Martin Jadersten

MD PhD, Karolinska University Hospital, Dpt of Hematology. Translational researcher in AML and MDS

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@DSuhonen @strandhall @AndersBorg @moderaterna Sverige riskerar att försämra den unika start up möjligheten som bidragit till att vi klarat oss skapligt ekonomiskt trots massivt migrationstryck. Om ekonomin försämras ökar spänningarna i samhället; der blir en krutdurk.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

Vilken hjälte! Var med under attacken, först att larma 112, vände tillbaka med epan och räddade en skadad https://t.co/noemMAqSWd

[Mats Ekberg @EkbergMats1]

Detta är årets viktigaste ledare.
Klaner o kriminella släkter kryper sakta men säkert in i våra myndigheter, ekonomiskt institutioner o politiska partier.
Senast i Botkyrka.
Ansvaret för detta har S, V o MP. Med en historisk dålig justitieminister.
https://t.co/eSvojV2GEo

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

We think the collapse in birth rates is a modern problem. It is not. The most powerful man in the world once faced the exact same thing, and he was so alarmed he passed laws to force his people to have children.

This was not a modern government: it was Rome 2000 years ago...

The emperor was Augustus, and by his reign the Roman elite had grown wealthy, comfortable, and reluctant to marry or raise families. Men preferred bachelorhood and affairs to the burden of a wife and children.

Augustus found it alarming enough to legislate. Around 18 BC and again in AD 9, he pushed through the Lex Julia and the Lex Papia Poppaea, a sweeping set of laws designed to engineer a baby boom by decree.

The measures were direct: unmarried men and childless couples faced penalties on what they could inherit. Those who married and had children were rewarded with faster careers and public honors. Women who bore three or more children were granted a special legal freedom, the ius trium liberorum, the "right of three children," releasing them from male guardianship.

The state was, quite literally, paying its citizens to reproduce and fining them when they did not.

It didn't work...

The laws were resented, evaded, and endlessly tinkered with, and Rome's elite went on having small families anyway. The historian Cassius Dio records Augustus standing before the childless men of Rome and shaming them to their faces: "You are committing murder in not begetting in the first place those who ought to be your descendants." A city, he warned them, is not its buildings but its people: "For it is human beings that constitute a city, not houses or porticos or market-places empty of men."

Now look at the numbers today. For a population simply to hold steady, women need to average about 2.1 children each. South Korea recently hit 0.72, the lowest rate ever recorded for any country on earth, and even after a small rebound to 0.8 in 2025, it remains less than half of what a country needs to sustain itself. Italy and Japan sit near 1.2, China around 1.0, Spain near 1.1. The United States is about 1.6, the United Kingdom 1.5. According to the UN, more than half the world's countries are now below that line.

History doesn't repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes, and this pattern is old and eerily familiar. A society climbs to the height of its wealth and comfort, and at that very peak its people stop having children, and no law, no incentive, no sum of money seems able to talk them back into it.

Rome tried, with the full power of an empire behind it, and failed. At its height the city held more than a million people, a size no European city would reach again for 1700 years, until London in the 1800s.

The Roman historian Livy, writing as the Republic gave way to the empire, said his was an age that "can endure neither its vices nor their cure." Two thousand years later, staring at the same problem and just as unable to solve it, we may be watching the beginning of the same story...

A civilization does not always fall to an enemy at the gates. As the historian Arnold J. Toynbee once said: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@MagnusRanstorp @SMohamsson Ja, faktiskt imponerande.

[ꭓaim ʃie @Chaim_Yehoshua]

@SMohamsson gästade idag Morgonpasset i P3.

Givetvis kom frågan om davidsstjärnan upp. Programledarna gjorde allt för att relativisera judars utsatthet.

De frågade om hon även kan bära hijab eller samisk kolt i nästa debatt, som om dessa vore jämförbara.

Hennes klarsynta svar imponerar.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@alicemedce Oerhört modigt att bära davidsstjärnan. Det är en symbol för judendom, inte Israel. Vi måste respektera varandra för att framgångsrikt kunna leva sida vid sida.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@gynaeceum Lutar åt KD. Dels mestadels bra politik, men också många bra företrädare.

Och så hedgar du om Tidö faller, så att KD får maximalt inflytande i en ev S-KD-C-regering.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@hansson_ha96424 @gynaeceum Det kommer hon rimligen göra. Samtidigt om tidö
faller så ändå bättre med S-KD-C än en vänsterregering. Så om du röstar KD så hedgar du alla alternativ.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@positivtladdad Mediadrevet mot misstänkt fusk var bortom all proportion, vet inte om universitetet gjort annorlunda med en icke-DEI-professor. Även i Sverige flera exempel där forskare kölhalas förhastat, ex Karin Pettersson på KS.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@gynaeceum Jag tror mer reflektion över vad som ger mening och långsiktig glädje och tillfredställelse är det som krävs.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

https://t.co/g3JP3XewTH

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@NickAlinia Man undrar om de själva tror på det de säger, eller om de inte vågar slita sig från sitt indoktrinerade paradigm

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@AsfyXi @strandhall Och termen ”normie-familjer” är oerhört nedvärderande. Det finns många barn utan NPF eller funktionshinder som har en oerhört tuff vardag.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@AsfyXi @strandhall Ca 15% av pojkar har NPF, dvs omkring en på 7. Alla med NPF har inte problem stå i kö. Skall man då ha ett läkarintyg på att ens barntycker det är jobbigt stt stå i kö?

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@BuschEbba Förstatligande kunde vara en god idé om man då drog konsekvenserna fullt ut, med centralisering av avancerade labb och högspcialiserad vård. Det innebär stora förändringar och kommer vara monumentalt motstånd. Bättre att driva effektivisering och utveckling med regionerna kvar.

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@AnnaCramling Välförtjänt! Spelade grymt bra!!

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@EndWokeness The very same argument has been used a long time in Sweden and taken as truth until the statistics went through the roof

[Martin Jadersten @mjadersten]

@benshapiro Congrats! ❤️

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

Not the obituary I wanted to read today.

https://t.co/hMaBnfNc52