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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I started this website last year to explore public health errors and related questions. If the topic interests you, take a look. Here are the posts you'll find there

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because you can have the best intentions, in this case reducing alcohol consumption during pregnancy, presumably to lessen foetal alcohol syndrome. But the clear targeting of pregnant people who whakapapa Māori is problematic.

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Measuring the harms of public health interventions matters: So why do we so rarely do it? itaibavli.substack.com/p/measuring-...

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New in When Public Health Goes Wrong: Measuring the harms of public health interventions matters itaibavli.substack.com/p/measuring-...

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Measuring the harms of public health interventions matters

So why do we so rarely do it?

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New in When Public Health Goes Wrong: Measuring the harms of public health interventions matters itaibavli.substack.com/p/measuring-...

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Measuring the harms of public health interventions matters

So why do we so rarely do it?

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Highly recommend @profgoldberg.bsky.social book on tackle football and brain injuries. 🎯 industry influence does NOT require corrupt or biased researchers. I should note Friday Night Lights is a fav. So no, I won't abstain from watching football, but I will be MORE aware. @itaibavli.bsky.social 💯

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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm very happy to share a new OA publication in Public Health Ethics. I argue for the inclusion of a principle of non-complicity among other public health ethics principles & that non-complicity complements other ethical principles & particularly addresses limitations in a principle of solidarity.

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Non-complicity as a principle of public health ethics

Abstract. The concept of complicity has received increased interest in academic and popular venues to describe a range of moral phenomena including contrib

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🕊️Shana Tova. A year of peace, kindness, and compassion🕊️

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One last camping trip before school starts

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Exactly. "It is ethically problematic to try to restore trust in an institution without also addressing the practices that undermine its integrity and trustworthiness" -- Jonathan H. Marks

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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just think about it... The considered word, anti-intelligence and a new commercial determinant of health stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-think...

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New in When Public Health Goes Wrong: Tackle football and public health errors of omission itaibavli.substack.com/p/tackle-foo... A Review of Daniel S. Goldberg’s Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries @profgoldberg.bsky.social

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Tackle football and public health errors of omission

A Review of Daniel S. Goldberg’s Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Our new piece in BMJ: Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Johnson & Johnson to pay $5.5bn settlement in talc cancer lawsuit The company has long denied that its talc products caused cancer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Johnson & Johnson to pay $5.5bn settlement in talc cancer lawsuit

Landmark deal covers about 76,000 claims and could end contentious, decade-long legal battle

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "The research found that AI-generated content appeared in 40% of top health-related TikTok videos, with most posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts designed to resemble real doctors" #AI-CDoH

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Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’

Research shows AI-generated physicians are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A few words on what motivated this paper. Our concern is that we may wake up one day and realize how much influence commercial actors using AI tools can have on health. This risk is greater because AI companies now have a substantial technological advantage over regulators -->

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

How is AI changing the ways commercial actors influence health? Check out our new article published in BMJ: "Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health." We introduce the AI commercial determinants of health (AI-CDoH) framework 🧵 @bmj.com 1/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Check out Progress in Research Integrity Defining and Managing Conflict of Interest (Barbara Redman, ed.) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... a lot of great work in this volume with a few highlights ⤵️

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Progress in Research Integrity

This book addresses one of the most consequential but ill-defined constructs in research integrity – conflict of interest (COI).

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

New in When Public Health Goes Wrong: When AI makes its first public health mistake. And why we may not be ready

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

AI may improve public health. But what happens when it makes a public health mistake? I share some thoughts on AI public health errors, their causes, prevention, and their impact on society open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

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When AI makes its first public health mistake

And why we may not be ready

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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When AI makes its first public health mistake

And why we may not be ready

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Finally, it’s here: The Future Is Peace by @azizabusarah.bsky.social and my dear friend Maoz Inon

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Love this quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge… For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." -- Albert Einstein

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

1/3 A disturbing new paper published in Science on malicious AI swarms and the risks they pose to democracy. AI systems can now: • manipulate beliefs and behaviours at scale • generate persuasive propaganda without losing credibility • fabricate realistic content and coordinated narratives -->

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Important work outlining common mechanisms used by six health-harming industries: tobacco, pharmaceutical, opioid, fossil fuel, food, and chemical industries www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 1. Knowledge capture 2. Regulatory and policy capture 3. Shaping the public narrative

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

So much in this short passage about Baruch Spinoza. Exile, intellectual freedom, sacrifice, and a life devoted to ideas despite the personal cost. He died at 45

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yesterday, I had the privilege of hosting a webinar with Dr. David Hasan on his work to build a children’s hospital in Gaza. Please consider supporting this initiative, and feel free to reach out if you’d like to get involved. thegazachildrenvillage.org/childrens-sp...

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Children's Specialty Hospital - The Gaza Children Village

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Children's Specialty Hospital - The Gaza Children Village

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Shabbat shalom 🕊 שבת שלום

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Happy Passover. May better days come, and freedom for all 🕊️

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is pretty great!

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Shabbat Shalom שבת שלום 🕊️

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

With social media and AI becoming so dominant and loneliness rising, we might soon start rewarding our kids for spending time with friends

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What I like about Purple Public Health is that it invites difficult conversations and disagreements rather than avoiding them. That’s the message we should be sending our students

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It was a pleasure taking part in this Purple Public Health episode with Dr Salma Abdalla on public health errors. From mistakes during the opioid epidemic to policy decisions, we discussed why things go wrong in public health and why learning from these errors matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBV1...

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Purple Public Health episode—Beyond blame: understanding public health errors with Dr. Itai Bavli

YouTube video by Complicating The Narrative

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I draw on Rosner & Markowitz's classic text on the history of #silicosis & the foundry industry in my recent book on the #ManufactureOfDoubt. (press.umich.edu/Books/D/Dead...) (press.jhu.edu/books/title/...) Thus, once more, w/ feeling: WHAT. 👏🏻 IS. 👏🏻 NEW. 👏🏻 IS. 👏🏻 OLD. #HistPubHealth #HistSTM 🗃

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Quartz Cutters Are Falling Ill. Countertop Makers Want Protection From Congress.

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

When Hemingway told Fitzgerald, “Kiss my ass.” My latest in When Public Health Goes Wrong on the power of honest feedback open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

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When Hemingway told Fitzgerald, “Kiss my ass”

The power of good feedback

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

When Hemingway told Fitzgerald, “Kiss my ass.” My latest in When Public Health Goes Wrong on the power of honest feedback open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

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When Hemingway told Fitzgerald, “Kiss my ass”

The power of good feedback

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Imagine replacing media “war pundits” with peace experts. Every day we would hear ideas for peace, debate them, embrace disagreement, and start changing the narrative 🕊️

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you have students from the Middle East, reach out and check in. It matters

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