42 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. From an interview with Hans-Werner Sinn, the head of Ifo, a German economic think tank:

    SPIEGEL ONLINE: “How would a euro exit help Greece in concrete terms?”
    Sinn: “It would become competitive again. Because Greek products would rapidly become cheaper, demand would be redirected from imports towards domestically produced goods. The Greeks would no longer buy their tomatoes and olive oil from Holland or Italy but from their own farmers. And tourists for whom Greece has been too expensive in recent years would return. In addition, new capital would flow into the country. The rich Greeks who deposited so many billions, possibly hundreds of billions of euros, in Switzerland would see the falling property prices and wages and would have an incentive to start investing in their own country again.”

    The whole thing here.

  2. Does Occupy(fill in the blank) Street know about this??
    “We all know tuition is rising. It grew from $4,960 in 2005 to $6,316 in 2010 in Ontario. That’s 27 per cent in five years. Contrary to popular belief, government funding per student has been steady. Over that period, the 27 per cent increase didn’t buy students many new labs or teachers. In fact, 70 per cent of new spending on campus went to salaries and pensions “largely for existing full-time academic faculty and administrators,”… Tuition is rising mainly because professors keep getting more expensive.”
    “Salaries average $106,000 for full-time professors in Canada—$139,000 for full-time tenured professors in Ontario. That’s more than what 95 per cent of Canadians make… The Occupy Movement should take note. If there was ever a symbol of the “one per cent” it’s professors. Ironic then, that so many took time off from research to hoist microphones last fall.” http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2012/02/16/want-lower-tuition-ask-your-profs-about-97000-pensions/

  3. Someone should have mentioned this to Peter Gleick!
    “The determinant of weather is mainly water in all of its forms: as vapor in the atmosphere; in its heat transport by evaporation and condensation, as the enormous circulating mass of liquid ocean whose heat capacity and mass/energy transport dominate the motions of our atmosphere and the precipitation from it, and finally as cloud, snow, and ice cover which influence the radiative balance between the Sun, the Earth, and free space. In comparison, the human emission of CO2 is totally insignificant for the Earth’s weather and climate and there is not one iota of reliable evidence that proves otherwise.” Martin Hertzberg http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20120220/LETTER/120219791/1078&ParentProfile=1055

  4. “Passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight bound for Houston Tuesday sprang into action to help a flight attendant having trouble with an unruly passenger.”
    According to Houston’s KHOU TV (there’s a video, including a passenger’s cellphone video at the link) two Middle Eastern men wanted to sit together; when adjacent seats were not available, one of the men “lit an electronic cigarette” then stood in the aisle screaming “Allah is great!”
    h/t

  5. this explains a lot of things…
    a very good read and the sidebar articles and links are well worth it.
    The myth of the eight-hour sleep
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
    In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
    It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
    …among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists.
    In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
    Much like the experience of Wehr’s subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep.
    “It’s not just the number of references – it is the way they refer to it, as if it was common knowledge,” Ekirch says.
    …”People were becoming increasingly time-conscious and sensitive to efficiency, certainly before the 19th Century,” says Roger Ekirch. “But the industrial revolution intensified that attitude by leaps and bounds.”
    Strong evidence of this shifting attitude is contained in a medical journal from 1829 which urged parents to force their children out of a pattern of first and second sleep.

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  7. it certainly didn’t take long for shar’ia law to creep in through the back door….
    note that the judge is a ‘muslim’ and used that instead of jurisprudence and the law of the land to ignore evidence and find an infidel guilty…
    http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/muslim-admits-attacking-atheist-muslim-judge-dismisses-case
    The Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists, Inc., Mr. Ernest Perce V., was assaulted by a Muslim while participating in a Halloween parade. Along with a Zombie Pope, Ernest was costumed as Zombie Muhammad. The assault was caught on video, the Muslim man admitted to his crime and charges were filed in what should have been an open-and-shut case. That’s not what happened, though.
    The defendant is an immigrant and claims he did not know his actions were illegal, or that it was legal in this country to represent Muhammad in any form. To add insult to injury, he also testified that his 9 year old son was present, and the man said he felt he needed to show his young son that he was willing to fight for his Prophet.
    The case went to trial, and as circumstances would dictate, Judge Mark Martin is also a Muslim. What transpired next was surreal. The Judge not only ruled in favor of the defendant, but called Mr. Perce a name and told him that if he were in a Muslim country, he’d be put to death. Judge Martin’s comments included,
    “Having had the benefit of having spent over 2 and a half years in predominantly Muslim countries I think I know a little bit about the faith of Islam. In fact I have a copy of the Koran here and I challenge you sir to show me where it says in the Koran that Mohammad arose and walked among the dead. I think you misinterpreted things. Before you start mocking someone else’s religion you may want to find out a little bit more about it it makes you look like a dufus and Mr. (Defendant) is correct. In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society.
    Judge Martin then offered a lesson in Islam, stating,
    “Islam is not just a religion, it’s their culture, their culture. It’s their very essence their very being. They pray five times a day towards Mecca to be a good Muslim, before you die you have to make a pilgrimage to Mecca unless you are otherwise told you can not because you are too ill too elderly, whatever but you must make the attempt. Their greetings wa-laikum as-Salâm (is answered by voice) may god be with you. Whenever, it’s very common when speaking to each other it’s very common for them to say uh this will happen it’s it they are so immersed in it.
    Judge Martin further complicates the issue by not only abrogating the First Amendment, but completely misunderstanding it when he said,
    “Then what you have done is you have completely trashed their essence, their being. They find it very very very offensive. I’m a Muslim, I find it offensive. But you have that right, but you’re way outside your boundaries or first amendment rights. This is what, and I said I spent about 7 and a half years living in other countries. when we go to other countries it’s not uncommon for people to refer to us as ugly Americans this is why we are referred to as ugly Americans, because we are so concerned about our own rights we don’t care about other people’s rights as long as we get our say but we don’t care about the other people’s say”
    But wait, it gets worse. The Judge refused to allow the video into evidence, and then said,
    “All that aside I’ve got here basically.. I don’t want to say he said she said but I’ve got two sides of the story that are in conflict with each other.”
    And,
    “The preponderance of, excuse me, the burden of proof… “
    And,
    “…he has not proven to me beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant is guilty of harassment, therefore I am going to dismiss the charge”
    The Judge neglected to address the fact that the ignorance of the law does not justify an assault and that it was the responsibility of the defendant to familiarize himself with our laws. This is to say nothing of the judge counseling the defendant that it is also not acceptable for him to teach his children that it is acceptable to use violence in the defense of religious beliefs. Instead, the judge gives Mr. Perce a lesson in Sharia law and drones on about the Muslim faith, inform everyone in the court room how strongly he embraces Islam, that the first amendment does not allow anyone ” to piss off other people and other cultures” and he was also insulted by Mr. Perce’s portrayal of Mohammed and the sign he carried.
    This is a travesty. Not only did Judge Martin completely ignore video evidence, but a Police Officer who was at the scene also testified on Mr. Perce’s behalf, to which the Judge also dismissed by saying the officer didn’t give an accurate account or doesn’t give it any weight.
    Needless to say, this is totally, completely and unequivocally unacceptable. That a Muslim immigrant can assault a United States citizen in defense of his religious beliefs and walk away a free man, while the victim is chastised and insulted by a Muslim judge who then blamed the victim for the crime committed against him is a horrible abrogation.
    This reeks of those cases we used to read about where a woman is blamed for her own rape because she “was asking for it” by virtue of the clothing she chose to wear, and then having the Judge set the rapist free.
    I can promise you this, you have not heard the last of this issue. Not by a long shot.

  8. Somewhat apropos in view of a previous discussion on SDA:
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/23/joe-oconnor-occupy-toronto-assignment-has-parents-concerned-school-is-indoctrinating-the-kids/
    “I am not saying that they can’t discuss any of this in school,” he says. “But, frankly, and especially considering that representatives of the teachers’ union were part of Occupy, you might think that they would have the decency to step back, think about it, and say: ‘Look, we were supportive of the Occupy movement, so it is probably not the best idea to bring this issue into the schools.’”

  12. rita @ 12:08 a.m.:
    This is exactly the same kind of indoctrination that the Supreme Court of Canada horrendously upheld last Friday on a similar course in Quebec, Ethics and Religious Culture. I’ve already tipped about it twice (Saturday night and last night), but no one seemed to notice. Barbara Kay had an article in yesterday’s National Post (link last night), and some previous ones in 2008-09.

  14. The case the Supreme Court judged last Friday, which is cited as S.L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes, is the last nail in the coffin of the supposed Charter rights to freedom of religion and conscience in Canada.
    Some other cases where the Supreme Court destroyed our rights, because of a faulty Charter:
    – it destroyed freedom of association in Lavigne (1991) and Advance Cutting and Coring (2001)
    – it upheld the kangaroo court practices of human rights commissions in Blencoe (2000)
    – it ignored the right to freedom of the press and other media of communication in Bell ExpressVu vs. Rex (2002)
    – it ignored the notion that constitutions are supposed to place limits on the actions of government in Authorson (2003)
    – it subordinated freedom of expression to a mystical-fantasy view of a “perfect” election process in Harper (2004)
    – it upheld the atrocity of retroactive law in Imperial Tobacco et al vs. B. C. (2005)
    – eight of nine judges could not properly identify a “negative” as opposed to a “positive” right in Baier (2007)
    – it upheld a race-based fishery in Kapp (2008)
    – it upheld confiscation of assets without conviction or even a charge laid in Chatterjee (2009)
    – it made a mockery of the meaning of the Charter clause regarding “security of the person” in Insite (2011)
    If, a few years down the road, Canada is no longer a free and democratic society, these rulings (among others) will have a lot to do with it.

  16. Posted by: Bemused at 11:24 PM
    Undoubtedly the heroic and principled hard left will be all over that like a jihadi on a singed holy book…
    crickets

  18. Follow the Red-Green Brick Road.
    This way > “for our own good”.
    …-
    “Motor Mouth: Electric cars have dirty little secret”
    “What scares me most about this devotion to anything electric is that if the great unwashed masses don’t get with this greener-than-thou program — if even the prospect of ludicrously large financial incentives is not enough to place us on the righteous path — then perhaps these same great minds will decide that, since consumers aren’t smart enough to determine on their own that the electric vehicle is our salvation, it will be perfectly justified to force people to buy them.
    Before you dismiss me as just another crackpot, consider the draconian laws being passed banning smoking from public parks based on the dangers of inhaling second-hand smoke in open fields. Those are also being done for our own good.”
    http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/02/23/motor-mouth-electric-cars-have-dirty-little-secret/

  19. “Family of three die from apparent starvation in Japan”
    “Discovery raises questions over the official response to rising poverty levels among the elderly and the unemployed in Japan”
    “Authorities in Japan are under pressure to explain how three members of the same family were allowed to die of apparent starvation, after their bodies were discovered two months after their deaths.
    Police found the bodies of a couple believed to be in their 60s and their son, thought to be in his 30s, at their apartment in Saitama, north of Tokyo, after the building’s owner said he had been unable to contact them.
    Officers entered the apartment to find the victims’ badly decomposed corpses lying on futons, along with the carcass of their pet cat. The fridge was empty, the cupboards contained very little food, and a few one-yen coins appeared to all the money they had.
    The discovery has raised questions over the official response to rising poverty levels among the elderly and the unemployed in the world’s third-biggest economy.
    As far as welfare officials in Saitama were concerned, the family, residents of a city of 1.2 million, had simply ceased to exist.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/24/family-die-starvation-japan
    …-
    “Ugly Japan”
    “Kinugawa Onsen: You and me and the devil make three”
    “BIGGEST EYESORES
    1 Nihombashi Bridge and the flyover from hell
    2 Kawaguchi Station the most chaotic bicycle park in Japan
    3 Kinugawa the ghost town the bubble built
    4 Omuta city the shopping arcade of a thousand bankruptcies
    5 Hamarikyu Gardens built for an emperor, but collects all the flotsam in Tokyo Bay
    6 Fuefuki discount shopping centre the most garish in all Japan
    7 Utsunomiya station the nest of the loan sharks
    8 Akasaka ghost house not a square inch without graffiti
    9 Shibuya river where even the water rats fear to tread
    10 Yashio the industrial dump next door
    Kinugawa the ghost town the bubble built? This I had to see. What follows, then, is a composite account of four separate visits between mid-March and mid-May: two solo day trips by car, one day trip by train in the company of an old friend from the UK, and finally one solo weekend trip, with every visit yielding another patina of decay. (I plan eventually to bring you tales of all of Professor Ito’s top 10 eyesores. Remember folks, I visit these places so you don’t have to.)”
    http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/ugly-japan-2/

  20. Who is, er, was Whitney?
    …-
    “Debt crisis: Oil price rise sparks growth fears”
    …-
    “Whitney’s grave protected by security guards”
    “The singer was buried wearing £300,000 of jewels and clothes.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

  21. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Pan-Canadian water is falling trusted water modellers say.
    *We’re Number One-Nine (#1-#9).
    …-
    “BREAKING: Gleick Confesses”
    “UPDATE44: 11:00PM 2/23 Here is a special news report from KUSI-TV in San Diego on Fakegate – John Coleman reports.
    UPDATE 43: 10:45PM 2/23 Here is a video “self-interview” from Dec 2011 by Peter Gleick from his PI office where he talks about people having a “fundamental trust in scientists”.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/
    …-
    “*Alerts: Weather Warnings & Public Alerts”
    “The Weather Network has received and posted active messages for the following provinces and territories:.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts/?ref=canoe_en_p_text_alerts

  22. so much for the ‘green’ company…..
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/23/solyndra-abandons-efforts-to-go-clean-and-green/
    Federal officials hailed Solyndra LLC’s plan to create clean energy when they awarded the company more than a half-billion dollars in loans, but the solar-panel maker’s abrupt closure now threatens to leave behind an environmental mess.
    The company plans on paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up its own property in Fremont, Calif., but a separate leased property in nearby Milpitas sits vacant with barrels of unknown chemicals and lead-contaminated equipment, attorneys for the landlord, iStarCTL I L.P., said in recent bankruptcy court filings.
    The full extent of the potential environmental problem at the leased Solyndra facility remains unclear. Officials at iStar say in court papers that they were not given the keys to the premises until this month, though Solyndra stopped making its lease payments in September when it filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware.
    “There may be environmental, health and safety issues and regulatory violations at the premises based on the materials the debtor has left behind, which consist, in part, of open containers of unidentified chemical waste and lead processing machinery,” iStar attorney Karen Bifferato wrote in a recent court filing.
    Photographs attached to the iStar court filing provide an inside look at Solyndra’s stripped-down facility after the company hauled away whatever equipment might fetch money at auction.
    In one picture, two large blue drums are filled with a black substance with no secure lids and covered instead with clear plastic wrap. Another photograph shows a yellow drum about the size of a large garbage can containing a yellow-brown gooey substance.

  23. Creating jobs by decree in the EU while at the same time increasing ruinous regulations which destroy jobs.
    Does this sound familiar to those south of the 49th?
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100139398/the-eu-aims-to-create-jobs-by-decree/
    At least Transport Canada has its head on its shoulders regarding the Gateway pipeline.
    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/02/23/transport-canada-clears-northern-gateway-harbor-choice/?__lsa=6ad59bc6

  25. Socialism’s natural end result: anarchism/nihilism.
    …-
    “Greek democracy caught in a purgatory between freedom and licence”
    ““By the time democracy was restored,” Prof. Panousis recalls, “Greece had already bred a generation of Greeks in high-gear resistance mode. So, when 1974 came along and the doors of freedom and democracy opened, Greeks really didn’t know how to deal with it.
    “They binged and, worst yet, misread democracy as unconstrained, unlimited freedom.”
    The result? Anomie, or else a breakdown of social bonds between individual Greeks, their communities and the state – a stubborn inertia set against the adaptation of Western norms and regulations.
    “It’s all over, in every facet of a Greek life,” says Nikos Dimou, a leading Greek author known for his international bestseller On the Unhappiness of Being Greek.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/greek-democracy-caught-in-a-purgatory-between-freedom-and-licence/article2348533/

  26. We recently discussed this issue here at SDA: this time, the parent, as is the case with the majority, is not in favour of the socialist indoctrination of his child.
    Here’s an article by Joe O’Connor in The National Post today: “Who has the right to Occupy a child’s mind?”
    “Students writing protest slogans for class work
    “‘I asked her what she was doing,’ said the parent, who wished not to be named in this article. [I don’t blame him.] ‘She said her class was learning about Occupy Toronto, and they were being asked to write a slogan or a chant as if they were down at one of the Occupy protests.
    “‘She said this is about the 1% — this isn’t about you [her school, Glenview, is in a very affluent area of Toronro]— it is about the billionaires and the millionaires that don’t pay any taxes.
    “‘And I was so mad [the parent said] I called the school that night. This isn’t critical thinking. This, in my mind, is indoctrinating the kids into the individual teacher’s way of thinking or the school system’s way of thinking, and it is not right, not at 12 years old.
    “‘Just because an issue is current doesn’t make it appropriate for the school system. . . .”
    “‘I am not saying that they can’t discuss any of this in school,’ [the parent] says. ‘But, frankly, and especially considering that representatives of the teachers’ union were part of Occupy, you might think that they would have the decency to step back, think about it, and say: ‘Look, we were supportive of the Occupy movement, so it is probably not the best idea to bring this issue into the schools. . . . ’”
    “‘I am sincerely concerned about this,’ he says. . . . they are teaching my daughter a point of view — that is not balanced — and that is not their job.’”
    That’s what he thinks!! (And I altogether agree with him.)
    All the letters support this parent’s point of view. Here’s part of Stephen Boyling’s letter: “It isn’t the schools that are toxic, it’s the teachers and their administrators. All under the umbrella of the Board of Education. OISE is a left-wing teachers mill that churns out dutiful Marxists like Horton’s churns out donuts. . . . Forget St. James Park, parents. Occupy the Classroom. That’s where you’re needed.”
    http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

  29. Neo-AGW PR.
    H/T Liberal Citoyen Y2Kyoto Dionky.
    Plus: AGW’s Killing Fields.
    “best snow cover in a generation in the Alps”.
    …-
    “The UK Independent asks: “Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium Bug, a mistake?””
    “Simon Carr of the Independent, after hearing a lecture by MIT professor Dr. Richard Lindzen, thinks maybe global warming and Y2K have something in common. He writes:
    Continue reading →”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/
    …-
    “Ski: Avalanche accidents increase following record snow levels”
    “Peter Hardy reports on how the best snow cover in a generation in the Alps has led to a major increase in the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/austria/lech/9104151/Ski-Avalanche-accidents-increase-following-record-snow-levels.html

  30. Socialism: a religion of the stomach.
    “and, in the most surreal demand of all, … …”.
    …-
    “Starting an online store is no easy business”
    “Antonopoulos and his partners spent hours collecting papers from tax offices, the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the municipal service where the company is based, the health inspector’s office, the fire department and banks. At the health department, they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays, and, in the most surreal demand of all, stool samples.”
    http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/02/2012_429208

  31. Innocent man arrested in Kitchener because his 4 year old child drew a cartoon of her daddy with a gun.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/24/matt-gurney-police-arrest-and-stripsearch-innocent-man-after-child-doodles-a-gun/
    To me this is exactly why the left hate Mike Harris because he dared to have a government built on COMMON SENSE. The police and their brethren, the school staff, the social workers and every alphabet government agency is there to monitor, control and selectively punish any INDIVIDUAL, especially transgressing their pet triggers like guns or self-defence, that dares to cross their ever-restrictive rules.
    Of course whenever these agencies encounter one of their protected groups, like the Tamils, Natives or muslims they will back down. If there is an organized threat like the Black Bloc their response is the same, deflect and attack the innocent like the Caledonia townspeople.
    The growing tentacles of these bureaucrats have been reaching into every facet of our society for decades as the size and proliferation of their agencies expand as now almost 1 in 4 are employed by government.
    I hope Jessie Sansone sues every group involved in his humiliation. As several posters have written any one of us could be next and these agencies care nothing if they falsely accuse and break you and your family on their rack.

  33. Service Canada Job Bank site now down for a full wk.
    I swear the burocrats are trying to discredit the govt.

  35. From the “SDA gets results” files…..
    Online G&M
    http://tinyurl.com/8xr94eu
    Green energy’s deadly doldrums
    The numbers are dismal. The stock of Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems AS, the world’s biggest wind turbine maker, has plunged 90 per cent over the past four years. The United States’ leading solar firm, First Solar Inc., (FSLR-Q35.76-1.44-3.87%) has fallen from more than $250 (U.S.) to just over $40 in that same period. And Norway’s huge solar equipment maker Renewable Energy Corp. is trading at one-fortieth of its price at the start of 2008.
    It’s a similar story at Spain’s turbine maker Gamesa Corp., China’s big solar cell maker Suntech Power Holdings, (STP-N3.06-0.15-4.74%) and India’s turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Inc. All have seen their shares tank over the past few years. Q-Cells, Germany’s huge solar cell maker, had to restructure its debt to stave off bankruptcy.

  37. What have we become?
    Homeschooling families can’t teach homos**xuality a sin in class says Alberta government
    EDMONTON, Alberta, February 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homos**ual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk.
    “Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening.”
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-homeschooling-families-cant-teach-homosexuality-a-sin-in-class-sa?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ad8ddede4b-LifeSiteNews_com_Canada_Headlines_02_23_2012&utm_medium=email
    Uh, what about homos**uals’ and the government’s disrespect for the Christian Gospel?

  39. The Glengarrian, that is great news. Maybe they will now get down to business and come up with a credible business model.

  41. wanna bet these researchers disappear faster than Iranian nuclear scientists ? There’s far too much money, power and control of the citizenry at stake…and not just for the criminals.
    http://io9.com/5887903/the-lowdown-on-that-heroin-vaccine-everyones-talking-about
    A vaccine to curb heroin dependence. It’s been the goal of scientists the world over for decades, but to date, not one has been released to the market. But that could soon change. Mexican scientists have developed a heroin vaccine that has proven to be effective in animals trials, and are now preparing to begin testing in humans….
    …Heroin dependence is notoriously difficult to treat, not only because of how addictive the opiate is, but because of the way the body metabolizes it. After it’s injected, heroin is broken down into smaller molecules that are capable of generating their own individual psychoactive effects. Drug vaccines work by grabbing ahold of drug molecules and preventing them from accessing the brain, but vaccines can only hang on to these drug molecules if they’re specially designed to do so; more heroin metabolites means more molecular targets, and more molecular targets make it harder to create a vaccine that can target them all.
    This hangup has been keeping heroin vaccines in the research lab and out of public reach for decades. But that could soon change. Recently, a research team led by Scripps Research Institute’s Kim Janda developed the first so-called “dynamic” vaccine strategy — one that is capable of targeting not only heroin, but the molecules it breaks down into. The team’s vaccine had the added benefit of being highly specific, meaning it targeted heroin and the molecules it broke down into, while leaving other opiods — like oxycodone — alone….

  42. Tom D and batb, Oh Canada, what have we become?
    I am almost sorry I had children and grandchildren.

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