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ICYMI: How Opioid Giant Endo Escaped a $7 Billion Federal Penalty propublica.org/article/endo-s…

Misinformation isn't a general condition resulting from social media: it's an expression of a deliberate political strategy pursued by the populist radical right. 🧵 Paper out now in The International Journal of Press/Politics. with Juliana Chueri doi.org/10.1177/194016…

Meat processing giant JBS appears to have watered down its sustainability ambitions by claiming that its 2040 net zero ‘commitment’ does not represent a ‘promise’! Full story: foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2025/0… #netzero #climatecrisis

C’est insupportable de voir que les multinationales de l’alcool utilisent le mot « prévention » pour promouvoir la consommation de leurs produits. Insupportable C’est un piratage abject d’un terme de santé publique. Honte à vous Prévention et Modération & aux marques que vs représentez

Health harming industries like gambling have been shown to use similar influencing strategies to the tobacco industry. Stringent advertising controls and separation of industry actors from policy making are essential to prevent harm, say May van Schalkwyk et al bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Ben Hawkins, Rebecca Cassidy, Jeff Collin, Anna Gilmore, Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social & I call for urgent action to stop history from repeating itself, and for the gambling industry to be recognised as a harmful industry in need of effective regulation.

How do apps backed by the alcohol industry mislead users and risk increasing the amount users drink? In our latest blog, Dr Elliott Roy-Highley and Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social look at the content of industry apps. "It exemplifies the subtle ways that industry actors use... ias.org.uk/2025/02/25/dar…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation - which makes money from obesity drugs - is holding a meeting with food industry funded scientists to 'redefine' an unhealthy diet. This is bad for public health and more than 80 of the world's leading independent food scientists are calling for a boycott. 🧵

If you care about public health and nutrition then please share widely. No independent nutrition researcher should attend this meeting.#COI #CDOH

I wrote a commentary on regulatory responses to UPFs, rehearsing things I (and others) have been saying for years - governments need to regulate companies as well as products - only higher level interventions will (re)shape a healthier food system... nature.com/articles/s4301…

Huge thanks to Nason Maani for inviting me to discuss this industry strategy & the multiple ways it serves commercial interests. Influence of youth education & child safety programmes by health harming industries remains a major issue & more action is needed.

… on.ft.com/4hcbX0g unilever to boost social media spend to 50 % of all its advertising budget and recruit influencer army. Pollution of discourse in action

🚨 New episode of Money Power Health! Thanks to the wonderful Vicky Cann from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) who joined me to discuss the scale and impact of lobbying by PFAS or "forever chemical" manufacturers at the EU level #CDoH Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh open.spotify.com/episode/5R4v5z… 🧵

The FIFA Club World Cup starts this week with Coca-Cola as a main sponsor. The evidence that fizzy drinks do harm is overwhelming - and the players are no more likely to consume them as a source of athletic energy than they are to light up a cigarette at half-time. My piece in

Coca-Cola made Fairlife a $1B milk brand claiming its quality is from humanely treated cows Undercovers at supplying dairies filmed a different reality: “near-constant torment and torture of cows,” according to a new federal lawsuit Dallas Morning News reports 🧵 vimeo.com/1091654698?ref…

The complaint comes after Coca-Cola, Fairlife and the Dallas-based Select Milk dairy chain agreed to pay $21 million in 2022 to settle an earlier class action lawsuit citing widespread animal abuse in Indiana and Texas. dallasnews.com/news/texas/202…

More details in this excellent piece in the FHJ by Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social, Cécile Knai and May van Schalkwyk "Alcohol industry conflicts of interest: The pollution pathway from misinformation to alcohol harms" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Every frontline doctor and health service worker sees first hand the harms done by the alcohol industry which are exposed in this piece by Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Cécile Knai May van Schalkwyk “The alcohol industry’s profit model strongly depends on harming its customers. Its faux-education

This is a powerful set of examples of the cynical and exploitative nature of harmful industries - and their common playbook. Perhaps the most shocking thing is the extent to which their activities often remain unobserved, and unchallenged. Follow the thread:

#FHJDebate Should the General Medical Council support a mandatory register of interests for UK doctors?