Dr Rachel Hendrick

Scholarly journal publisher with interest in ethics. Public Health PhD from Edinburgh Uni. 3 sprogs & intermittent runner. Feminist. Views my own.

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

1/2 Covid Twitter is like a macrocosm of my PhD. So much disagreement amongst scientists (who all have their own agendas) regarding best path to follow, with 'evidence' to back it up, which ultimately makes it seem like no one knows what they’re talking about or who to trust…

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

Preaching is not Teaching: new report from the @humanistsociety regarding children’s ability (or lack thereof) to opt out of religious observation (primarily Christian) in schools #religiousobservation #religioninschools #preachingisnotteaching

https://t.co/A6rwjIM6yz

[Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins]

NEW BOOK!!
co-edited with the great Qi Wang:

THE REMAKING OF MEMORY
IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Just published by OUP in US!!

https://t.co/QN6JPFbFit

[Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins]

My last ever lecture at the University of Glasgow!

After 13 years, time to move on.

Edinburgh bound in the new year...

Daughter not interested (yet) in media, war & memory 😇😇

[Prof. Devi Sridhar @devisridhar]

My latest column on making sense of disease & death in Gaza https://t.co/3faAM951vj

[Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins]

Son immersed in immersive #vanGogh

@SECGlasgow

[Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins]

Psychological war is free on Telegram. Record your real horror, upload, and go!

Latest by me in @TheScotsman

https://t.co/KqkQgmzo7z

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@millihill The power of marketing… 🤷‍♀️

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

Pharma industry has a long history of repurposing drugs for ‘medical conditions’ (off-label marketing). Eg dexfenuramine (heart disease drug re-marketed for obesity leading to potentially 100s of deaths). Now we see the same with young teens #CassReport #pubertyblocker #lupron

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

When trans activists claim that the drugs euphemistically called "puberty blockers" are "safe and reversible," they are lying to the public. Even experts who criticize the administration of these drugs to children often say, "there is limited research" regarding long-term effects.

Yes, research on children is limited, and no long-term follow-up research is currently being required in the US. Yet there are plenty of horrifying reports from adults. Women have been given "puberty blocker" Lupron for a variety of issues - including IVF, surrogacy, and early puberty. (Lupron, like all "puberty blocking" drugs, is classified as a GnRH agonist.) The side effects have been horrendous - debilitating pain, early menopause, and brittle bones. Some women have reported their teeth falling out and their jaw bones detaching.

Lupron was developed for the treatment of prostate cancer in men. When it failed to improve the health of dying men, it was pushed onto women, who have been suffering horrendously for decades while being ignored by mainstream media.

A drug developed for terminally ill men, which is also used to castrate convicted male pedophiles, is being given to women and to healthy children. This is a failed, category X cancer drug being repurposed for profit. Lupron is only given to men when they are dying or as a punishment, but the drug is called "life-saving" for children.

By 2019, the US FDA had received over 25,000 adverse event reports for Lupron products including more than 1500 deaths.

This clip is from 2009 and features the investigative reporting of @dspinv13 who has repeatedly tried to bring awareness of this medical scandal. Society at large did not care that this was happening to women, and a result of this medical scandal being neglected is that both women and children are being irreparably harmed.

https://t.co/zkP0odNdiU

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

Incredibly well deserved!!! (Though I’m possibly slightly biased 😅)

[Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins]

Wow! Career high news 🙂

Honoured to have been awarded an
@ERC_Research Advanced Grant!

My 5-YEAR project is:

WARSHARE:
THE NEW WAR FRONT: DIGITAL PARTICIPATION IN WAR

#ERCAdG

Here’s a thread about the project and how I arrived here.

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[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Gaza tonight.

When the skies are lit with terror. Never forget the “civilized nations” that claim to be “peacemakers” governed by “international law” that manufactured this genocide.

Shame.

[William Merrin @william_merrin]

If you really wanted peace then look at Ireland. You have to give up the gun and retribution. Make Palestinian lives liveable, survivable, pleasurable. Give them land, support, the means to exist well. Dismantle settler-ships, stop the sea/air/land controls, build them up.

[IOP Publishing @IOPPublishing]

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with TaskAdept (@CarinaWorkflow), a leader in improving publication ethics by driving forward standards of ethics and data statements with a free online ethics statement generation tool: EthicsGen.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

I wrote about the contrast between the lifetime impact of a disastrous birth and the way in which women in labour - who are the ones who will live with this - are mocked and belittled for wanting any degree of control https://t.co/aMli5jBDau

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@MaynardAlison @VictoriaCoren Thank you x

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@MaynardAlison @VictoriaCoren I hope so! 😓 mine died last year a couple of months before his 75th birthday. I still feel robbed of time with him and am unable to think of him without great sadness.

[Meg St-Esprit @MegStEsprit]

Nearly every interview I’ve done w/moms this week has kids popping in to say hi, moms still in gym clothes and sweaty, calls from cars or closets (me too!), or a pause to make a snack.

Every man I’ve interviewed was in a quiet office space and was not interrupted once.

[RoyalCollegeObsGyn @RCObsGyn]

It is our belief that prosecuting a woman for ending their pregnancy will never be in the public interest. Read our full position here: https://t.co/8Rm5cmWY8s

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@volewriter Girls all in dresses though! Certainly in my primary school in London, it wasn’t until ~mid-80s, when a girl protested, that they finally started letting girls wear trousers. I remember a teacher still commenting on me wearing them in prob 1989…I told her off 🤣

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@VinM2009 @CraigdhuPrimary @JohnMuirTrust I keep hearing about Tango!

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@frankie2001mia True. It’s all hideously outdated and embarrassing. But I’ll personally save my feelings of concern for those children whose parents rely on food banks, etc, than this particular privileged child 😉

[Dr Rachel Hendrick @Rachel_Hendrick]

@frankie2001mia Tbh I’m more concerned about the fact that my 7yo is essentially being taught that this other similarly-aged kid is somehow superior to him, and that he should ‘bend the knee’ to his family.