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Jo Foulkes

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We all have the right to protest But the Government is OBSESSED with stopping us from speaking out Join us in demanding Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper SCRAP anti-protest laws that are a threat to us all Sign here: buff.ly/4ip2jJl
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters. 

Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
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Michael Zey @zeyguy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Loch Ness Noncer
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/01/2025
A study in Nature Microbiology suggests that consuming more healthy plant-based foods could increase the proportion of gut microbes that favour human health. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 21,000 vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. go.nature.com/40kHGqN 🧪
This is figure 5, which shows the contribution of food microbes to the gut microbiome across diet patterns.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
I myself have 7 tiny cups but some of my colleagues have over 20 tiny cups and this is how marine biologists determine rank in our society
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/01/2025
"More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home." [Guardian]
DWP spent £50,000 in bid to halt release of safeguarding review
The Guardian2 Jan 2025Ben Quinn

Errol Graham starved to death in his flat after his benefits were stopped
More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.

The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.

It included spending by the Home Office of £30,000 to block a request by the Guardian for the total cost to the public of protecting the royal family.

The figures were revealed after requests by the Democracy for Sale newsletter, which sought details of spending under the last government in attempts to prevent the release of information.

Some of the spending that was uncovered related to an attempt by a campaigner at the Child Poverty Action Group charity to obtain the results of a review by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into its safeguarding procedures.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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