Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author (#TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking). Science, Medicine, Foppish hair. Alt socials: https://linktr.ee/drg1985https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mjrzw5nync2jDonald Trump forcing medical scientists to pander to the half-thought out whims of one time UFC commentator Joe Rogan is a pretty damning indictment of where we are. When future historians write about this period of the idiocracy, the role of halfwit podcasters will be subject of many PhDs..18 Apr 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrzw5nync2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mhqd6gwlbs2tAcademics, anyone else noticed a decline in basic editorial standards at major journals? Just had one reject an already accepted manuscript for "duplicated references", turned out to be an AI hallucination in their proofing software. Another asked me review a manuscript I'm author on..23 Mar 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqd6gwlbs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mhgefzsff224Finally happened; bike nicked in Dublin 🤨 On Jervis St, under 2 CCTV cams. If anyone sees a suspicious Decathlon 500 folding bike offered for sale, let me know..19 Mar 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgefzsff224https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mgrxonepy223I didn't think much that RFK Jr does could shock me anymore, but it's difficult to overstate how unethical this is. This isn't a trial, it's a piece of antivaccine theatre that will cause severe harm, and everyone involved is contemptible. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/rfk-vaccine-trials-guinea-bissau11 Mar 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrxonepy223https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mgmudop6gs2hUh oh. This appears to be an old moral panic reanimated by modern technology - I've written extensively on "satanic panic" and how leading questions led to false memories of abuse in suggestive populations that never happened. ChatGPT is that on steroids... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/08/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say09 Mar 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmudop6gs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3meoxkmzlvs2lElon Musk's content indistinguishable from that of white supremists, surprising no one. Is there a fundamental law that requires those pathetic enough to assert ostensible racial superiority be the most underwhelming specimens imaginable? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists12 Feb 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoxkmzlvs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3melr6vtho22mIvermectin is an article of faith in the MAHA gospel, and one of their defining characteristics is deep antipathy towards vaccination. The lauding of ivermectin began in part as an "alternative" to vaccination - this & Moderna rejection are sheer regulatory capture 😐 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Feb 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3melr6vtho22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3mel6anfnoc2mThe fact that this comes hours after approval of an "Ivermectin for cancer" trial is a damning indictment of the ideological capture the worst people from the pandemic now have over health in the USA... [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Feb 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mel6anfnoc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3maroa76d3c24Whoever does Santa's logistics is the final boss of the Travelling Salesman Problem25 Dec 2025 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3maroa76d3c24https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3maqwj4iczc2gThis is pathetic by the University of Oklahoma; If you acquiesce like this to obvious hard-right grifters, they will be emboldened to erode things further. Popper's paradox of tolerance strikes again, institutions cannot make the mistake of trying to entertain those who exist to undermine them.. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Dec 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3maqwj4iczc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m6rlivnchs26The FDA made this assertion without releasing an iota of data to support it or uttering a word about risk-benefit. This is what science by press release looks like, a damning indictment of the ideological capture RFK Jr has enforced https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/health/fda-children-deaths-covid-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-android-share29 Nov 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6rlivnchs26https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m6nj7oysoc2rHappy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate. The perfect opportunity to remember the 1997 Macy's parade, when Barney the dinosaur committed public seppuku and the Cat in the Hat put someone into a Coma.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Macy%27s_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade?wprov=sfla127 Nov 2025 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6nj7oysoc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m63qifwnic2hWho the hell was stupid enough to think that giving Robert F Kennedy power over medical scientists would make him listen to them? No - mendacious idealouges like him always abuse that power to force their lies on everyone else. We fucking told you so https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-says-claims-that-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism-are-not-evidence-based-2025-11-20/20 Nov 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63qifwnic2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m5y6s43m2k2jHard-right love "Ireland being overrun" narrative on immigration. But as @fotoole13.bsky.social notes, actual numbers small: here's log-plot of raw inward migration [2024-2025] in terms of Croke Park. As @csoireland.bsky.social explain, net immigration falling too.. t.co/lxq09kU7XU19 Nov 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5y6s43m2k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m5tmuvizrs2j"Make America Healthy Again" will make not only America but the entire world sicker. RJK Jr and the MAGA movement are modern Lysenkoists, and the consequences of their anti-science agenda will be severe, as I write in @emboreports.org https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00639-717 Nov 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tmuvizrs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m5j6vs2v5s2rSo @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-025-02712-0?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251113&utm_content=10.1186/s12874-025-02712-013 Nov 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5j6vs2v5s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m554s6sros2vSeems everyone has a James Watson story. I met him when I was 27 in Oxford and he told me to fuck off after a joke at his expense, which admittedly I half deserved 🫠 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/james-watson-scientist-dna-death08 Nov 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m554s6sros2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m4irrhdmyk22Kim Kardashian is wrong (shocker!) - moon landings certainly happened. As I showed before, Apollo had >400k staff who'd need be complicit. Chances of them keeping it secret? Virtually zero. Probability of a celebrity saying something daft, alas, approaches unity🤪 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.014790531 Oct 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4irrhdmyk22https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m4d66c2eos24To most Irish people, Mary McGee was the woman whose supreme court battle legalised contraception. To me, she was my aunt with a cheeky sense of humour & great laugh. Took this of her & my dad just a few weeks ago - RIP May, you'll be missed https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/28/death-announced-of-mary-may-mcgee-who-won-historic-supreme-court-contraception-case/29 Oct 2025 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4d66c2eos24https://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m44psijofs2uAfter that AI slop from Mick Wallace (not sharing, it's grim), hope President Connelly rejects the asinine nonsense from her former compatriots, Wallace & Daly. As I wrote in @bylinetimes.bsky.social their useful idiocy & propaganda vectoring is something she'll hopefully not enable..26 Oct 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m44psijofs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m3q52kct522sFunny how the reprobates assaulting Garda in #Citywest get so worked up when they think an immigrant may have committed a crime, but don't give a damn otherwise. All this is just a figleaf for the worst people to pretend their racism is justified, or even laudable21 Oct 2025 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3q52kct522shttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m3awyalvb22sBizarre in a "free speech" country - that Kirk veered into conspiracy theory & religious cryptofascism is matter of public record. Going after people for this is like the apocryphal words of Galileo after his conviction for heresy "..and yet it moves.." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/politics/state-department-revoke-visas-charlie-kirk-murder15 Oct 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3awyalvb22shttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m2otzo6rwc2lDisappointing to see Joe Wicks fearmongering about ultra-processed foods. Aside from fact that data on UPFs is inherently confounded & often reflects things like poverty (an actual killer), this reel by Joshua Hill explains why such nonsense is so deeply harmful https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPUGquBiDRU/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPUGquBiDRU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==08 Oct 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2otzo6rwc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m2mc3d567c2sDo not mistake this as benign - breaking up MMR into separate shots is inherently antivaccine, as it promotes myth of "vaccine overload" & makes it much more unlikely people will get their children vaccinated. Also, single vaccines aren't available in USA! https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/separate-measles-mumps-rubella-vaccine-acting-cdc-director-rcna23597107 Oct 2025 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mc3d567c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m2k35jm5us2yAsked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵06 Oct 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2k35jm5us2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/drg.bsky.social/post/3m2k35jm5us2yAsked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵06 Oct 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:kos2rncg2nc4v4iosbfj7ryf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2k35jm5us2y