Chloé de Canson
Formerly assistant professor of philosophy • bedbound since 2022 with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis, a type of Long COVID • philosophy of science, social & formal epistemology, and their history • chloedecanson.net • 🇵🇸
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonNot just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonMood in minneapolis right now
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonAnother question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonIt seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
- Completing a review in four days to manifest reviews for the paper I submitted six months ago
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- Reposted by Chloé de CansonIt’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- Charles S. Peirce and Simone Weil
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonRecent research shows blood from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID directly harms healthy muscle, reducing force, stressing mitochondria, and causing structural breakdown. Results implicate blood-borne drivers of muscle weakness, exertion intolerance, and PEM. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1758...
- I saw someone argue for eliminating R&Rs, so that journals either accept or reject papers. Is that a popular view? Most of my papers have been made much stronger by R&Rs, even when they had been presented, received feedback from colleagues, etc. Sth abt anonymity makes ppl more critical?
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonNow unlocked: Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it (link and transcripts in next posts)
- “In genetics and complex disease research, scientists often apply what is known as the extreme phenotype strategy … Studying those at the farthest ends of the spectrum amplifies biological signals and accelerates the discovery of causal pathways and potential drug targets.”
- Ramsey: “I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. … My picture of the world is drawn in perspective, and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as threepenny bits.”
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- “Do we doubt that each of us encounters reality not directly, but through the thicket of our individual psychic realities, with their stubborn frames and secret desires, the vast sediment of our past histories?”
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonIf the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonThe Sick Times (@thesicktimes.org) is hiring! We're looking for a new part-time podcast and social media producer who will revive our weekly podcast, help expand our social media presence, and assist with other editorial tasks. More details here, applications are due on January 20:
- A shocking fact few people know: the DWP (UK’s government agency responsible for disbursing disability benefits) has funded a clinical trial intended to show that people with the disease ME could be cured with a few weeks of exercise and thus did not need disability benefits
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Remarkably, Alem Matthees, the Australian patient whose freedom of information request liberated the raw data from the PACE TRIAL, has reported some improvements in his condition: virology.ws/2026/01/02/t... - Reposted by Chloé de Canson[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonI'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
- Reposted by Chloé de Cansononce again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able
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- Reposted by Chloé de CansonIn a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
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- I told my non-academic wife about a set of reviews I just received and she said: “this is like the third time you get annoying reviews from reviewer 2, it’s almost like there’s a pattern”. Oh sweet summer child
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- Reposted by Chloé de Cansonfunding lotteries have been waiting for this moment
- This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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- Ramsey coming up with his mature theory of induction in the middle of a talk
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- This thread shows the extraordinary work that the Patient-Led Research Collaborative (working on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions) has done, incl. scientific work that has challenged and massively improved the research that people without Long COVID do on the disease 1/
- Reposted by Chloé de CansonIn our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies. It’s Covid Year Six. www.patreon.com/posts/145947...
- In my new paper, I argue that conditionalisation, qua rule of inference, cannot be justified independently of the priors. In a nutshell, the argument is this. Conditionalisation says: stay as close as possible to your priors! This is good advice only if your priors are good priors
