Second, Jackson’s relationship with children too often ventured into the inappropriate and indefensible, but at the same time, the overwhelming evidence is that he was not guilty of sexually abusing children and was in fact the victim of multiple extortion schemes.

But even today, when the world has rendered its own judgement, that Michael Jackson remains beloved, the media cannot bring themselves to talk about him without suggesting he was likely a pedophile. They refuse to do it. They refuse to tell the truth and they refuse to acknowledge that their preferred version of his story has been rejected by the public. //

I could understand some of the obsession if there were any proof that Jackson did something criminal. He’s been accused and after the one and only time it went to trial, he was acquitted because the jury was introduced to the alleged victim’s wretch of a mother who had a proven history of theft and fraud— schemes that she used her kids to execute.

There was the 2019 Leaving Neverland documentary in which another two accusers, now grown men, laid out graphic details of their own alleged abuse. Both of them are demonstrable liars in ways both big and small, and both made their charges only after Jackson was dead and in pursuit of money (they’re both actively suing his estate).

The details of all of these cases are genuinely riveting, just not in the way the media would prefer.

Instead, their fitness seems to stem from their father’s exercise habits before they were even conceived. It’s a finding suggesting that running might benefit not just the exerciser, but also his unborn children.

“I was very surprised when I first saw the data,” says Yin, a biochemist at Nanjing University.

Yin’s team analyzed the molecules inside the exercising rodents’ sperm and found tiny bits of RNA—dubbed microRNAs—that were present in higher amounts than in the sperm of their idle littermates. When the scientists injected those molecules into unrelated embryos, they got animals just as fit as those that were born to exercising fathers.

That 2025 study adds to mounting evidence that sperm are more than wriggling vessels carrying DNA to an egg. Over the past two decades, studies in mice have detected microRNAs and other types of RNA fragments that surge and wane inside sperm cells in response to not just exercise or sloth but also fatty or sugary diets, daily stress, childhood trauma, heavy drinking and exposure to pesticides and other hazards. In step with these changes, researchers have documented developmental and metabolic changes and differing rates of depression in the males’ offspring.

And while it’s difficult to study the effect in people, researchers also have documented fluctuations in RNA fragments in the sperm of men who do or don’t exercise, smoke or eat excess sugar, as well as men with obesity or traumatic childhoods. Studies also report that children of parents who are overweight or who dealt with mental health stress are more likely to have those conditions, too. //

But though puzzles remain, recent studies show that not only are paternal RNA fragments transferred to a fertilized egg, but also that they are capable of inducing changes in the offspring at the doses found in sperm. //

Today, those studying the phenomenon are sure the effects exist but aren’t certain how they are transmitted. The end result, they believe, is adjustments to the activity of genes—a phenomenon known as epigenetics.

Such adjustments occur during normal development as tissues and organs adopt their different identities, which require certain genes to be active or to be turned off. //

Today, the idea that small RNAs carry environmental signals has the most direct evidence behind it. Although small RNAs are short-lived, they aren’t actively removed like other epigenetic marks. Somehow, the tiny bits of nucleic acid fluctuate in response to the environment, then find their way into sperm cells.b//

Whatever the mechanism, there’s enough evidence to rebalance parental responsibility, Teperino says. “Now it’s almost all on women,” he says. “When a couple is planning a family, the doctor gives the woman a list of rules to follow. This is not valid anymore—we need to at least give recommendations to both.”

First impressions disproportionately shape how passengers rate an entire flight. With self-service kiosks, online check-in, and biometric boarding gates reducing human touchpoints, the gate agent and the flight attendant at the door are now among the very few staff members a customer interacts with directly.

Net Promoter Score, a metric that airlines track closely, is heavily influenced by these early micro interactions. A warm welcome at the door costs the airline nothing yet sets a positive tone for the entire journey. A cold or absent greeting does the opposite and primes the passenger to view every subsequent service touchpoint negatively.

The hospitality industry follows the same principle. Most hotel guests form a subconscious judgement about their stay within five minutes of arrival, based largely on how the front desk staff receives them. Aviation operates under identical psychological dynamics. //

A greeting at the door is not a complicated training problem. It is the clearest available signal of whether an airline’s service culture is functioning, and right now at American, that signal is flashing red.