This approach makes one a maverick. We need more mavericks in medicine.

Andrew will find that he is indeed answerable for his actions.

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Unspeakable. But also, simply a vivid demonstration of the cruelty inherent in every surrogacy arrangement. Newborns want and need their mothers. Deliberately creating orphans is wicked.

This Commissioning Father mocks a newborn as he roots to latch and breastfeed. We think this is supposed to be funny? We’re not laughing.

This man, @andrewrobs, threatens violence against women wanting fairness at parkrun. This kind of repulsive, dangerous misogyny has been enabled by @parkrunUK’s embrace of gender self-ID. Of course he’s pre-emptively blocked me.

Watch when your body raises its own cholesterol, and you will see what it is for. It goes up in pregnancy. By the third trimester a woman's cholesterol has risen 30 to 50%, because she is building a brain, a liver and a set of glands out of it, and the body does not wait for permission. It goes up in a breastfed baby. Higher than in a formula-fed one, on purpose, because the milk is loaded with it and the brain is doubling in a year. It goes up at puberty, when the testes and ovaries open for business and need the raw material for everything they make. It goes up in winter, every year, in every population measured, because the sun is gone and the skin needs more of it on hand to make what vitamin D it can. It goes up after the menopause, when the ovaries stop using it, and the body keeps the shelf stocked. It goes up when you are injured, at the wound, to close it. And it goes down when you are dying. In sepsis, in cancer, in the starving and the frail, cholesterol falls, and the lower it falls the sooner the end. Up when building. Up when defending. Up when the light goes. Down when the body has given up. The guideline reads the number and calls up a disease and down a success. Your body has been raising it, on purpose, at every important moment of your life, and the tablet is a vote against all of them.

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Why does a drug taken by 200 million people postpone death by 3.2 days? Why did the biggest statin trial remove a third of its volunteers before it started counting side effects? Why does half of everyone prescribed one give it up within a year? Why did Merck patent a statin with CoQ10 added, to offset the muscle damage, and never sell it? Why did memory loss take 25 years to reach the label? Why does the high dose raise the odds of diabetes by 36%? Why did the largest government-funded statin trial, 10,355 people, find no difference in deaths? Why did the trial that made millions of healthy people eligible record more fatal heart attacks on the statin, 9 against 6? Why is the raw data held by one unit in Oxford that lets nobody else check it? Why are the people who call these questions dangerous paid by the people selling the answer? Safe and effective. It should only take a minute to clear these up, then.

When doctors go on strike, the death rate falls. It has been measured every time it has happened. Israel, 1973: doctors strike for a month. Deaths in Jerusalem drop by half. The undertakers notice first. Los Angeles, 1976: surgeons strike for 5 weeks over insurance. The county death rate falls, then climbs back to normal the week they return and the postponed operations begin. Israel again, 1983 and 2000. Same result. Bogotá, 1976. Same. A review of every strike on record found that mortality either stayed flat or went down. Not once did it rise. Here is why. Medical error is the third leading cause of death in America, after heart disease and cancer, at around 250,000 a year. It does not appear on a death certificate because there is no box for it. In Britain, 1 hospital admission in 16 is caused by a reaction to a drug the patient was correctly prescribed. Properly prescribed medicines, taken as directed, kill about 100,000 Americans a year. That figure is 30 years old and nobody has updated it, because nobody is paid to. The hospital is one of the most dangerous buildings a well person can enter, and the most dangerous thing in it is the pad. So the next time your doctor is on strike, do what the data says and stay home, eat a steak and have a lie down. Statistically it is the safest appointment you will get all year.

Do you really think that Stonewall are a credible organisation after their legal advice has been found to be so incredibly detrimental to organisations & left third parties with vast legal liabilities from their “understanding” of law?

“Why would anyone set up a business in this country right now?” It’s becoming impossible to take risks, hire and build in Britain. No wonder people are thinking twice.

Fun polling by More in Common Tories lead among M&S shoppers - but Reform most popular among Morrisons and Lidl Labour lead in Asda, Aldi and Waitrose (!)

My sympathies are with the gentleman who wishes to walk to his house & express his disgust at what the Home Secretary, who commands the police, now calls Britain's broken borders. The police are acting against the people's interest, & losing public trust.

Following the massive success of #RealityRulesRunnersUK claiming the largest club debut at #ParkrunUK we spent this morning sending a complaint to @heatonparkrun / @parkrunUK for censuring the photos showing our official club name! @RRRunnersUK

Part of it though i feel with the GPs who give amoxicillin like smarties is a certain nihilism that says this is actively encouraged by our higher ups that captures national GP patient surveys into cqc reports but no real metrics on evidence based medicine or the “right” thing

I'm a better doctor than the other guy. I prescribe less, refer less and request less imaging. My outcomes are better. I miss less cancers. I clear up the other guy's messes, and pick up his slack. Why are we paid the same in the NHS? Excellence isn't rewarded here.

A man who passed his medical in 1996 with flying colours has four diseases today, and not one number in his body has changed. Blood pressure 135/85. Cholesterol 210. Fasting blood sugar 105. BMI of 26. In 1996 that was a clean bill of health and a handshake. Today the same man, with the same blood, is hypertensive, has high cholesterol, is prediabetic and overweight. Four diagnoses, and he never caught a thing. 1997: the line for diabetes drops from 140 to 126. 1.7 million new diabetics by morning. 1997: high blood pressure drops from 160/100 to 140/90. 13 million new patients. 1998: high cholesterol drops from 240 to 200. 42 million new patients. 1998: overweight drops from a BMI of 27 to 25. 29 million people go to bed normal and wake up with a weight problem. 2003: prediabetes is widened from 110 to 100. It now covers 98 million Americans, more than 1 adult in 3, for a condition the World Health Organization declines to call by that name. 2017: blood pressure again, down to 130/80. Another 31 million. Nearly half the adults in America are hypertensive. When the cholesterol targets were tightened again in 2004, eight of the nine men who wrote them had been paid by companies that make statins. No germ. No outbreak. No change in a single artery. Just a room, a vote, and a tablet waiting on the far side of every line. In every other branch of medicine you have to get ill to become a patient. In this one they bring the disease to you. The last healthy people are the ones who haven't been tested yet.

This data never ceases to "amaze" me. In 2005, very few people received any transition related genital surgery (120 over the whole of 🇩🇪), in 2025 it was 4,184. And the shift in the age distribution is staggering: Surgeries on 18-25 year olds were almost non-existent in the noughties, now they dominate every other age group by a large factor. (This is official data)

Social contagion in a neat, and heart-breaking, graph

The #ConversionPracticesDraftBill is blatantly a form of mass coercive control Designed to force everyone; parents, teachers, therapists, even the guy down the pub; to act as if trans gender ideology was based in reality not fantasy It will bring back no debate #BinTheBill