🤐 Si je dis qu'un milliardaire organisait un réseau pédocriminel avec des présidents et des princes, je suis complotiste ou journaliste ?

Epstein, Snowden, fuite du laboratoire de Wuhan, shadowban sur Twitter : toutes ces affaires ont été traitées comme des "théories du complot" avant de devenir des faits documentés.

Dans ma nouvelle tribune pour Veillemag, je décortique cette expression devenue arme de disqualification massive. Avec Huyghe, Revel, et... un pangolin.

Et vous, plutôt complotiste ou "théorieducomplotiste" ?

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gNKJhzBH

(cc Nicolas MOINET Jacqueline Sala IAE de Poitiers Christian Marcon Damien Liccia Valentin Fontan-Moret CR451 - Centre de Recherche 451 Axelle DEGANS Fabrice Epelboin Franck DeCloquement Gérald A. Pierre-Guive Yazdani)

#ThéorieDuComplot #EspritCritique #Désinformation

If it's posted on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok it must be true!

A mental health nurse highlighted that social media has created a surge in demand for services in autism and ADHD.

Why do some people think that a child’s risk of dying with measles is only 1 in 106 million? https://lnkd.in/gcudN9nd

​The 15-Month Drop-Off: Addressing Health Literacy and Reminder Gaps in Bangladesh’s MR Vaccination Schedule

​​On my busy night shift at the triage and emergency of the country's largest measles-dedicated facility, I have seen only 2 patients out of 53 who received their vaccines properly according to the EPI schedule. As a frontline clinician battling measles in pediatric patients, this hurts my heart as a mother. It shows how ignorance and a lack of care regarding vaccination have led our children to this immense suffering.


​When I think about the reason why we are here today, I feel the real problem is not only shortage of vaccines, but also the major drop-off in parents completing the EPI schedule,especially when it comes to the final two doses at 9 and 15 months, which are actually the MR vaccines for Measles and Rubella.


​Why Caregivers are Missing the 15-Month Mark?

​When analyzing the patients in our measles ward, it is clearly visible that parents are simply not aware of the different diseases their children are being vaccinated against. They routinely take the first few vaccines up to 6 months of age, but they do not place the same emphasis on getting the last doses at 9 and 15 months.
​Because they have taken a few vaccines within 6 months, many parents think they have already given "enough" vaccines. They assume it is not that important to take all of them or finish the last ones. They are completely unaware of what vaccines they have taken so far and which ones are left.


​The Strategy: Better Counseling and Automated Reminders

​Given this scenario, I believe we can significantly raise the compliance rate by implementing two targeted strategies:

1.​Comprehensive Counseling from Day One:
If parents were properly counseled on the very first vaccination day about the full 15 months immunization journey, the compliance rate would rise. They need to be explicitly told the names of the diseases, the total number of vaccines required, and the severe complications that can occur if they do not vaccinate their children.

2.​Digitalized Vaccine Reminders:
We must digitalize the vaccination program to arrange automatic reminders. By tracking the child's date of birth or logging data from the vaccination center where the last vaccine was given, the system could automatically remind the parents every time a vaccination date is near. This simple step would create a huge rise in adherence rates.

Global vaccine development.

Abstract
Since the inception of the World Health Organization (WHO) Extended Programme on Immunization in 1974, vaccines have saved the lives of approximately 150 million children, and they continue to save 2–5 million lives each year, according to WHO estimates. The consensus around the benefit and funding of childhood vaccination in low- and middle-income countries has unraveled, and the hard-won gains of the past quarter century are at risk. At the same time, in some high-income countries, vaccine hesitancy—sometimes enabled by government policy pronouncements—has led to reductions in vaccination, resulting in outbreaks of measles in countries that had eliminated this disease. Despite these setbacks, advances in vaccine platform technologies, new immunogens, and new and expanding target populations have the potential to extend the direct and indirect effects of vaccination across the life course. In this Perspective, we discuss how each of these advances could shape the future vaccine landscape. We also highlight cross-cutting issues, including those related to equity, manufacturing, funding and vaccine hesitancy, which make successful implementation more complex.

https://lnkd.in/e38Spimq

Doctors: Do you oppose vaccine mandates? Join us in safeguarding informed consent in vaccination! Become a Champion Member and connect with your colleagues. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gWJPJwUN

#PICPhysicians #Physicians4InformedConsent #1stDoNoHarm #Vaccines #Vaccination #InformedConsent #Science #Statistics

Doctors, lawmakers, and other advocates are joining forces to promote recommended childhood vaccines.

❓ "Fake news" : un terme commode... mais trop vague pour être vraiment utile.

C'est l'un des premiers arguments de Richard Monvoisin dans son essai "Peut-on déjouer les fake news ?" aux éditions Alt (Éditions de la Martinière).

En quelques pages, il décortique, conseille et fait réfléchir... le tout avec beaucoup d'humour.

🧠 Comment aiguiser son esprit critique face à la désinformation ?

📗 Une lecture accessible et stimulante pour mieux comprendre ces enjeux.

💡 D'autres ressources sont à retrouver sur defacto-observatoire.fr, rubrique Désinfopédia.

👉 Et vous, avez-vous déjà lu cet ouvrage ?

How can public health compete with misinformation?

That’s the question Professor Matt Motta and I explored through our latest Boston University School of Public Health project: testing an influencer-based strategy to counter weight loss supplement misinformation on social media.

Thanks to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication and its Health Content Creator Program, we recruited 7 diverse creators with a combined reach of nearly 2 million followers. We provided creators with an evidence-based digital toolkit and gave them full creative freedom to deliver science-informed content in their own voice. The result? More accurate, engaging health messages that reached audiences public health often misses.

Key takeaways:
- Social media can be a credible public health tool when we work with creators, not against platforms.
- Messages shifted: <1% of content mentioned the lack of FDA approval for supplements before our intervention. Afterward? Nearly 90%.
- Mentions of serious risks (liver, cardiovascular damage) went from zero to frequent.
- The model is scalable and adaptable across health misinformation domains, whether for mental health, climate-related threats, or food production and policy.

We break it down in our Boston Globe Media op-ed here: https://lnkd.in/eNA9Tk3F

Many thanks to our BUSPH team Willa R. and Selenne Alatorre, MPH; Dean ad interim Michael Stein for supporting the Dean's Innovation Challenge that funded this pilot; our Harvard CHC collaborators Amanda Yarnell, Elissa Scherer, Kate Fisher, and our amazing content creators who brought this work to life.

Let’s keep reimagining what public health communication can look like.

#PublicHealth #HealthCommunication #Misinformation #ScienceCommunication

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released the FDA analysis on pediatric deaths tied to COVID shots that was touted by former FDA leadership but never made public.

Last November, former Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, issued a memo to staff claiming that at least 10 children died due to a COVID shot.

But the number in the analysis is lower, and there's much less certainty about the links between the vaccines and the deaths.

Read more at: https://lnkd.in/eFbJvKj2

In Malawi, a polio outbreak has pushed families and health workers into urgent action, with vaccination teams working to stop the virus from spreading further.

Read how communities are mobilising to protect children through vaccination: https://bit.ly/3Pvw2Xm

Bravo in trying to blame the COVID vaccine for healthcare issues Clapton reported in 2016, which he directly linked to alcohol abuse and drugs. React19 totally discredits itself. But the real question is the following: does @react19 has any credibility at all ? None… And here is another proof
https://lnkd.in/gxB_9b5d

Viral Conspiracies.

I woke up this morning to news that I could not file under someone else's problem. The Zambian government withdrew support for and effectively canceled RightsCon days before it was due to open in Lusaka, with more than 5,000 participants already en route.

RightsCon is the world's largest gathering on human rights and technology, with a strong SRHR program this year covering censorship of reproductive health content, surveillance of people seeking abortion care, and disinformation targeting trans health.

The cancellation landed in a country where same-sex activity remains criminalized and SRHR information is already severely constrained. The reason given: "full alignment with Zambia's national values." The government did not need to say more.

My reaction was not to file this under digital rights. It made me think about the language circulating around health information in global health right now.

"Misinformation management." "Information integrity." "Quality health information." These terms are in our toolkits, trainings, and funding proposals. They all share the same assumption: institutions define what counts as accurate or trustworthy, and communities receive it. Institutions find that assumption very useful.

I wrote more in the linked article about what these framings miss, why the Zambia story is relevant to all health professionals, and what this language means for our work. | 12 comments on LinkedIn

"From the Black Death to Ebola, disease control has been used to sort people by race and nationality. The pattern is centuries old, and it is happening again.
Dr. Céline Gounder"

In Heraklion, I met a taxi driver who reminded me what health literacy truly feels like. Not in a hospital.

As the world saw with Covid-19, the only thing that spreads faster than a virus is misinformation, and hantavirus is no exception.

Despite only a few confirmed cases, conspiracy theories have swirled on social media, falsely claiming hantavirus is a planned pandemic, or a ploy to disrupt the US midterm elections.

Others allege it's a "bioweapon" created by big pharma to "poison" people or even that it's a side effect of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️seeking #vaccination information and resources to support conversations with community members who have questions about:

🤰 vaccinating against disease during pregnancy, and in the first few months after birth.

🧒 diseases that can cause harm to adolescents before and after they reach adulthood and the vaccines recommended to protect them.

🤔 vaccine safety, common reactions, risks and benefits

#SKAI aims to support conversations between community members and healthcare professionals. It makes evidence-based information easier to access, and provides respectful and helpful answers to common questions about vaccination.

https://lnkd.in/eXsqvZMS

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LinkedIn has been hijacked by anti-science and anti-vaxxers. And such is unacceptable, and intolerable. The science here is sound, the publication of high scientific quality, and the data is clear. And the post is a direct quote from the paper itself. 359 individuals have seen this posts with only positive reactions from 13 individuals. The CIDRAP analysis is clear in its results: COVID has not killed dying elderly individuals, it ripped 28% of those of 5 years of life during the first 2.5 years of the COVID crisis. It is not because the CDC/FDA/ RFK Jr anti-COVID mindset has stopped the publication of a paper that has demonstrated the efficacy of the COVID vaccine, that we should deny this reality. And LinkedIn should not be polluted by those anti-science and anti-vaxxers that LinkedIn should removed posts about the efficacy of COVID vaccines. Doing so is unscientific, inaccurate, unacceptable, unethical, and criminally negligent. This post must be seen for what it is: the truth on COVID vaccines, whether anti-vaxxers like it or not. LinkedIn’s policy is that posting against the efficacy of vaccines is not permitted. But posting the truth on such is…. That LinkedIn tolerates the lies of McCullough Foundation, Children's Health Defense, Physicians for Informed Consent around vaccines is already going against their own policy. But to remove posts sound in science and with solid references is not what their policy is all about.

In this interview with Dr Peter McCullough, MD, MPH I reflected on the enormous risk that a doctor takes by challenging the prevailing narrative (link to full interview in comments).

The consequences extend far beyond losing a job, it can mean being unable to practice in the very profession where your expertise was built.

That’s why, in this context, the science must be perfect, if censorship occurs.

The personal, professional, and financial costs of being wrong are simply too great to ignore.

#covid #medicine #research | 49 comments on LinkedIn

David Higgins, MD, MPH, pediatrician, preventive medicine specialist, and advocate for vaccine confidence —  joins the latest episode of FACTSinnated for an important conversation about adolescent health, preventive care, and building trust through evidence-based communication.

From navigating misinformation online to supporting teens during healthcare decisions, this episode explores how families, providers, and communities can work together to protect youth health.

Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gPr7R6Mg

#Teens #TeenHealth #Vaccines #HealthPodcast

📊 How easy is it to manufacture a viral medical crisis?

A widespread online database claims that hundreds of healthy, young athletes are collapsing and dying due to COVID-19 vaccines. But when you look at the actual data, the entire narrative collapses.

In our latest deep dive, we break down the 5 ways this dataset was systematically fabricated—including the co-opting of tragic youth suicides, padding numbers with senior citizens in their 60s, and comparing a single country's historical data against modern global reports to skew results by over 26x.

Read the full data analysis and fact-check here: 👇 https://lnkd.in/gmzwADza

#DataIntegrity #FactCheck #PublicHealth #MedicalScience #TechARP | 14 comments on LinkedIn