Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Me, leaving a party.

The incidence of cancers in people age <50 keeps increasing, but we keep using the same age >50 as sole factor for mass screening

New today (79% increase over past 3 decades)

https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000049

Reviewed here
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/how-to-upend-cancer-screening

“The worst offender was Nissan, Mozilla said. The carmaker’s privacy policy suggests the manufacturer collects information including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data, though there’s no details about how exactly that data is gathered. Nissan reserves the right to share and sell “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.”

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

"So if you hear that 60% of papers in your field don’t replicate, shouldn't you care a lot about which ones? Why didn't my colleagues and I immediately open up that paper's supplement, click on the 100 links, and check whether any of our most beloved findings died? The answer has to be, “We just didn't think it was an important thing to do.” We heard about the plane crash and we didn't even bother to check the list of casualties. What a damning indictment of our field!"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss

"Here we find, in a clinical cohort of at-risk infants, broad spectrum antibiotic treatment, including cephalosporins, increased the risk of late-onset sepsis in neonates in comparison to penicillin base treatments"
#Preprint #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.04.23295031v1

'In 1961, at the National Congress on Medical Quackery, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pointed out that, along with actual snake oils and other nostrums, bottled seawater was being sold for up to twenty dollars a gallon as a “panacea for virtually all human ailments.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval

'The Irish government is taking legal advice over the possibility of mounting a court challenge to controversial UK legislation expected to be passed at Westminster in the coming days that would offer an amnesty for atrocities committed during Northern Ireland’s three decades-long Troubles conflict.'

https://www.ft.com/content/32acbfb9-75a8-4969-8315-a3e57e10221b

'The UK National Health Service was an early funder of Cochrane and its UK-based groups. Later, the NIHR provided support, mainly paying for support staff to help produce reviews.

So when the NIHR confirmed in August 2021 that it would stop funding all the UK-based review groups, the news came as a shock'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02741-z

'Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels'

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/04/england-crumbling-schools-rishi-sunak-repairs-civil-servant

'Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/

"Research thrives on freedom, diversity and collaboration. We oppose nationalistic forces that endanger free science, an open society and international cooperation."
– Patrick Cramer, MPG president
[my translation]

@cyrilpedia
not w/o mentioning this detail

Not that surprising, but there's also #fosfomycin #resistance spreading around the world. Here in #Salmonella

#AMR #microbiology #medicine #infectiousdiseases #MedMastodon
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00261-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email