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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet. www.wired.com/story/heat-w...

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In a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Dear Canada, I know it feels like we must take drastic action to protect our children from social media. I get the intuitive appeal of a ban. But evidence supporting move ain't great. Complex problems require, alas, a nuanced policy. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 21/05/2026

They’re Walter Cup champions, Marcus.

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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/04/2026

A new study in BMJ Open found that popular AI chatbots frequently produced problematic responses to health & medical questions, including fabricated citations & answers delivered with confidence & certainty even when they were incorrect. @nbtiller.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/practicemana...

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AI Chatbot Told Users That Herbal Remedies Can Treat Cancer

Nearly half of chatbot answers to medical questions deemed 'problematic' in study

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Sandro M. @srmarcon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies... Our team's health misinformation audit on popular and free AI chatbots found nearly 50% of responses were problematic. Link: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... Team: @nbtiller.bsky.social; @marcozenone.bsky.social; @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, et al.

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CAREX Canada @carexcanada.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Earlier this month, CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social joined @marcozenone.bsky.social to share their work on cancer misinformation at the Café Scientifique event co-hosted by UBC's Cancer Prevention Research Cluster and @cancersociety.bsky.social.

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CAREX Canada @carexcanada.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social, along with @marcozenone.bsky.social to discuss how cancer #misinformation impacts prevention, diagnosis, and treatment at the Café Scientifique event on April 10th. Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scien...

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ScienceUpFirst @scienceupfirst.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Curious about the cancer and vitamin D connection? Some findings have been promising but it’s not a clear cut conclusion. See our site for a deeper dive. 👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/... #ScienceUpFirst

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 27/05/2024

Established in 1970, Glad Day is the world’s oldest 2SLGBTQ bookstore. It has been at the heart of Canadian struggles for sexual liberation, free speech and creativity. Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share. More info:

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Save Glad Day — Glad Day

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Emilyheer @emilyheer.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Stumbled on this Scott Burris paper from *checks notes* 1997: "To accept the rhetorical structure of market individualism is to accept a political language that has no words for public health." He must be so frustrated to have been so correct 27 years ago. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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The invisibility of public health: population-level measures in a politics of market individualism.

This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The ...

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