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Kevin McIntyre

@kevinmci.bsky.social

Postdoc @ RCSI Converge 🇮🇪, PhD from Western University 🇨🇦 in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Research interests in diabetes, chronic illness, global surgery, causal inference, Bayesian stats, evidence synthesis & research methods

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Kevin McIntyre@kevinmci.bsky.social · 2w ago

1. Who broke that good relationship 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 had? 2. Why would we want to make a new deal with 🇺🇸? You already tore up NAFTA & USMCA. Deals with you are written in pencil 3. You say you don't support this trade war but you do nothing with your power as senator to stop it www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News

A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.

cbc.ca

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Because Trump" or the more euphemistic "because the world has changed" is the favourite thought-terminating cliché of Carney supporters. Offer any evidence-based criticism of any Carney policy & you will hear that these unusually dangerous times require it. But he's making us *more* vulnerable. 🧵1/

An image of deplorable Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, with disheartening but all-too-sadly-true text: Mark Carney isn't protecting Canada from Donald Trump. He's making us more vulnerable to Trump. His policies increasingly emulate Trump's.
Michael Coyle@oplopanax.ca · 2mo ago

If Poilievre did this, every liberal in Canada would lose their minds. Instead we get them defending him. Our current prime minister is dismantling our social safety net better than conservative prime ministers ever did.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 2mo ago

Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

Carney: "The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive. On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe. Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."
Kevin McIntyre@kevinmci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Remember when Carney said that the war appears to be incompatible with international law? Right around the time the US killed 120 kids in a school. But now apparently "it's worth it"? What utter moral bankruptcy from PM @mark-carney.bsky.social

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 4mo ago

Donald Trump has managed to accomplish none of his war aims — worse yet, he's financed the new-old Iranian regime for years to come. Why would anyone laud this bumbling insanity? www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is correct Elon Musk’s legacy is >500,000 tiny coffins*—these are coffins of kids in low-income places of the world, so his actions were very fitting with the MAGA/MAHA Administration’s world view (*Brooke Nichols at BU estimates 750,000 deaths by Jan 2026, of which >500k were in kids)

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 5mo ago

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bill Cassidy MD owns the child sickness, suffering & deaths that will result from RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine policies Dr Cassidy cast the deciding vote in the Senate Finance Committee to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Sec—yet he knew full well that RFK Jr is the world’s most extreme, dangerous anti-vaxx activist

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bill Cassidy — who voted to confirm RFK Jr — says his move to roll back vaccine recommendations “will make America sicker.”

As a doctor who treated patients for decades, my top priority is protecting children and families. Multiple children have died or were hospitalized from measles, and South Carolina continues to face a growing outbreak. Two children have died in my state from whooping cough. All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines. The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It's a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 11mo ago

UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status. This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.

Canada is currently experiencing a large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles that began in October 2024 with cases in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. PAHO's Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission reviewed recent epidemiological and laboratory data, confirming sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.
Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Canada budget update: A $2.7bn cut to international assistance over 5 years, or about 10-12% of the budget. Particularly focusing on global health, which is worrying because it's a core Canadian priority Not sure we need a resurgence of polio on top of everything, but what do I know

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What I'm looking for in the Canadian federal budget: Development - Canada's budget for international stuff is complex. There's the International Assistance Envelope, OECD-measured ODA, plus stuff that falls under Canada's own Act. Plus provincial spending. They all overlap

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Other countries are not coming to save scientific research & academia. Maybe to poach a few high-profile scholars. But no one is going to do things at scale to replace 🇺🇸, & most every other rich country is also doing educational austerity. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Jacob Kramer-Duffield@jaykaydee.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are in an era of deadweight loss - this stuff just won't happen. Even a country committed to filling the gap cannot possibly do it by an order of magnitude overnight - they would need to do something like double every year for a decade. And we'd need a lot of countries to do the same.

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD@epiellie.bsky.social · 12mo ago

There are (theoretically) ways to do causal effect estimation with simulated data. This was the topic of my doctoral thesis. But there are many many ways to get it wrong and simply reproduce your starting assumption as if it were a finding.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD@kcklatt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

STAT@statnews.com · 12mo ago

Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more. The entire operation has been eliminated.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD@kcklatt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 12mo ago

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Kevin McIntyre@kevinmci.bsky.social · last yr.

There are more ways of knowing things than just RCTs. Yes randomized trials are a great tool for answering all kinds of questions but they can't be used for everything. Making causal inferences from observational data is a fascinating field at the intersection of philosophy, math & content knowledge

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · last yr.

Friendly reminder that there has never been a randomized, controlled clinical trial of smoking and lung cancer or heart disease or emphysema. And there never will be. I’d like Retsef Levi to explain how it is that we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that smoking causes these conditions?

Demetre Daskalakis@drdemetre.bsky.social · last yr.

Sec Kennedy said he doesn’t know how many people died of COVID in the US. But cites what percentage of world COVID deaths occurred in the US. US deaths divided by worldwide deaths X 100. So either he knows how many people died in the US or doesn’t know percentages.