Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds. //
Exercise is generally good for you, but a new high-quality clinical trial finds that it's so good, it can even knock back colon cancer—and, in fact, rival some chemotherapy treatments.
Researchers warn that misclassification could deprive women of the emergent care they need for the serious adverse events linked to abortion. //
Researchers interested in how hospitals handle treatment for women who experience complications after abortions examined nearly 29,000 anonymized ER Medicaid claims ranging from 2016 to 2021 among women who had chemically or surgically ended a pregnancy in the last 30 days. They determined that 83.5 percent of the abortion drug-induced ER visits during that period were miscoded, often as miscarriage.
That figure not only represented a steep increase in miscodes from the 2004 to 2015 data, but also confirmed that “visits following chemical abortion are significantly more likely to be incorrectly coded as following spontaneous abortion than are visits following surgical abortion.”
Those post-mifepristone ER visits that were miscoded were also 50 percent more likely to be severe than vists that were coded properly. //
While the reason for miscodes is not explicitly clear, the researchers noted that “women are often advised to misrepresent their recent abortion as a miscarriage when seeking treatment for complications in the emergency department.”
“Consequently, the ED doctor is likely to misattribute the complication (e.g., heavy bleeding) to a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage,” the study noted.
Fluoride is the anion of the naturally occurring element fluorine. An anion is a negatively charged atom. As ground water flows over rocks it picks up fluoride ions leached from the compound calcium fluoride, and fluorosilicate compounds in those rocks. These fluoride ions are to what is commonly referred as being “naturally occurring” fluoride.
The most commonly utilized substance to fluoridate water systems is hydrofluorosilic acid (HFA). Once introduced into drinking water, due to the pH of that water (~7), the HFA is immediately and completely hydrolyzed (dissociated). The products of this hydrolysis are fluoride ions identical to those “naturally occurring” fluoride ions which have always existed in water, and trace contaminants in barely detectable amounts far below EPA mandated maximum allowable levels of safety. //
Some consumers have questioned whether fluoride from natural groundwater sources, such as calcium fluoride, is better than fluorides added “artificially,” such as FSA or sodium fluoride. Two recent scientific studies, listed below, demonstrate that the same fluoride ion is present in naturally occurring fluoride or in fluoride drinking water additives and that no intermediates or other products were observed at pH levels as low as 3.5. In addition, the metabolism of fluoride does not differ depending on the chemical compound used or whether the fluoride is present naturally or added to the water supply.
Weber ultimately underwent the procedure. She said she wanted readers to know that the state’s pro-life law was “so dangerous for women.” But in reality, assuming her account is accurate — if it’s true that doctors refused to perform a lifesaving medical procedure because of the state’s pro-life law — the entire ordeal doesn’t prove anything other than that some doctors are incompetent and don’t know how to navigate relatively simple state laws.
The facts are these: the South Carolina “heartbeat bill” explicitly spells out that a doctor can perform an abortion if he determines “that a medical emergency exists or is performed to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.” For good measure, the law directly states that both “intrauterine fetal demise” and “miscarriage” constitute a medical emergency that can justify an abortion.
This is the substance of the law. There are no gimmicks or hidden rules. By her own account there was absolutely no reason that Elisabeth Weber should not have received a D&C. The problem was not with state law, but with the doctors who were either too ignorant or too risk-averse (or both) to do proper medicine.
This is and always has been untrue; Every pro-life law in the United States, without exception, contains provisions that allow for emergency medical intervention to save a mother’s life. //
Doctors are forbidden from killing an unborn child in an act of abortion, but they are more than able to perform related procedures that can save a mother’s life (all the more so in tragic cases like Weber’s, where the baby has died, or even in Thurman’s case, where the babies were killed).
We should never fall for this type of misdirection. Abortion advocates who claim that such laws forbid doctors from saving the lives of women should point to the specific part of the law they claim makes this so.
The N-of-1 accomplishment provides a template for swift, personalized genetic therapies. //
News broke yesterday that researchers in Philadelphia appear to have successfully treated a 6-month-old baby boy, called KJ, with a personalized CRISPR gene-editing therapy. The treatment corrects an ultra-rare mutation in KJ that breaks a liver enzyme. That enzyme is required to convert ammonia, a byproduct of metabolism, to urea, a waste product released in urine. Without treatment, ammonia would build up to dangerous levels in KJ—and he would have a 50 percent chance of dying in infancy.
While the gene-editing treatment isn't a complete cure, and long-term success is still uncertain, KJ's condition has improved and stabilized. And the treatment's positive results appear to be a first for personalizing gene editing. //
KJ's treatment was presented this week at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Annual Meeting in New Orleans. It was also simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In an accompanying editorial, Peter Marks—a former top regulator at the FDA—called KJ's treatment a "platform technology" that could be used as a template for treating millions of others with rare genetic conditions. "The development of gene-editing products to address N-of-1 disorders with the use of mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles represents one of the most obvious opportunities for the application of a platform-technology approach that could be transformational," he wrote.
In all, KJ's treatment "shows the potential strength of the application of cutting-edge science and technology with a forward-leaning regulatory approach to safely expedite the development and availability of life-saving medicines," Marks wrote.
This week, the US health department announced a plan to ban prescription fluoride supplements for children. These ingested fluoride products are dispensed at safe doses by doctors and dentists to prevent tooth decay in children who are unable to get adequate fluoride doses from community water systems—something that may become more common as more states and cities remove or ban fluoride from their water.
Both the American Dental Association (ADA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend fluoridating community water and advise prescribing fluoride supplements for children who do not get adequate fluoride dosages through their water. //
While Makary said that the FDA will conduct a safety review of fluoride supplements, the conclusion seems to be foregone, with the HHS writing that it is already "initiating action to remove" the products.
The ADA noted that places that have removed fluoride from drinking water, such as Calgary, Canada, and Juneau, Alaska, have seen increases in dental decay, particularly among children and low-income populations. //
Beteljuice Smack-Fu Master, in training
7y
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Subscriptor++
They preach fluoride because most dentists are ignorant of Vitamin K2 which massively helps re-mineralize. Most westerners are deficient in this extremely important vitamin. In fact, Vitamin K2 deficiency is the chief driver of osteoporosis.
About four years ago my dentist before he retired was perplexed at my X-Rays, noting his fixation on them I cautiously asked, "Is there something wrong???" He then slowly gestured with his index finger, "Thissss.... new... tooth enamel is MOST unusual." I then told him, "That's because I take Vitamin K2 every day." He then looked over to me as I lay on the dentist chair and said "Vitamin K2???" Being the father of a friend of mine, our relationship was very casual with no pretense, e.g., "I'm a dentist, I know everything about teeth." I then gave him a nutrition lesson. He had never heard of Vitamin K2. More to the point he had never seen anything like he saw that day in my X-Rays during the 30+ years of being a dentist. Want to guess what vitamin he was taking when I saw him for my next cleaning?
(before commenting and/or voting do read this link)
https://www.ericdavisdental.com/faqs-and-blog/blog/vitamin-k2-and-its-benefits-for-teeth/. //
MST2.021K Ars Praetorian
4y
546
Subscriptor
Vitamin K2 might work towards supporting dentin, underneath the enamel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteocalcin
Clearly though, protecting the enamel first works better which is the entire point of fluoridation. //
moongoddess Ars Centurion
14y
347
Subscriptor++
SixDegrees said:
The objection being raised is "mandatory, imposed medication." So I don't see how your proposed solutions would escape being called the same.
In which case, there goes iodide in salt as well. Hello, goiters! //
SixDegrees Ars Legatus Legionis
10y
45,760
Subscriptor
moongoddess said:
In which case, there goes iodide in salt as well. Hello, goiters!
Sure. Also enriched flour, vitamin D milk, and so on.
Lots of this stuff isn't all that important - for the middle and upper classes, who can afford varied and high quality diets. They mainly help those on the lower economic rungs, although everyone benefits to a degree. It's just that the poor may not have any alternatives, and rely on fortification for good health. Even if you eat only the junkiest of junk foods, there's a good chance it's produced with enriched flour and iodized salt. //
stinkly Smack-Fu Master, in training
15y
98
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I'm surprised not to see any mention of recently-reported research showing a negative correlation of intelligence and fluoride intake in the article, in the comments, or evidently in RFK's rationale for the proposed ban. I'm not a domain expert, so I'm ill-prepared to put the research into context, but it's evidently a real thing.
you got it.
Exploring the Spectrum, a groundbreaking 1974 documentary by Dr. John Nash Ott.
A captivating journey into the science of photobiology and the profound impact of light on health.
A pioneer in time-lapse photography and full-spectrum lighting, Dr. Ott reveals how natural and artificial light influences the growth, behavior, and well-being of plants, animals, and humans.
Through mesmerizing visuals and innovative experiments, the film challenges conventional wisdom, questioning whether fluorescent lights, UV-blocking glasses, and indoor lifestyles contribute to health issues like cancer, learning disorders, and immune system weaknesses.
Ott’s work highlights the essential role of natural sunlight and balanced light frequencies in sustaining life, urging us to rethink our relationship with the light that surrounds us.
With the tuberculomas visualized, the doctors worked to diagnose the man's condition. Generally, the CNS tuberculosis can be notoriously difficult to diagnose, given that M. tuberculosis are slow-growing and stealthy and can produce generic symptoms. The man's cerebrospinal fluid, for instance, was negative for the bacteria. But a sputum sample was positive.
Tuberculomas are often seen amid tuberculosis infections that have not been adequately treated. That seems to be the case for the patient here, who had been previously treated for tuberculosis. Sometimes patients with tuberculomas also have tubercular meningitis, brain inflammation from the infection. Fortunately, the man did not develop this even more serious manifestation of the disease. With an intensive course of anti-tuberculosis antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory drug, the man's symptoms gradually began to ease. After a month, he was feeling better. After 18 months, his symptoms had completely resolved, and a repeat MRI of his head was normal.
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease killer globally. In 2023, the bacteria infected 10.8 million people and killed 1.25 million. The World Health Organization estimates that about a quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, which spreads through the air.
‘The real-world rate of serious adverse effects following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as’ the drug label suggests. //
Pro-abortion activists have responded to the end of Roe v. Wade with a nationwide mail-order abortion drug distribution system. States such as New York are protecting those shipping abortion drugs around the nation, even as they break state and federal laws and injure women. As it turns out, women’s health and even a woman’s supposedly all-important “right to choose” matter less to abortion advocates than ensuring abortion drugs continue to flow. //
In contrast to Anderson and Hall’s work to measure the risks of abortion drugs, Democrats have done their best to keep the dangers hidden, even while insisting abortion drugs are safe. What’s more, the safeguards and reporting requirements put in place when the abortion drug was initially approved by the Clinton administration have been all but eliminated. As the report recounts, “During the Obama and Biden administrations, the FDA chipped away at these initial safeguards, risking women’s health in order to increase access to abortion.”
Now instead of in-person visits with a doctor, who can check for contraindications (such as ectopic pregnancy) and ensure emergency care is available, the FDA requires only one telehealth visit with a prescriber, who may not even be a physician, and who may reduce the “visit” to a simple online form. Abortion drugs may then be obtained from a mail-order pharmacy and taken at home alone, with no plan or facilities for emergency care if there are complications. Worse still, the FDA removed any formal reporting requirements (which were always loosely enforced) for prescribers unless they know a patient has died — and, of course, in this mail-order abortion regime, they won’t know.
Red light therapy, near-infrared light therapy, low-level laser therapy, and photobiomodulation are all terms referring to the same general principle. Certain wavelengths of light are known to penetrate the body, impacting it at the cellular level. //
Let’s not forget that long before red light and near-infrared-emitting LED bulbs and devices, people got their light exposure from…the sun. Yes. The same light wavelength frequencies associated with so many health benefits are available from regular sunlight exposure, which is free and available for many hours each day, in most places in the world. If you’re not ready to splurge for a red light mask or other device, consider going outside every day for your daily dose of light exposure (and be sure to use and apply sun protection when appropriate). Bonus points if you take a walk while getting your sun on, adding cardiovascular toning to the other health benefits you’re accumulating.
According to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the truth about cancer treatment is being suppressed.
The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes clinicians use to report services to health insurers have become a linchpin in the American health care system. These codes are federally mandated, and all health care providers must pay royalties to the AMA to use them. That’s a heck of a cash cow for the AMA.
In 2023, the AMA raked in a staggering $495 million in revenue. A full 62 percent, $308 million, came from royalties tied to the use of CPT codes. And every dollar is paid for by taxpayers, via Medicare and Medicaid, or employers and employees in the private health insurance market.
The AMA’s financial windfall is made possible by the federal government. In 1983, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated that CPT codes be used to report services under Medicare Part B. By 1986, Medicaid programs also had to adopt these codes. The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) then solidified CPT codes as the national standard for electronic health transactions. These federal mandates essentially forced every health care provider to rely on the AMA’s CPT code system, creating a monopoly. Cha-ching!
There is another model out there, though. The diagnoses being addressed by health care providers are tracked using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. But ICD codes are free for use by any entity worldwide. There is no reason a similar system couldn’t be developed for CPT codes. //
The AMA has also publicly advocated against “policies excluding transgender individuals from restrooms and other facilities.” In other words, the AMA is perfectly fine with that weird teacher lurking in your middle school daughter’s locker room.
By promoting the trans agenda, the AMA is using its substantial influence — funded by taxpayer dollars through federally mandated royalties — to advocate for policies that Americans repudiated in the last election and that may not be in line with the views of many doctors or patients across the country.
An 18-year-old woman died this year after complications from her 22-week abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. A recent testimony given to the state’s Health and Human Services committee noted she lost a significant amount of blood — a known risk of later abortions — and that she was transported too late for the emergency care she needed. She deserved prompt diagnosis and critical care in her moment of need.
But blue-state legislators, instead of showing concern and protecting women from preventable complications and deaths, are more interested in pushing abortion access than they are in ensuring women’s safety. //
Shamefully, Colorado legislators not only rejected recent legislation that would have implemented common-sense public health and safety standards for facilities performing second and third-trimester abortions, they also shockingly claimed the woman would have died of similar complications in childbirth.
As a board-certified OB-GYN, I can attest that this “medical” conclusion is doubtful since amniotic fluid embolus (AFE), the condition they speculated about, is a unique occurrence in a specific clinical situation. Furthermore, their refusal to truly understand the facts surrounding this young woman’s death distracts from the disastrous risks of unregulated, uninspected, unlicensed dangerous second and third-trimester abortions enshrined into Colorado law.
Tragically, media reaction to this case has been virtually non-existent. When women die in states with any abortion limits on the books, the media is quick to highlight their stories, but when women die where there is unrestricted abortion with no safety protections whatsoever, we hear crickets. //
But countless women who enter abortion facilities are unknowingly denied assurance that they will be cared for by competent, credentialed staff who are prepared to identify and promptly transfer patients suffering complications to nearby hospitals for life-saving treatment when needed or if they are prepared to provide adequate emergency care to the vulnerable women who place their health in the hands of their abortionists.
It seems wildly contradictory that states rightly require other healthcare facilities dealing with maternal care, labor, and delivery to uphold rigorous medical standards but place none on abortion facilities. In Colorado, birthing centers undergo licensing and regulation to define their scope of practice, credential their providers, establish emergency preparedness and staff drills, collect data, and more. Likewise, ambulatory surgery centers may only treat “those that do not generally result in extensive blood loss; require major or prolonged invasion of body cavities; directly involve major blood vessels; or constitute an emergency or life-threatening procedure.”
Hospital labor and delivery units are subject to even more rigorous regulation and inspection, including inspections by the Joint Commission and Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. These measures are commonsense and exactly what anyone would expect from safe healthcare providers.
Even tattoo parlors are required to prove basic first-aid capabilities and sterilization procedures; yet abortion facilities aren’t even held to these standards.
An international team led by researchers at Colorado State University has found that human contact with wild armadillos — including eating the meat — has contributed to extremely high infection rates of a pathogen that can cause leprosy in Pará, Brazil.
Mycobacterium leprae can cause leprosy, a chronic disease characterized by lesions of the skin and nerve damage, in humans. Other researchers have previously documented transmission of M. leprae to humans by nine-banded armadillos in the southern United States.
The findings from this new research have implications for public health education programs related to these mammals and zoonotic transmission, or the spread of infection between animals and people. //
But the most startling finding was in people who ate armadillo meat frequently — more than once a month and, in some cases, twice a week. The strength of the antibody in these individuals was 50 percent higher than the other groups. //
Spencer recommends wearing gloves when cleaning the carcass, and make sure to cook the meat until it is well-done.
“Your risk of picking up the disease from eating well-cooked meat is almost zero,” he said.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall my post about the recent shake-up at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), resigned, citing significant disagreements with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policies.
Marks claimed it was because of Kennedy, and the new HHS Secretary’s viewpoints on the worthiness of vaccines.
However, there is more to the story.
Marks left after refusing to grant Kennedy team unrestricted access to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database. Marks asserted that such access could lead to manipulation or deletion of sensitive data, which includes unverified reports of vaccine-related adverse events submitted by the public. //
There are a number of reasons that this issue is troubling, especially given Marks’ profanity-infused response to the new HHS team seeking the usual level of access to government databases that the Secretary normally has. To begin with, as I have previously noted, studies have identified a rare but notable link between myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
As a reminder, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released 148 blank pages of data in response to a FOIA request for information connecting covid vaccinations to heart inflammation. //
The agency has already released some reports, such as this one in The Lancet, which asserted that virus-caused myocarditis was worse than the one that arose post-vaccination. //
Finally, a recent study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic has raised concerns about the effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine. Published as a preprint on MedRxiv, the research analyzed data from 53,402 healthcare workers during the 2024-2025 flu season and found that vaccinated individuals had a 27% higher risk of contracting influenza compared to their unvaccinated counterparts.
The calculated vaccine effectiveness was reported as -26.9%, indicating that the vaccine may have increased the risk of infection rather than reducing it. //
BobM | April 11, 2025 at 11:39 pm
As someone with IT experience, especially in DataBase design and admin, I have to advise the reader that there are multiple non-nefarious reasons to allow both raw data access & edit access to a DB. Especially if you suspect the current key holders have been “cooking the books” to make a DB support wanted conclusions. Edit access allows you to look for groupings in the data that may not be obvious because of the way the raw data is currently organized and categorized. Or to look for improper groupings that make conclusions based on them garbage.
As an example, the “sky-is-falling” Covid panic was at least in part supported by “death by Covid” numbers that often assumed if you died and had Covid at the time that it was a Covid death. Washington State DOH, for instance, has since admitted “DOH includes deaths of all persons who tested positive for COVID-19 in its totals, even if the victims died from other causes, such as gunshot wounds.”.
Other examples include crime statistics databases where politicians and law enforcement have played games with crime categories to be able to tout imaginary “decrease in crime X” or “increase in arrests for crime Y” for their own reasons. Most recently, the Biden administration database of border enforcement stats famously was used to tout that Biden was “tough on illegal entries” when in actuality the raw data showed they were touting catch-and-release interceptions the same as actual prevention of illegal entries.
If folks have lost respect for scientific experts, it’s because all too many have taken to treating access to the raw data and descriptions of the data manipulation used to reach their “expert” conclusions as closely held proprietary secrets not be disclosed to the hoi polloi. That is NOT good scientific practice and is a huge red flag. You see it all over in climate “science”, and it’s spread like a cancer thru science in general lately.
Coffee associated with a lower risk of both depression and anxiety | Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost
A large study has found that different types of beverages are linked to the likelihood of developing depression and anxiety disorders. The study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, found that higher intake of sugary and artificially sweetened drinks was related to a greater risk of depression among younger adults, while fruit juices and coffee were associated with a lower risk of both depression and anxiety across age groups.
For many of us, memories of our childhood have become a bit hazy, if not vanishing entirely. But nobody really remembers much before the age of 4, because nearly all humans experience what's termed "infantile amnesia," in which memories that might have formed before that age seemingly vanish as we move through adolescence. And it's not just us; the phenomenon appears to occur in a number of our fellow mammals.
The simplest explanation for this would be that the systems that form long-term memories are simply immature and don't start working effectively until children hit the age of 4. But a recent animal experiment suggests that the situation in mice is more complex: the memories are there, they're just not normally accessible, although they can be re-activated. Now, a study that put human infants in an MRI tube suggests that memory activity starts by the age of 1, suggesting that the results in mice may apply to us.
Recovering from measles does not protect against cancer or any other disease besides measles. In fact, a measles infection has the ability to wipe out immune responses built up against other infections—a phenomenon called immune amnesia, driven by the destruction of memory T- and B-cells. This leaves people who recover from the measles virus more vulnerable to all other germs.
This is not the only severe risk of measles. In addition to neurological and respiratory complications from measles infections, which can demonstrably turn deadly, measles can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a fatal neurological condition that can flare seven to 10 years after a measles infection. //
Before the development of measles vaccines, the virus infected 3 to 4 million people each year, sending an estimated 48,000 to the hospital. About 1,000 developed brain swelling and 400 to 500 died.
Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97 percent effective against measles, and the protection is considered lifelong.
It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain. //
The doctors were concerned enough that they decided it was time to take the implant out. After removing it, they sent the device and samples to the Florida health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did clinical and genetic testing. They all turned up Brucella suis.
B. suis is an extremely infectious bacteria that's usually found in pigs. The most common symptom in pigs is reproductive losses, such as stillbirths, though they can also develop other symptoms, such as abscesses and arthritis. In humans, it causes an insidious, hard to detect infection called brucellosis, which is used to describe an infection from any Brucella species: B. suis, B. melitensis, B. abortus, and B. canis.
In the US, there are only about 80 to 140 brucellosis cases reported each year, and they're mostly caused by B. melitensis and B. abortus. People tend to get infected by eating raw (unpasteurized) milk and cheeses. B. suis, however, is generally linked to hunting and butchering feral pigs and hogs.
Until recently, the Brucella species were designated as select agents by the US government, a classification to flag pathogens and toxins that have the potential to be a severe threat to public health, such as if they're used in a bioterror attack. The current list includes things like anthrax and Ebola virus. Brucella species were originally listed because they can be easily aerosolized, and only a small number of the bacterial cells are needed to spark an infection. In humans, infections can be both localized and systemic and have a broad range of clinical manifestations. Those include brain infections, neurological conditions, arthritis, anemia, respiratory involvement, pancreatitis, cardiovascular complications, like aneurysms, and inflammation of the spinal cord, among many other things.
In January, federal officials removed Brucella species from the select agents list—a designation that limits the types and amount of research that can be done on a pathogen. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the reason for the removal was to ease those limits, thereby making it easier for researchers to conduct veterinary studies and develop vaccines for animals. //
The man said he wasn't a hunter, but recalled receiving a gift of feral swine meat on several occasions in 2017 from a local hunter. Though he couldn’t recall the specific hunter who gave him the biohazardous bounty, he did remember handling the raw meat and blood with his bare hands—a clear transmission risk—before cooking and eating it. //
The man, meanwhile, finally received the proper course of antibiotics recommended by the CDC for brucellosis treatment, which was a combination of oral doxycycline and rifampin for six weeks. At the end of the course, his blood cultures were negative. A few months later, he had a new AICD placed. A year after the ordeal, lingering signs of the infection had faded. At a routine check-up after more than 3 years, he appeared to remain free of brucellosis.
This strain may have emerged from gain-of-function research conducted at two specific facilities: the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. //
smalltownoklahoman. | March 11, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Why is it being done at all? Who thinks it’s a good idea to take a known virus and amp it up into something that can kill millions? Just to satisfy some scientists curiosity? H1N1 in the late 70’s was a GOF research project that “oops!” just happened to escape. It’s clear that humans just aren’t responsible enough to continue to play these games and any countries that allow it need to be punished severely, including our own. Would Covid exist if we weren’t funding the research and teaching Chinese scientists how to conduct it? //
GWB in reply to Sanddog. | March 11, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Primarily the research exists (ostensibly) for two reasons:
First is to then play around and see how things work. This is research for knowledge’s sake.
Second is the idea that you can then make vaccines and treatments for these things (especially novel ones, yay!) and be better prepared when something appears out of the wild. (Or when something shows up from an enemy’s bioweapons lab.)
I get the first one. And if people could be trusted to be really safe and have only the best motives and all that, it might be supportable for those who place Reason high on a pedestal.
The second one does make sense. Sorta. The problem there is that how do you distinguish between someone making a weapon and someone actually building defenses against a weapon? By what they tell you? Simply by who they work for? Yeah, pull the other one.
Sanddog in reply to GWB. | March 12, 2025 at 12:30 am
There isn’t a single vaccine or treatment that has come out of these experiments. //