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The Science™ News: ‘We are seeing an alarming rise of strokes among young people’ (opens the original)
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Ah, time to follow-up on one of the key aspects of our post-Covid shitshow condition: the baffling™ (to experts™) and inexplicable™ rise of strokes among the young.Background here:For the below, note that translation of non-English content, all emphases, and [snark] are mine.Subscribe nowDangerous Blood Clots: ‘We are seeing an alarming rise of strokes among young people’A stroke at 35?
'Toilet Paper Rolls and a Park Bench: Covid in the Museum' (opens the original)
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Last weekend, I had a long chat with my wife over the mad dash to war currently so en vogue among the Western régime’s water-carrying politicos™, experts™, and journos™. While I sometimes get exasperated comments (and rolling eyes) from her about me ‘bringing up Covid yet again’, this time I replied:Do you expect those who championed the Covid shitshow to somehow have wisened up about geopolitics?She conceded the point (which was also besides the point, for sure), and in the spirit of receipt-ke
The Science™ News: ‘Fetal Surgery, Artificial Wombs, and the English Approach to Legal Personhood’ (opens the original)
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Sadly, we do have to talk about Elizabeth Chloe Romanis—(‘she/her’), an associate professor of ‘Biolaw’ (their words) at Durham University and the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Law School (2023-present)—once again.While we did so not that long ago, here’s some more of her more … interesting (as in: train wreck) writings. For the stuff we discussed a few weeks ago, see this:Today, we’ll discuss her paper entitled, ‘Challenging the “Born A
‘Ideological bias in the production of research findings’ (opens the original)
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Today, we discuss even more science-ism, specifically, ideological bias, mass immigration, and the vulnerable sentiments of practitioners of the Science™.In a way, today’s posting is connected to some things we discussed earlier this year, notably on the same issue of mass immigration:The original text discussed here is in English, hence I’ve merely added emphases and [snark].Subscribe now‘Ideological bias i
The Science™ News: Curing Cancer with Injected Cancer Cells (opens the original)
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Time to follow up on this posting, I suppose:Today, we’ll talk about fighting fire blood cancer with fire injected blood cancer cells, or: a normal day at the office, I suppose.Translation, emphases, and [snark] mine.Subscribe nowKristian is ‘Patient 1’: All Set to Have Cancer Cells Injected Into His BodyFor the first time in the world, a patient with chronic leukaemia is receiving an injecti
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