Raymond Eddy BSc., M.P.H., REHS, CP-FS 🗻

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Autism Chapter 1: Research Fraud, the Nurse, and Vaccines

In the seven years that I taught various global health courses before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was at least one nurse in class unafraid to share their anti-vaccine (anti-vax) sentiments. It was always the same scenario: by the time I posted Wakefield’s 1998 fraudulent paper linking cases of autism in…

Fraud

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Fraud

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So, You Think That Peanut Butter is Safe?

Take it from the health inspector, be concerned! The 2022 Jif Peanut Butter Outbreak and what it means to 2023 Perhaps like you, peanut butter has been a mainstay throughout most of my life: the base of inexpensive childhood jellied sandwiches and as a necessary dietary component of my adult…

Food

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So, You Think That Peanut Butter is Safe?

Food

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Fracastoro’s Judgment: what would Girolamo say about SARS-COV-2?

Fracastoro’s Judgment: what would Girolamo say about SARS-COV-2? [Submitted to History Open Request for Publication 01.15.2023] Who is your favorite historical figure and why? Though not a famous person to most people, Girolamo Fracastoro is associated with three enduring legacies: 1) As a poet; 2) The subject of an oil…

Covid-19

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Fracastoro’s Judgment: what would Girolamo say about SARS-COV-2?

Covid-19

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To Recognize the Zebra - How to characterize future health threats

by Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS, CP-FS

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Health

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One Health = One Way to Mitigate Monkeypox, COVID-19, Ebola, Influenza, and Zika

Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS, CP-FS 07.23.2020 This morning World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghrebeyesus broke the consensus vote of the International Health Regulations Committee.1 He single-handedly declared the global Monkeypox epidemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)2. …

Covid-19

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Covid-19

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Mar 11

In other words, if once I begin to understand what I am, then I shall never compare myself with another or be envious of anyone. Envy arises because I want to change myself and become like somebody else. But if I say, “Whatever I am, that I want to understand,” then envy is gone; then there is no need of discipline, and out of the understanding of what I am comes integration.

The Antidote to Envy

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More To That

I ... understand. Thank you.

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Mar 11

It seem seems we are on similar wave=length here Shin!

Raymond Eddy BSc., M.P.H., REHS, CP-FS 🗻

Game changer of the highest order!

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Feb 25

So, You Think That Peanut Butter is Safe?

Food

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Food

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Feb 25

Fracastoro’s Judgment: what would Girolamo say about SARS-COV-2?

Infectious Disease

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Infectious Disease

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Nov 29, 2022

“There is no evidence that masks work”, I kept hearing repeated to me by the usual idiots calling themselves “evidence based” scientists. The point is that there is no evidence that locking the door tonight will prevent me from being bu…

The Masks Masquerade

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As a late/new adopter of your Black Swan Principles (just read it and I am now among your Army of…

As a late/new adopter of your Black Swan Principles (just read it and I am now among your Army of Admirers!), your Absence of Evidence rule is broken every day. From fomites (contaminated surfaces) to food and animals as vectors and vehicles of cross contamination, scant evidence does not prove anything from a health threat perspective. Low probability, high consequence incidents are the cause of loss and harm.

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