Michelle Cohen
@docmcohen
rural Ontario family doc | writer | Family Medicine @queensuhealth.bsky.social | she/her Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine.
TIL that when you call out antisemitism you're actually doing an antisemitism. The Uno Reverso of bigotry.
"We know more about COVID vaccines than scientists and doctors do." - people who don't know what side of the body the heart is on.
The story is just the boy who cried wolf but it's a doctor calling code blues for attention. Then the doctor files a complaint but is the one who gets disciplined instead. The doctor then realizes that they're actually the bad guy. But don't worry! It's FICTION! Any similarity is mere coincidence!
In the days since @shree-paradkar.bsky.social's article about Dr Kavita Algu resigning from Mount Sinai because of pro-Palestinian advocacy, the main antagonist in the piece has chosen to subtweet and insult. Now he's written an demeaning "fable" about the colleague he harrassed (see next post).
Conservative MP Matt Strauss should be familiar enough with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms not to confuse it with American legislation. This is embarrassing.
Lowry is tired of everyone's bullshit and is going to hang out here for a while until the world starts to make more sense.
Hey anonymous internet people, I'd like to start taking an experimental hormone with vaguely defined benefits. I know I could self-experiment by ordering from a random website, but I'd rather pay an unethical grifter to spin lies to me first before I inject myself with a mystery substance. Any tips?
I do admire Makis's ability to make it about him. He's still piggybacking onto Mel Gibson's promotion of ivermection on JRE. His claim is hard to disprove but also pretty unethical for a doctor to make - but he's not a doctor so... Now he's taking credit for Florida's medical research grants. 🙄
Public health failures are major profit opportunities for the grifters who made their names as COVID denialists.
Antiparasitics as quack cancer therapy have boomed since Mel Gibson hyped them to Joe Rogan in Jan 2025. Cancer pseudoscience often follows cultural and political trends, which we see with William Makis using COVID's hottest heterodox drug to build a $$$ cancer grift. More from me on this soon.
Yes think of all those diseases that we haven't tried "today's stack" on yet
FB has dozens of fake William Makis pages (like this one) that reproduce his content or just post slop for clicks. An unknown number of pages are also running scams where ppl pay for ivermectin that never arrives. The potential size of this scam is alarming. It's such an easy online grift to run.
Perfectly timed to coincide with rising distrust of the tetanus vaccine, this horrible Canadian org (responsible for a ton of COVID disinfo) is campaigning for children to get sick with tetanus.
Not just an incredibly stupid and racist idea from Canada's most annoying political nepo baby... But also an idea that Conservative MP Matt Strauss wants to promote.
The maple leaf and all flag-based Canadiana is Hamas now. We are a serious country and our media prints responsible stories about antisemitism and not inflammatory garbage.
Ack - here I was having a semi-productive day of working from home, and then my lovely editor unexpectedly sends me page proofs before I was anticipating them. Now I'm completely distracted! It looks amazing to see this work in book form. Rest of day goals are shot.