Tennessee State Rep. Scott Cepicky wants labels in supermarkets to warn us against vaccinated lettuce.
It’s a lot less funny that Ron DeSantis’ handpicked surgeon general is discouraging quarantine and vaccines in a measles outbreak. As Sherlock Holmes once put it, when a doctor goes bad he’s the worst of villains.
DeSantis himself now claims boosters increase the chance of Covid.
Andrew Wakefield, discredited anti-vax doctor, opposes the mumps vaccine too.
An NYC midwife has been fined $300,000 for taking payoffs to fake immunization remedies.
But let’s not forget how much Trump contributed to right-wing anti-vax sentiment
Don’t think anti-vax is just about bad ideas or loyalty to Trump: there’s big money in it: “Children’s Health Defense paid Kennedy, then chairman and chief legal counsel and now an independent candidate for president, more than $510,000 in 2022, double his 2019 salary, tax records show. Informed Consent Action Network paid Executive Director Del Bigtree $284,000 in 2022, a 22% increase from 2019. Bigtree now works as communications director for Kennedy’s presidential campaign.”
For more medical misdeeds, consider the WaPo’s report on how the NFL set standards for concussion damage that saved it millions in payouts to players.
And it seems there may be skullduggery in the organ-transplant sector.
Archeologists claim an Indonesian temple is a record-setting 25,000 years old — but other archeologists say the evidence is thin.
New light on the genetics and history of the earliest human beings.
Why are colon cancer rates rising among young Americans?
DNA tests on Beethoven’s hair show he wasn’t black, had hepatitis and didn’t suffer from lead poisoning. Plus some of the hair wasn’t really his.
Improved HVAC in schools could make millions of students healthier. States have the money to do it but they aren’t spending it.
“It would perhaps be too cynical to say that [AI} existential risk rhetoric has become a cynical hustle, intended to redirect the attentions of regulators toward possibly imaginary future risks in the future, and away from problematic but profitable activities that are happening right now.”
Watching someone act in a slow-motion film makes it easier to believe their actions are intentional.
“The Times’s lawsuit, however, includes multiple examples of OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model outputting New York Times articles word for word.” — a look at a New York Times lawsuit against AI scraping the newspaper’s stories.
The legend of Washington DC’s dinosaur fossil, capitalsaurus!
Native American artifacts and bodies are going back to the tribes. Though from the details, it’s going to be complicated.
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