Personal account of Prof Raywat Deonandan, PhD: Epidemiologist, award-winning educator, bestselling author, scourge of the ignorant, & Servant to a small child.
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Daily, I reiterate my rules for navigating social media:
1. I am complicit in any offence I might take.
2. I can't control what others think or say, only how I react.
3. I don't have to have an opinion on everything.
4. If I don't know you, then your opinion of me is irrelevant.
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RT @PeterHotez: They helped to build Frankenstein’s monster and now they’re aghast at their creation:
“Alas, I had turned loose into the…
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Measles is completely preventable with the MMR vaccine, which has been safely used for more than 60 years.
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I am seeing a lot of MAHA defense attorney doctors desperate to blame everyone else for what they unleashed on us all.
Sorry.
We remember and you own it.
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So he just did it for the money? Weak sauce, man.
theguardian.com/film/2025/de…
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It was sometime in the late 1990s. I had just signed my very first book deal. My best friend and I were dancing and celebrating on the street outside @MasseyCollege at @UofT. A gruff older man was not impressed and shouldered past me. Later, I realized it was Mordecai Richler.
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So excited. Bob Rae is joining Massey College at the U of Toronto, where I am a Senior Fellow.
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Here's my "appearance" on CBC radio last night
youtu.be/t9_Xqtxi2GQ
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It’s crazy that the Russians invaded Ukraine but captured the White House instead
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People are harassing this kind, innocent young man with the same disgusting slurs the president so casually uses. Drop a 💙 if you’re Team Gus all the way.
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Congratulations to our scientist, Laurent Simons, for earning his PhD in quantum physics at just 15—an exceptional achievement.
In our lab, Laurent’s work focuses on in silico biology to accelerate treatment of devastating diseases. We’re thrilled to have him on the team.
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In a world of Donald Trumps and Pete Hegseths, be a Pete Buttigieg.
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Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.
cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vac…
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