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AI and Public Healthcare

What can possibly go wrong?

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson- The Government’s Obsession with Artificial Intelligence and Tech

Streeting has framed the NHS as under enormous pressure from chronic waiting lists, staff shortages and outdated systems, saying the service is “broken” and needs reform alongside investment. Introducing AI and digital technology is a key part of his efforts to transform the NHS into a more digital, modern, and efficient system.

Institutional Anti-Semitism

National Post- British police aided anti-Semites by fabricating evidence to ban Jewish soccer fans

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned from attending a game against Aston Villa last November because of “evidence” from West Midlands Police that the Jewish supporters could cause trouble.

But this week, at a parliamentary committee, it was revealed that the opposite was true. Police had evidence that armed “vigilante groups” from the local community in Birmingham were out to get the Jewish fans.

Put Down The Cookie

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson- Weight-Loss Drugs and the Quiet Medicalisation of Everyday Life

A profound shift in how society understands body weight is occuring. Excess weight is no longer seen as the predictable outcome of ultra-processed food, sedentary work, and inequality, but as a pharmacological deficit requiring lifelong correction.

A medication that must be taken indefinitely to maintain its effect is not a public-health triumph; it is a subscription model.

Pants on Fire

Blacklock’s- Cuts Are Five Percent, Not 10

Federal agencies yesterday outlined payroll cuts that were half the 10 percent stated by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Budget Office had sought the figure for months.

“There is a lack of detail regarding the impact on individual programs within each organization including the reduction in personnel and potential service level impacts,” said a Budget Office report. “It is unclear if or when the government plans to publish this information or how it will report on the progress and results of the exercise.”

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