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Retired physician here.
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Retired physician here.
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
The Rest is Politics 477 Trumps 2025 National Security Strategy -brilliant - please listen! Thank you!
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Rest is Politics 477 Trumps 2025 National Security Strategy -brilliant - please listen! Thank you!
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No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
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I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
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Chef's kiss for the Labour clowns if they end up destroying the NHS as well as their own party with their ruinous jackbooted approach to immigration. That's a very special level of failure.
Starmer is rapidly nearing the top of the list of worst prime ministers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer is rapidly nearing the top of the list of worst prime ministers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Chef's kiss for the Labour clowns if they end up destroying the NHS as well as their own party with their ruinous jackbooted approach to immigration. That's a very special level of failure.
Starmer is rapidly nearing the top of the list of worst prime ministers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer is rapidly nearing the top of the list of worst prime ministers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Happy 86th birthday, Margaret Atwood! ❤️
Thank you for a lifetime of novels, poems, essays, and stories.
We love this beautifully humanist sentiment, too.
Thank you for a lifetime of novels, poems, essays, and stories.
We love this beautifully humanist sentiment, too.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Happy 86th birthday, Margaret Atwood! ❤️
Thank you for a lifetime of novels, poems, essays, and stories.
We love this beautifully humanist sentiment, too.
Thank you for a lifetime of novels, poems, essays, and stories.
We love this beautifully humanist sentiment, too.
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This morning I played the Brahms Lullaby on ‘Broadcasting House’ on BBC Radio 4. Wishing everyone, everywhere calmer, more peaceful times.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This morning I played the Brahms Lullaby on ‘Broadcasting House’ on BBC Radio 4. Wishing everyone, everywhere calmer, more peaceful times.
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The species, found in Western Australia, is the first new member of its group in 20 years. But some experts fear the name will result in it being demonised ⬇️
Meet ‘Lucifer’: the newly discovered horned bee
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The species, found in Western Australia, is the first new member of its group in 20 years. But some experts fear the name will result in it being demonised ⬇️
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A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Russia doesn’t pose a threat to his country — but that Poland potentially does.
AfD leader says Putin poses no threat to Germany, warning instead of Poland
The comments come as mainstream German politicians increasingly portray the far-right party as a fifth column promoting the Kremlin’s interests.
www.politico.eu
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Russia doesn’t pose a threat to his country — but that Poland potentially does.
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Salk would not believe this. Nor any doctor of that generation, eg my grandfather
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Salk would not believe this. Nor any doctor of that generation, eg my grandfather
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If you’re daunted by the prospect of late autumn & winter & are able to get outside, here’s a film I made for @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social with 5 scientifically proven nature-based tips to alleviate anxiety & lift your mood 🌿🧠:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Two - Autumnwatch, 2020, Episode 3, 5 simple ways: Nature can help your mood
Emma Mitchell guides us through a natural take on wellbeing this Autumn.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If you’re daunted by the prospect of late autumn & winter & are able to get outside, here’s a film I made for @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social with 5 scientifically proven nature-based tips to alleviate anxiety & lift your mood 🌿🧠:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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It’s lurve - @rorycj.bsky.social and #sophiefromromania
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s lurve - @rorycj.bsky.social and #sophiefromromania
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For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
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While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
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Artists given chance to use wood from felled Sycamore Gap tree
Artists given chance to use wood from felled Sycamore Gap tree
Two years after the tree was cut down, the National Trust says it wants to turn a sense of loss ‘into a sense of hope’
Artists are being asked for ideas to create a “nationally important” work from the wood of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree which, organisers hope, will be galvanising and inspiring.
The National Trust has revealed details of a huge creative commission, offering the chance for artists, organisations or creative agencies to use half of the tree’s timber to produce something incredible. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Artists given chance to use wood from felled Sycamore Gap tree
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Light and airy clouds of Cosmos and a bumblebee. Have a happy evening everyone! #DailyBotanicalBeauty #photography #flowers
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Light and airy clouds of Cosmos and a bumblebee. Have a happy evening everyone! #DailyBotanicalBeauty #photography #flowers
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So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes
Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease
www.science.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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This has Vance's dirty fkn fingerprints all over it.
August 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This has Vance's dirty fkn fingerprints all over it.
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Donald Trump’s firing of US stats chief doesn’t add up, says Tim Harford: on.ft.com/4oAsHmy
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Donald Trump’s firing of US stats chief doesn’t add up, says Tim Harford: on.ft.com/4oAsHmy
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All you need to read and know on Anchorage. 👇
August 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
All you need to read and know on Anchorage. 👇
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Meanwhile, a child dies of measles in Liverpool.
When governments give false legitimacy to anti-vaxxers, it emboldens them, erodes trust in science, and people die.
Science is the candle in the dark. Vaccinate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When governments give false legitimacy to anti-vaxxers, it emboldens them, erodes trust in science, and people die.
Science is the candle in the dark. Vaccinate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world | Devi Sridhar
The avian flu virus is now just one mutation away from easier transmission among humans. Trump’s health chief is a grave risk to world health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at ...
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Meanwhile, a child dies of measles in Liverpool.
When governments give false legitimacy to anti-vaxxers, it emboldens them, erodes trust in science, and people die.
Science is the candle in the dark. Vaccinate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When governments give false legitimacy to anti-vaxxers, it emboldens them, erodes trust in science, and people die.
Science is the candle in the dark. Vaccinate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Anas is like anyone here in the UK. He had a wife, children, dreams he wanted to fight for."
Palestinian journalist Yara Eid spoke to @krishgm.bsky.social about her friend, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Read + watch
www.channel4.com/news/anas-al...
Palestinian journalist Yara Eid spoke to @krishgm.bsky.social about her friend, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Read + watch
www.channel4.com/news/anas-al...
Anas al-Sharif ‘killed brutally because he was fighting for freedom’ – Palestinian journalist
We spoke to Palestinian journalist Yara Eid who is from Gaza.
www.channel4.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"Anas is like anyone here in the UK. He had a wife, children, dreams he wanted to fight for."
Palestinian journalist Yara Eid spoke to @krishgm.bsky.social about her friend, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Read + watch
www.channel4.com/news/anas-al...
Palestinian journalist Yara Eid spoke to @krishgm.bsky.social about her friend, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Read + watch
www.channel4.com/news/anas-al...