principiascientificinternational--2020-06-23--Science First: Remote Control Hormones Using Nanoparticles

Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol .
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders , such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder .
The new research , detailed in the journal Science Advances , could help scientists investigate the links between hormones and mental health disorders , as well as develop new therapies for depression , anxiety and PTSD .
“ We ’ re looking how can we study and eventually treat stress disorders by modulating peripheral organ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invasive in the central nervous system , ” study co-author Polina Anikeeva , professor of materials science and engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT , told MIT News .
To remotely control the release of hormones , scientists targeted ion channels that regulate the flow of calcium into adrenal cells .
When calcium levels rise , cells in the adrenal glands begin to pump up hormone production .
“ If we want to modulate the release of those hormones , we need to be able to essentially modulate the influx @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said lead study author Dekel Rosenfeld , an MIT postdoc in Anikeeva ’ s group .
Scientists decided to use heat to manipulate the calcium ion channels .
The channels produce more calcium in response to thermal energy .
Researchers developed special nanoparticles made out of magnetite , tiny magnetic crystals composed of iron oxide .
The nanoparticles can be injected into the adrenal gland .
When exposed to a weak magnetic field , the nanoparticles heat up and trigger the production of calcium .
In lab tests , nanoparticles injected into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least six months .
When exposed to a weak magnetic field , the nanoparticles heated up 6 degrees Celsius — enough to release the flow calcium from the ion channels , but not so much as to damage surrounding tissue .
In response to the increased flow of calcium , the adrenal glands of the lab rats doubled cortisol production and increased noradrenaline production by 25 percent .
The heat-sensitive ion channels targeted by scientists and their novel nanoparticles — called TRPV1 channels — are found in most mammals and are linked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pain receptors .
Scientists expect their breakthrough technology to be used to study the effects of hormone release on mental health disorders like PTSD .
In the future , remote adrenal gland modulation could be used to treat depression , anxiety and PTSD .
The technology could also be used to study and treat pain disorders .
“ Being able to modulate pain receptors with this technique potentially will allow us to study pain , control pain and have some clinical applications in the future , which hopefully may offer an alternative to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Anikeeva said .
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Science First: Remote Control Hormones Using Nanoparticles
Written by Brooks Hays
Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new research, detailed in the journal Science Advances, could help scientists investigate the links between hormones and mental health disorders, as well as develop new therapies for depression, anxiety and PTSD.
“We’re looking how can we study and eventually treat stress disorders by modulating peripheral organ function, rather than doing something highly invasive in the central nervous system,” study co-author Polina Anikeeva, professor of materials science and engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, told MIT News.
To remotely control the release of hormones, scientists targeted ion channels that regulate the flow of calcium into adrenal cells. When calcium levels rise, cells in the adrenal glands begin to pump up hormone production.
“If we want to modulate the release of those hormones, we need to be able to essentially modulate the influx of calcium into adrenal cells,” said lead study author Dekel Rosenfeld, an MIT postdoc in Anikeeva’s group.
Scientists decided to use heat to manipulate the calcium ion channels. The channels produce more calcium in response to thermal energy.
Researchers developed special nanoparticles made out of magnetite, tiny magnetic crystals composed of iron oxide. The nanoparticles can be injected into the adrenal gland. When exposed to a weak magnetic field, the nanoparticles heat up and trigger the production of calcium.
In lab tests, nanoparticles injected into the adrenal glands of rats stayed there for at least six months. When exposed to a weak magnetic field, the nanoparticles heated up 6 degrees Celsius — enough to release the flow calcium from the ion channels, but not so much as to damage surrounding tissue.
In response to the increased flow of calcium, the adrenal glands of the lab rats doubled cortisol production and increased noradrenaline production by 25 percent.
The heat-sensitive ion channels targeted by scientists and their novel nanoparticles — called TRPV1 channels — are found in most mammals and are linked with a variety of neurons, including pain receptors.
Scientists expect their breakthrough technology to be used to study the effects of hormone release on mental health disorders like PTSD. In the future, remote adrenal gland modulation could be used to treat depression, anxiety and PTSD. The technology could also be used to study and treat pain disorders.
“Being able to modulate pain receptors with this technique potentially will allow us to study pain, control pain and have some clinical applications in the future, which hopefully may offer an alternative to medications or implants for chronic pain,” Anikeeva said.
Read more at www.spacedaily.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-24--Arkansas Food Plant Tests 95% ‘asymptomatic’ for COV-19

Rather than focus on the number of cases of coronavirus , why won ’ t the media spend more time focusing on the fact that so few of them are serious and that we have overreacted to the virus since March ?
We are seeing a lot of cases , but very few hospitalizations , as shown in the latest test results from a meatpacking plant .
“ Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas ” was the headline of an AP article on Sunday .
That will naturally alarm the public .
However , the real headline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tyson Foods employees in Benton and Washington counties tested positive , 95 % of them had no symptoms .
Twenty-six of the 481 who tested positive did present some symptoms .
In the Berry Street facility , which had the largest number of cases out of the six facilities , 223 of 227 who tested positive were asymptomatic .
The media and political elites refuse to report the good news that the models were off , the virus was always more prevalent then we thought , and therefore , it ’ s much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue to use the discovery of more cases as a pretext for more draconian shutdowns and restrictions , as if this is still the virus with a 3.4 % fatality rate that the World Health Organization predicted .
When the CDC estimated that the infection fatality rate was 0.26 % , that was factoring in a 35 % asymptomatic rate .
But what if the virus is even more prevalent than that because the share of asymptomatics is even higher ?
Some estimate the number to be at 80 % .
An Italian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the age of 60 were asymptomatic .
Given that the majority of people who get the virus are asymptomatic , we can no longer assume that even the serology tests are capturing anywhere near the full number of people who already got the virus , because many who had the virus test negative for antibodies .
Earlier this month , a study from the University of California found , “ Growing evidence suggests that asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections , together comprising > 95 % of all infections , may be associated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” They estimate that only 40 % of asymptomatic patients would retain antibodies for 180 days , 60 % of mildly symptomatic , and 95 % of severe cases .
Another study from China published at Nature Medicine estimates that “ 40 % of asymptomatic individuals became seronegative and 12.9 % of the symptomatic group became negative for IgG in the early convalescent phase.
” A study from the University of Zurich found a close relationship between the severity of the viral infection and the number of antibodies produced during the convalescent period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ antibodies seemed to correlate nearly perfectly commensurately to the severity of symptoms prior to recovery .
Thus , an unknown percentage of those who show up negative in serology tests likely had the virus but no longer present with antibodies .
This is aside from the theory that some people who don ’ t present with symptoms never produced antibodies because T cells and B cells from the immune system warded off the virus .
A brand-new study from Strasbourg University Hospital in France found that a majority of mildly symptomatic patients studied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and did not produce antibodies .
The researchers therefore conclude that “ epidemiological data relying only on the detection of SARS-Cov2 antibodies may lead to substantial underestimation of prior exposure to the virus.
” While it is unclear whether these individuals remain immune to a secondary infection if they don ’ t have antibodies , what is clear is that exponentially more people likely had the infection .
Which in turn means that the fatality rate is even lower than we think .
Thus , the next time you see the media reporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data on ICUs and fatalities , just know that their report is proving the opposite of their panic-driven headlines .

Arkansas Food Plant Tests 95% ‘asymptomatic’ for COV-19
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Rather than focus on the number of cases of coronavirus, why won’t the media spend more time focusing on the fact that so few of them are serious and that we have overreacted to the virus since March?
We are seeing a lot of cases, but very few hospitalizations, as shown in the latest test results from a meatpacking plant.
“Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas” was the headline of an AP article on Sunday. That will naturally alarm the public. However, the real headline is that although 13{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of all Tyson Foods employees in Benton and Washington counties tested positive, 95{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of them had no symptoms. Twenty-six of the 481 who tested positive did present some symptoms. In the Berry Street facility, which had the largest number of cases out of the six facilities, 223 of 227 who tested positive were asymptomatic.
The media and political elites refuse to report the good news that the models were off, the virus was always more prevalent then we thought, and therefore, it’s much less deadly than we thought. They continue to use the discovery of more cases as a pretext for more draconian shutdowns and restrictions, as if this is still the virus with a 3.4{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} fatality rate that the World Health Organization predicted.
When the CDC estimated that the infection fatality rate was 0.26{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}, that was factoring in a 35{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} asymptomatic rate. But what if the virus is even more prevalent than that because the share of asymptomatics is even higher? Some estimate the number to be at 80{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}. An Italian study found that 70{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of those under the age of 60 were asymptomatic.
Given that the majority of people who get the virus are asymptomatic, we can no longer assume that even the serology tests are capturing anywhere near the full number of people who already got the virus, because many who had the virus test negative for antibodies. Earlier this month, a study from the University of California found, “Growing evidence suggests that asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, together comprising >95{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of all infections, may be associated with lower antibody titers than severe infections.” They estimate that only 40{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of asymptomatic patients would retain antibodies for 180 days, 60{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of mildly symptomatic, and 95{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of severe cases.
Another study from China published at Nature Medicine estimates that “40{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of asymptomatic individuals became seronegative and 12.9{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the symptomatic group became negative for IgG in the early convalescent phase.” A study from the University of Zurich found a close relationship between the severity of the viral infection and the number of antibodies produced during the convalescent period of that patient. The level of antibodies seemed to correlate nearly perfectly commensurately to the severity of symptoms prior to recovery.
Thus, an unknown percentage of those who show up negative in serology tests likely had the virus but no longer present with antibodies. This is aside from the theory that some people who don’t present with symptoms never produced antibodies because T cells and B cells from the immune system warded off the virus. A brand-new study from Strasbourg University Hospital in France found that a majority of mildly symptomatic patients studied warded off the virus with T cells and did not produce antibodies. The researchers therefore conclude that “epidemiological data relying only on the detection of SARS-Cov2 antibodies may lead to substantial underestimation of prior exposure to the virus.”
While it is unclear whether these individuals remain immune to a secondary infection if they don’t have antibodies, what is clear is that exponentially more people likely had the infection. Which in turn means that the fatality rate is even lower than we think. Thus, the next time you see the media reporting on discovery of more cases without accompanying data on ICUs and fatalities, just know that their report is proving the opposite of their panic-driven headlines.
Author: Daniel Horowitz is a senior editor of Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @RMConservative. **** PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-25--Linking Climate Change To Floods Not Supported By Science

Linking Climate Change To Floods Not Supported By Science Nobel laureate Richard Feynman said it best : “ It doesn ’ t matter how beautiful your theory is , it doesn ’ t matter how smart you are .
If it doesn ’ t agree with experiment , it ’ s wrong.
” Testing theories with data is how theories are validated .
Yet the need to “ ‘ kick the tires ’ on a theory is often overlooked when the media assesses extreme weather .
A recent CBC News story headline declared : “ Yes , we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s due to climate change , study confirms.
” According to the CBC , which carried the report on its flagship news show , “ Warmer temperatures due to climate change lead to wetter air , and we ’ ve seen more extreme rainfall and flooding across North America .
But is there really evidence that the two are related ?
Yes , there is.
” Well , no there isn ’ t .
The story was based on an Environment Canada study , Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CBC report missed : • The Environment Canada study presented theoretical projections from models that the data did not consistently validate .
In some regions , the models predicted changes and trends quite contrary to those reported and also contrary to measured data .
• It missed the big picture .
Watersheds are complex and precipitation is only one-factor affecting flood risk — warmer temperatures mean mitigating factors like less runoff from snowmelt .
The study referenced that fact , but not the CBC story .
The CBC ’ s French service , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Environment Canada study to “ sudden intense downpours , ” flash flooding , and sewer geysers .
It also neglected data contradicting model results , and limitations of the models in projecting such extreme events .
CBC and R-C coverage has been a problem in the past .
The R-C Ombudsman found that a reported increase in severe “ 100-year ” storms was not supported by data and required correction .
The CBC Ombudsman encouraged journalists to be “ clearer with their choice of tenses ” when separating past , present , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continues to report on urban flooding with statistics saying rainfall is now more frequent when those statistics are not observed in measured data at all but are rather from a numerical simulation model projecting the future .
There is an ongoing tendency to confuse models and actual data .
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman , the author of Thinking , Fast and Slow , suggested we fall victim to cognitive biases by Thinking Fast , thus moving us away from the rational thought of Thinking Slow .
For example , a “ substitution bias @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complex judgment for an easily understood one .
It may be easier to point to neat model results as “ proof , ” particularly when these results confirm our expectation than to wade through noisy , conflicting observational data .
We can not argue that all floods are caused by climate change .
Fast reporting also missed key study details in the rainfall story , particularly key limitations .
The study itself says , “ Many of the physical processes that produce extreme rainfall occur at spatial scales smaller than those that can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Local-scale events are not well captured.
” It also stated model results may diverge from observations in the west and central west — observations show decreases in extreme precipitation while all three models show increases .
In some regions , it turns out all models are “ wrong ” !
Are we merely being difficult here ?
If one- to five-day precipitation is projected to increase , does that not imply that there will be more runoff and flooding in large rural watersheds ?
Not necessarily .
Even if precipitation increases , warmer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thus less snowmelt .
Such mitigating factors are among the reasons the official attribution study for Alberta ’ s 2013 flood stated categorically that “ no anthropogenic influence can be detected for one-day and three-day surface runoff.
” A broader analysis of major floods across North America and Europe using observational data found “ the number of significant trends in major-flood occurrence across North America and Europe was approximately the number expected due to chance alone.
” Checking theories with data shows that there is yet no change in significant floods .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local data ?
For example , how about using rain data to check theoretical models ?
Data for 651 weather stations in Environment Canada ’ s Engineering Climate Datasets show that a mere 4.9 percent of annual maximum one-day rainfalls have to date shown a statistically significant increase .
And what about those shorter ( two hours or less ) , sudden intense downpours ?
For this large data set , that rainfall increased in only just over four percent of the cases .
These small increases , and their flip side ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few and can be explained by chance .
So the evidence is lacking on changes in the particular rain events linked to urban flooding .
All of us , including the media , must embrace the reality that weather and infrastructure systems are complex with no simple answers .
Reporting accurately and fairly on complex phenomena means not glossing over model uncertainties or omitting conflicting data .
In promoting action on flooding , certainly a crucial priority , one CBC interviewee stated that “ time is not a luxury.
” Given the gaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s time for some slow thinking about floods before we rush into fast decisions .
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Linking Climate Change To Floods Not Supported By Science
Written by Robert Muir & Bryan Karney
Nobel laureate Richard Feynman said it best: “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Testing theories with data is how theories are validated. Yet the need to “‘kick the tires’ on a theory is often overlooked when the media assesses extreme weather.
A recent CBC News story headline declared: “Yes, we’re getting more extreme rainfall, and it’s due to climate change, study confirms.”
According to the CBC, which carried the report on its flagship news show, “Warmer temperatures due to climate change lead to wetter air, and we’ve seen more extreme rainfall and flooding across North America. But is there really evidence that the two are related? Yes, there is.”
Well, no there isn’t. The story was based on an Environment Canada study, Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America. Here’s what the CBC report missed:
• The Environment Canada study presented theoretical projections from models that the data did not consistently validate. In some regions, the models predicted changes and trends quite contrary to those reported and also contrary to measured data.
• It missed the big picture. Watersheds are complex and precipitation is only one-factor affecting flood risk — warmer temperatures mean mitigating factors like less runoff from snowmelt. The study referenced that fact, but not the CBC story.
The CBC’s French service, Radio-Canada (R-C) coverage also linked the Environment Canada study to “sudden intense downpours,” flash flooding, and sewer geysers.
It also neglected data contradicting model results, and limitations of the models in projecting such extreme events.
CBC and R-C coverage has been a problem in the past. The R-C Ombudsman found that a reported increase in severe “100-year” storms was not supported by data and required correction.
The CBC Ombudsman encouraged journalists to be “clearer with their choice of tenses” when separating past, present, and future weather phenomena.
Yet CBC continues to report on urban flooding with statistics saying rainfall is now more frequent when those statistics are not observed in measured data at all but are rather from a numerical simulation model projecting the future.
There is an ongoing tendency to confuse models and actual data.
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, suggested we fall victim to cognitive biases by Thinking Fast, thus moving us away from the rational thought of Thinking Slow.
For example, a “substitution bias” causes us to reject a computationally complex judgment for an easily understood one.
It may be easier to point to neat model results as “proof,” particularly when these results confirm our expectation than to wade through noisy, conflicting observational data. We cannot argue that all floods are caused by climate change.
Fast reporting also missed key study details in the rainfall story, particularly key limitations.
The study itself says, “Many of the physical processes that produce extreme rainfall occur at spatial scales smaller than those that can be reliably simulated by available models. Local-scale events are not well captured.”
It also stated model results may diverge from observations in the west and central west — observations show decreases in extreme precipitation while all three models show increases.
In some regions, it turns out all models are “wrong”!
Are we merely being difficult here? If one- to five-day precipitation is projected to increase, does that not imply that there will be more runoff and flooding in large rural watersheds? Not necessarily.
Even if precipitation increases, warmer weather might mean less snow, and thus less snowmelt.
Such mitigating factors are among the reasons the official attribution study for Alberta’s 2013 flood stated categorically that “no anthropogenic influence can be detected for one-day and three-day surface runoff.”
A broader analysis of major floods across North America and Europe using observational data found “the number of significant trends in major-flood occurrence across North America and Europe was approximately the number expected due to chance alone.”
Checking theories with data shows that there is yet no change in significant floods.
What if we actually look more directly at local data?
For example, how about using rain data to check theoretical models? Data for 651 weather stations in Environment Canada’s Engineering Climate Datasets show that a mere 4.9 percent of annual maximum one-day rainfalls have to date shown a statistically significant increase.
And what about those shorter (two hours or less), sudden intense downpours? For this large data set, that rainfall increased in only just over four percent of the cases.
These small increases, and their flip side (statistically significant decreases), are relatively few and can be explained by chance. So the evidence is lacking on changes in the particular rain events linked to urban flooding.
All of us, including the media, must embrace the reality that weather and infrastructure systems are complex with no simple answers.
Reporting accurately and fairly on complex phenomena means not glossing over model uncertainties or omitting conflicting data.
In promoting action on flooding, certainly a crucial priority, one CBC interviewee stated that “time is not a luxury.” Given the gaps in reporting, let’s hope there’s time for some slow thinking about floods before we rush into fast decisions.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-25--NASA Again Fiddles Cooler U.S. Temperatures to Appear Warmer

NASA Again Fiddles Cooler U.S .
Temperatures to Appear Warmer Today we look at the NASA data from six stations from the US Southeast region .
In every case , the trends were warmed up by what NASA calls “ adjusting ” .
Four of the six stations showed a clear cooling trend , which were then altered by NASA GISS ( pictured ) to show warming .
Another station saw its flat trend turned into warming , and another station had only modest warming but was altered to show stronger warming .
This is how NASA tells us the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ century , when in fact it really hasn ’ t warmed much .
NASA ’ s own data tell the story .
First , we look at Greensboro , Alabama .
Here we see how warm it was in the 1930s , 1940s , and 1950s , but look what happened once NASA GISS scientists got their hands on the data : In Newnan , Georgia , NASA simply dropped all the inconvenient warm readings of the early 20th century , see below .
A cooling trend disappeared Orwellian style : In Hattiesburg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to produce warming .
It has nothing to do with CO2 , but instead has everything to do with fudging historical data : If these types of people are capable of unabashedly rewriting history , imagine that they wouldn ’ t think twice about at the ballot boxes this coming November .
Look at what they did to the data from the Little Mountain station in South Carolina : Well , at least there wasn ’ t any cooling recorded at the station of Cullowhee , North Carolina , as the next chart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has to be some warming , and so cooled the early data so that we get a warming trend .
Finally , we look at what NASA did to the temperature data from Lake City , Florida , below .
A clear cooling trend was altered to show warming .
NASA GISS scientists obviously have no scruples about turning historical records into modern lies .
Anyone else would be put on the dock for such deceit – at least intensely investigated .
But NASA GISS scientists get away with it because they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told , and so who are we to question them – no matter how fishy it all appears ?
There ’ s no one to really police them .
Unless this stops , very dark tyrannical times lie ahead for us .
The alterations are systemic .
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NASA Again Fiddles Cooler U.S. Temperatures to Appear Warmer
Written by Kirye and P. Gosselin
Today we look at the NASA data from six stations from the US Southeast region. In every case, the trends were warmed up by what NASA calls “adjusting”.
Four of the six stations showed a clear cooling trend, which were then altered by NASA GISS (pictured) to show warming.
Another station saw its flat trend turned into warming, and another station had only modest warming but was altered to show stronger warming.
This is how NASA tells us the US has been warming over the past century, when in fact it really hasn’t warmed much.
NASA’s own data tell the story.
First, we look at Greensboro, Alabama. Here we see how warm it was in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, but look what happened once NASA GISS scientists got their hands on the data:
In Newnan, Georgia, NASA simply dropped all the inconvenient warm readings of the early 20th century, see below. A cooling trend disappeared Orwellian style:
In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, cooling was also altered to produce warming. It has nothing to do with CO2, but instead has everything to do with fudging historical data:
If these types of people are capable of unabashedly rewriting history, imagine that they wouldn’t think twice about at the ballot boxes this coming November.
Look at what they did to the data from the Little Mountain station in South Carolina:
Well, at least there wasn’t any cooling recorded at the station of Cullowhee, North Carolina, as the next chart shows.
But NASA insists that it has to be some warming, and so cooled the early data so that we get a warming trend.
Finally, we look at what NASA did to the temperature data from Lake City, Florida, below. A clear cooling trend was altered to show warming.
NASA GISS scientists obviously have no scruples about turning historical records into modern lies. Anyone else would be put on the dock for such deceit – at least intensely investigated.
But NASA GISS scientists get away with it because they’re “experts”, we are told, and so who are we to question them – no matter how fishy it all appears?
There’s no one to really police them. Unless this stops, very dark tyrannical times lie ahead for us. The alterations are systemic.
UPDATE: Here are the plots for a station in Tennessee (no surprise here either):
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-25--Will Eating Bugs End U.S. And African Protein Shortages?

Will Eating Bugs End U.S. And African Protein Shortages ?
Nearly two centuries ago , amid a fungal infestation that destroyed Irish potato crops and brought famine , starvation , death , and the emigration of countless men , women , and children , Gulliver ’ s Travels author Dr. Jonathon Swift offered “ A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country , and for making them beneficial to the publick [ sic ] .
” Dr .
Swift suggested that children too young to work could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As he explained , “ a young healthy child well nursed , is , at a year old , a most delicious , nourishing and wholesome food , whether stewed , roasted , baked , or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
” Surely , he said , this is preferable to aborting unborn or murdering newly born children .
Of course , his proposal was only in jest , a sly response to the callous disregard many of his countrymen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plight of poor families throughout the United Kingdom .
Today , despite enormous advances in seeds , fertilizers , irrigation , mechanized equipment , pest control , and agricultural practices , famine still stalks dozens of countries , especially in Africa .
Millions still live on the edge of starvation , all too often kept there by despicable government agencies , pressure groups , and financiers that despise modern agriculture , promote “ agro-ecology ” and even oppose Golden Rice .
Africa ’ s poverty , malnutrition , despair , and premature death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by one of the worst plagues of desert locusts in memory .
Swarms numbering in the billions descended on East Africa , which was completely unprepared to cope with them .
The first swarms unleashed even larger second and third waves , with swarms larger than Manhattan .
The insatiable insects are devouring millions of square miles of crops , pasture lands , gardens , and forests , creating massive food shortages that could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation .
Meanwhile , coronavirus outbreaks among workers forced meatpacking plants to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off the menu at many locations , and the fast-food chain ’ s customers are again asking “ where ’ s the beef ?
” – echoing the iconic television commercials from 35 years ago .
Pork is also in short supply , even as American pork shipments to China quadrupled in recent months .
Chicken too is scarce .
But now we may have a fortuitous alignment of the stars , a happy confluence of events , wherein a modest proposal for abundant food in the form of locusts could benefit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Up to now , we have had an unhappy confluence of sick ideologies : the belief that too many people are a cancer on the Earth , depleting fossil fuels that are destroying our climate and planet , and ignoring what former Obama science advisor John Holdren insisted was a vital need for modern societies to de-develop , de-industrialize , and dictate to still-poor countries how much they will be permitted to develop .
The ideologies have forced too many Africans to continue living primitive subsistence lifestyles or pack into impoverished cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ roadway , communication , refrigeration , hospital , sanitation , and employment opportunities .
The locust plagues could turn this awful situation around .
Enormous nets strung between two trucks or airplanes could harvest millions of locusts at a time .
Thousands could be employed constructing and operating food processing facilities , hauling insects to them , running them through roasting ovens and freeze-drying machines , packing and shipping the finished delicacies to hungry families around Africa , and North America , and teaching people to savor them .
Thousands of more jobs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ export and import businesses .
Commercial airliners sidelined by COVID would be rejuvenated .
Millions of people could go almost overnight from hunger to enjoying what Popular Science magazine has described as delicious , nutritious food , rich in protein and all nine amino acids essential for human development .
The new meat substitutes would give entirely new meanings to “ in-flight meals.
” There is yet another benefit .
These activities and facilities would require reliable , affordable electricity , on a far larger scale than can possibly be provided by wind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ require coal , gas , nuclear , and hydroelectric power plants .
However , environmentalist pressure groups , UN agencies , the World Bank , and multilateral ( anti ) development banks have been telling Africans that wind and solar power must be their energy future .
They and the EU clearly won ’ t finance those power plants .
But perhaps Chinese agencies and companies will finance and build them , as they have in many other countries – often under exploitative , extortionist loan arrangements , to be sure .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ desire to resurrect China ’ s tarnished reputation for having unleashed the Wuhan virus on unsuspecting nations .
They might also secure special prices on locust products that would be right at home in China ’ s wet markets and on its television equivalent to “ Bizarre Food ” with Andrew Zimmern .
Popular Science expresses deep concern that “ raising cattle requires a lot of space and water , and more room for cattle means less [ sic ] trees , which in turn means a diminished natural capacity of the planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly have no clue that modern non-organic farming with biotech crops enables fewer farmers to raise more crops , from less land , with less water and fewer pesticides , than any other farming methods in history – or that cattle typically graze on lands that have limited value for growing crops .
They obviously have not read any of my reports and articles about the monumental impacts that wind , solar , battery , and biofuel technologies have on farms , scenic , and wildlife habitat lands .
Instead , PopSci cites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Food and Agriculture Organization , which has worked for years with radical environmentalist groups to oppose modern farming , biotech , and even hybrid seeds , synthetic insecticides and fertilizers , and even mechanized equipment like tractors .
PopSci and the FAO extol the virtues of “ entomophagy , ” a fancy progressive term for eating bugs , not beef .
Indeed , they say , this could be “ the answer humanity is looking for.
” ( If that ’ s the answer , it must have been a very foolish question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for processing “ edible insects ” into tasty consumable products that can improve people ’ s diets and livelihoods , create thriving local businesses , and even promote the “ inclusion of women.
” It has sections on overcoming the yuck factor and setting up industrial-scale processing operations .
( I should have known the FAO would be ahead of me on that . )
The FAO study says bugs can have twice as much protein as beef and 1.5 times as much as fish and poultry .
PopSci sings the praises of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and mealworms – whole or powdered – like snacks , desserts , guacamole , or entire meals .
Mealworms have “ an earthy flavor , similar to mushrooms or beets , ” says Joseph Yoon , chef and founder of Brooklyn Bugs , a “ catering company and education platform ” in New York that serves an entire menu featuring insects .
You can add them to brownies – or toss some salt on sautéed mealworms to get “ protein-boosted potato chips.
” Since they are committed to saving the planet from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporations , and modern technologies , people attending the next UN climate confab in November 2021 in Glasgow should expect to dine on an entire smorgasbord of tasty locusts and other bugs .
Perhaps they can be paired with haggis , Scotland ’ s savory traditional pudding of bone broth , sheep heart , liver and lungs , onion , oatmeal , suet , and spices , cooked together in the animal ’ s stomach .
Back here in the States , for the same reason , those delectable African locusts could figure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Wisconsin ’ s Brew City this August .
They would pair very nicely with those pilsner beers that made Milwaukee famous .
Personally , though , I ’ ll stick with hearty beef , lamb , chicken , ribs – and really big bugs : shrimp , lobster , crabs , and crawfish – served up at the Republican National Convention , accompanied by a good IPA .
Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ( www.CFACT.org ) and author of Eco-Imperialism : Green power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and articles on energy , environment , climate , and human rights issues PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Will Eating Bugs End U.S. And African Protein Shortages?
Written by Paul Driessen
Nearly two centuries ago, amid a fungal infestation that destroyed Irish potato crops and brought famine, starvation, death, and the emigration of countless men, women, and children, Gulliver’s Travels author Dr. Jonathon Swift offered “A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick [sic].”
Dr. Swift suggested that children too young to work could be eaten in place of potatoes. As he explained, “a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”
Surely, he said, this is preferable to aborting unborn or murdering newly born children.
Of course, his proposal was only in jest, a sly response to the callous disregard many of his countrymen displayed toward the Irish tragedy and the plight of poor families throughout the United Kingdom.
Today, despite enormous advances in seeds, fertilizers, irrigation, mechanized equipment, pest control, and agricultural practices, famine still stalks dozens of countries, especially in Africa.
Millions still live on the edge of starvation, all too often kept there by despicable government agencies, pressure groups, and financiers that despise modern agriculture, promote “agro-ecology” and even oppose Golden Rice.
Africa’s poverty, malnutrition, despair, and premature death have been made even worse this year by one of the worst plagues of desert locusts in memory. Swarms numbering in the billions descended on East Africa, which was completely unprepared to cope with them.
The first swarms unleashed even larger second and third waves, with swarms larger than Manhattan.
The insatiable insects are devouring millions of square miles of crops, pasture lands, gardens, and forests, creating massive food shortages that could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation.
Meanwhile, coronavirus outbreaks among workers forced meatpacking plants to close.
Wendy’s took burgers off the menu at many locations, and the fast-food chain’s customers are again asking “where’s the beef?” – echoing the iconic television commercials from 35 years ago.
Pork is also in short supply, even as American pork shipments to China quadrupled in recent months. Chicken too is scarce.
But now we may have a fortuitous alignment of the stars, a happy confluence of events, wherein a modest proposal for abundant food in the form of locusts could benefit the hungry “publicks” of two continents.
Up to now, we have had an unhappy confluence of sick ideologies: the belief that too many people are a cancer on the Earth, depleting fossil fuels that are destroying our climate and planet, and ignoring what former Obama science advisor John Holdren insisted was a vital need for modern societies to de-develop, de-industrialize, and dictate to still-poor countries how much they will be permitted to develop.
The ideologies have forced too many Africans to continue living primitive subsistence lifestyles or pack into impoverished cities that lack basic energy, water, roadway, communication, refrigeration, hospital, sanitation, and employment opportunities. The locust plagues could turn this awful situation around.
Enormous nets strung between two trucks or airplanes could harvest millions of locusts at a time.
Thousands could be employed constructing and operating food processing facilities, hauling insects to them, running them through roasting ovens and freeze-drying machines, packing and shipping the finished delicacies to hungry families around Africa, and North America, and teaching people to savor them.
Thousands of more jobs could be created by managing the new export and import businesses. Commercial airliners sidelined by COVID would be rejuvenated.
Millions of people could go almost overnight from hunger to enjoying what Popular Science magazine has described as delicious, nutritious food, rich in protein and all nine amino acids essential for human development.
The new meat substitutes would give entirely new meanings to “in-flight meals.”
There is yet another benefit. These activities and facilities would require reliable, affordable electricity, on a far larger scale than can possibly be provided by wind turbines and solar panels.
They will require coal, gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants.
However, environmentalist pressure groups, UN agencies, the World Bank, and multilateral (anti)development banks have been telling Africans that wind and solar power must be their energy future. They and the EU clearly won’t finance those power plants.
But perhaps Chinese agencies and companies will finance and build them, as they have in many other countries – often under exploitative, extortionist loan arrangements, to be sure.
The projects could also be incentivized by a desire to resurrect China’s tarnished reputation for having unleashed the Wuhan virus on unsuspecting nations.
They might also secure special prices on locust products that would be right at home in China’s wet markets and on its television equivalent to “Bizarre Food” with Andrew Zimmern.
Popular Science expresses deep concern that “raising cattle requires a lot of space and water, and more room for cattle means less [sic] trees, which in turn means a diminished natural capacity of the planet to process carbon dioxide.”
Its writers clearly have no clue that modern non-organic farming with biotech crops enables fewer farmers to raise more crops, from less land, with less water and fewer pesticides, than any other farming methods in history – or that cattle typically graze on lands that have limited value for growing crops.
They obviously have not read any of my reports and articles about the monumental impacts that wind, solar, battery, and biofuel technologies have on farms, scenic, and wildlife habitat lands.
Instead, PopSci cites a 2013 report by the ever-helpful UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which has worked for years with radical environmentalist groups to oppose modern farming, biotech, and even hybrid seeds, synthetic insecticides and fertilizers, and even mechanized equipment like tractors.
PopSci and the FAO extol the virtues of “entomophagy,” a fancy progressive term for eating bugs, not beef.
Indeed, they say, this could be “the answer humanity is looking for.” (If that’s the answer, it must have been a very foolish question.)
The FAO report offers techniques for processing “edible insects” into tasty consumable products that can improve people’s diets and livelihoods, create thriving local businesses, and even promote the “inclusion of women.”
It has sections on overcoming the yuck factor and setting up industrial-scale processing operations. (I should have known the FAO would be ahead of me on that.)
The FAO study says bugs can have twice as much protein as beef and 1.5 times as much as fish and poultry. PopSci sings the praises of grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, ants, and mealworms – whole or powdered – like snacks, desserts, guacamole, or entire meals.
Mealworms have “an earthy flavor, similar to mushrooms or beets,” says Joseph Yoon, chef and founder of Brooklyn Bugs, a “catering company and education platform” in New York that serves an entire menu featuring insects.
You can add them to brownies – or toss some salt on sautéed mealworms to get “protein-boosted potato chips.”
Since they are committed to saving the planet from fossil fuels, climate change, big corporations, and modern technologies, people attending the next UN climate confab in November 2021 in Glasgow should expect to dine on an entire smorgasbord of tasty locusts and other bugs.
Perhaps they can be paired with haggis, Scotland’s savory traditional pudding of bone broth, sheep heart, liver and lungs, onion, oatmeal, suet, and spices, cooked together in the animal’s stomach.
Back here in the States, for the same reason, those delectable African locusts could figure prominently at the upcoming Democratic National convention in Wisconsin’s Brew City this August.
They would pair very nicely with those pilsner beers that made Milwaukee famous.
Personally, though, I’ll stick with hearty beef, lamb, chicken, ribs – and really big bugs: shrimp, lobster, crabs, and crawfish – served up at the Republican National Convention, accompanied by a good IPA.
Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power, Black Death, and other books and articles on energy, environment, climate, and human rights issues
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-25--CDC Scientist: We tried to ‘destroy vaccine-autism study documents’

CDC Scientist : We tried to ‘ destroy vaccine-autism study documents ’ A Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) senior scientist has made an unprecedented admission : he and his colleagues–he says– committed scientific misconduct to cover up a meaningful link between vaccines and autism in black boys .
[ PSI editor note : this article was first published in June 2016 ] Just as startling , the CDC scientist , Dr. William Thompson , says the study co-authors “ scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study .
The remaining four co-authors all met and brought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ room , and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy documents that we had thought we should discard , and put them into a huge garbage can.
” Despite this whistleblower testimony , which Dr. Thompson provided to Rep. Bill Posey , R-Florida , there is little chance of a meaningful hearing or investigation .
In an untainted news environment , the allegations would make headlines in most legitimate publications and would trigger federal inquiries .
However , the interests of the powerful pharmaceutical industry reach deeply into Congress and the news media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.
” –CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson That ’ s why Congressman Posey resorted to simply reading some of Dr. Thompson ’ s statement today on the House floor…including the part in which Dr. Thompson says he retained the evidence that had been thrown in the garbage can , in the unlikely event that a neutral investigative or scientific body would like to see it today .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was illegal and would violate both FOIA [ Freedom of Information Act ] and DOJ [ Department of Justice ] requests , I kept hardcopies of all documents in my office , and I retain all associated computer files , ” Posey quotes Dr. Thompson as reporting .
The CDC and Thompson ’ s co-author Dr. Frank DeStefano , CDC Director of Immunization Safety , have defended the controversial study as originally published .
Dr. DeStefano explains why here in detail .
One final note : Rep. Posey unequivocally states that he is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ typically falsely portrays anyone who addresses vaccine safety issues as “ anti-vaccine.
” Listen to Rep. Posey ’ s statement by pasting the link below into your browser and going to 1:02:24 “ I rise today on matters of scientific integrity and research .
To begin with , I am absolutely , resolutely , pro-vaccine .
Advancements in medical immunization have saved countless and greatly benefitted public health .
That being said , it ’ s troubling to me that in a recent Senate hearing on childhood vaccinations , it was never mentioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 3 billion through a vaccine injury compensation program for children who have been injured by vaccinations .
“ Regardless of the subject matter , parents making decisions about their children ’ s health deserve to have the best information available to them .
They should be able to count on federal agencies to tell them the truth .
For these reasons , I bring the following matter to the House floor .
“ In August 2014 , Dr. William Thompson , a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide my office with documents related to a 2004 CDC study that examined the possibility of a relationship between [ the ] mumps , measles , rubella vaccine and autism .
In a statement released in August , 2014 , Dr. Thompson stated , ‘ I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.
’ “ Mr .
Speaker , I respectfully request the following excepts from the statement written by Dr. Thompson be entered into the record .
“ ‘ My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immunization safety branch from 2000 to 2006 , were to later co-lead three major vaccine safety studies .
The MADDSP , MMR autism cases control study was being carried out in response to the Wakefield-Lancet study that suggested an association between the MMR vaccine and an autism-like health outcome .
There were several major concerns among scientists and consumer advocates outside the CDC in the fall of 2000 , regarding the execution of the Verstraeten Study .
One of the important goals that was determined up front , in the spring of 2001 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was to have all three protocols vetted outside the CDC prior to the start of the analyses so consumer advocates could not claim that we were presenting analyses that suited our own goals and biases .
We hypothesized that if we found statistically significant effects at either 18 or 36 month thresholds , we would conclude that vaccinating children early with MMR vaccine could lead to autism-like characteristics or features .
We all met and finalized the study protocol and analysis plan .
The goal was to not deviate from the analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the Verstraeten thimerosal study published in Pediatrics in 2003 .
‘ At the Sept 5th meeting we discussed in detail how to code race for both the sample and the birth certificate sample .
At the bottom of table 7 , it also shows that for the non-birth certificate sample , the adjusted race effect statistical significance was huge .
‘ All the authors and I met and decided sometime between August and September 2002 , not to report any race effects from the paper .
Sometime soon after the meeting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects .
The co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study .
The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room , and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy documents that we had thought we should discard , and put them into a huge garbage can .
However , because I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests , I kept hardcopies of all documents in my office , and I retain all associated computer files .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the final draft of the Pediatrics paper.
’ “ Mr .
Speaker , I believe it is our duty to insure that the documents that Dr. Thompson are not ignored .
Therefore I will provide them to members of Congress and the House Committees upon request .
Considering the nature of the whistleblower ’ s documents as well as the involvement of the CDC , a hearing and a thorough investigation is warranted .
“ So I ask , Mr. Speaker , I beg , I implore my colleagues on the appropriations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ action.
” About the author : Sharyl Atkisson is an American writer and host of the TV show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson .
She is a five-time Emmy Award winner , and an Radio Television Digital News Association Edward R. Murrow Award recipient .
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CDC Scientist: We tried to ‘destroy vaccine-autism study documents’
Written by Sharryl Atkisson
A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) senior scientist has made an unprecedented admission: he and his colleagues–he says– committed scientific misconduct to cover up a meaningful link between vaccines and autism in black boys.
[PSI editor note: this article was first published in June 2016]
Just as startling, the CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, says the study co-authors “scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a huge garbage can.”
“The…co-authors…brought a big garbage can into the meeting room… [and put the documents]…into a huge garbage can.” –CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson
Despite this whistleblower testimony, which Dr. Thompson provided to Rep. Bill Posey, R-Florida, there is little chance of a meaningful hearing or investigation.
In an untainted news environment, the allegations would make headlines in most legitimate publications and would trigger federal inquiries. However, the interests of the powerful pharmaceutical industry reach deeply into Congress and the news media through lobbyists, propaganda and advertising dollars.
“The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.” –CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson
That’s why Congressman Posey resorted to simply reading some of Dr. Thompson’s statement today on the House floor…including the part in which Dr. Thompson says he retained the evidence that had been thrown in the garbage can, in the unlikely event that a neutral investigative or scientific body would like to see it today.
“[B]ecause I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and DOJ [Department of Justice] requests, I kept hardcopies of all documents in my office, and I retain all associated computer files,” Posey quotes Dr. Thompson as reporting.
The CDC and Thompson’s co-author Dr. Frank DeStefano, CDC Director of Immunization Safety, have defended the controversial study as originally published. Dr. DeStefano explains why here in detail.
One final note: Rep. Posey unequivocally states that he is pro-vaccine. However, the propaganda campaign typically falsely portrays anyone who addresses vaccine safety issues as “anti-vaccine.”
Listen to Rep. Posey’s statement by pasting the link below into your browser and going to 1:02:24
http://www.c-span.org/video/?327309-1/us-house-morning-hour&live
CDC responds to allegations it omitted vaccine-autism study link AUDIO
CDC: Possibility that vaccines rarely trigger autism
Rep. Posey’s entire statement about Dr. Thompson:
“I rise today on matters of scientific integrity and research. To begin with, I am absolutely, resolutely, pro-vaccine. Advancements in medical immunization have saved countless and greatly benefitted public health. That being said, it’s troubling to me that in a recent Senate hearing on childhood vaccinations, it was never mentioned that our government has paid out over $3 billion through a vaccine injury compensation program for children who have been injured by vaccinations.
“Regardless of the subject matter, parents making decisions about their children’s health deserve to have the best information available to them. They should be able to count on federal agencies to tell them the truth. For these reasons, I bring the following matter to the House floor.
“In August 2014, Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, worked with a whistleblower attorney to provide my office with documents related to a 2004 CDC study that examined the possibility of a relationship between [the] mumps, measles, rubella vaccine and autism. In a statement released in August, 2014, Dr. Thompson stated, ‘I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.’
“Mr. Speaker, I respectfully request the following excepts from the statement written by Dr. Thompson be entered into the record.
“Now quoting Dr. Thompson.
“‘My primary job duties while working in the immunization safety branch from 2000 to 2006, were to later co-lead three major vaccine safety studies. The MADDSP, MMR autism cases control study was being carried out in response to the Wakefield-Lancet study that suggested an association between the MMR vaccine and an autism-like health outcome. There were several major concerns among scientists and consumer advocates outside the CDC in the fall of 2000, regarding the execution of the Verstraeten Study. One of the important goals that was determined up front, in the spring of 2001, before any of these studies started, was to have all three protocols vetted outside the CDC prior to the start of the analyses so consumer advocates could not claim that we were presenting analyses that suited our own goals and biases. We hypothesized that if we found statistically significant effects at either 18 or 36 month thresholds, we would conclude that vaccinating children early with MMR vaccine could lead to autism-like characteristics or features. We all met and finalized the study protocol and analysis plan. The goal was to not deviate from the analysis plan to avoid the debacle that occurred with the Verstraeten thimerosal study published in Pediatrics in 2003.
‘At the Sept 5th meeting we discussed in detail how to code race for both the sample and the birth certificate sample. At the bottom of table 7, it also shows that for the non-birth certificate sample, the adjusted race effect statistical significance was huge.
‘All the authors and I met and decided sometime between August and September 2002, not to report any race effects from the paper. Sometime soon after the meeting, we decided to exclude reporting any race effects. The co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a huge garbage can. However, because I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hardcopies of all documents in my office, and I retain all associated computer files. I believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final draft of the Pediatrics paper.’
“Mr. Speaker, I believe it is our duty to insure that the documents that Dr. Thompson are not ignored. Therefore I will provide them to members of Congress and the House Committees upon request. Considering the nature of the whistleblower’s documents as well as the involvement of the CDC, a hearing and a thorough investigation is warranted.
“So I ask, Mr. Speaker, I beg, I implore my colleagues on the appropriations committees to please, please take such action.”
Read CDC Vaccine Safety Info here
Read other vaccine news reports here
About the author: Sharyl Atkisson is an American writer and host of the TV show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. She is a five-time Emmy Award winner, and an Radio Television Digital News Association Edward R. Murrow Award recipient.
Read more at sharylattkisson.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-25--Low-Dose Radiation a Potential Treatment For Severe Covid-19

Human medical trials have begun on severely ill COVID-19 patients using low-doses of radiation .
The first results on a very small group were published this week in a non-peer-reviewed journal that exists to get critical results out quickly to the scientific and medical community .
The results were quite extraordinary .
Researchers at Emory University Hospital , led by Dr. Mohammad Khan , Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology , treated five COVID-19 patients with severe pneumonia who were requiring supplemental oxygen and whose health was visibly deteriorating .
Their mean age was 90 with a range from 64 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were African-American , and one was Caucasian .
These patients were given a single low-dose of radiation ( 1.5 Gy ) to both lungs , delivered by a front and back beam configuration .
Patients were in an out of the Radiotherapy Department in 10 to 15 minutes .
Within 24 hours , four of the patients showed rapid improvement in oxygenation and mental status ( more awake , alert and talkative ) and were being discharged from the hospital 12 days later .
Blood tests and repeated imaging of the lungs confirmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and did not cause adverse effects – no acute skin , pulmonary , gastrointestinal or genitourinary toxicities .
The gray ( Gy ) is a dose unit of ionizing radiation defined as the absorption of one joule of radiation energy per kilogram of matter .
The Gy replaces the older unit of the rad , and 1 Gy = 100 Rad .
I should mention that medical doses are different than environmental doses as they are not whole body , but are targeted to a specific organ or tissue .
So 1.5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uses .
This treatment is critical because severe COVID-19 cases cause cytokine release syndrome , also known as a cytokine storm .
Such a storm is a deadly uncontrolled systemic inflammatory response of the body ’ s immune system resulting from the release of great amounts of pro-inflammatory cytokines , which act as a major factor in producing acute respiratory distress syndrome , or ARDS , which is what kills .
It ’ s why we need ventilators and ICU beds so badly , and why this pandemic threatens to overwhelm our hospital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is so important , and why the success rate was so exciting , is COVID-19 ’ s increasing fatality rates with age – 8 % for patients aged 70 to 79 and 14.8 % for those aged 80 and over – so showing this treatment is safe and effective for these elderly patients was vital .
Mortality rates are even higher if you get hospitalized and are in the ICU , over 50 % .
It ’ s the anti-inflammatory effects of radiation , not its antiviral action , and it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helping patients with COVID-19 and that were demonstrated in this trial .
We are already completely set up for these radiation treatments at almost every hospital and cancer center – no new preparation , additional equipment , or training is needed .
There is no supply chain issue with this treatment .
We could have been doing this since the pandemic began and saved tens of thousands of lives .
As discussed previously , several medical institutions are starting radiation therapies for COVID-19 .
The Clinicaltrials.gov website gives information on these trials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spanish clinical trial and others that have begun and more have recently been added to the ClinicalTrials.gov website , with five of them currently recruiting patients .
The countries represented are USA ( 2 ) , Spain ( 2 ) , Italy ( 1 ) , Iran ( 1 ) .
These trials are also using lower doses , in the range of 0.3 to 0.7 Gy .
One trial in India , at the AIIMS facility in New Delhi , has finished and the results are similar .
Also very small , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ill patients 0.7 Gy to the lungs and they are now stable and off of oxygen .
Ten other patients are scheduled to be treated soon .
Dr. James Welsh at Loyola University Medical Center , and former Chairman of the Board of the American College of Radiation Oncology and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radiation Oncology , is moving to begin a national trial within the next few months on this treatment using low-dose radiation to the lungs .
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Low-Dose Radiation a Potential Treatment For Severe Covid-19
Written by James Conca
Human medical trials have begun on severely ill COVID-19 patients using low-doses of radiation. The first results on a very small group were published this week in a non-peer-reviewed journal that exists to get critical results out quickly to the scientific and medical community. The results were quite extraordinary.
Researchers at Emory University Hospital, led by Dr. Mohammad Khan, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, treated five COVID-19 patients with severe pneumonia who were requiring supplemental oxygen and whose health was visibly deteriorating. Their mean age was 90 with a range from 64 to 94, four were female, four were African-American, and one was Caucasian.
These patients were given a single low-dose of radiation (1.5 Gy) to both lungs, delivered by a front and back beam configuration. Patients were in an out of the Radiotherapy Department in 10 to 15 minutes.
Within 24 hours, four of the patients showed rapid improvement in oxygenation and mental status (more awake, alert and talkative) and were being discharged from the hospital 12 days later. Blood tests and repeated imaging of the lungs confirmed that the radiation was safe and effective, and did not cause adverse effects – no acute skin, pulmonary, gastrointestinal or genitourinary toxicities.
The gray (Gy) is a dose unit of ionizing radiation defined as the absorption of one joule of radiation energy per kilogram of matter. The Gy replaces the older unit of the rad, and 1 Gy = 100 Rad. I should mention that medical doses are different than environmental doses as they are not whole body, but are targeted to a specific organ or tissue. So 1.5 Gy is quite low dose for medical uses.
This treatment is critical because severe COVID-19 cases cause cytokine release syndrome, also known as a cytokine storm. Such a storm is a deadly uncontrolled systemic inflammatory response of the body’s immune system resulting from the release of great amounts of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which act as a major factor in producing acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, which is what kills.
It’s why we need ventilators and ICU beds so badly, and why this pandemic threatens to overwhelm our hospital systems.
One reason why this trial is so important, and why the success rate was so exciting, is COVID-19’s increasing fatality rates with age – 8{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} for patients aged 70 to 79 and 14.8{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} for those aged 80 and over – so showing this treatment is safe and effective for these elderly patients was vital. Mortality rates are even higher if you get hospitalized and are in the ICU, over 50{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}.
It’s the anti-inflammatory effects of radiation, not its antiviral action, and it’s these anti-inflammatory effects that is invaluable in helping patients with COVID-19 and that were demonstrated in this trial.
We are already completely set up for these radiation treatments at almost every hospital and cancer center – no new preparation, additional equipment, or training is needed. There is no supply chain issue with this treatment.
We could have been doing this since the pandemic began and saved tens of thousands of lives.
As discussed previously, several medical institutions are starting radiation therapies for COVID-19. The Clinicaltrials.gov website gives information on these trials, including an Italian clinical trial, a Spanish clinical trial and others that have begun and more have recently been added to the ClinicalTrials.gov website, with five of them currently recruiting patients. The countries represented are USA(2), Spain(2), Italy (1), Iran(1). These trials are also using lower doses, in the range of 0.3 to 0.7 Gy.
One trial in India, at the AIIMS facility in New Delhi, has finished and the results are similar. Also very small, Dr. D.N. Sharma gave two severely ill patients 0.7 Gy to the lungs and they are now stable and off of oxygen. Ten other patients are scheduled to be treated soon.
Dr. James Welsh at Loyola University Medical Center, and former Chairman of the Board of the American College of Radiation Oncology and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radiation Oncology, is moving to begin a national trial within the next few months on this treatment using low-dose radiation to the lungs.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-26--Doctors Go to Court to Permit Public Use of HCQ COVID Drug

Doctors Go to Court to Permit Public Use of HCQ COVID Drug The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons is hoping a court will compel the release of hydroxychloroquine to the public by federal government agencies .
Attorneys for the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons ( AAPS ) , filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the preliminary injunction to force the Food & Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the Department of Health & Human Services ( HHS ) , to release the drugs .
AAPS claims that nearly 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) were donated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have not released virtually any of it to the public .
According to the physicians , millions of Americans fear attending political gatherings , religious services , and even large family get-togethers without the availability of early treatment if they were to contract COVID-19 .
The physicians question why Americans should “ have to wait until they or a loved one is on a ventilator before they gain access to medication to overcome this virus ?
” “ Why does the government continue to withhold more than 60 million doses of HCQ from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , M.D.
, the Executive Director of AAPS .
“ This potentially life-saving medication is wasting away in government warehouses while Americans are dying from COVID-19.
” The physicians want the government to release HCQ from its stockpile to the public , which they say the public “ could then immediately benefit from it.
” The physicians argue the uptick in COVID-19 in Arizona and elsewhere could “ then be handled without irrational , unjustified limitations on this medication imposed by the FDA.
” AAPS agrees with President Trump ’ s adviser Peter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obstruction by officials within the FDA to making this medication available to the public .
AAPS files with the court a chart showing how countries that encourage HCQ use , such as South Korea , India , Turkey , Russia , and Israel , have been far more successful in combatting COVID-19 than countries that have banned or discouraged early HCQ use , as the FDA has .
Last week the FDA even misled the public by falsely stating that HCQ should not be used to treat COVID-19 , when multiple studies show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been successfully treated worldwide .
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Doctors Go to Court to Permit Public Use of HCQ COVID Drug
Written by Arizona Daily Independent
The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons is hoping a court will compel the release of hydroxychloroquine to the public by federal government agencies.
Attorneys for the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the preliminary injunction to force the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), to release the drugs.
AAPS claims that nearly 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were donated to these agencies, and yet they have not released virtually any of it to the public.
According to the physicians, millions of Americans fear attending political gatherings, religious services, and even large family get-togethers without the availability of early treatment if they were to contract COVID-19.
The physicians question why Americans should “have to wait until they or a loved one is on a ventilator before they gain access to medication to overcome this virus?”
“Why does the government continue to withhold more than 60 million doses of HCQ from the public?” asks Jane Orient, M.D., the Executive Director of AAPS. “This potentially life-saving medication is wasting away in government warehouses while Americans are dying from COVID-19.”
The physicians want the government to release HCQ from its stockpile to the public, which they say the public “could then immediately benefit from it.” The physicians argue the uptick in COVID-19 in Arizona and elsewhere could “then be handled without irrational, unjustified limitations on this medication imposed by the FDA.”
AAPS agrees with President Trump’s adviser Peter Navarro, Ph.D., who decries the obstruction by officials within the FDA to making this medication available to the public.
“A perfect storm of politics in this presidential election year, along with conflicts of interest at the Defendant federal agencies, has resulted in unjustified obstacles to access to HCQ, an inexpensive medication having a track record of more than 75 years of safety,” AAPS writes in its brief being filed today in federal court.
AAPS files with the court a chart showing how countries that encourage HCQ use, such as South Korea, India, Turkey, Russia, and Israel, have been far more successful in combatting COVID-19 than countries that have banned or discouraged early HCQ use, as the FDA has. Last week the FDA even misled the public by falsely stating that HCQ should not be used to treat COVID-19, when multiple studies show its benefits, and thousands of patients have been successfully treated worldwide.
“The interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine is disrupting our political processes,”
notes AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly.
“Perhaps that is what some want, in order to deter Americans from attending political conventions and even voting, but it is unconstitutional for the FDA to infringe on these constitutional rights by blocking access to this safe medication.”
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-26--Official: Cambridge University Endorses ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’

Cambridge University reacted to one of its academics tweeting “ White Lives Don ’ t Matter ” by ignoring the backlash and promoting her to a full professorship .
As we highlighted yesterday , the controversy began when Dr Priyamvada Gopal , English academic and Churchill fellow , tweeted , “ abolish whiteness ” and “ I ’ ll say it again .
White Lives Don ’ t Matter.
” This prompted the launch of a petition to have her fired which currently has almost 15,000 signatures .
However , both the university and media outlets responded by trying to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ abused ” by a hate mob , completely pardoning her for her overtly racist comments .
Despite the fact that Twitter has now removed Gopal ’ s original tweet for hate speech , Cambridge University itself has rewarded the academic .
“ Thanks to everyone who wrote to @ Twitter : the ludicrous ban has been lifted .
I am therefore delighted to share with you personally , that last night Cambridge promoted me to a full Professorship , ” tweeted Gopal .
“ The hate mails & threats are coming in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” She also blamed the backlash on “ people who elect the likes of Trump and ( Boris ) Johnson.
” Cambridge University has therefore literally rewarded Gopal for publishing racist hate speech .
Their approach to another academic , Noah Carl , was somewhat different after 500 academics signed a letter challenging Carl ’ s research on race and intelligence .
He was swiftly dismissed .
Cambridge University also previously rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to Jordan Peterson after a woke mob complained about his stance on political correctness and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a man wearing a t-shirt that said “ I ’ m a proud Islamophobe.
” Having formerly enjoyed a reputation as one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world , Cambridge University is now proudly proclaiming itself to be a safe space for vile racists .
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Official: Cambridge University Endorses ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’
Written by Paul Joseph Watson
Cambridge University reacted to one of its academics tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” by ignoring the backlash and promoting her to a full professorship.
As we highlighted yesterday, the controversy began when Dr Priyamvada Gopal, English academic and Churchill fellow, tweeted, “abolish whiteness” and “I’ll say it again. White Lives Don’t Matter.”
This prompted the launch of a petition to have her fired which currently has almost 15,000 signatures.
However, both the university and media outlets responded by trying to frame a narrative that Gopal was being “abused” by a hate mob, completely pardoning her for her overtly racist comments.
Despite the fact that Twitter has now removed Gopal’s original tweet for hate speech, Cambridge University itself has rewarded the academic.
“Thanks to everyone who wrote to @Twitter: the ludicrous ban has been lifted. I am therefore delighted to share with you personally, that last night Cambridge promoted me to a full Professorship,” tweeted Gopal. “The hate mails & threats are coming in non-stop but @CambridgeCops are following up.”
She also blamed the backlash on “people who elect the likes of Trump and (Boris) Johnson.”
Cambridge University has therefore literally rewarded Gopal for publishing racist hate speech.
Their approach to another academic, Noah Carl, was somewhat different after 500 academics signed a letter challenging Carl’s research on race and intelligence. He was swiftly dismissed.
Cambridge University also previously rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to Jordan Peterson after a woke mob complained about his stance on political correctness and after he appeared in a photograph with a man wearing a t-shirt that said “I’m a proud Islamophobe.”
Having formerly enjoyed a reputation as one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world, Cambridge University is now proudly proclaiming itself to be a safe space for vile racists.
Read more by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News
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principiascientificinternational--2020-06-26--New Study Provokes Woke Civil War

New Study Provokes Woke Civil War

A secret group email , or listserv , of progressive data analysts has been outed after one of its members was ostracized for publicly sharing data showing that violent rioting doesn ’ t tend to be effective in persuading people to support a political cause .
The listserv , called “ Progressphiles , ” appears to be similar to the JournoList , JournoList 2.0 and GameJournoPros — a place where members of a profession purportedly dedicated to facts and truth-telling gather to enforce political conformity and groupthink on each other , pressuring members to push leftist narratives even when they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problematic facts , in this case , came from a new paper from a professor at Princeton , showing that violent rioting makes undecided observers less likely to support a cause , while peaceful protesting has the opposite effect .
One of Progressphile ’ s members , election data analyst David Shor , made the mistake of tweeting this study , and was immediately denounced as a racist .
Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine obtained the full discussion from the listserv , in which Shor was roundly condemned as a racist and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of stating obvious facts .
One member of the discussion urged his fellow progressive data analysts not to let facts get in the way of a good narrative , especially if the narrative helps “ systematically dismantle the very institution of policing : ” For those of you who don ’ t realize what makes the tweet problematic , try not to overanalyze the statistical validity of the research paper and think about the broader impact it will have if people perceive it to be true .
Democrats will wave this tweet urging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which will conveniently ignore how the majority of the most visible of these actions have occurred in areas where we have Democrats running the city council .
Shor had initially defended his tweet by saying “ Helping Trump get re-elected is not going to lead to better behavior by cops , ” and I ’ m certain many people here would be inclined to agree .
But it is this sort of binary thinking that we have that can be so oppressive as well .
Helping Trump get un-elected ( in itself ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behavior by cops , when the goal of abolitionist work isn ’ t to have better-trained/nicer/POC cops but to systematically dismantle the very institution of policing to begin with .
Another , predictably , said the study tweeted by Shor was racist : I ’ ve been in progressive spaces since 2006 , and it didn ’ t take long for me to understand that in our spaces , racism isn ’ t always loud .
It isn ’ t always brash or demanding , spewing racial slurs with a foaming tongue .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in seemingly innocuous data and facts .
Racism can wrap itself in the trappings of credible logic and I swear it can make sense .
But when you see how data can and has been used to oppress , undermine and devalue movements , it ’ s impossible not to offer a critical eye .
The context to anything is everything .
Just because it was written by a “ type of person , ” or has a decimal point means nothing .
The right to question and criticize works , is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to defend their academic work to be considered a scholar .
In a message announcing Shor ’ s removal from the group , a member accused him of encouraging “ harassment ” by standing up for himself , saying that he was making it harder for members to “ decolonize our minds : ” David Shor , a member of this community , knowingly harassed and bullied another member of this space .
In response to a well-deserved call in over a racist tweet , he encouraged harassment that led to death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grow from his mistake .
We as the Progressphiles Moderators , professionals in this industry , and as people , absolutely condemn this behavior .
It is unacceptable to make people on this list and in this community feel unsafe for calling out wrongdoings .
We can not begin to decolonize our minds if we do not create safety for those fighting against white supremacy .
It is on all of us to do this work , but especially to show up for those already doing it and make sure they are safe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perpetuating the racism and sexism we know exists on this list and in our community at large .
As such , we have removed David Shor from Progressphiles .
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New Study Provokes Woke Civil War
Written by Allum Bokhari
A secret group email, or listserv, of progressive data analysts has been outed after one of its members was ostracized for publicly sharing data showing that violent rioting doesn’t tend to be effective in persuading people to support a political cause.
The listserv, called “Progressphiles,” appears to be similar to the JournoList, JournoList 2.0 and GameJournoPros — a place where members of a profession purportedly dedicated to facts and truth-telling gather to enforce political conformity and groupthink on each other, pressuring members to push leftist narratives even when they run contrary to the facts.
The problematic facts, in this case, came from a new paper from a professor at Princeton, showing that violent rioting makes undecided observers less likely to support a cause, while peaceful protesting has the opposite effect. One of Progressphile’s members, election data analyst David Shor, made the mistake of tweeting this study, and was immediately denounced as a racist.
Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine obtained the full discussion from the listserv, in which Shor was roundly condemned as a racist and agent of white supremacy for the crime of stating obvious facts.
One member of the discussion urged his fellow progressive data analysts not to let facts get in the way of a good narrative, especially if the narrative helps “systematically dismantle the very institution of policing:”
For those of you who don’t realize what makes the tweet problematic, try not to overanalyze the statistical validity of the research paper and think about the broader impact it will have if people perceive it to be true. Democrats will wave this tweet urging people to protest their oppression peacefully, which will conveniently ignore how the majority of the most visible of these actions have occurred in areas where we have Democrats running the city council. Shor had initially defended his tweet by saying “Helping Trump get re-elected is not going to lead to better behavior by cops,” and I’m certain many people here would be inclined to agree. But it is this sort of binary thinking that we have that can be so oppressive as well. Helping Trump get un-elected (in itself) is not going to lead to better behavior by cops, when the goal of abolitionist work isn’t to have better-trained/nicer/POC cops but to systematically dismantle the very institution of policing to begin with.
Another, predictably, said the study tweeted by Shor was racist:
I’ve been in progressive spaces since 2006, and it didn’t take long for me to understand that in our spaces, racism isn’t always loud. It isn’t always brash or demanding, spewing racial slurs with a foaming tongue. Sometimes it’s quiet; steeped in seemingly innocuous data and facts. Racism can wrap itself in the trappings of credible logic and I swear it can make sense. But when you see how data can and has been used to oppress, undermine and devalue movements, it’s impossible not to offer a critical eye. The context to anything is everything. Just because it was written by a “type of person,” or has a decimal point means nothing. The right to question and criticize works, is the reason why people all over the world have to defend their academic work to be considered a scholar.
In a message announcing Shor’s removal from the group, a member accused him of encouraging “harassment” by standing up for himself, saying that he was making it harder for members to “decolonize our minds:”
David Shor, a member of this community, knowingly harassed and bullied another member of this space. In response to a well-deserved call in over a racist tweet, he encouraged harassment that led to death threats instead of choosing to learn and grow from his mistake. We as the Progressphiles Moderators, professionals in this industry, and as people, absolutely condemn this behavior. It is unacceptable to make people on this list and in this community feel unsafe for calling out wrongdoings. We cannot begin to decolonize our minds if we do not create safety for those fighting against white supremacy. It is on all of us to do this work, but especially to show up for those already doing it and make sure they are safe. By not acting, we are perpetuating the racism and sexism we know exists on this list and in our community at large. As such, we have removed David Shor from Progressphiles.
Read more at www.breitbart.com
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