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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Donald Trump traded in his usual clown tie for one that matches Xi's almost exactly. Why is that? Maybe it was so the South China Morning Post could get a visual pun on "China-US ties".

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Which miserable story in the Guardian should I read today? - Existential risk from AI; - Existential risk to the environment; - Social inequity. I feel spoiled for choice.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder what's on TV tonight. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This piece in the South China Morning Post makes one appreciate academic freedom. "The Central Party School is not just any training site for Chinese officials, but part of a nationwide system that Xi considers key to the ideological purity of the party..."

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Christian Organization Forced to Add African Panelists to Nairobi Event" (Kenya Times 12 May 2026) I would think a panel composed entirely of White Men is the perfect vehicle to deliver unhelpful, regressive views to the continent of Africa. Easy to dismiss. thekenyatimes.com/latest-kenya...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Dear Cabinet, Are you absolutely sure you don't want to use the 25th Amendment (S4)...just while you get him some help? You must know he needs it.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Social and behavioural science credibility research has a problem. A recent Nature paper tries to tackle "Analytic Robustness" but confuses estimands and estimates. It was peer reviewed by an author of a Science Advances paper that made the same error. www.papyruswalk.com/2026/04/anal...

An image of a river delta with many branches leading to the same place.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Question: What's the difference between a US President and a modern monarch? Answer: Kings are constrained by their parliaments and have few official independent functions. US protesters (sadly) might want to rethink the "No Kings" strategy. Monarchs are looking pretty good right now.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Nobel Committee has finally decided to award Donald J. Trump a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the first quarter of 2026. They have commissioned two possible new designs and seek feedback. The previous latin inscription "For the peace and brotherhood of peoples" was too woke.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sounds like BS. Donald Trump is a notorious liar. Threats should be believed but explanations and justifications are profoundly suspect until independently verified

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The year is 2015. Barack Obama is president. One idle speculator says, "Just imagine, in a little over 10 years from now, a neo-fascist homage to dictatorship could decorate the Justice Department" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Not "powerful" in a traditional sense, this one threw me.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I find the bravery of ICE agents inspiring.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I worked closely with ChatGPT using a corpus of "decolonising global health" articles that have appeared in high-impact global health journals. Here is the synthesised advice. The road to success is only 800-1,000 words away. www.papyruswalk.com/2026/01/on-b...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I do have a confession to make. This embarrassing photograph of Emperor Xi caught in public with a close "friend" is a deep fake. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Causal Uncertainty Principle:- Internal & external validity can't both be maximised—it's structural, not practical. When you nail down causation in homogeneous trials, you eliminate the variation needed for generalisability. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22649

A white male agricultural scientist wearing spectacles and a white lab coat crouched in a large field of grass. He has a magnifying glass in his left hand and is focused on a small object pinched between his thumb and forefinger of his right hand.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Condemning something with “AI wrote that!” is about as useful as dismissing a Mapplethorpe with “a camera did that”. Tools don’t determine whether something is art, well written, advance the way you think about a subject. AI can be creative and scientific. www.papyruswalk.com/2025/11/ai-w...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It's a nice idea because it encourages prosocial play, and that can only be a good thing. I hear they're installing a bouncy castle where the rose garden was.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm looking forward to the 2025 Nobel Prizes. Donald Trump will win four! Stupid Curie (Physics, Chemistry) and Pauling (Physics, Peace) only won two. Peace --work in Gaza/Ukraine Medicine -- Aceta..Aceta...Tylenol causes autism Economics--Impact of tariffs Physics--Climate change isn't real.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

And Türkiye really put its money where its mouth was.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

It is a rather different picture for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

When the EU27 runs a healthy trade surplus with Israel, performative horror about the genocide in Gaza is as good as it gets.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Daily kills by IDF in Gaza are returning to early war rates. Clear massacres in 2025. UN Special rapporteur: evidence of genocide. ICC issues arrest warrant. Amnesty then HRW find genocide, UN independent commission finds genocide. IDF breaks ceasefire. Operation "Gideon's chariot" starts

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Great negotiators create value. Donald Trump destroys it. "Putin can end the war if he wants"

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Le jet d'eau on a beautiful summer day in Geneva

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I made a similar comment to a friend this morning, though less eloquently than van Reybrouck. I am shocked how fast Europe has dumped the rules-based international order to play nice with "daddy". 🤮

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

For some reason my social media feed has been carrying a lot of "Does God Exist?" debates. I dislike the Dawkins, Hitchens, or Gervais approaches to the question. So I thought I would pen my own response. www.papyruswalk.com/2025/06/just...

An AI generated image in the style of a realistic painting depicting a unicorn, a teapot, and a spaghetti monster hovering in the clouds over the words, "Does God Exist?"

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The U.S. strike on Iran’s Fordow site is not only a violation of the UN Charter (Art. 2(4)), but also breaches Iran’s Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA. It undermines international safeguards and the entire NPT-based nuclear order.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

'Nobody knows what I'm going to do....not even me'

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Israel and the US risked a regional conflagration to put Iran's nuclear programme back "more than a few weeks".

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One of the political appeals of Donald Trump was his stated aversion to war. It's simply untrue. He loves power and the accoutrements of power. He is happy to fight proxy wars. He is happy to use the military against his own people. He is the school yard bully.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Human rights didn’t fail because they were weak. They failed because they drifted—cut loose from moral grounding, pulled apart by power. We need a new foundation: dignity, welfare, and the refusal to treat anyone as expendable. 🔗 Read more #HumanRights #Ethics #GlobalHealth #Axiomatic

An image of urban Gaza showinf medium density appratment buildings that have been completely destroyed by Israeli shelling and bombing.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Something is very "off" when law enforcement officers feel the need to hide their identity. Is it shame, fear, or intimidation? None of the options inspire hope, confidence or trust. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The chore of mowing the lawn on a Sunday in Geneva

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Farewell to the great Antony Green. Public Broadcasting keeping elections free fair, and intelligible.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In his acceptance speech, PM Albanese highlighted as Australian values just about everything Donald Trump opposes: fairness, equality, an acceptance of people of all origins, being able to choose who they love.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The great Antony Green (ABC Australia) has just called the election for the Australian Labor Party. "If the pre-polls turn around (for the Liberals now) there would have to be a lot of loaves and fishes" The Trump effect on liberal democracies.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Australia has an independent Electoral Commission that conducts the election. It uses a sophisticated preferential voting system. Adult citizens over 18 are obliged to vote. Voter suppression doesn't exist as an electoral strategy, politicians have to campaign for every vote.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The World watches with bated breath while the most important democratic national election of 2025 happens.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The newly delivered Org Chart for WHO. I can't say I love it. Putting Disease Control in one division and Health Systems in another is a recipe for continued vertical programs and risks the commitment to Universal Health Coverage. But do not let perfection be the enemy of the good.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The winning combination of ignorance and racism

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

US has a bold new strategy to lower green house gas emissions. healthpolicy-watch.news/us-to-stop-r...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The USAID spreadsheet shows WHO as the biggest UN Agency loser. Other losses from other US agencies will not be reflected here. Losses across sector are more dispersed (but there is also double counting). The cleaner data are hers with two example scripts github.com/dreidpath/US...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The "TV series" review is old (pre-COVID if you can believe it) but feels like only yesterday. tvitv.net/index.php/20...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A 281-page spreadsheet was delivered to Congress detailing winners and losers when USAID was "put through the wood-chipper". I could not find an analysis ready dataset so, I constructed it. You can find the data here on GitHub in three formats: github.com/dreidpath/US...

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For the first time I have heard "AI" used as a verb. They AI'd it. I can only assume that the verb "to google" will now diminish in use.

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Daniel D. Reidpath @dreidpath.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The midterms...the midterms...the midterms... Less than 100 days in, the words are beginning to be whispered like a prayer of hope. Do not imagine there are not plans to diminish the effect of the midterms at least as dramatic and illegal as the current activities.

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