Portsmouth Skeptics - Pompey SitP

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Third of Reform UK’s council leaders have expressed vaccine-sceptic views Health minister decries criticism of vaccinations by heads of four authorities as ‘dangerous and utterly irresponsible’

Trying to keep politics out of this page but when RFK makes a public pronouncement that sounds highly suspect there is a reason for that…

Why on earth is RFK Jr spreading total nonsense about şpęrm counts of teen boys, circumcision, puberty in girls, etc!? 😱 Can you imagine the IRB committee's response to a research proposal like this!? 😳 "We just want to check şpęrm counts of teen boys. We'll get parental consent to ask them to 💦 into cups, so we can check their fertility." NOPE 🚫👎🙅‍♀️⛔️ There was one study I found that did do şpęrm counts for adolescents, but it was to look at the impact of varicoceles, which can affect fertility, and they only had 50-something participants, which is high considering the logistics of such a study! Definitely no big studies looking at overall counts for "average teenagers"!! And "puberty" isn't one event, so the endpoint that can be measured is age of menarche or 1st period. The mean age of menarche (MAM) HAS decreased over the last 100+ years, BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD, not just the US, largely because of better nutrition and overall health! And the decrease was 2-4 years over 100+ years. In the US, the MAM decreased by *6 MONTHS* from the 1950's to early 2000's, NOT 6 years! 🤔 Further decreases in age over time may be related to higher rates of childhood obesity, etc, so it's worth investigating. But that doesn't mean making up crazy false statistics to drive conspiracy theories! 🤬 Those of us who are on social media for health education and science communication will keep on calling out RFK Jr's misinformation, because we still believe in rigorous, data-driven health recommendations! We all deserve that. We wouldn't let people make 💩 up about how planes work and how to safely fly them! Why would we let someone lead our healthcare system and dismantle public health who doesn't understand basic health or research principles!? 😩 References: Wang Z, Asokan G, Onnela J, et al. Menarche and Time to Cycle Regularity Among Individuals Born Between 1950 and 2005 in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(5):e2412854. Leone T, Brown LJ. Timing and determinants of age at menarche in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Dec;5(12):e003689.

Considering the prominence in yesterday’s news of the Paloma Shemirani case at the Maidstone coroners court you may find the latest episode of the excellent Mariana in Consouracyland podcast of interest discussing how her mother, a prominent anti-vaxxer, influenced her to refuse chemotherapy for her non-Hodgkin lymphoma

6. The Inquest Podcast Episode · Marianna in Conspiracyland · S7 E6 · 30m

This looks as if it could be of interest

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The History of Witchcraft and Women Explore early modern witchcraft in a new light and its ties to feminist and political movements throughout history. Followed by Q&A.

Just a reminder for the American administration that correlation does not imply causation…

*laughs nervously

Argument settled, no further debate required - globers lost!

Could explain a lot…

At Portsmouth SitP we are non-political however a local MP has a petition going to ban the evils of gay conversion therapy which is an ideal that SitP wholeheartedly endorses so we ask that you consider taking a look:

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