this same Toronto Star article points out 96% of cases are along the unvaccinated.
Yep, three years and three bad flu seasons later, docs are still telling the media without supporting evidence that present day flu is more severe because people didn’t get sick enough in 2021 and 2022.
And raising other diseases but ignoring the possibility they impact each other.
“Immunity gap.”
And raising other diseases but ignoring the possibility they impact each other.
“Immunity gap.”
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Yep, three years and three bad flu seasons later, docs are still telling the media without supporting evidence that present day flu is more severe because people didn’t get sick enough in 2021 and 2022.
And raising other diseases but ignoring the possibility they impact each other.
“Immunity gap.”
And raising other diseases but ignoring the possibility they impact each other.
“Immunity gap.”