Storpedowanie regulacji zwiększającej cenę alkoholu - kluczowego narzędzia ograniczania całkowitej konsumpcji alkoholu oraz społecznych i zdrowotnych szkód z nim związanych, dowodzi że polska klasa polityczna nie dorosła do odpowiedzialnych decyzji w obszarze polityk publicznych.

Polish President announced a veto of the bill increasing excise tax on alcohol. Current prices of alcoholic beverages can be extremely low during supermarket promotional sales. Meanwhile, the social burden of alcohol-related harm has reached a historical record high…

Warsaw councilors got a lobby report from pro-market think tank calling night alcohol sale restrictions "prohibition" while normalizing 24/7 booze shops as "nightlife magnets for youth". Then voted down this measure. Residents and public health advocates lost again. What a shame

Sad but true

Couldn’t agree more

Military spending vs science spending in Poland 🫣

W czasach gdy wszystkie przejawy niekontrolowanych i kompulsywnych zachowań nazywamy uzależnieniem warto zastanowić się czy język, którego używamy przenosi piętno i czy adekwatnie opisuje to zjawisko 📖

It so happens that distress, impulsivity, negative affect are also strongly associated with problem crypto investements. Coincidence?

The new Lancet series on UPF is just great. Especially in its articulation of the core Nova hypothesis, which critics often seem to misunderstand. This is what they're missing... 🧵 thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…

Vested interests of UPF industry basically kill the planet. #CDoH

About a quarter of “healthy” young adults think they have ADHD (28%), according to new research. But that number jumped to more than half (58%) after they received an ADHD awareness campaign based on popular ADHD advocacy groups’ material. worrying? bit.ly/48gFZNK

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The technofascists are going to start a religion

Idealna 🧵dla wszystkich zainteresowanych obniżeniem ryzyka chorób niezakaźnych, jak i kosztów generowanych przez nie w ochronie zdrowia

Też to znacie, tylko wstydzicie się o tym mówić

Interesting thing - pessimistic bias in gender (in)equality

IOC bans Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing helmet featuring teammates slaughtered by Putin. What a dumb, inhumane, depressing decision. I so admire him for standing by his principles 👊👊👊

New blog from Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche on the 'pandemic of psychiatric diagnoses'. 'Psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific and are based on vague, arbitrary symptoms many of us have from time to time.' pgtzsche1.substack.com/p/royal-colleg…