"Effort to ‘Trump-proof’ US science grows, but will it succeed?" - Jeff Tollefson, Nature, 26JUL2024

>Unions are joining Biden administration’s campaign to promote scientific integrity and protect government scientists.

>Grifo says policies — as well as panel, made of scientific-integrity officials from across the government — will establish political, institutional norms in case future administration tries to break or revoke rules. Current administration is planning to conduct workshops over coming months to help federal officials understand and implement new rules. In absence of federal law establishing formal legal standards, many fear it will be difficult to prevent a hostile administration from meddling with science or retaliating against researchers who speak out.

>"We were not prepared to defend the agency first time around,” Cantello says, calling dismissal of science radical and unprecedented. “People don’t want to experience that again and are gearing up to fight"

https://archive.ph/ZiNLy

As the crackdown on free speech accelerates, the UK government is set to ban people silently praying in their heads outside abortion clinics.

https://modernity.news/2024/08/16/uk-government-set-to-ban-silent-prayer-outside-abortion-clinics/

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"Stanford’s public position is that its researchers cannot reasonably be expected to know what happens in their own labs and gets published in their own names.

"Once again, there is no effort to find the supposed true culprits. If the trustees’ report is taken at face value, then there must be several unidentified fraudsters in multiple laboratories, but they seem unconcerned with the obvious implication that these supposed fraudsters are continuing to make up fake data for critical medical research."

https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/08/02/the-academic-culture-of-fraud/#:~:text=Stanford%E2%80%99s%20public%20position,critical%20medical%20research.

Bus identifies itself as a train

"Records reveal Chellie Pingree [U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)] has flown business class on international junkets -- funded by left-wing billionaires -- even as she tells Mainers to wear hand-me-down clothes to reduce CO2 emissions."

https://www.themainewire.com/2024/08/chellie-pingree-jet-sets-around-the-world-while-preaching-about-climate-change/

"For a more scientific take on the Jewish origin debate, recent DNA analysis of Ashkenazic Jews – a Jewish ethnic group – revealed that their maternal line is European. It has also been found that their DNA only has 3% ancient ancestry which links them with the Eastern Mediterranean (also known as the Middle East) – namely Israel, Lebanon, parts of Syria, and western Jordan. This is the part of the world Jewish people are said to have originally come from – according to the Old Testament. But 3% is a minuscule amount, and similar to what modern Europeans as a whole share with Neanderthals. So given that the genetic ancestry link is so low, Ashkenazic Jews’ most recent ancestors must be from elsewhere."

https://theconversation.com/ashkenazic-jews-mysterious-origins-unravelled-by-scientists-thanks-to-ancient-dna-97962

🇺🇸The United States needs to stop playing policeman of the world and sending its young citizens to fight "stupid wars," said Republican vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance.

"We're going to stop sending our young people to faraway places. We're not the policemen of the world. We need to use our young people as a resource here at home, not send them around the world," Vance said at a campaign event.

"Put simply, we have a major civilizational unraveling on our hands. Much of the things we assumed were conjured up by the magic of modernity — reliable core infrastructure, cheap food/energy/shipping, functional business apparatus — were in fact gifts bestowed upon us by a hungry god. We stopped sacrificing delicate virgins to him, and tried to offer angry fat hags in their stead. He’s wised to the ruse."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-71433427#:~:text=Put%20simply%2C%20we,to%20the%20ruse.

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Greta Thunberg: a miracle climate savior or just a puppet of the elites? You decide, but one thing is certain, symbolism will be their downfall.

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BREAKING: 🇩🇪 Germany blows up the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, once a symbol of the country's energy independence.

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Who dares question the integrity of our democratic processes?

"Smartmatic co-founder and president Roger Piñate surrendered to federal authorities in Miami, Florida on Monday, where he faces charges related to foreign corruption, bribery, and money laundering to secure elections contracts in the Philippines."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smartmatic-president-surrenders-us-authorities-miami-face-bribery-corruption-charges

Isn't it crazy that Pornhub would rather block access to a whole state than make sure porn on their website isn't being shown to children in those states?

Reminder of the absolute state of British police.

Yup, it is real
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Eye-tracking tech reveals homebuyer blindspots

"“The surge in naturalization efficiency isn’t just about clearing backlogs; it’s potentially reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election,” said Wang."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-times-feds-accelerating-naturalization-immigrants-reshape-electorate