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Harrison Bott

@hbsci.bsky.social

PhD Student (Precision Medicine) @ University of Glasgow. Made in Brum. Views and musings are my own.

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The Lancet@thelancet.com · 9mo ago

"Encouragingly, 89% of the public viewed scientists as intelligent, 65% thought they were honest, and 65% believed they were working to solve real-world problems." Richard Horton's latest Offline: Is there really a trust crisis in science? tinyurl.com/2x59cw6b

Offline: Is there really a trust crisis in science?

When scientists gather, it is not uncommon for them to lament a decline in the public's trust of science. The examples are well described: anti-vaccination movements, climate scepticism, COVID-19 cons...

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Harrison Bott@hbsci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

After the well attended SAPG Network Event yesterday, I had a silly idea that had to be brought to life. I present to you, a mock-up of a Public Health poster on the topic of setting a default 5 day course for certain antibiotic prescriptions, referencing the evergreen career of Craig David.

A mock-up of a Public Health poster on the topic of antibiotic prescriptions and AMR. The poster references the Craig David song "7 Days" and urges clinicians to consider reducing 7 day prescriptions to 5 days to reduce antibiotic usage.
Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · last yr.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.