Timothy Caulfield

We are in the middle of a knowledge production crisis! Science, opinion, & “goodness” are weaponized for profit, politics, & personal gain. In my new book, I lift the curtain on the forces contributing to this chaos & look for a path forward. ORDER: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/713451/t……

Needed: "...implementation of a developmentally appropriate, society-wide policy ... that restricts smartphone & social media access for children under 13, mandates digital literacy education, & enforces corporate accountability." Protecting Young Mind tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom chronicle.com/article/100-ye… "...most important about the trial is the conflict btw politics & academic freedom." "The Trump regime has launched the worst assault on academic freedom by the government in the history…

Canada hasn’t seen this many measles cases since 1991. We’ve put together a resource page with clear answers, vetted science & shareable content: scienceupfirst.com/measles 🔗 #ScienceUpFirst

There is SO MUCH hydration hype! Massive industry. NO, you don't need special electrolyte drinks. Drink water (tap likely fine) when thirsty. Thanks evolution. Do You Need to Drink Electrolytes? nytimes.com/2025/07/21/wel…

Focusing on sugar cane, seed oil, food dye, beef tallow, wearables, will have ZERO impact on chronic disease. ZERO. ZIP. NIL. MAHA wellness woo BS. A distraction from the descending darkness.

File in (ever growing) WTF? MAHA strategy: undermine vaccines (one of the greatest public health achievements) & push sugar? Zero evidence to support this... Coke confirms cane sugar change. RFK Jr. calls it a ‘MAHA win.’ Is it? [Spoiler: NOPE] wapo.st/4m5aCuR

Yep.

Want to bridge partisan gap? Research pts to key factor psypost.org/want-to-bridge… "...diverse social circles can improve how people anticipate experience political conversations." Study: "interpolitical friendship diversity has the potential to improve interpolitical relations."

When it comes to combating health information, @CaulfieldTim is blunt: “We don’t have to let the lies take over.” But doing so will require coordinated action from researchers, educators, and social media platforms before it’s too late. thewalrus.ca/before-you-sha…

Teenagers aren’t good at spotting misinformation theconversation.com/teenagers-aren… by @YvonneSkipper "...young people in the study tended to – wrongly – believe that misinformation was only about world events and scams." And don't fact check. "They relied instead on their intuition..."

FDA panel promotes #misinformation about antidepressants during pregnancy nbcnews.com/health/mental-… "...rousing concerns about safety that are not evidence-based or established..." Reality: "no convincing evidence to suggest that SSRIs are linked to autism or birth defects."

5 misunderstood foods & how to spot nutrition myths wapo.st/413QJMH Reality: - Raw milk craze is BS. "Pasteurization is one of the greatest developments in food safety." - Seed oils "aren't putting your health at risk." - Green powder supplement push BS.

Doubtmongering vortex! "Like other campaigns by unhealthy commodity industries, PAHCF’s campaign is designed to increase doubt in the benefits of health policies, undermine public trust in government & evidence.." dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… by @marco_zenone @spidermaani et al.

Evil. Dim. Uninformed. And incredibly selfish. Super on-brand for Children’s Health Defense.👇 Prominent US anti-vaxxer says he caught measles and traveled back home theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

How Canada became the centre of a measles outbreak bbc.com/news/articles/… Alberta "has the highest per capita measles spread rate in North America." "What's changed is the rapid spread of anti-vaccine misinformation both in her community & beyond after the Covid-19 pandemic."

#VaccinesWork "...influenza vaccination benefits both the vaccinated and unvaccinated segments of the population and that vaccine effectiveness estimates in those groups may underestimate the actual effectiveness of vaccination." Benefits of Vaccination jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Key: Politics & prior concerns (fuelled by misinformation) about vaccines impacts perceptions of adverse events. Eg: Republicans more likely to report vaccine AEs. My recent piece: Vaccine safety, politics and the nocebo effect healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topic/… via @HealthyDebate

What causes obesity? A major new study is upending common wisdom. wapo.st/452w50M Exercise has MANY benefits! But studies have consistently shown exercise (alone) not a great WL strategy AND "inactivity is not the main cause" of obesity. From study: "...dietary intake…

"...his dismantling of science-based policymaking is likely far from over." SCOTUS are "effectively greenlighting the politicization of science." Dark Age 2.0 How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

My new article: You’re Not Imagining It. Health Misinformation Is Everywhere thewalrus.ca/before-you-sha… via @thewalrus And now it is all about politics. Once a topic becomes a proxy for political principles, the discourse becomes nastier, and it is more difficult to change minds.