Category: Science
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Measles
Forbes: The Measles Outbreak Keeps Spreading. Yeah, that’s what it does until everyone is infected, dead, or vaccinated. This is one of the viruses responsible for wiping out close to 95% of the coastal Amerindians before the Europeans even had a toehold on the continent. (See: Measles) Now RFK, Jr—himself a picture of health and vitality—has decided…
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The Books RFK Jr didn’t get to
In his foreword to “The Measles Book,” a Children’s Health Defense publication from 2021, Kennedy writes, “Measles outbreaks have been fabricated to create fear that in turn forces government officials to ‘do something.’ They then inflict unnecessary and risky vaccines on millions of children for the sole purpose of fattening industry profits.” The New Yorker…
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Visions of the Future (from 1900)
Jean-Marc Côté. The Hunt for Germs. From the series, France En L’an 2000. Public domain image. See the collection of visionary postcards at: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/
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Hiding WHO in PAHO?
trump (small man, small ‘t’) pulled us out of WHO recently. When’s he going to pull us out of PAHO. After all, PAHO is doing all the things this small man hates, including: Maybe no one told him what PAHO is or that its HQ is only 3600 feet from the White House. Maybe he’ll demand they…
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Death of a Program?
“The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships place Fellows in Congressional offices and executive branch agencies to provide the opportunity to increase the involvement and visibility of accomplished scientists and engineers in the public policy realm. At the Department of State and USAID, Fellows infuse scientific and technical expertise into myriad aspects of diplomacy and international development,…
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Public Trust in Health Agencies Declines
That’s not a surprising headline, but some new polling data provides insights into that decline, which is largely along political party lines. Democrats tend to side with experts. Republicans and the MAGA crowd—when confronted with facts that conflict with their beliefs or political needs—ignore reality in favor of those beliefs and needs. That’s why political affiliation was…