Many of the responses to this BODY of research on vaccine safety demonstrate the power of misinformation to:
- generate destabilizing distrust
- create echo chambers filled with confirmation bias
- exploit ideology, community, & in-group signalling

Also, incredible the degree…

This post is better argued than the recent anti-Cass letter: uncommon-scents.blogspot.com/2024/04/letter…
And the fact that the latter allowed it to be signed by, of all people, Andrew Wakefield, does not help their case

This week, my great-grandma, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

'I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!'

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life.

I just spent a wonderful afternoon in the company of the Iranian Liberty Association (ILA) where I had the privilege of addressing the assembled crowd and voicing my support for Iranian people.

As well as a joint celebration of Persian New Year (NoRuz), Easter, Passover and Eid,…

I’ve thought about this all day and deleted the original tweet, so just one more post on the matter.

I’m sorry to those I offended. My post was ambiguous and although it was genuinely designed to call out calls for violence, it wasn’t the right place or time which made it easier…

If you want to understand why this is, you could do a lot worse than listen to the great Barnaby Rogerson tell anita anand & I about the division between Sunni Arabia & Shia Iran Empire Podcast

podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

'Incorrect' is when you misspell someone's name.

What Julia means is that on this particular occasion her attempt to use a horrible incident thousands of miles away about which she (and us) knew nothing in order to stir up racism, hatred and division backfired.

M It's a little more complex that that. Have a listen to Ali Ansari Empire Podcast

podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

William Dalrymple 🇬🇧& 🇺🇸 objected to 🇮🇷 wanting a fair deal for its oil/gas. So they couped/ousted democratically elected Mohamed Mossadegh and reinstated the Shah. He didn’t care about a fair deal as he pocketed the crumbs whilst presiding over a police state. People rose up. Enter Ayatollah K.

Why is Revolutionary Iran like it is? If you want to understand how the mullahs took over what was then the richest country in the Middle East, here is your introduction to the history which can help you understand this increasingly crucial region of the world

OMG, how low can they go? ⤵️

Iran's attack on Israel failed because it had a) allies b) good missile defences. Israel has a right to defend itself and the international community should now mobilise to sanction and isolate Iran.
At the same time, Western leaders should urge restraint and de-escalation -…

Adam Bienkov was this investigated by the police?

A reminder of how news that the Conservative Party Chairman failed to pay millions of pounds he owed in tax, was reported.

When your letter against the Cass Review is signed by Andrew Wakefield, then some alarm bells ought to go off that you are on the wrong side.

feministgenderequality.network/letter-from-ac…

Read about how private equity companies have killed hospitals in the USA, at pestakeholder.org

This afternoon the price of electicity is negative. And sun is out. Car is charging from #solarPV which is free, but it would be better to be paid for taling it from the grid #EV .
#FirstWorldProblems

Timothy Snyder All US isolationists should listen to this man.

Has Tory Councillor broken Electoral Law?

LISA PARKER, a TORY Borough Councillor in Rugby,
used plot 19B at Alwyn Road ALLOTMENTS to claim she qualified as a candidate in a borough where she doesn’t live or pay council tax

Curious

⁦ #Angela Rayner warwickshireworld.com/news/politics/…

Iain Brassington 🇪🇺 I guess the 'real hypothetical' one that one might frame a discussion about here would be the body identity disorder cases of patients who've asked to have a healthy limb amputated as they've always 'seen' themselves as an amputee. See e.g.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19132621/#:~:t….