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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
US COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, “All Cause Severe Morbidity” - us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific--1811.pdf
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates - Responsible Statecraft
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates - Responsible Statecraft: Zealous anti-Russia types are actually demanding that anyone opposing their views be silenced, and even criminally prosecuted.
Beltway A-Lister Gridiron Superspreader Omnishambles (Butchered by "Personal Risk" Brain Geniuses) | naked capitalism
Beltway A-Lister Gridiron Superspreader Omnishambles (Butchered by "Personal Risk" Brain Geniuses) | naked capitalism: Beltway A-Lister Gridiron Superspreader Omnishambles (Butchered by “Personal Risk” Brain Geniuses)
Monday, April 11, 2022
Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company - The Washington Post
Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company - The Washington Post: A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.
Heart attack rates are skyrocketing, and the media is blaming everything other than COVID vaccines – NaturalNews.com
Heart attack rates are skyrocketing, and the media is blaming everything other than COVID vaccines – NaturalNews.com: The establishment is running into serious problems trying to explain away the skyrocketing rates of cardiovascular events that are occurring ever since Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines" were unleashed on the world.
Corporate-controlled media outlets, including some "conservat
Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle working on Covid vaccination passport
Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle working on Covid vaccination passport: A digital Covid vaccination passport is being jointly developed by a group of health and technology companies including Microsoft and Salesforce.
The History of Population Control is Important for Understanding COVID-19
The History of Population Control is Important for Understanding COVID-19: There is a past precedent of using experimental vaccinations for sterilization
Why Wishful Liberal Thinking Led to Disasters in Ukraine, Homelessness, And Climate
Why Wishful Liberal Thinking Led to Disasters in Ukraine, Homelessness, And Climate: The good news is that everything is changing — and fast
Military do-somethingism is running amok in Washington - Responsible Statecraft
Military do-somethingism is running amok in Washington - Responsible Statecraft: There seems to be a growing confidence that the US can join this conflict without running into unacceptable risks.
Siding with Ukraine's far-right, US sabotaged Zelensky's historic mandate for peace
Siding with Ukraine's far-right, US sabotaged Zelensky's historic mandate for peace: In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine's far-right and fuel war.
The Pimps of War - The Chris Hedges Report
The Pimps of War - The Chris Hedges Report
The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
Comment from Todd Pierce:
The only flaw in this is that this sentence is incorrect regarding Trump: "who showed no desire to start a conflict with Russia and who called the invasion of Iraq a “big, fat mistake.”
As the evidence shows, and as I’ve pointed out, both are “products” of Trump’s own “Cognitive War” campaign from the 2016 election, aimed at that tiny coterie of “non-interventionist conservatives,” and those few libertarians who could (briefly) pull themselves away from advocating policies of greater Oligarch enrichment. It worked, and that delusion that Trump was about “ending the endless wars,” which he said from one side of his mouth, while with the other, promising more torture and building the “Greatest Military” ever, while completing the encirclement of Russia and China, and while carrying out military operations with Israel in Iran, persists. And we will hear multifarious, similarly contradictory messages, from Trumpites in 2024, while Republicans denounce Biden as "weak,” for not escalating/expanding the war against Russia. Which while not exclusive to them, is taken to unprecedented, ever higher levels, though the Biden administration is putting up a "good race.”
New Permanent Europe Bases Should Be Built to Host Rotational Troops, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says | Military.com
New Permanent Europe Bases Should Be Built to Host Rotational Troops, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says | Military.com: Poland, Romania and the Baltic states are "very, very willing" to work with the U.S., and could take on the costs of construction, Milley told lawmakers.
US Promises To Give Ukraine the 'Weapons It Needs,' Ukraine Is Worried They Won't Arrive - News From Antiwar.com
US Promises To Give Ukraine the 'Weapons It Needs,' Ukraine Is Worried They Won't Arrive - News From Antiwar.com: National security adviser Jake Sullivan says the US is committed to providing Ukraine with the "weapons it needs" to fight Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed skepticism that the US would come through. Russia warned the weapon shipments "can lead the US and the Russian Federation onto the path of direct military confrontation.”Sullivan appeared on … Continue reading "US Promises To Give Ukraine the ‘Weapons It Needs,’ Ukraine Is Worried They Won’t Arrive"
NATO Planning Massive Military Buildup Along Russia's Border - News From Antiwar.com
NATO Planning Massive Military Buildup Along Russia's Border - News From Antiwar.com: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is in the middle of a “fundamental transformation” and planning a massive military buildup along Russian borders. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO will undergo a major “reset” and plans to put enough troops in states that border Russia to repel an invasion. The alliance currently has 40,000 troops in eastern … Continue reading "NATO Planning Massive Military Buildup Along Russia’s Border"
What happened on Holy Saturday? --Aleteia
What happened on Holy Saturday? --Aleteia: Christians believe that on Holy Saturday, Jesus, “descended into Hell,” or as it is sometimes translated, “descended to the dead.”
Could China’s “hot-swappable” missile system start an accidental nuclear war? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Could China’s “hot-swappable” missile system start an accidental nuclear war? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Chinese DF-26 missile system, which is capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads, does not generate additional instability in the deterrence relationship between China and the United States.
The History of the LNT Episode Guide
The History of the LNT Episode Guide: The History of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Model Episode Guide
The History of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Model Episode Guide
The Health Physics Society (HPS) created this series of videos to examine the history of the most controversial question in our field: the LNT model. Click on the episode numbers to view the videos.
Episode 1: Who Is Dr. Edward Calabrese?
This episode introduces you to Dr. Calabrese and his entry into the field of toxicology and risk assessment.
Episode 2: LNT Model Beginnings—Theory of Evolution
This episode explains why the LNT model arose and from whence. Surprisingly, it was not in the field of cancer risk assessment but as an attempt to explain the mechanism of evolution.
Episode 3: Müller Creates a Revolution
Hermann Müller claims to be the first to induce gene mutation using high exposures to x rays. Find out if he actually was the first and what role radiation exposures play in the theory of evolution.
Episode 4: Müller—How Ambition Affects Science
Was Müller's Nobel Prize research ever peer reviewed? How did Müller get his Nobel Prize research published in Science without showing any data? What was the evidence that he actually induced gene mutation? This segment takes a deep look into how all this came to be.
Episode 5: "The Big Challenge"
Müller's claim that he induced gene mutation runs into a number of roadblocks from some powerful and equally talented scientists. This episode explores the trials and challenges that Müller encountered trying to keep both his claims of being the first to induce gene mutation and his linear dose response concept alive.
Episode 6: The Birth of the LNT Single Hit Theory
World War II is about to start in Europe while Müller is conducting his research. He specifically mentions a student's dissertation during his Noble Prize acceptance speech but neglects to acknowledge the serious limitations of the student's work. Upon returning to the United States, he influences the Manhattan Project's research agenda in an attempt to resolve the limitations that are casting doubt upon his theories. What was learned in that research provided Müller with a way to save his gene mutation theory and LNT model claims.
Episode 7: Pursuit to Be the First to Discover Gene Mutation
This episode is set during the Manhattan Project era in the early 1940s, when the US government introduces new researchers and study designs to gain a deeper understanding of radiation's biological impact. Should a human risk assessment model be based on a mammalian model using mice or an insect model using fruit flies? What happened that threatened the scientific knowledge gained from studying 400,000 mice, leaving scientists to rely on fruit-fly studies for human risk assessment?
Episode 8: "The Fly in the Ointment"
This episode is crucial to the historical foundations of the LNT model. During the Manhattan Project, Ernst Caspari's dose-rate study demonstrated a threshold response for gene mutation. It shocked the radiation genetics community and it stood in the path of the LNT model's acceptance. Learn what Müller and others did to discredit these new data. Were they successful?
Episode 9: Why the First Human Risk Assessment Was Based on Flawed Fruit-Fly Research
After the war, Caspari's conclusions regarding a threshold response for gene mutation continued to be challenged. Three new studies by Curt Stern and his graduate student, Delta Uphoff, attempted to save the one-hit theory or LNT model and to discredit Caspari's findings. These studies had many complications and were never published in peer-reviewed journals. Data from two chronic studies remain missing but were the basis for the United States adopting LNT. How did this happen?
Episode 10: Birth of LNT Activism
Aboveground testing of nuclear weapons and the release of radioactive fallout in the United States and across the globe raised public concern. This presented an opportunity for the radiation genetics community to challenge the credibility of the radiation experts at the Atomic Energy Commission by suggesting the fallout would cause birth defects based on an LNT model. These challenges were significant and would lead to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) creating a series of six panels to advise the country on the concerns of nuclear energy and weapons, including a most crucial and visible genetics panel.
Episode 11: Creation of the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) I Committee
This episode highlights the key role of the Rockefeller Foundation in providing funding to create the six panels that served on the NAS committee, especially the genetics panel. Providing the financial support has its privileges, but was it used in an objective and transparent way? How were members selected? The initial charge to the genetics panel may surprise you.
Episode 12: Was There Scientific Misconduct Among the BEAR Genetics Panel Members?
Dr. Calabrese provides a concise summary and documents that support his conclusion that the BEAR genetics panel members are guilty of scientific misconduct. Nonetheless, the recommendations of this panel resulted in the most significant document affecting radiation and chemical cancer risk assessment in the entire history of the field. Yet today, it is facing important challenges, which are detailed in this episode.
Episode 13: Is Lower Always Better?
This episode attempts to place the concept of cancer risk assessment in perspective and questions if continually trying to lower exposures to toxic substances is the best policy. The adoption of the precautionary principle drives public health and environmental principles and practices, which will be explored and challenged based on new scientific developments.
Episode 14: Should the Genetics Panel Science Paper Be Retracted?
In 2015, Dr. Calabrese and others requested that the editor in chief retract the seminal publication of the NAS BEAR I Genetics Panel article in Science. Their discovery and conclusions were based on an alleged falsification and fabrication of the research record. A transparent record of their exchanges with the editor in chief is provided in the documents portion of this project, showing the basis for the editor in chief's decision not to retract the article. Would you agree with that decision after knowing more about the history and how this article helped to shape our existing regulations?
Episode 15: Follow the Money Trail: "We Are Just All Conspirators Here Together"
In this episode, we take you back in time, soon after the NAS BEAR I Genetics Panel report is released in the summer of 1956. Two of the panel members meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, during a large conference sponsored by the World Health Organization where one of them, James Neel, publicly confronts Hermann Müller about the need to include human data in genetics research. Neel's 10-year study of the Atomic Bomb Survivors found no genetic effects in that population, but these results were excluded from the deliberations by Müller's explicit powerful influence. Tensions increased between these men, bitter conflicts surfaced, forcing other geneticists to choose sides in the conflict, and motives were uncovered.
Episode 16: The Most Influential Paper in Cancer Risk Assessment That Affects Policy in the United States?
A new chair of the US NAS BEAR I Genetics Panel, George Beadle, comes up with a way to refocus the panel, and we are introduced to a new geneticist, Edward Lewis, who produces the most influential paper on risk assessment that has affected US policy. What was Beadle's message to the panel that refocused its efforts, and how did Lewis' paper become so influential?
Episode 17: Studies With a Surprising Low-Dose Health Effect
Dr. Calabrese provides a detailed and critical look at the influential Lewis paper in Science. He identifies newly found concerns and contradictions in Lewis' congressional testimony that question his objectivity and honesty.
Episode 18: Ideology Trumps Science, Precautionary Principle Saves the LNT
Modern risk assessment was forged by a compromise between those who believed that lower is always better and others who demanded proof. The compromise was the adoption of the Precautionary Principle, whose natural offspring is the LNT model. This is a policy that exists today, and it is largely due to the work of Lewis.
Episode 19: Genetic Repair Is Acknowledged
From 1930 onward, the belief that all gene mutation damage was not reparable, and that it was irreversible and cumulative, led to the LNT model. In 1958, William Russell proved this assumption wrong, shocking the radiation genetics world. How did the NAS BEAR II Genetics Panel incorporate this new finding without changing its beliefs in the LNT model?
Episode 20: BEIR Acknowledges Repair but Keeps LNT. Why?
Dr. Calabrese describes how the BEAR Committee evolves into to the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) Committee. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assumed the oversight of the new BEIR Committee in 1970, and by 1972, the first BEIR Committee provided its recommendations, which acknowledged genetic repair but stayed with the LNT model for cancer risk assessment based on William Russell's research.
Episode 21: BEIR I Mistake Revealed, LNT Challenged, Threshold Supported
An amazing and unexpected story is told by Dr. Calabrese on how Dr. Paul Selby, colleague of William Russell, discovered a significant error in his control-group data that had been used to support the 1972 BEIR II Committee LNT recommendation. The Department of Energy conducted an ethics investigation that compelled William Russell to correct the errors which, after correction, supported a threshold model. The US EPA maintains its reliance on the LNT model for cancer risk assessment despite these corrections.
Episode 22: Making Sense of History and a Path Forward by Dr. Calabrese
Dr. Calabrese discusses how we can make sense of these historical events that many in our field may never have known or previously heard about, as we were taught a different history at our academic institutions. He provides answers to questions like: What impact has the linear no-threshold model had on society? What should we do next to strengthen the scientific basis of radiation protection moving forward?
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016 to Stop Putin. That Bet Backfired Badly. | RealClearInvestigations
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016 to Stop Putin. That Bet Backfired Badly. | RealClearInvestigations: Ukrainian-Democratic coordination traces back to 2014, when then-Obama Vice President Joe Biden helped install Petro Poroshenko in Kiev. Then came collusion against Trump.
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInv
Did Joe Biden's Millions Really Come From His Book Sales?
Did Joe Biden's Millions Really Come From His Book Sales?: The sources of President Joe Biden's large income after he left his post as vice president have never been detailed in his tax returns.
The FDA’s Own Experts Have No Idea Why It Approved Another COVID Booster Dose | The Daily Caller
The FDA’s Own Experts Have No Idea Why It Approved Another COVID Booster Dose | The Daily Caller: The Food and Drug Administration bypassed many of its own protocols to speed through authorization of Pfizer's second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine this week
What Are the Effects of America's Narcissism Epidemic? | RealClearScience
What Are the Effects of America's Narcissism Epidemic? | RealClearScience: There's a strong case to be made that since the end of World War II, Americans have grown increasingly narcissistic on average – more entitled, with an inflated sense of self-importance.
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