It’s challenging to verify information coming out of authoritarian regimes like Iran.
But Ali’s account dates to 2009, he seems like a real engineer, and he links to a number of sources.
His account is sobering and worth investigating. If even partially true, it’s concerning. https://t.co/T2UGlfFgAs
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) February 29, 2020
Related: #China’s factories activity plunges, worse than global financial crisis in 2008/9.
Australia has banned travel from Iran.
Why were the Australians ahead of the world? For a very simple reason. They don’t trust the WHO. The information from multiple international sources is that the WHO is under intense pressure from the Chinese government, and succumbing to it.
The Australian Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, Brendan Murphy, told the NSC that it was medically inexplicable that the WHO hadn’t already declared a global pandemic. It’s politics, in other words.
That’s why Australia had earlier forged ahead of the WHO in declaring the China travel ban, on February 1. It was, again, on the unanimous advice of the AHPPC.
The cure: Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report
I thought he knew better.
I'm suing Progress Alberta staff for deplatforming me. They got my book launch cancelled.
But when they were deplatformed by Alberta's budget lock-up I let them use my lawyers. I even gave them free legal research.
Now they're mad we're let in too.https://t.co/UbMvQF60LH. https://t.co/AD2hltGBqO
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) February 28, 2020
Getting the government they deserve, good and hard: Lake Tahoe Music Festival calling it a “wrap” after this summer; blames AB-5
Ukraine launches criminal proceedings against former US Vice-President Joe Biden on allegations he pressured authorities into forcing the resignation of Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reports, quoting Shokin's lawyer.
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) February 27, 2020
Related: Hunter Biden Seeks to Delay Paternity Deposition Until After Key Primary Votes
Oddly enough, when I searched Twitter for “Hunter Biden” it produced pro-Joe results instead. The same happened with “Hunter Biden support”. It didn’t bring up the Freebeacon link until I searched for “Hunter Biden paternity”.
“That’s what we’re supposed to do, is build strong buildings. Nobody ever told me to make it easy to demolish.”
Nope. Not crazy. Not crazy at all.
An Aussie “Puppetry of the Penis” performer severely injured his testicles in a freak corkscrew accident…
A test of the Adams Rule of Slow Moving Disasters.
Your weekend begins now!
Another recommendation from Colonista: How to build a warship out of ice and woodpulp.
The list of logical inconsistencies is as long as your arm. Opponents of hydrocarbons choose to ram through a too-fast energy transition that does not work because it is not planned out, in an effort to save the world’s population from a potential shift in weather patterns that we have decades to plan for and that might not materialize at all in any meaningful way. In other words, we need to change the entire world’s infrastructure in an unbelievably huge way within a decade, based on the assumption that we won’t be able to change the world enough over the next 50 years to deal with creeping-higher oceans or modified weather patterns. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Read on…
Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.
Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist–turned–research integrity expert based in San Francisco, along with other “forensic detectives,” identified the potentially problematic papers, which they think came from a single source. They say the papers contain western blot images—used in molecular biology to visualize the presence of proteins—that contain remarkably similar background patterns and unusually neat bands lacking smears, stains, or dots, which often appear in such images.
“We think that these western blots are not real,” says Bik, who wrote about the case on her blog on 21 February. “Most of them have a very similar layout so we realized these are all coming from the same stable.”
More detail on this thread.
The Canada Revenue Agency used $73,128 focus group research to ask taxpayers if it should change the colour if its tax notice envelopes. (More)…
Genetic Literacy Project: The application of glyphosate to crops has increased about 15-fold since Roundup-ready crops were introduced in 1996. What has happened to the rates of [non-Hodgkin lymphoma] over the past 25 years? As shown in the figure below, while the use of glyphosate increased markedly, the incidence of NHL has remained flat, and mortality from NHL has decreased.
Beyond Meat posts profit miss, dragged by investment, marketing costs; shares fall
Caltrans has agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit in which the department was accused of violating the constitutional rights of homeless people in Alameda County by seizing their belongings during camp cleanups.
