Science Alert- After 856 ‘Snake Bites’, Man’s Blood Could Unlock Universal Antivenom
Self-taught venom expert Tim Friede has voluntarily injected himself with snake venom 856 times across 18 years. Now, in spite of the odds, Friede’s extremely dangerous hobby has led scientists to create the most widely effective snake antivenom on record.
Trust the experts: But that’s kind of hard when we’re dealing with a group of people who seem to think nothing of contradictions.
When humans entered America is one of the most debated questions in archaeology.
People in South America share a complicated connection to groups in South Asia and Oceania? Do they share ancestry from a mysterious group geneticists call Population Y?
Did This Man Just KILL the Big Bang Theory?
It’s not just a movie anymore.
Globe and Mail- U.S. government is asking Canadian researchers whether their work deals with DEI, climate, gender
A list of approximately 30 questions was sent earlier this month to Canadian researchers working on projects funded by U.S. agencies. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget is scrutinizing grants to institutions outside the U.S. as part of a broader effort to cut what the White House has characterized as wasteful spending.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers says the questions being asked infringe on academic independence.
Francisco- Funny how all the folks complaining about their “academic independence” don’t fund their own research.
Trust the Evidence- Clearing the Air Around Influenza Treatment
If a million people took Tamiflu, 45,000 would experience vomiting, 31,000 would experience headaches, 10,000 would have renal complications, and 11,000 would suffer psychiatric harm.
May the odds be ever in your favour.
New York Post- NASA’s odds of ‘city-killing’ asteroid hitting Earth just went up — the highest probability ever
Update: Kate asks Grok, “If asteroid YR4 2024 makes a direct hit on Ottawa, how wide would be the blast zone, outside of which one could expect to survive?”
Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but research suggests genetics play more of a factor in developing the arthritic condition than previously thought.[…]
“Gout is a chronic disease with a genetic basis and is not the fault of the sufferer – the myth that gout is caused by lifestyle or diet needs to be busted,” said epidemiologist Tony Merriman from the University of Otago in New Zealand, when the study was published last year.
This is better than porn. (Threadroll)
Birthing persons and trans-kids hardest hit.
Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community this week following Donald Trump taking office as the 47th US president. His administration has abruptly cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public biomedical funder. Adding to the worry: the Trump team appears to have deleted entire webpages about diversity programmes and diversity-related grants from the agency’s site.
The cancelling of meetings and travel is part of a pause in external communications issued on 21 January by the NIH’s parent organization, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Researchers who spoke to Nature say that although a short, daylong pause in communications at US agencies has occurred in the past when new administrations have started, to reorient strategy, the reach and length of the Trump team’s — it is set to last until at least 1 February — is unprecedented. Without advisory-committee meetings, the NIH cannot issue research grants, temporarily freezing 80% of the agency’s US$47-billion budget that funds research across the country and beyond.
Related savagery: Questioned by reporters in North Carolinaabout the removal of Anthony Fauci’s security detail – “He made a lot of money. He can pay for his own security.” Will you feel responsible if something happens to him? – “No.”
Bret Weinstein(Darkhorse podcast) vs Jacqui Wakefield (BBC disinformation team)
Alternate title- When Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors Haven’t Got a Clue How Things Actually Work In The Real World
Daily Sceptic- Dozens of British Women Have Seen Their Breasts Grow After the Covid Jab
The revelation comes days after shocking images showed how a 19 year-old Canadian woman’s breast quadrupled in size in what experts believe is a rare reaction to Pfizer’s Covid jab dubbed the “Pfizer boob job”.
National Review- Pay Up, Mr. Mann
For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post — until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line.
My word shall be taken as gospel. An absolute. Not to be questioned.
Science- Scientists as political advocates
Daily Sceptic- The Appalling Treatment of Covid Vaccine Whistleblower Dr. Byram Bridle
We do not do this to appear victims, there were many of those but not the two old geezers. But there is one particularly vile form of abuse that is so base to be considered criminal. That was suffered by Dr. Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist from the University of Guelph in Canada and his family.
For those wondering how long the Santa Ynez Reservoir has been empty the answer is June 2009.