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Wild Caught Salmon: Elites Love Knowing Peasants Die To Catch Restaurant Food

Wild Caught Salmon: Elites Love Knowing Peasants Die To Catch Restaurant Food

Mar 19 2025 | comment(s)

If you insist you will only eat berries picked by hand near a stream, you are virtue signaling to other wealthy people that you have more money than than they do, while masking it in a halo of claiming to care about taste or renewability or other nature.

No one is fooled. That is why restaurants and consumers who fetish-ize wild caught fight while claiming it is more nutritious or tastes better are so cloying. Sure, there can be differences in taste, just like if you give a chicken different feed, but that is easily solvable, and has been, like in the chicken industry.

Hate Your Cats? Buy Raw Pet Food

Hate Your Cats? Buy Raw Pet Food

Mar 18 2025 | comment(s)

It's no secret that cats have the same α2,3-linked (SAα2,3) sialic acid receptor as birds, which means their mortality from bird flu which acts via that receptor is 50%. Or that raw pet food, raw milk, and organic chickens that refuse medicine are key transmitters of the disease outside the wild.

Why are you still buying that stuff? Why did you ever? 
MAHA And The Looming War Over Food Between USDA And NIH

MAHA And The Looming War Over Food Between USDA And NIH

Mar 18 2025 | comment(s)

Environmental lawyers, especially lawyers at Natural Resources Defense Council, exist to sue companies and to have casus belli they need to suggest corporations are killing us all. It is no surprise that NRDC has hired lots of lawyers who are anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone, anti-food (ingredients, colors, the type of seed), anti-nuclear, etc.

If you don't know any scientists or Republicans, and NRDC employs neither, it is easy to demonize them because you never have them looking at you over lunch.(1)

NRDC knows a Republican insider now. Their former lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is part of the Trump administration and the "mainstream" positions they prize, that food science is evil, medicine is evil, technology is evil, are becoming government policy.
Government Claims Victory Over Virtual Vaping

Government Claims Victory Over Virtual Vaping

Mar 14 2025 | comment(s)

Imagine if I put out a claim that I had prevented teens from playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II" and therefore saving billions in dollars in future mental health care costs.

Well, I can, because COD:MWII has dropped a lot in usage from a few years ago. Sure, critics might claim it is an older game and new games come along and people switch to those, but if I am at FDA, none of that matters.
No Patchwork Regulations In 50 States: OpenAI Wants Federal AI Rules For Everyone

No Patchwork Regulations In 50 States: OpenAI Wants Federal AI Rules For Everyone

Mar 13 2025 | comment(s)

When a tourist visits California, the first thing they notice getting off of the airplane is a warning sign that the material they are near will give them cancer. Then another one. Then another. Soon, they become invisible but not before people do searches to see how much more cancer Californians develop than everyone else.(1)


Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbell
Unscientific And Illegal WOTUS Agenda May Finally Die

Unscientific And Illegal WOTUS Agenda May Finally Die

Mar 12 2025 | comment(s)

After a decade of being thrown out by the courts and being slightly modified and enacted again, changes drastically expanding the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) to include man-made ponds on family farms may finally be ending.
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Gets Closer

Legacy Survey of Space and Time Gets Closer

Mar 12 2025 | comment(s)

The Trump administration announced a major milestone for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the installation of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera on the telescope.

Next up is the final phase of testing before capturing "first look" images and then the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time will begin.
100 Days: Patient Goes Home With Single Moving Part Titanium Heart

100 Days: Patient Goes Home With Single Moving Part Titanium Heart

Mar 12 2025 | comment(s)

 St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, founded by Catholic nuns in 1857, reports implant of Australia’s first BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Invented by Dr. Daniel Timms, it is a single moving part, no valves, and a no-contact suspension system, which means no mechanical wear, and the patient lasted over 100 days while waiting for an artificial heart. He even went home with it installed.

The work was led by Dr. Paul Jansz and the anonymous patient was sent home in February. He then received a donor heart early in March.
Wealthy People, Stop Buying That Elite Raw Pet Food, You Are Killing Your Cat

Wealthy People, Stop Buying That Elite Raw Pet Food, You Are Killing Your Cat

Mar 03 2025 | comment(s)

The right-wing may have co-opted anti-vaccine beliefs from the left and changed Science Is a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy hysteria into Science Is A Vast Big Pharma Conspiracy but luckily most of the wealthy people are still in states like California, so the right hasn't taken up overspending on chickens that never had medicine and never will, or raw milk, or raw pet food.

Those are three giant preventable disease vectors for and the west coast is still doing all of them. The latest disease spreader for wealthy progressive elites is Wild Coast Raw of Olympia frozen Boneless Free Range Chicken Formula raw pet food for cats. It is probably contaminated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 also known as bird flu.  
PFAS: Environmental Working Group Is Thrilled Republican Allies Are in Power

PFAS: Environmental Working Group Is Thrilled Republican Allies Are in Power

Feb 26 2025 | comment(s)

With new analyses created by their employees to 'detect' chemicals in water, plus their war on seed oils, Environmental Working Group have joined Natural Resources Defense Council in becoming Republican allies.

Welcome to politicization of science in the 2020s. Just a few years ago, Republicans were the enemy of anti-science activists, but now the Trump administration has an environmental conspiracy theorist in the Cabinet. Science won't matter and that's good for environmental lawyers.
The Paris Agreement Is Only Symbolic - And Helping Nothing

The Paris Agreement Is Only Symbolic - And Helping Nothing

Feb 10 2025 | comment(s)

In 2015, nearly every country signed The Paris agreement and agreed to keep global warming to below 2 degrees higher than before humans began emitting industrial levels of CO2 emissions.

Yet very little has changed, because every country gets to arbitrarily decide for itself how it can meet its goal, or if it should have a goal at all.(1) That's how useless the Paris Agreement is.
Bad News For Big Alcohol: Half Of Valentine's Day Celebrants Will Abstain

Bad News For Big Alcohol: Half Of Valentine's Day Celebrants Will Abstain

Feb 06 2025 | comment(s)

A new survey created by marketing insights company Tastewise finds that half are not going to drink alcohol on Valentine's Day - for health reasons.

They're not wrong. During the waning days of the Biden administration, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy did something for science and public health that was grounded in science - he issued a report encouraging people to get off alcohol. 
Texas Shows Leadership In Viable Clean Energy

Texas Shows Leadership In Viable Clean Energy

Feb 04 2025 | comment(s)

Over 30 years after Democrats achieved their generational goal of ending nuclear energy in America, science is finally back.

Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp announced they have provided land nearby to build four nuclear small modular reactors. “Plain and simple: the United States needs more power. And nowhere in the country, other than Texas, is anyone willing to step up and build the power plants we need."


Credit: Texas A&M University
Kennedy Insistence On Late Term Abortion and Gun Bans Should Be A Republican Turn-Off

Kennedy Insistence On Late Term Abortion and Gun Bans Should Be A Republican Turn-Off

Feb 04 2025 | comment(s)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called the National Rifle Association “a terrorist organization” but now claims to be a “constitutional absolutist” who opposes gun control. He said if you eat steak you're more of a terrorist than Obama Bin Laden but now does photo ops eating McDonald's cheeseburgers, and he claimed that President George W. Bush trouncing his fellow progressive anti-science activist Senator John Kerry was actually Republicans stealing the election but now claims maybe Trump had his win stolen in 2020.

What changed? He is close to finally getting the government legitimacy he has craved, but escaped him in 2008. So he has flipped to things Republicans like. It is all for show. He has not changed.
EDITH: Lower Health Care Costs Using AI For Breast Cancer Screenings

EDITH: Lower Health Care Costs Using AI For Breast Cancer Screenings

Feb 04 2025 | comment(s)

The United Kingdom has delays even longer than the United States for routine care but with a fraction of the population, their high costs are a lot more punitive to taxpayers.

Government is always looking for ways to keep costs contained but NHS employees need raises also, so it is a challenge. Needing fewer new employees will help.
Warming Up Cars Before Driving In The Winter: Combustion No, Electric Yes

Warming Up Cars Before Driving In The Winter: Combustion No, Electric Yes

Jan 28 2025 | comment(s)

Though the American Automobile Association (AAA) says you should, thanks to fuel-injection engines common for the last 40 years, you don't need to 'warm up' your car, letting it idle before driving, now even though in the past it made sense.

Like America inventing pre-diabetes, which no other nation accepts because only 5% of people in the CDC 'warning' range will ever develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, warming up your car is a solution without a problem.
EPA Should Scuttle Anti-Science PFAS Claims

EPA Should Scuttle Anti-Science PFAS Claims

Jan 23 2025 | comment(s)

PFAS, called "forever chemicals” by activists, are about 12,000 compounds, 11,993 of them found in nature, yet environmentalists in their Forever War On Science have been targeting them based on epidemiological correlation. You know, that same "science" that claimed chocolate is health food, butter is bad and trans fats are good, and that a parasite medication cured COVID-19.
Kennedy's MAHA Is A Solution With No Problem

Kennedy's MAHA Is A Solution With No Problem

Jan 23 2025 | comment(s)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his Children's Defense Fund and his work as a trial lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has always been in a war against science. He has been at war for decades. He sued over the COVID-19 vaccine, as you'd expect from his wealthy white perch where organic food and supplement shoppers also reside, but really only shot to prominence outside the anti-vaccine and organic food industry when he abandoned his presidential campaign and endorsed Republican Donald Trump.

His goal, he claimed, was a spin on Make America Great Again - Make America Healthy Again.
California Safety Issues Lead To Starbucks Changing 'Non-Customer' Policy Natonwide

California Safety Issues Lead To Starbucks Changing 'Non-Customer' Policy Natonwide

Jan 14 2025 | comment(s)

In 2018, two black men were arrested in Philadelphia because that Starbucks store had a policy that did not allow people to use their facilities without purchasing something. Social Justice Warriors declared that racist and Starbucks changed their policy. Anyone could use the restrooms and anyone could take up seats, or smoke, or drink alcohol out of a paper bag.
If You Don't Read Nutrition Labels On The Back, Will You Read Them On The Front?

If You Don't Read Nutrition Labels On The Back, Will You Read Them On The Front?

Jan 14 2025 | comment(s)

In a world where food is affordable and choice is high, some people will not have impulse control. Forget conspiracy mumbo-jumbo about corporations and ultraprocessed foods and addiction, some human somewhere will have fetishized everything so such an "addiction" means nothing, what is true is that foods are more delicious than ever and some people will eat too much.