Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

Medical statistician. Foodie. Gardener. Cebollista. Political views: reality-based.

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2025-10-16 09:46:47 UTC

"A major legal claim has been filed in the UK against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing the firm of knowingly selling baby powder contaminated with asbestos"
Only allegations at this stage, we need to wait until the evidence is tested in court.
But if the evidence does stand up in court, I really hope that individual J&J executives will face criminal charges. Really not adequate just to fine the company.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c797wv928g8o

2025-10-07 08:54:07 UTC

I'll tell you what's un-British, Keir:
Supporting genocide.
I don't care how many Union Jacks you hang behind you when you support it. It's still un-British.
Protesting against genocide, however, that seems to me a pretty British thing to do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgx5v90vyo
#Starmer #Protests #Genocide

2025-09-03 09:03:04 UTC

It's a bit rich for Starmer to criticise the police for arresting someone over a tweet. Never forget that the #TwitterJokeTrial continued long beyond the point where any common sense view would have told you the case should have been dropped at the personal insistence of Starmer back when he was DPP.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/graham-lineham-arrest-starmer-police-b2819031.html
#Hypocrisy #Starmer

2025-09-02 06:58:05 UTC

The most shocking thing for me in Starmer's interview was when he unhesitatingly and unambiguously said that he would be unhappy and wouldn't feel safe if he had an asylum hotel on his street.
How TF did we get to a place where a Labour Prime Minister is promoting the narrative that all asylum seekers are dangerous criminals?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jpj8knvn8o
#Starmer #Racism #Asylum #UKPolitics

2025-08-20 10:19:27 UTC

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I like it too. Where can I vote for it?

2025-08-12 17:05:01 UTC

If someone invented a time machine and transported Yvette Cooper back to 1912 and managed to keep her job as Home Secretary, she would have proscribed the Suffragettes as a terrorist organisation.
And then women wouldn't have got the vote or been allowed to stand for Parliament and then Cooper would never have been Home Secretary in the first place and OMG IT'S A PARADOX.
Gosh, time travel is complicated, isn't it?
#YvetteCooper #TimeTravel #PalestineAction #Suffragettes

2025-08-07 09:56:37 UTC

Dear journalists, please stop describing RFK as a "vaccine sceptic".
There is nothing wrong with being sceptical, but RFK is not a vaccine sceptic, he is an anti-vaxxer.
Huge difference.
See also: "climate sceptic"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo
#RFK #RFKJR #Vaccines #Antivaxxer

2024-12-12 18:20:33 UTC

Wait, is Florida about to unwittingly ban all fossil fuel use?
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-bill-ban-weather-modification-chemtrails-conspiracy-theory-1994060
#ClimateChange #Chemtrails #BatshitConspiracyTheories

2024-12-01 13:49:55 UTC

Setting out "measurable milestones" could be a good thing, provided 4 conditions are met:
1. The milestones are actually measurable
2. The milestones are meaningful
3. The milestones are of non-evil intent
4. They actually meet them (or at least most of them)
Some big ifs there, but if they do those things, then I will be fully prepared to acknowledge that the Red Tories are better than the Blue Tories
#Starmer #Labour #UKPolitics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxrxqdkwqqo

2024-11-29 08:54:03 UTC

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I don't know, I have some sympathy with that. There is going to be a debate in Parliament today: that would be a pointless exercise if no MPs were open to the possibility that listening to the debate would change their mind.
(Of course that's usually what happens with debates in Parliament, but as this one is a free vote, perhaps it will be different)

2024-11-28 12:19:54 UTC

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4. In other countries that have legalised assisted dying, many people are ending their life that way.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing? That says to me that there is a demand for assisted dying, and many people will be able to control their own death in the way that they want.
If you're worried that some of those people may have been coerced into it, then see point 2.

2024-11-28 12:15:37 UTC

Arguments you will hear MPs make against voting for the assisted dying bill tomorrow:
1. It's a slippery slope
That's a logical fallacy. They're not voting on what may or may not happen 10 years from now, they're voting on the current bill. If someone tries to amend it later, they'll get another vote.
#AssistedDying #AssistedDyingBill

2024-11-22 12:35:25 UTC

Starmer has his faults, but he's not an idiot.
He must surely know that his "smash the gangs" plan to stop small boat crossings can never succeed.
And yet he continues to tell the media that it will.
Just think about that for a minute.
#Starmer #SmallBoats #Asylum
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn8gkggr20dt?post=asset%3A8a8be53f-d5ea-4362-9d82-4bcfdb7b7639#post

2024-11-15 09:34:59 UTC

Dear media, please stop referring to RFK Jr as a "vaccine sceptic". That's just as bogus a label as a "climate sceptic".
He is an ant-vaxxer.
Vaccine aceptics want to see the evidence before accepting that vaccines are safe and effective, which is an entirely reasonable position.
Anti-vaxxers see the evidence that vaccines are safe and effective but choose to ignore it.
Big difference.
#Trump #RFK #AntiVax
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0lp93494g9t

2024-11-12 13:53:08 UTC

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Thanks. My device isn't on that list (it's an Xperia X Compact). Does that mean I'm not going to be able to use Lineage OS?

2024-11-04 17:22:18 UTC

Ah, more "tough decisions" I see, which again are not remotely tough for the rich and powerful.
Just like all the other "tough decisions".
#TuitionFees
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0qdgndz5wzt

2024-10-15 09:06:56 UTC

"Unemployed could get weight loss jabs to return to work"
This is a bizarre policy. So many questions.
Does it mean that unemployed people will be given preferential access to the drug, so for example of 2 people with the same BMI and risk factors, but one working and one unemployed, only the unemployed one will be eligible for treatment?
Is that fair?
And will unemployed people have their benefits sanctioned if they don't want to take it?
#Obesity #Ozempic #Wegovy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd54zd0ezjo

2024-10-10 15:53:49 UTC

Just Italy and Ireland?
Come on, other countries, it should not be that hard to condemn attacks on UN peacekeepers.
#Israel #Lebanon #IsraelLebanonWar #UNIFIL #WarCrimes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr54lyg2j8zt?post=asset%3A81ddb661-05cf-4988-af4d-15fed4666276#post

2024-09-16 12:48:21 UTC

In case anyone is wondering which direction UK interest rates are moving in, I got 2 letters from my bank today that shed some light on the issue.
The first one said that they're reducing the interest rate on my savings account.
The second one said that they're increasing the interest rate on my credit card account.
So I think the clear conclusion is that interest rates are going in whichever direction makes more money for the bank.
#UKEconomy #InterestRates #Banks

2024-09-10 09:43:57 UTC

Hurrah!
I have managed to make an appointment for my autumn covid booster.
Have to wait another month for it as they don't have the vaccines in stock yet, but I'm hoping that means they'll have nice up-to-date ones with reasonable efficacy against current strains.
I'm not old enough to get a free one, so I'm grateful that my employer will pay for my jab. But it bothers me greatly that the cost will put many people off getting protected.
#Covid19 #AutumnBooster #CovidIsNotOver