StephenC
@fitzroy777.bsky.social
Evidence is distorted by political and economic interests. Denial of evidence and misinformation is used to support prohibition.
All that is needed to undermine stigma is respect.
All that is needed to undermine stigma is respect.
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StephenC
@fitzroy777.bsky.social
· Mar 24
Communicating Science in a Distracted World: Practical Tips for Scientists
Trust, Social Media, and How to Use AI Without Sounding Like a Robot
open.substack.com
What is this thing called science? And how can we communicate it is a media world of toxic misinformation and disinformation?
open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...
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Sadly this analysis = spot on. Opposition to safer smoke-free nicotine options is hysterical cult which perversely protects deadly cigarettes. History will be kind to harm reduction supporters but will trash cultists @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
@squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/cop11-m...
@squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/cop11-m...
COP11, Media Spin, and the Manufactured Narrative of “Industry Interference”
The real interference at COP11 isn’t coming from Philip Morris.
It’s coming from Bloomberg-funded NGOs that dominate the process, shut out opposing voices, and smear anyone who challenges prohibition...
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sadly this analysis = spot on. Opposition to safer smoke-free nicotine options is hysterical cult which perversely protects deadly cigarettes. History will be kind to harm reduction supporters but will trash cultists @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
The LNP have opposed targets for decades in regard to women.
Targets is a fundamental to good business practice and good governance.
LNP are not good for either governance or business
Targets is a fundamental to good business practice and good governance.
LNP are not good for either governance or business
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The LNP have opposed targets for decades in regard to women.
Targets is a fundamental to good business practice and good governance.
LNP are not good for either governance or business
Targets is a fundamental to good business practice and good governance.
LNP are not good for either governance or business
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Another Labor fail from Albo
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Another Labor fail from Albo
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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Who voted for this?
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Who voted for this?
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“Sydney’s Public Transport is pretty great, actually”, and yes Sharath is correct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_W...
Sydney's Public Transport is pretty great, actually
YouTube video by Building Beautifully
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“Sydney’s Public Transport is pretty great, actually”, and yes Sharath is correct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_W...
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Thanks Ray 🩵🩵@raykwong.bsky.social
@jaybird54.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @princess-vimentin.bsky.social @dalewalls1.bsky.social @gigiangel.bsky.social @maplemama20.bsky.social @s3indiana.bsky.social @markrf400.bsky.social
@jaybird54.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @princess-vimentin.bsky.social @dalewalls1.bsky.social @gigiangel.bsky.social @maplemama20.bsky.social @s3indiana.bsky.social @markrf400.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The AI race between the US and China is still in its early stages. But the assessments that low-cost, high performance Chinese #AI models are gaining ground in the US should add to concerns over an 'AI bubble’, writes @jkynge.bsky.social for @chathamhouse.org.
Low-cost Chinese AI models forge ahead, even in the US, raising the risks of a US AI bubble
Nvidia’s latest earnings report calmed jittery markets for now. But Chinese AI models are fast gaining a following around the world, underlining concerns over an ‘AI bubble’ centered on high-investmen...
www.chathamhouse.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The AI race between the US and China is still in its early stages. But the assessments that low-cost, high performance Chinese #AI models are gaining ground in the US should add to concerns over an 'AI bubble’, writes @jkynge.bsky.social for @chathamhouse.org.
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Sequential governments have not increased CSIRO's appropriation to keep up with the cost of doing science. Hasn't even kept up with CPI.
Hence, repeated periods of austerity and job-shedding.
A good way to kill off long-term work that no-one else is doing.
And a very good way to kill off morale.
Hence, repeated periods of austerity and job-shedding.
A good way to kill off long-term work that no-one else is doing.
And a very good way to kill off morale.
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sequential governments have not increased CSIRO's appropriation to keep up with the cost of doing science. Hasn't even kept up with CPI.
Hence, repeated periods of austerity and job-shedding.
A good way to kill off long-term work that no-one else is doing.
And a very good way to kill off morale.
Hence, repeated periods of austerity and job-shedding.
A good way to kill off long-term work that no-one else is doing.
And a very good way to kill off morale.
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
Looks like LNP is way behind in Vic. The Libs should change their polling company
The ALP holds its largest two-party preferred leads in Tasmania: ALP 65.5% cf. L-NP 34.5%, South Australia: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5% and Victoria: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5%.
Looks like LNP is way behind in Vic. The Libs should change their polling company
The ALP holds its largest two-party preferred leads in Tasmania: ALP 65.5% cf. L-NP 34.5%, South Australia: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5% and Victoria: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5%.
In November, support for One Nation increased to its highest since 1998; ALP maintains two-party preferred lead - Roy Morgan Research
www.roymorgan.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
www.roymorgan.com/findings/995...
Looks like LNP is way behind in Vic. The Libs should change their polling company
The ALP holds its largest two-party preferred leads in Tasmania: ALP 65.5% cf. L-NP 34.5%, South Australia: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5% and Victoria: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5%.
Looks like LNP is way behind in Vic. The Libs should change their polling company
The ALP holds its largest two-party preferred leads in Tasmania: ALP 65.5% cf. L-NP 34.5%, South Australia: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5% and Victoria: ALP 59.5% cf. L-NP 40.5%.
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🇰🇷 South Korea has pledged to phase out coal power plants that lack emission-reducing measures, an ambitious step for a country that generates about one-third of its electricity from the fossil fuel.
➡️ u.afp.com/SnuP
➡️ u.afp.com/SnuP
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🇰🇷 South Korea has pledged to phase out coal power plants that lack emission-reducing measures, an ambitious step for a country that generates about one-third of its electricity from the fossil fuel.
➡️ u.afp.com/SnuP
➡️ u.afp.com/SnuP
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As @chancethegardener.bsky.social says, the evidence accumulates!
2021 Cochrane systematic evidence review had 61 studies to go on. It concluded "moderate certainty evidence" that nicotine vapes are more efficacious for smoking cessation than nicotine patches and gum.
Today they have 104 studies and say "high certainty evidence."
As evidence accumulates...
Today they have 104 studies and say "high certainty evidence."
As evidence accumulates...
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As @chancethegardener.bsky.social says, the evidence accumulates!
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The evidences speak for themselves! 💜✊️
Suggestive changes in the USA since 2007:
- adult vaping skyrocketed and smoking plummeted
- teen nicotine use dropped >50%
- lung cancer continued to drop
- COPD continued to drop
- childhood asthma... suddenly started dropping
All GOOD NEWS. Not exactly what #ClickBait media is telling us...
- adult vaping skyrocketed and smoking plummeted
- teen nicotine use dropped >50%
- lung cancer continued to drop
- COPD continued to drop
- childhood asthma... suddenly started dropping
All GOOD NEWS. Not exactly what #ClickBait media is telling us...
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The evidences speak for themselves! 💜✊️
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The tobacco free lobby is in complete denial of harm reduction and the harms done by injecting $10 billion into organised crime.
The speakers are Trumpian in the way they don’t answer questions and keep repeating slogans from the noughties.
The tobacco free lobby is in complete denial of harm reduction and the harms done by injecting $10 billion into organised crime.
The speakers are Trumpian in the way they don’t answer questions and keep repeating slogans from the noughties.
What impact is the illicit tobacco trade having on smoking rates? - ABC listen
Last week authorities shut down two illicit tobacco stores in Sydney... the first to be closed under new state laws targeting the illegal tobacco trade.
It's a $10 billion trade that has flourished i...
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The tobacco free lobby is in complete denial of harm reduction and the harms done by injecting $10 billion into organised crime.
The speakers are Trumpian in the way they don’t answer questions and keep repeating slogans from the noughties.
The tobacco free lobby is in complete denial of harm reduction and the harms done by injecting $10 billion into organised crime.
The speakers are Trumpian in the way they don’t answer questions and keep repeating slogans from the noughties.
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Countries like Japan & New Zealand prove harm reduction works. Yet much of Asia Pacific is trapped in bans. Let’s shift the narrative at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Countries like Japan & New Zealand prove harm reduction works. Yet much of Asia Pacific is trapped in bans. Let’s shift the narrative at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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By Raina MacIntyre
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
By Raina MacIntyre
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
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Snap, indefinite closure of commercial southern Tasmanian rock lobster fishery in D'Entrecasteaux Channel due to antibiotic use in salmon pens
But Tas Health says under National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy – 2020 and Beyond, everyone shares responsibility to use antibiotics appropriately🤷🏻♀️
But Tas Health says under National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy – 2020 and Beyond, everyone shares responsibility to use antibiotics appropriately🤷🏻♀️
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Snap, indefinite closure of commercial southern Tasmanian rock lobster fishery in D'Entrecasteaux Channel due to antibiotic use in salmon pens
But Tas Health says under National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy – 2020 and Beyond, everyone shares responsibility to use antibiotics appropriately🤷🏻♀️
But Tas Health says under National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy – 2020 and Beyond, everyone shares responsibility to use antibiotics appropriately🤷🏻♀️
Science is Brexiting.
UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report
House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies
www.science.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Science is Brexiting.
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Interesting that people continue to vote against their own self interests.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Interesting that people continue to vote against their own self interests.
Remember what happened when appeasement was a policy in the 1930s
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Remember what happened when appeasement was a policy in the 1930s
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Australia’s legal cig market has decreased by 2/3, from about 11 billion cigarettes sold in 2022 to 3.5 billion by end of 2025. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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‘The crisis we’re in’: Australia’s tobacco underbelly dwarfs legal market
Astonishing new figures have revealed the scale of Australia’s tobacco underbelly, which will dwarf the legal market after doubling in volume in just three years.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Australia’s legal cig market has decreased by 2/3, from about 11 billion cigarettes sold in 2022 to 3.5 billion by end of 2025. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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