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Colin Macaulay retweeted
My comments with @CBC @CBCNews
on Helen Branswell the great science journalist who left us this week
cbc.ca/news/health/helen-bra…
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69. trib.al/3bBswKg
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Tonight marks the first NHL Saturday without CBC since 1952, ending a 74-season tradition that made hockey feel Canadian, but more importantly, kept the game public.
sparkedsports.ca/2026/10/03/…
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☣️🦠 UPDATE on pneumonic plague outbreak at the BSL-3 lab in Siberia. 🦠☣️
Russian gov't in TOTAL information control mode.
Baikalsk municipal admin warned residents NOT to travel to the area where the lab accident occurred, then deleted the info ~2 hrs later. Local REN TV deleted 5 posts about the accident. Local journalists who reported on the accident yesterday appear not to have not written any updates since.
Pneumonic plague is 100% fatal if not treated with antibiotics within the first 24 hours of symptoms. The biggest question being suppressed: have there been any more deaths from plague?
The US State Dept lists Russia as having an illegal bioweapons program, one of 2 nations (N. Korea is other). Genetic modifications / bioweapons engineering more likely done at Obolensk and Vector (in a BSL-4 lab), but this is impossible to know for certain.
🚨☣️More details on the Oct 1st pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia, after a lab accident at a BSL-3 lab.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Clinical trials are an essential step in the advancement of safe modern medicine but the start up pathways have often been long and tedious.
Through the launch of Clinical Trial Ontario’s QuickSTART initiative, clinical sponsors can now start their studies in Ontario in as little as 45 days!
Supported with $5M in funding through our government’s Life Sciences Strategy, this initiative will eliminate a key industry barrier and transform our government’s bold ambitions into a new reality.
🧬: ctontario.ca/quickstart-cuts…
Colin Macaulay retweeted
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”
— Umberto Eco
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Canadians: this sitting US Senator is using your normal government processes as a vehicle for laundering lies into your lawmaking and your health policy. Don’t let my home country spread its toxic policy ideas here. They are literally killing people
I truly appreciate the opportunity to tell the truth today at the @AllisonInquiry, and I will continue to advocate for those injured by the COVID injection.
It is well past time for them to be seen, heard, and believed.
Colin Macaulay retweeted
When we stop reading about the past, it’s easy to forget how far we have come. This is a great one with a wonderful narrated version on Audible
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Most people know the names Jonas Salk and Alexander Fleming.
Far fewer know Maurice Hilleman—even though he and the teams he led developed or substantially improved more than 40 vaccines and helped shape modern childhood immunization.
His story reveals the extraordinary power—and peculiar invisibility—of successful prevention. 🧵
Colin Macaulay retweeted
FACIT is now accepting proposals for its Prospects Oncology Fund, supporting the commercialization of early stage innovations based in Ontario. For fund details and eligibility, please visit: facit.ca/funds/prospects-fun…
Deadline to apply is Sept 30, 2026.
Colin Macaulay retweeted
The shingles vaccine in use today has been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and heart failure, according to a study of more than 70,000 people
go.nature.com/4qLTBts
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"We recognized that sometimes [the United State's] signature was written in pencil."
This line will go down in history
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Angie reviews 40 lies told by RFK Jr. during his recent interview on CNN with Dana Bash. Based on Angie's substack column “RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview.” 📺 bit.ly/4z75eyA
Colin Macaulay retweeted
One of the most striking aspects of RFK Jr.‘s recent CNN interview wasn’t any single claim.
It was how he argued.
Throughout the interview, his reasoning often resembled that of a courtroom advocate more than that of a scientist—emphasizing unresolved questions, shifting burdens of proof, and treating scientific uncertainty as grounds for continued suspicion.
That distinction matters.
Science rarely reaches certainty. Instead, it weighs the totality of evidence and continually updates its conclusions as new data emerge.
This thread examines that difference—and why it matters when the person making these arguments leads the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Not a partisan critique.
An evidence-based examination of reasoning, communication, and public health.
🤖 Made with AI
Colin Macaulay retweeted
1/n Watching Kennedy make one false statement after another on @CNNSOTU @DanaBashCNN
1. The U.S. neither had the highest number of Covid deaths (that was India by 4X) nor the highest death rate.
2. The U.S. did have 200,000-300,000 unnecessary deaths among people who refused Covid vaccines
3. It was indeed the governors who issued stay at home orders after ICUs across the country were overwhelmed with sick and dying patients
Colin Macaulay retweeted
SILVER FOR CANADA 🇨🇦
DAMIAN WARNER NEVER QUIT
He fights to the finish in the gruelling 1500m and does enough to secure decathlon silver at the Commonwealth Games.
Colin Macaulay retweeted
This is near Armstrong, Ontario.
When will the Canadian National Railway Company make a statement about this incident?
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Time For Mark Carney To Pull A Doug Ford: Apoligise & REVERSE The Condo Bailout
It's not hard Prime Minister: Just get in front of a microphone & say:
"My Friends, the People have spoken & we are canceling the Condo Purchases, we will still achieve Affordable Housing"
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Colin Macaulay retweeted
The Carney Condo Bailout Fucktastrophe! I Won't Leave This One Alone: It's Just Too WRONG
To quote the Prime Minister: "Builders dont want to sell at a loss"
Doesn't mean the Canadian Taxpayer needs to make sure Developers get full price for their Garbage Units at crazy prices
Colin Macaulay retweeted
Matt Ridley was so mad a science website published a Substack article I wrote a couple months back about the natural origin of the Covid pandemic that he wrote a boring, mostly factually incorrect clapback in response. A quick skim confirmed he remains the intellectual equivalent of a cucumber sandwich & about as spicy & interesting. But he really has been hard at work simping for conspiracy-fueled fascism.
So I made a reaction video on the way home from the nail salon 💅🖕🏻
Come for my petty fashion criticism, stay for my explanation of why I remain unswayed by his arguments.