Fun fact: contrary to many claims during particularly the earlier part of the pandemic, Mullis' patent for PCR explicitly stated that it can be used for disease diagnostics, including from viral infections patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/cc/f0/3e/dc51b…

New research suggests antibodies from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID may directly change how cells handle energy and inflammation. The study found these antibodies may fragment mitochondria and alter immune signals.

One of the greatest losses between my grandparents’ generation and mine was the instinct to look after our things. Consumption made replacing easier than caring. But if you do that long enough, it’ll rewire how you treat everything else too.

"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉 It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

How harmful are wood burning stoves? In this episode of the Medicine & Science Podcast, we dive into the findings of a BMJ investigation that found wood burning stoves have become a major public health concern in urban areas youtube.com/watch?v=38_zIc… Kamran Abbasi Rebecca Coombes

Call me a radical left lunatic, but I’d rather my taxes go to free lunches for school kids than bombs dropped on other people’s kids.

Feels more and more like Albanese, Wong and Marles have taken Australia to a dark place -- morally, legally, strategically -- with their obsessive support for Trump.

The Law Society of Scotland has highlighted the risks of the McArthur Bill allowing a solicitor to act as a “proxy signatory” for an #assistedsuicide application, ‘noting that the requirement to confirm understanding, voluntariness and capacity could expose solicitors to ethical

Just found out the nurse at our son’s school is a raging feminist. How? She called THE DAD to update our son’s medical information for the year , In the middle of the work day and asked specifically what medication he took. I could kiss her. This is the kind of micro-feminism

Pope Leo XIV responds to the Christian Zionists who showed up in the Oval Office to bless Trump's immoral war. "War is not holy; only peace is holy because it is willed by God."

🚨MCAS: EXCITING NEWS & SURVEY OPPORTUNITY🚨 Dr Larry Afrin & MANY others have been working behind the scenes for years trying to improve the mast cell activation syndrome situation. It has paid off & we now have an International Society for MCAS: ismcas.org 🧵

So important to complete this questionnaire if you are living with mast cell issues. Please share.

Having given written & oral evidence multiple times personal reflection 1/ It hugely favoured those with money & access to extensive legal & administrative support. Without that it was impossible to prepare & provide adequate input into the inquiry. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…