Your health data is being breached every day through stupidity and ignorance

I am collecting together some data about the larger breaches, but I am seeing evidence that many small breaches of hundreds of patient records happen every single day around the world - a short 🧵 As I collect data on larger breaches, there are two common themes for the cause that I am seeing

The first centres on the fact that senior experience in hospital & Health IT workers has been so eroded that the quite frankly uncompetent staff who remain are not up to the task...

I've been working on a causal Bayesian model to understand Jayaram's role in the Letby prosecution

The hypothesis I'm testing is that Letby murdered Baby K based on the presence or, more correctly, absence of motive & opportunity

Jayaram's evidence is almost entirely unreliable To answer a few of the DMs

1 I call his expertise into question because he is a paediatrician NOT a neonatologist. The lack of neonatology expertise appears to be a BIG issue in this case
2 There was no supporting corroborating evidence. In fact swipe & email evidence refute him

Some of you will have noticed this article in the Guardian today - proclaiming such subjective things as
"opioids put 'millions' at risk"
"1 in 3 taking opioids show 'signs' of dependence"
and
"1 in 8 are 'at risk' of misuse"
It's all hyperbolic nonsense.../1 I am currently about 250 hours into reviewing the sensational and hyperbolic claims that got over-the-counter (OTC) analgesia containing codeine, a low-strength low-dose opioid, rescheduled as prescription only in Australia and NZ. What am I finding?.../

This shows me the prosecutor is either getting bad info or deliberately misleading the jury

At or near term - yes. 7/10 or above is a baby in good condition

In a very premature baby this is not a sign of ANYTHING... I will explain... At birth, and for a short while after, the baby is still under the positive influence of oxygen & nutrients he/she received from the mum. Also at birth the baby, like the mum, secretes adrenaline and other stress hormones to give him/her strength enough to be born...

How Australia and NZ were conned into making Over The Counter (OTC) low-dose codeine analgesics prescription only... a 🧵

Nicholas Buckley, Rose Cairns, J Simon Bell, Suzanne Neilsen, Dan Lubman et al set themselves up as 'academic experts' on opioid drug abuse.../1 While they were working for universities like UNSW and Monash, several of them were also involved in setting up and running such communist funders and 'education' groups as Turning Point. Lubman is director of MARC at Monash and Turning Point who fund much of MARC's work.../2

In the review I am doing of Cheap and Dirty tricks being used in vaccine clinical trial papers, I came across a couple of strange and disturbing things in the latest paper from the staff of the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS).../ First though, a bit of history.

I and a group of researchers that included @profnfenton @MartinNeil9 @ClareCraigPath @jengleruk and others identified some dirty pool and systematic problems with the ONS data on covid deaths and vax efficacy

wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-latest-o…

This week I have enjoyed the fun of someone trying to use cancel culture to silence me. That person, a retired nurse I am told, believes her own unassailable belief in Lucy Letby's guilt should be the only voice heard.../1 She believes that those, like me, who suggest the evidence might lead to other more probable conclusions, should be silenced. And that if she cannot get us silenced from social media and blogging platforms, it is her job to relieve us of our incomes and employment.../2

Given that not enough attention right now is being brought to the truth of EDI/DEI policies and how they create current racism and pretend it is somehow excused by, or a solution to resolving, issues of past racism...

I am going to post a thread. In 2017 the equity & diversity issue that had been creeping into American universities came to a head as a huge battle errupted at Evergreen State College

Evergreen was a liberal college where previously people of all persuasions collaborated towards their collective betterment

@magicmiz @trishgreenhalgh Do you know what Evidence Based Medicine has become over the last 20 years?

Or perhaps how a NICE guideline (the pinacle of EBM) comes into effect?

As someone who has researched exactly these things let me educate you... @magicmiz @trishgreenhalgh NICE decides we need a new guideline on something... lets say Mask Wearing as a surrogate for a medical condition

They go and find a doctor with a presence in that domain - whether it be a popularist (Trish on Twatter) or academic presence (a senior consultant in the field)

I spent yesterday looking into the lie that is "eating meat creates greenhouse gas emissions that are killing the planet"...

This is a short thread on the first day of findings...

Starting with this suspicious diagram from 2016 It isn't easy to spot the first mistake the diagram's creator made in order to fuel the "livestock are killing the planet" and "we all must go vegan and eat fake meats to survive" mantra...

Maybe if I zoom in you can see it?