Simon Chapman AO
@simonchapman
Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic.
I've just reviewed a detailed historical paper on the history & current status of smoking in submarines. Remarkably, it states that Australia is the only nation which still allows smoking in submarines. Can anyone confirm/refute? (with refs)
How Trump imagines himself (posted on his Truth Social) and how the world sees him
ABC radio news saying that with the restoration of fuel tax from midnight, "the higher prices may take some weeks to be passed on to motorists". In other news, pigs seen flying over the harbour bridge
Last night ABC TV 7pm news bannered a tragic story "preventible death" My phone was not handy. So looked now on iView and see it's been changed. Tried to screen shot what you see below but wouldn't work. Found this. Bizarre!! Who knew? (so here's my phone shot)
ABC Landline tonight: "Most farmers don't need a scientist to tell them that the climate is changing. They can see it for themselves." With rural rise of One Nation & climate change denial, critical to have loud/frequent farmer voices partnering with sciency interviews.
Father who gifted 14yo son with assault rifle who then shot up school given 15yrs. US gun culture is so sick. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
As an author, I often get bot-generated junk from bullshit book clubs in western Nebraska etc offering me to pay for the great privilege of having my books read by non-existent readers. This one takes the biscuit! "Dear Chapman" and my well-known [NOT] book on dogs.
The persecution of Fauci by Trump's McCarthyist goons takes the US to a new nadir of advanced society www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Scientific McCarthyism now gushing from the enabling lab of Trump's madhouse administration.
We've not bought Tasmanian salmon for years in private protest at the disaster of intensive farming. Bought Norwegian instead but last night's stunning ABC Foreign Correspondent has sadly put an end to that too. Watch on iView. Are "wild caught" labels to be believed?
But check this bloke: fully inhabiting the subtext that the AIHW data should be ignored. He has to do this to sustain his “colossal public policy failure” meme, you know, the one that has delivered us record low smoking rates.
AIHW Smoking prevalence data 2022/23 and 2025 (record low). Note particularly the large increase in never smokers. Tobacco control prevents uptake, not just stimulates quitting.
Some grim news for Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Matt Canavan & all the anti renewable sheeple cookers.
Windfarm opponents often make claims about bird deaths. This Canadian report -- the largest study I know -- puts these deaths into perspective. epe.bac-lac.gc.ca/100/201/300/... See table 3
Is there any more lucid, compassionate, humane and compelling advocate for voluntary assisted dying than Andrew Denton Watch him on ABC iView tonight.
No net zero Pauline Hanson to visit a French, Spanish & Canadian inferno fires to assure them there's nothing to see here.
Loved the humour of the NYT's Wordle team with this word on the day tbe world champions of theatrical football diving, Argentina, lost the World Cup final
White Australia nostalgic Bridget McKenzie flies to London as Tweedledum to Hanson's Tweedledee at 2 minute failed UK PM Liz Truss's political losers' event. Back to the future ...
Many were wondering why Kansas City was overlooked as a venue for the #WorldCup Now revealed
Weekend reading sorted with Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan's astonishingly (so far) book on the man who is alienating the world from the USA, threatening world peace, wrecking climate change & public health, and making racism great again ... and that's before he gets out of bed
Pauline, Gina, Barns & Mal... new season starting soon. Contains scenes that may disturb some viewers.
Shameful collapse of new limits on gun ownership framed once again as "stop the wrong people getting guns". Mass shooters at Queen & Hoddle Sts, Strathfield Plaza, Port Arthur, Christchurch, Bondi were all "law abiding gun owners" before they weren't.
All Tesla supercharging cables at Heatherbrae 9n Pacific Highway cut by vandals. Many alternatives within 10km