Mike Francis

Walking is good, coastal walking even better. Enjoying the journey and its many questions. Skeptic, friend of science.

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@MadeStuchbery If one accepts the Victorian kangaroo population estimate of 2.3 million (2022, Source: ARI) as satisfying the ‘plague’ claim, how do we reframe the 3.6 million cattle and 15.4 million sheep being farmed here? (2022, Source: MLA) Surely their abundance is of more significance.

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

What happens to emergency department presentations following this orgy of intoxication and what cost is borne by the taxpayer? ‘The stylish, sunburnt and sozzled punters of the Melbourne Cup’ https://t.co/R6bZhZgSjM

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@agwalker01 @Cabrinihealth A rotten way to have to start the day Tony but your smile in the face of adversity speaks volumes. Thinking of you, my friend and colleague.

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@SciNate Hey Nate, following up the pilot whale stranding story, there is a serious project underway using AI to decipher non-human animal language which might provide another solution in the near future https://t.co/qQi5aFmW4G

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@theproof Doesn’t elevating carnitine create a cascade leading to PERK mediated metabolic dysfunction?

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@theproof It’s odd that people perceive them as not flavorful. Small samples I realise, but there have been some high profile chefs and foodies given blinded taste tests on UK media and either they couldn’t tell the difference or thought that the plant based analogues tasted better.

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@theproof I vaguely remember one of your recent intervees saying that LDL rise was a dose-related threshold WRT saturated fat intake…could that be what you are seeing here?

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@theproof A no-fibre diet with a side of scurvy is bound to stop me from experiencing a decent quality of life.

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@AnimalsAus “Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of suffering.”
~Helen Keller

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@Doc_Samantha What an incredibly succinct and precise appraisal of their function in society.

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@Doc_Samantha Yes, the frequency of advertising is appalling on FTA and online—despite telling @YouTube that they’re inappropriate, they ignore the audience feedback and place them anyway. @YouTube is disgraceful and complicit in the predatory behaviour.

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@Doc_Samantha I’m continually harassed by gambling ads on my YouTube feed. Despite labeling them as inappropriate and YouTube saying “thanks for the feedback” and that it will stop feeding them to me…multiple times…still they come. Shows how serious YouTube/Google is in harm reduction.

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@LKrauss1 Using AI as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to decipher animal language may also reveal more about it. #earthspeciesproject

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@ReclaimAnglesea @tanya_plibersek

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@ReclaimAnglesea The PM needs a close shave with Hitchens Razor: ‘That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.’

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@theproof Great rebuttal Simon.

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@damongameau Let us also forget the ramifications of profligate antibiotic use: a pre-antibiotic age of disease. https://t.co/MNF9CjZ1iT

[Mike Francis @Mike_F_D]

@LKrauss1 And yet he invokes the teachings of St Francis in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, and has taken his name to his office. He is either confused or disingenuous.

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@agwalker01 Perhaps, but that RSr pattern and duration has me worried.

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@ReclaimAnglesea I wonder if @LilyDAmbrosioMP took another look at that proposal for the SW coast drilling and could find similar assurances?