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New Flu? Coronavirus Might Become Cause Of A Seasonal Illness

Posted by on Jun 2, 2020 in Immunology | Comments Off on New Flu? Coronavirus Might Become Cause Of A Seasonal Illness

The flu kills over 600,000 people each year and in 2020 another virus exploded in public health circles for the third time in 17 years; coronavirus.

SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, has killed nearly 400,000, and given the risk factors it is hard to say how many would have been killed by any respiratory disease, but one question is not philosophical: is this the new normal? 

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Extinction: Maybe Cro-Magnon Wiped Out Neanderthals After All

Posted by on May 20, 2020 in Anthropology | Comments Off on Extinction: Maybe Cro-Magnon Wiped Out Neanderthals After All

Why is Homo neanderthalensis gone while Homo sapiens have bent the world to our will? 

In recent years, there has been speculation that climate change wiped out Neanderthal people, or interbreeding with us, since many of us have DNA shared by Neanderthals (we also share 60 percent of our DNA with a banana) but a new paper affirms the earliest belief about survival of the fitter, commonly called survival of the fittest; competition between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal. And Neanderthals lost.

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The Army Corps Of Engineers Wanted To Prevent Hurricane Katrina Devastation, Environmentalists Sued, Now They ‘re Doing It Again

Posted by on May 13, 2020 in Environment | Comments Off on The Army Corps Of Engineers Wanted To Prevent Hurricane Katrina Devastation, Environmentalists Sued, Now They ‘re Doing It Again

Conservation groups have frequently sued the U.S Army Corps of Engineers claiming that government scientists do not "properly" evaluate the environmental impacts of its plans to mitigate flood risk.

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Epidemiologists Link Celiac Disease To Frying Pans And Then We Wonder Why People Don’t Believe In Masks

Posted by on May 12, 2020 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Epidemiologists Link Celiac Disease To Frying Pans And Then We Wonder Why People Don’t Believe In Masks

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, when disease epidemiologists want to be taken seriously by the public, they face an uphill battle. Blocking their progress are epidemiologists who casually link everything to diseases, often using food frequency questionnaires which have no scientific legitimacy.

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Should Any Current COVID-19 Estimates Be Used To Make Policy Decisions?

Posted by on May 8, 2020 in Mathematics | Comments Off on Should Any Current COVID-19 Estimates Be Used To Make Policy Decisions?

There is a popular saying in statistics - "Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeler."

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An Argument To Force China To Pay Coronavirus Reparations

Posted by on May 7, 2020 in Random Thoughts | Comments Off on An Argument To Force China To Pay Coronavirus Reparations

When President Trump said he was going to restrict travel from China earlier this year due to coronavirus, I didn’t engage in the reflexive politics of corporate journalists and call him a racist, I just though it an overreaction. After all, the Whole Health Organisation did not consider it a pandemic and they usually hyperventilate about everything. They had even assured us it could not be transmitted human to human.

Their source for both; the communist party in China. 

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Coronavirus Claims Cause FDA To Go After 41 Bogus Homeopathy, Supplement And ‘Alternative’ Medicine Products

Posted by on May 7, 2020 in Psychology | Comments Off on Coronavirus Claims Cause FDA To Go After 41 Bogus Homeopathy, Supplement And ‘Alternative’ Medicine Products

Journalist Chris Cuomo and his spouse were criticized after endorsing a variety of nonsense products recommended by their "naturopath" to treat his COVID-19 - claims that involved light energy, tinctures and a variety of useless placebos.

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Coronavirus Claims Cause FDA To Go After 41 Bogus Homeopathy, Supplement And ‘Alternative’ Medicine Products

Posted by on May 7, 2020 in Psychology | Comments Off on Coronavirus Claims Cause FDA To Go After 41 Bogus Homeopathy, Supplement And ‘Alternative’ Medicine Products

Journalist Chris Cuomo and his spouse were criticized after endorsing a variety of nonsense products recommended by their "naturopath" to treat his COVID-19 - claims that involved light energy, tinctures and a variety of useless placebos.

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Australian Wildfires Caused By Not Enough Trees, Say Environmentalists

Posted by on May 6, 2020 in Environment | Comments Off on Australian Wildfires Caused By Not Enough Trees, Say Environmentalists

Fire breaks and responsible logging are overwhelmingly considered positives for forest management. Every native culture practiced removal of trees and controlled burns to mitigate risk of uncontrolled ones.

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Biofuels Are A Negative For The Climate And We Can Thank Environmentalists For That

Posted by on Dec 6, 2019 in Energy | Comments Off on Biofuels Are A Negative For The Climate And We Can Thank Environmentalists For That

When Al Gore was Vice-President in 1994, he forced the U.S. EPA to mandate ethanol in gasoline by breaking the Senate tie in favor of environmentalists who had been pushing ethanol as 'sustainable biofuel' for decades. His vote forced gasoline manufacturers to include it despite science concerns it would drive up food prices and increase pollution. While biofuels were and are a viable field of study, the concern was that dumping money into corporate subsidies was going to hold progress back.(1)

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