Taylor Robson

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

EUROPA LEAGUE FOOTBALL IS COMING TO SUNDERLAND!

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@CoreyYaps @CRVisuals_ Didn’t everyone say the exact same thing about Brobbey? He’s obviously not going to replicate it exactly otherwise he’d be playing for PSG but he’s 20 year old and got 28 g/a how can you write someone like that off before he’s even played for us

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@Jonathanlufc64 @LUFCDATA Im sure leeds have never time wasted or ‘cheated’ in a game of football before 🤣

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@ProudPeacock123 Interestingly also our easiest away game of the season so far you didn’t look like scoring at any point 🤣

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@tino_santino @EthanOsafc and yet it’s March and they haven’t been above us at any point this season

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@GoldyWMS Huge mentality shift since xhaka got injured. I doubt they’d ever fully admit or may not even fully realise it themselves but it feels like the players and even le bris don’t believe we’re good enough to get results without him

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The 22M+ people who saw this tweet are missing the real story here.

This research is from 2019. Dr. Eva Ramón Gallegos at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute published these results six years ago. It went viral then too. Salma Hayek posted about it on Instagram. ABC News ran a fact check. It resurfaced in January 2025 across Mexican media. And now it’s recycling through your feed again as “BREAKING” with 22 million views, because an engagement account slapped a siren emoji on six-year-old science.

The actual study treated 29 women in Mexico City using photodynamic therapy, a technique where you apply a light-sensitive chemical to the cervix, wait four hours, then hit it with a laser. HPV cleared in 100% of patients who had the virus without lesions. In patients with both HPV and premalignant lesions, it cleared in 64.3%. Those numbers are real and published in peer-reviewed journals.

Here’s what 22 million people aren’t asking: why hasn’t this scaled in six years?

Three reasons. First, the sample size. Twenty-nine women is a pilot study. The FDA requires thousands of patients across multiple sites before approving a therapy. Gallegos ran earlier studies on 420 women in Oaxaca and Veracruz with similar clearance rates, but nobody has funded the Phase III trials needed to move this toward approval.

Second, PDT has a physics limitation. The light that activates the drug can only penetrate about one centimeter of tissue. That means it works on surface-level cervical HPV, but the virus also hides deeper in tissue and in other parts of the body. The National Cancer Institute flagged this exact constraint years ago. You can clear what you can see. You can’t guarantee you’ve cleared what you can’t.

Third, 50% of high-risk HPV infections clear on their own within one to two years without any treatment. A 100% clearance rate in 29 patients with no lesions, measured at six months, sits in a window where spontaneous clearance is already happening. Without a proper control group, which this study lacked, you can’t isolate how much the therapy did versus what the immune system would have done anyway.

A separate Chinese study in 2024 randomized 60 patients and found PDT hit 100% HPV clearance at six months versus conventional treatment. That’s more rigorous. Multiple research groups worldwide are now publishing PDT results for cervical HPV. The science is real and progressing.

The gap between “promising pilot results in 29 women” and “successfully eliminates HPV” is about a decade of clinical trials and a few hundred million dollars in funding. Gallegos has been doing this work for 20 years. The bottleneck was never the science. It’s that nobody writes the check for Phase III trials on a non-patentable therapy that competes with a multibillion-dollar vaccine market.

That’s the actual story worth 22 million views.

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@ste_lew1s @SAFCCR Because people seemingly can’t comprehend that you can criticise or even just not be 100% happy with every single thing the club does and still think overall that they’ve done a fantastic job since they arrived

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@Capt_Fishpaste Fairly sure fabrizio said we were willing to match the 35 million for Brendan Johnson so not sure that’s the best example

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@SafcDom99 I think a big part of the frustration is kyril said before Everton at home if we were in the top 10 and had a realistic chance of a high finish in January we’d have a window to reflect that ie something along those lines and so far that hasn’t been the case at all

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@SafcDom99 So we either need to get back to that defensive solidity or we need to sign some quality in the forward areas so we can improve offensively because the current lot especially the wide players aren’t cutting it at this level

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@SafcDom99 We haven’t been good going forward all season the data and what we watch with our eyes tells us that. The reason we’ve been so good is we’ve been excellent defensively conceding very little. Over the last month or so that defensive solidity has gone particularly away from home

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@Capt_Fishpaste I can’t remember the exact quotes but did kyril not say something along the lines of if we’re in the top 10 and have a chance of europe we’ll have a January window to reflect that. I think they do understand the magnitude of the opportunity we’ve got

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@Capt_Fishpaste Since Regis joined we’ve been told after literally every single result that we aren’t good the opposition just had an off day or we got lucky yet in that time we’ve been promoted and are now 1 point behind a champions league place as a promoted club that’s no luck it’s design

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@Lowfields_socio @Capt_Fishpaste Ballard, reinildo sadiki, talbi, Traore Diarra I’m no mathematician but I’d say that’s 6

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@MightyLeeds64 @Capt_Fishpaste Fantastic argument that mate cheers

[Taylor Robson @tazzlor___]

@MOTweets1919 @SafcDom99 I’d love to see how Leeds would get on if you had 6 of your starting 11 missing couldn’t even beat us with your first 11 🤣