Dr. Peter A Singer, OC

On my 5th career: board member, blogger, skier. Before: Professor of Medicine, co-founder @UTJCB & @gchallenges 🇨🇦, Special Advisor to @WHO Director-General

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

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[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

30 years is a long time! Proud to mark this anniversary of @utjcb which has produced more than 500 alumni around the 🌍 #bioethics

[Paulina Tindana @ptindana]

Happy 30th Anniversary, JCB! Here's to many more impactful years ahead!

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

Tantalizing finding 👇🏻

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A new study links GLP-1 drugs and 30-35% reduced incidence of breast cancer, using matched-pair propensity analysis
https://t.co/AjNYlDM3A3
Confirms other association studies but still no proof

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

Celebrating 30 years of University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. More than 500 alumni. Truly a global network.

[Israel in UN/Geneva🇮🇱🇺🇳 @IsraelinGeneva]

A new explosive report by @MedIntegrity shows how @WHO singles out Israeli actions while downplaying abuses by Hamas and other armed groups.

Report: https://t.co/SUeGexYlI2

[Mike Fegelman @MikeFegelman]

🧵One of the defining features of modern anti-Israel advocacy is the systematic removal of context.

The recent letter signed by former Canadian diplomats and senior officials is a perfect example of this phenomenon.

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@MichaelMindrum … and the net fiscal benefit of a well-structured Canadian programme for semaglutide roll out and funding would be $72 billion by 2050 https://t.co/uKZ8uZoPf5

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@jkenney @AviBenlolo Congratulations Jason!

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@RichardGowan1 @UN Good list. But you forgot everyone’s favorite: transformation. How many shots does that get in the drinking game?

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

In my call with Prime Minister @MarkJCarney of Canada, I expressed my deep alarm over the rise in antisemitic violence in Canada. I called on Prime Minister Carney and his government to address the fear and sense of abandonment felt by our sisters and brothers in the Canadian Jewish community before it’s too late.

In our discussion, we agreed that Israel has the right to self-defense. I reiterated that we are acting to protect our people against the threat of terror from Iran and its terror proxies in the region, including Hezbollah in Lebanon. I also underlined the importance of implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2803 in Gaza, including the vital condition that Hamas is disarmed and a new government is established in Gaza.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

People think that the data on antisemitism tells us how bad things are – as if it paints the whole picture. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the data on antisemitism, which major organizations, activists, scholars, and the media often obsess over, really doesn’t scratch the surface.

Every year, we hear about the hate crime statistics. Numbers go up. People express concern. Politicians make statements. And then we move on — as if counting the incidents we can measure tells us something meaningful about the full scope of what Jewish people (and their allies) are experiencing.

It doesn't.

Data captures *reported* things like assaults, vandalism, and egregious verbal statements – so long as they meet some arbitrary threshold. But data doesn't capture the look a Jewish kid gets when someone notices the Star of David around their neck. It doesn't capture the colleague who makes a remark at a dinner that everyone laughs off – but which the Jews at the table will never forget. It doesn't capture the sticker on the bus shelter that ruins your day before it's even started. It doesn't capture what it feels like to walk past a march where thousands of people are chanting slogans that call for the elimination of your homeland — and by extension, you.

It doesn't capture the parent who tells their child not to wear anything Jewish to school anymore. The professor whose classroom has become a place where Jewish identity is treated as something inflammatory. The conversation overheard at a coffee shop, where someone starts explaining why, actually, Hamas had a point. The data doesn’t mention the babysitter who stood in my living room in January 2024, and told me – in front of my family – that “Israel was gifted to the Jews.”

The most painful parts of antisemitism – of what we’re going through – rarely make it into a report. It lives in the spaces between data points — in the silences, the sidelong glances, the casual cruelties that Jews absorb daily and rarely bother discussing, because they've learned that nothing will happen anyway.

The numbers are alarming. The reality is worse.

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@Chikwe_I @WHO @ResolveTSL @DembyAustin @MekdesDaba @FMoHealth @SyriaMissionUN @DrTomFrieden @ChungongStella @WHOSyria @WHONigeria @WHOSierraLeone @WHOEthiopia 7-1-7 is a good measure of emergency preparedness. It would be good to follow this like we follow UHC (except translated into number of people protected).

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

https://t.co/LTkBOQfDsB

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

Less convening. More delivery.
That’s the shift the next WHO Director-General will need to drive. New clip from my podcast with @jocalynclark (BMJ).

[Center for Medical Integrity @MedIntegrity]

After member states line up to condemn Israel at #WHA79; @JNS_org : World Health Organization’s health attack tracker has an Israel problem https://t.co/TfR4vUPgG3 #WHOBias

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@NeilFlochMD @mcuban And it could make $72 b by 2050 for the government https://t.co/uKZ8uZoPf5

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

The next WHO Director-General has to be a ‘polymath’ — a ‘unicorn’ whose combination of skills shouldn’t statistically exist.

That’s what interviewees told @jocalynclark (International Editor at the BMJ).

I think they should be relentlessly focused on results.

New podcast with Jocalyn on the job profile and the May 2027 election.

Trailer below. Full episode
https://t.co/03UcfMcLPx

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

@RichardGowan1 @UN @Hallmark This is very funny. More seriously though: platitudes do have a tendency to displace results

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

The next WHO Director-General has to be a ‘polymath’ — a ‘unicorn’ whose combination of skills shouldn’t statistically exist.

That’s what interviewees told @jocalynclark (International Editor at the BMJ).

I think they should be relentlessly focused on results.

New podcast with Jocalyn on the job profile and the May 2027 election.

Trailer below. Full episode
https://t.co/03UcfMcLPx