Emeritus Prof.Public Health.Australian Skeptic of Year 2013. Blog, free books, memoirs, music at simonchapman6.com I tweet,therefore I am. Live on Gadigal land
/PRNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids along with 179 organizations from 62 countries today called on Google to adopt a new policy prohibiting...
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, comments that came as more than 40,000...
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.
Simon Chapman AOOh dear. Back to the drawing board for all the old mates in the herd immunity school of #COVID19 control as immunity rates fall in huge UK study
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The Australian Skeptics’ notorious Bent Spoon award has gone to former celebrity chef Pete Evans, only the first time in Skeptics history that the same person has won the award twice. The annual Sk…
Victorians were disappointed on Sunday as the State Government “hit pause” on emergence from extended lockdown while it awaits the results of testing for COVID-19 from a complex cluster in Melbourne’s
The first five books below are available in (free) open access via the links, and for purchase in paperback form (click covers). (total 135,793 downloaded at Aug 1, 2019)  …
Scott Morrison believes there needs to be signs of solidarity with those doing it tough, and splurging taxpayers' money on lavish watches doesn't pass muster.
GPs are likely to be gatekeepers for access to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. What is the evidence for their efficacy and safety – and what commercial interests are in play?
This report describes the estimated excess deaths reported in the United States from late January through October 3, 2020, with 66% excess deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Simon Chapman AOTrump will go ballistic about this!! US @CDCgov report on excess deaths Jan-Oct 2020 just published cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6… Check the graphs on age groups - this is NOT just a plague that is killing the very old.Download before Trump orders it down!
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No More Lockdown, a song by Van Morrison on Spotify
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Simon Chapman AOVan Morrison's "No more lockdown" trots out every cro magnon libertarian ignorance you've ever heard, then adds more. My favourite "No more @imperialcollege scientists making up crooked facts" open.spotify.com/track/3wU8zyHZ… What a sad, sad decline
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Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.