Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
- Throwing money away, to the detriment of the health system. Ban this practice entirely. In fact, make these for-profit agencies illegal and require hospitals to hire nurses directly.
- Only like the 3rd day of the year I've been able to work outside on the deck.
- Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Completely bonkers. Ugh. Ivermectin has become a political flag. NO evidence drug helps with COVID, cancer, etc. The anti-science agenda marches on... NC bill to allow non-prescription use of ivermectin reignites COVID controversy medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05...
- Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Infections are never good for you.
- Shingles vaccine recipients see lower cardiac event risk over time www.cidrap.umn.edu/shingles-vac... @cidrap.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
- Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦This is a good thread on using LLMs for historical questions. I still can’t believe that they have come to be used as search engines. Anything that answers a question confidently but hides its sources is not to be trusted.
- Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦I am discomfited by how quickly university admins went from “catch the cheaters w these bad detection tools!” to “here is an embedded AI chatbot in the enterprise software for everyone to use!” bsky.app/profile/jhmu...
the technodystopia is here nymag.com/intelligence...
