Infectious Diseases Physician and Epidemiologist. Professor of Population and Public Health. Opinions my own.

Joined January 2014
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David Patrick retweeted
a standing ovation for daraxonrasib at asco. over 40k oncologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and patient advocates together celebrating revmed's breakthru in the fight against pancreatic cancer. u never forget these moments. it's what innovation is all about.
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PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pa…
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JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible
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These astronauts are just a balm: impossibly cheery, down to earth, committed, decent. They are clearly extraordinary people, and yet reassuringly normal. At a time when the news is dominated by people who are either cruel or corrupt or insane or incompetent or all of the above, they remind us not all is lost.
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The U.S. has a Buy American Act baked into law… but Canadians buying Canadian products is “unfair”? You don’t get to write the rules and cry when we play the same game. 🇨🇦 Buy Canadian first.
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David Patrick retweeted
STUNNING🚨: Artemis II crew captured a stunning image of Earth this morning from 41,000 miles away. The first time since 1972 that humans have seen a crescent Earth in full.
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David Patrick retweeted
You know what HASN'T been tested in randomised, placebo controlled trials? All those supplements they try and sell you
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Approved.
Trump: You don’t have the cards Zelenskyy: I’m playing chess ♟️
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UBC has ranked in the top 30 among the world's top universities across all five broad subject areas of the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026: 18th in Social Sciences & Management 22nd (tied) in Natural Sciences 23rd in Arts & Humanities 25th in Life Sciences & Medicine 29th (tied) in Engineering & Technology Learn more: bit.ly/4iq7SXw
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David Patrick retweeted
Hear, hear !
Rowan Atkinson is right.
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Four years ago today, in just a few hours, I will wake to the sound of explosions. My boss will call, telling me to report to my post. I remember standing by the window, finishing a cup of coffee in the dark. I hadn’t checked the news yet, but I didn’t need to. I could feel it in the air, an invisible fracture. The life I knew was already gone, it just hadn’t vanished completely yet. I hurried to the bus stop, hoping to reach the metro faster. Even at that hour, a few elderly women were already there, settled into their usual routines. We all boarded the bus together. They looked out at the chaos growing in the streets, then turned to me with confused, searching eyes. “Why is everyone rushing?” they asked. “What is happening?” I looked away, staring through the glass at the stream of cars surging past us, fleeing in an unknown direction. I didn’t know how to tell them. I didn’t know if there were even words for a moment like this. Finally, I turned back to face them. My voice was steady and calm. “I’m so sorry,” I said quietly. “The war has begun.” The bus kept moving, carrying us all away from a life we would never know again…
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Cartoon
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David Patrick retweeted
It’s time to stop calling it misinformation and call it what it really is: propaganda designed to destabilize confidence in evidence-based decision-making. The tactic isn’t to win the argument - it is to make the public doubt whether arguments can be settled by evidence at all.
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David Patrick retweeted
You can ignore the science, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring the science.
Wow, this chart is simply unreal. How is this even possible in a developed country in the twenty-first century?
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A useful tool in any discussion is to ask one question: What evidence would change your mind? If the answer is “none,” it’s a signal to pause. At that point, the exchange is no longer about evaluating evidence, but about reinforcing a fixed belief. When no observation could ever change a position, you’re not debating facts - you’re engaging with a belief system.
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Martin, with precisely zero provocation, Trump said a year ago that he intended to “annex Canada” and make it the 51st state by applying “economic pressure;” - He imposed lifted, increased, decreased, re-imposed and repeatedly threatened tariffs on everything imported from Canada, in gross violation of the CUSMA agreement that he signed, calling it “the greatest trade agreement in history;” - He initially did so on the entirely specious grounds that Canada was a major source of fentanyl imports and illegal migration to the US, both claims completely contradicted by data, and US law enforcement agencies. The claims were so ridiculous - even for Trump - that he has not repeated them for the past ten months; - He has repeatedly said the US needs “nothing” from Canada, specifically mentioning our energy - He continues to maintain crippling sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and certain auto components in violation of CUSMA, tariffs that are costing the Canadian economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs; - Senior Administration officials (Greer, Lutnick et al) have been intimating for months that CUSMA will not be renewed; - Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canada-US border as “imaginary” and “fake.” - His insults and provocations are too many to list, but just in the last week he has said that Canada has been “completely taken over by China” because of a discrete tariff agreement requested by western provinces and initially *endorsed by Trump*; and insulted the honour and memory of our troops, claiming that they “stayed a little back from the front lines” in Afghanistan. Given all of that and more, you blame the Prime Minister of Canada for CUSMA being in jeopardy? WTH? After a year of this, how can we still have some Canadians blaming Canada for Trump taking a wrecking ball to the relationship? Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Carney has exercised remarkable restraint. What would satisfy you? Grovelling subservience? Giving the US total control over our trade relations with the rest of the world? We Canadians can and should debate the most prudent way to deal with the completely unpredictable and destabilizing threat from Trump. (I, for one, don’t support the recent deal with China.) But surely no reasonable person can conclude that Canada provoked or is any meaningful way to blame for this crisis.
USMCA is toast this June. Carney just pissed off our largest trading partner ahead of negotiations. Let’s hope he gets his majority soon so he can back off.
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For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/
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Remarkable. Agree that this is about the best thing accessed through the internet these days.
holy sh*t. this is hands down the coolest website i have ever found in my life. it's a live feed of the freaking Hubble Telescope AND James Webb Space Telescope. and the resolution is honestly so incredible i didn't think it was real. unbelievable. spacetelescopelive.org/
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