Planting trees and suppressing wildfires do not necessarily maximise the carbon storage of natural ecosystems. A new study has found that prescribed burning can actually lock in or increase carbon in the soils of temperate forests, savannahs and grasslands. […]
“Using controlled burns in forests to mitigate future wildfire severity is a relatively well-known process. But we’ve found that in ecosystems including temperate forests, savannahs and grasslands, fire can stabilise or even increase soil carbon,” said Dr Adam Pellegrini in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences, first author of the report.
He added: “Most of the fires in natural ecosystems around the globe are controlled burns, so we should see this as an opportunity. Humans are manipulating a process, so we may as well figure out how to manipulate it to maximise carbon storage in the soil.”
Fire burns plant matter and organic layers within the soil, and in severe wildfires this leads to erosion and leaching of carbon. It can take years or even decades for lost soil carbon to re-accumulate. But the researchers say that fires can also cause other transformations within soils that can offset these immediate carbon losses, and may stabilise ecosystem carbon.
The Fountain of Youth
National Post- An 84-year-old man in India gets COVID vaccine 12 times, claiming it cures joint pain
Bad Science
Here is something that hasn’t been talked about much. Dr. Fauci’s wife.
You won’t find this story at the CBC. Wuhan cover up.
And a phone call to Pfizer.
Update: Politicizing the China virus.
Mischief Is Important
And that is why we practice. Watch to the 54:00 mark.
Herd Immunity in La Crete
I could not find a version of this story other than the CBC one. But its definitely worth the click.
CBC- Health expert urges caution after blood-testing firm claims ‘pandemic is over’ in Alberta hamlet
More than 1,200 people in the hamlet of La Crete, 700 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, paid $100 each in mid-December to have their blood tested for antibodies by Ichor Blood Services, a private lab specimen collection company based in Calgary. The tests found antibodies in most of the 991 unvaccinated individuals who were tested. Ichor CEO Mike Kuzmickas said he believes the results show La Crete is relatively safe from COVID-19. “The pandemic is over in La Crete; they have reached herd immunity,” Kuzmickas told CBC News in an email last month.
Read the whole thing.
Funny how the CBC “expert” seems to have no idea or knowledge of these studies.
The Sound Of Settled Science
David Unwin is a primary care physician in the UK. For the last eight years he’s been running a long term cohort study in his clinic, in which he treats his diabetic patients with a low carb diet. The study has generated massive amounts of useful data on what happens when patients with type 2 diabetes switch to a low carb diet. And the results have been pretty astounding, with patients going in to complete remission from their diabetes (something which was previously thought to be virtually impossible), lowering their blood pressure, improving their cholesterol levels, losing weight, improving their liver and kidney function, and being able to go off drugs that they would otherwise likely have had to stay on for the rest of their lives.
Papers Please
Oxford Academic- The Role of Immunomodulatory Nutrients in Alleviating Complications Related to SARS-CoV-2: A Scoping Review
Overall, the findings of our review are consistent with our hypothesis about vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc. High-dose vitamin C appears to beneficially impact outcomes related to COVID-19 without adverse effects. Zinc has a potential therapeutic and synergistic role against COVID-19 when administered with HCQ or chloroquine. In addition, high doses of vitamin D reduced the severity of the illness caused by COVID-19.
Current Issues in Molecular Biology- Protective Effect of Melatonin Administration against SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Systematic Review
The most relevant results were: (1) melatonin prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection, (2) although much remains to be clarified, at high doses, it seems to have a coadjuvant therapeutic effect in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection and (3) melatonin is effective against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Journal of Clinical & Medical Images- Loratadine syrup is successfully used to fix COVID-19 induced respiratory distress and chest pain
One of the Antihistamin-1, Loratadine syrup at dose of 10ml per day for 6 days has saved the life of one pregnant woman from severe Covid-19 disease at the 25 weeks of gestational age. However, she has been treated with strong antibiotics before that, even though the disease relapsed after those treatment dosages. Finally, she was responded well to Loratadine syrup.
Trust The Experts
Millions of people take antidepressants each day, but a major new review of the data brings up some concerns with how the drugs are currently prescribed.
In fact, when taken over long periods for mild and moderate depression, antidepressants may be doing patients more harm than good, the review explains.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t use antidepressants at all – in many instances, they save lives and work well.
But the authors of the new review, which appears in the British Medical Journal’s Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, suggest doctors should prescribe fewer antidepressants for shorter periods of time, and focus on people with severe depression.
In other cases, the evidence is unclear on how effective the drugs really are – and whether the benefits outweigh the side effects.
But wait, there’s more.
One of the big issues highlighted by the review is that most clinical trials only look at the efficacy of the drugs over a six- to 12-week study period. In the real world, however, people are prescribed antidepressants for years.
Good grief.
Yo Mama
Today almost everything we had figured out then is wrong. We didn’t understand the origin of modern humans, and we’re still in the process of unpacking all the complexity as more and more findings come to light. Beginning in 2010, ancient DNA made plain that Neanderthals and their East-Asian cousins, the Denisovans (after Denisova cave in which their remains were discovered), were not evolutionary dead ends; their traces continue on in us.
The Sound Of Settled Science
New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides a novel answer to one of the persistent questions in historical climatology, environmental history and the earth sciences: what caused the Little Ice Age? The answer, we now know, is a paradox: warming.
The Little Ice Age was one of the coldest periods of the past 10,000 years, a period of cooling that was particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. This cold spell, whose precise timeline scholars debate, but which seems to have set in around 600 years ago, was responsible for crop failures, famines and pandemics throughout Europe, resulting in misery and death for millions. To date, the mechanisms that led to this harsh climate state have remained inconclusive. However, a new paper published recently in Science Advances gives an up-to-date picture of the events that brought about the Little Ice Age. Surprisingly, the cooling appears to have been triggered by an unusually warm episode.
When lead author Francois Lapointe, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in geosciences at UMass Amherst and Raymond Bradley, distinguished professor in geosciences at UMass Amherst began carefully examining their 3,000-year reconstruction of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures, results of which were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, they noticed something surprising: a sudden change from very warm conditions in the late 1300s to unprecedented cold conditions in the early 1400s, only 20 years later.
Using many detailed marine records, Lapointe and Bradley discovered that there was an abnormally strong northward transfer of warm water in the late 1300s which peaked around 1380. As a result, the waters south of Greenland and the Nordic Seas became much warmer than usual. “No one has recognized this before,” notes Lapointe.
More Infectious, Less Severe
But if you’re looking for something extra…
Science Direct- Can povidone iodine gargle/mouthrinse inactivate SARS-CoV-2 and decrease the risk of nosocomial and community transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic? An evidence-based update
Oral hygiene intervention, along with the gargling/mouthwash with an antiseptic having virucidal properties is imperative during this pandemic of COVID 19. Based on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines, PVP-I is safe to use as a mouth rinse, and the existing in-vitro studies and patient-based clinical trials confirm its virucidal property against SARS-CoV-2.
Pub Med- Oral Curcumin With Piperine as Adjuvant Therapy for the Treatment of COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Frontiers in Pharmacology- Curcumin as a Potential Treatment for COVID-19
Hide Your Children
The ban on conversion therapy was all about pleasing the alphabet people and making the Conservatives look bad. It had nothing to do with science. Other Western countries are studying the issue rather than jumping on the bandwagon. But then we have a leader who thinks prancing in homosexual parades is normal.
Canada just banned clinical therapy for children thinking of transitioning
And speaking of child abuse.
Meanwhile CNN has some explaining to do.
Throw 1000 Vaccine Virgins’ in the Volcano
And you might prevent one case. Not a hospitalization, or a trip to the ICU or a death, ONE CASE.
Findings: The NNEs suggest that at least 1,000 unvaccinated people likely need to be excluded to prevent one SARS-CoV-2 transmission event in most types of settings for many jurisdictions, notably Australia, California, Canada, China, France, Israel, and others.
and
Conclusions: Vaccines are beneficial, but the high NNEs suggest that excluding unvaccinated people has negligible benefits for reducing transmissions in many jurisdictions across the globe. This is because unvaccinated people are likely not at significant risk — in absolute terms — of transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to others in most types of settings since current baseline transmission risks are negligible.
Quite literally, a passport to nowhere.
Papers Please
Epidemiology of myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA vaccines in Ontario, Canada: by vaccine product, schedule and interval
There were 19,740,741 doses of mRNA vaccines administered and 297 reports of myocarditis/pericarditis meeting our inclusion criteria. Among these, 69.7% occurred following the second dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine and 76.8% occurred in males. The median age of individuals with a reported event was 24 years. The highest reporting rate of myocarditis/pericarditis was observed in males aged 18-24 years following mRNA-1273 as the second dose; the rate in this age group was 5.1 times higher than the rate following BNT162b2 as the second dose.
Original Antigenic Sin is Real
Beneficial effects of a mouthwash containing an antiviral phthalocyanine derivative on the length of hospital stay for COVID-19: randomised trial
Toothpaste and mouthwash inactivate 99.9% of the virus that causes COVID-19
Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Revealing Vaccine-Resistant Mutations in Europe and America
The Sound Of Settled Science
Science will be very, very angry when it hears about this: Planet 10 times the size of Jupiter discovered, when it shouldn’t even exist
Triple Vax Attack
Sportsnet- Raptors president Ujiri joins growing list of NBAers with COVID
“On Sunday, Giants of Africa held our first in-person event since 2019. It was organized in compliance with all current public health guidance – everyone who attended had to show proof of vaccination, and to wear masks when not eating or drinking,” said Ujiri in a statement issued by the team. “Unfortunately, after the gala, we learned of positive COVID-19 tests among our guests – and even though I am fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot, I also subsequently tested positive.
Sam Amico- Despite 97 percent vaccination rate, NBA has already at least equaled last year’s total number of players/coaches entering COVID protocol.
Simple, cheap and effective
I had not heard of South African doctor Shankara Chetty prior to this interview, but since the beginning of the pandemic he claims to have successfully treated over 7000 Covid patients with widely available and cheap antihistamines and steroids. What stands out in the interview is his basic approach to the pandemic: see the patient in person and take time to understand the progression of the disease. This stands in stark contrast to the approach in Europe and North America where we are suffering from an obsession with data and randomized clinical trials while completely ignoring the efforts of medical innovators like Dr. Chetty.
Papers Please
The Lancet- The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing
Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases.
The Lancet- Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of emergency care and hospitalisation among patients with COVID-19: the TOGETHER randomised, platform clinical trial
Our trial has found that fluvoxamine, an inexpensive existing drug, reduces the need for advanced disease care in this high-risk population. A 10-day course of fluvoxamine costs approximately US$4 even in well-resourced settings. Our study compares favourably with the treatment effects of more expensive treatments including monoclonal antibodies for outpatient treatment.
Jama- Measles a Growing Global Threat as COVID-19 Disrupts Childhood Vaccinations
ResearchGate- Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination
Despite this apparent evidence to support vaccine effectiveness-at least for the older age groups-on closer inspection of this data, this conclusion is cast into doubt because of a range of fundamental inconsistencies and anomalies in the data. Whatever the explanations for the observed data, it is clear that it is both unreliable and misleading.
The Telegraph- Covid causing just one in five excess deaths in parts of England
However, in November, Prof Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, called for an “urgent investigation” into the matter. “This could be the fallout from the lack of preventable care during the pandemic, and what happens downstream of that,” he said.
HartGroup- Why hide what happens in the first two weeks after vaccination?
The Guardian- GPs in England get green light to provide less care and join Covid jab drive. Government says doctors can do less monitoring of people with diabetes and heart problems
NHL Players injury report- Have a look and keep your eye out for “myocarditis”, “heart problems” and “covid protocol”.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Sebastian Rushworth MD: In this episode, I talk to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick about his new book “The Clot Thickens”. We discuss why the traditional LDL/cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease is wrong, and why the scientific evidence actually supports an alternate hypothesis much more strongly. That alternate hypothesis is the thrombogenic hypothesis, which we go through in some detail. Finally, Malcolm tells us what people should be doing in order to protect themselves from heart disease.
A discussion you won’t see on the CBC
Grab a coffee and take the time to listen to this group of experts engaging in the kind of open discussion that we desperately need to have today. Geert Vanden Bossche is one of the participants. The most common observation is that today’s mass vaccination program is completely ignoring the role that innate immunity needs to play in the fight against Covid.
“…it worries me that these leaky, incomplete, sub-optimal vaccines are immunotherapy of an unknown kind of consequence…”