30 year RAF Veteran, retired after 20 years oil & gas. Tech/Science/Health/Environment information junkie, scuba Divemaster and travel enthusiast. Atheist/Humanist. Here for pleasant company since X's descent into Dante's deeper circles of hell #FBPE 🗿七七
The antivax idiots will still find a way to disbelieve this. There's no hope for some people, but I'm sure the crystals/ivermectin/supplement subscription will figure on there somewhere
Timothy Caulfield🚨 80% effective. Flu Vaccine Remains Highly Effective Against Pediatric Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "Vaccine effectiveness against mortality was 80% overall, 77% among children with underlying medical conditions, and 87% in children with no known conditions." #VaccinesWork
To no one's surprise except the terminally stupid
ChiseWELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
A thorough, VERY thorough explanation of the AMOC, what it does, why current models can't fully predict its future strength, most likely collapse timescales, limitations of predictions and likely results on global climate interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic.interactive.carbonbrief.orgIf this carries on, I won't need a wetsuit on my next dive trip
Sam CaranaThe sea surface temperature was 21.05°C on July 29, 2026, an anomaly of 0.64°C from 1991-2020. arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/double-blu...
If anyone's interested in tracking how hot this year is currently, @zekehausfather.com maintains a #climate tracker page showing global average temperatures dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#global
Climate DashboardDaily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations.dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#LongCovid Scientists found a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can’t think clearly. A measurable, consistent, and symptom-correlated loss of dopamine nerve terminals. tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...tech-paper.comChiropractic 'treatment' is quackery. There's no valid evidence base.
Edzard ErnstCanadian tribunal rejects chiropractic claims due to a lack of effectivenes edzardernst.com/2026/07/cana...
Shell were warned about emissions causing climate change back in the 60s, then spent the next few decades spending a fortune on propaganda rubbishing the Idea www.desmog.com/2026/07/29/t...
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...www.desmog.comAncient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years Ago The pale, blue eyed European of popular imagination barely existed for most of Europe’s history. Today, only 16% of the global population is white techfixated.com/ancient-dna-...
Ancient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years AgoThe pale, blue eyed European of popular imagination barely existed for most of Europe's history.techfixated.comA solution to plastic pollution? What if we could make plastic from plants? A team of researchers from the Netherlands and China introduces ‘plantymers’, plastics that are sustainably produced from plant proteins and that break down naturally in the environment. iop.uva.nl/content/news...
Silk-inspired ‘plantymers’ as a biodegradable plastic - IoPWhat if we could make plastic from plants? A team of researchers from the Netherlands and China introduces ‘plantymers’, plastics that are sustainably produced from plant proteins and that break down ...iop.uva.nlGetting older? Trunk & hip strength which contribute to balance might be key to independence in later life www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Understanding the effects of aging on whole-body dynamic balance, trunk stability, functional mobility, and hip strength - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Understanding the effects of aging on whole-body dynamic balance, trunk stability, functional mobility, and hip strengthwww.nature.com