Simon Chapman AO
Emeritus Prof.Public Health.Australian Skeptic of Year 2013. Blog, free books, memoirs, music at I tweet,therefore I am. Live on Gadigal land
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179 Organizations Worldwide Call on Google to Ban Apps that Encourage Smoking and Vaping from Google Play Store
Prnewswire.com 81d 1 tweets
/PRNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids along with 179 organizations from 62 countries today called on Google to adopt a new policy prohibiting...
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'
CNN 82d 21 tweets
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...
‎Coronacast: Forget herd immunity... does immunity last at all? on Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts 82d 1 tweets
‎Show Coronacast, Ep Forget herd immunity... does immunity last at all? - 27 Oct 2020
Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
BBC News 83d 15 tweets
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.
Simon Chapman AO Oh 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 82d
Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science
Shraddha Chakradhar - STAT 83d 30 tweets
To know virologist Akiko Iwasaki is to know that she is passionate about combatting sexism, power imbalance, and toxic behavior in academia.
Japan will become carbon neutral by 2050, PM pledges
the Guardian 83d 3 tweets
Yoshihide Suga says dealing with climate change is no longer a constraint on growth as he sets out a bolder approach to the emergency
Simon Chapman AO Japan to be carbon neutral by 2050, if not earlier 83d
Coalition's $100m scheme to fund recycled products has spent no money
the Guardian 83d 2 tweets
Labor and the Greens accuse the Morrison government of failing to deliver on its recycling and waste commitments
Paleo Pete Evans wins Bent Spoon for second time
Australian Skeptics Inc 84d 2 tweets
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…
Simon Chapman AO Paleo Pete Evans first to win ' Bent Spoon quack award twice, while , Science Friction's & win the coveted gongs 🍾🍾🍾 Here's where mine went in 2013 83d
“This is just taking off”: UK, Victorian experts on outlook, lessons for COVID-19
Marie McInerney - Croakey 85d 1 tweets
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
e-Cigarette Use Rises Among Young Adults Who Have Not Smoked Combustible Cigarettes, Study Finds
AJMC 85d 1 tweets
Research from the American Cancer Society suggests that more young people are being introduced to nicotine via e-cigarettes.
Simon Chapman AO #Vaping rising in those who have never smoked. Hey, that's not the way it was supposed to happen. Oh wait .... 85d
Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 Woodstock live concierto HQ
YouTube 182d 3 tweets
Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 Woodstock live concierto HQ
Simon Chapman AO Santana at Woodstock 1969 Such revolutionary music. Turned my head. 85d
Books
Simon Chapman AO - Simon Chapman AO 535d 2 tweets
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)       &nbsp…
Simon Chapman AO Here are a few of mine, 5 open access with nearly 200,000 accesses 85d
I fell five storeys from a New York rooftop and survived
The Sydney Morning Herald 86d 2 tweets
One minute he was gazing at the New York skyline, the next he was plummeting five storeys to the ground.
Simon Chapman AO Top cat writer has one life gone, 8 to go. Extraordinary tale of his fall from a New York roof 86d
Dear Ireland, Melbourne has a message for you about surviving lockdown
Abc.net.au 86d 2 tweets
As Melbourne comes to the end of its second COVID lockdown and Ireland heads into its next round, Virginia Trioli sends good luck.
Simon Chapman AO Superb piece by on the spirit of Victorians to ride out their lockdown & the petty deprivations of the self-absorbed 86d
Public servant largesse offends the PM's quiet Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald 86d 1 tweets
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.
Hiroshi Nagai: Paintings for Music
The Japan Foundation, Sydney 86d 1 tweets
Simon Chapman AO I like the look of these: Niroshi Nagai exhibition in Sydney 86d
newsGP - ‘Blood in the water’: Why the next 12 months is critical for vaping regulation
NewsGP 87d 1 tweets
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?
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 89d 27 tweets
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 AO Trump will go ballistic about this!! US report on excess deaths Jan-Oct 2020 just published Check the graphs on age groups - this is NOT just a plague that is killing the very before Trump orders it down! 87d
No More Lockdown
Spotify 87d 4 tweets
No More Lockdown, a song by Van Morrison on Spotify
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Simon Chapman AO Van Morrison's "No more lockdown" trots out every cro magnon libertarian ignorance you've ever heard, then adds more. My favourite "No more scientists making up crooked facts" What a sad, sad decline 87d
The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19
Nature.com 88d 50 tweets
Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.