WaPo is *still* calling #Beaglegate a "baseless conspiracy theory." This is in ref to 6 beagle torture experiments funded by NIAID, 5 of which NIAID *and WaPo* concede were indeed funded by NIAID, and 1 of which NIAID disputed funding, AFTER a published paper said they funded it.
WRT that 1 experiment, there's lots of reason to question NIAID's claim that it didn't fund it, starting with the fact that the editor of the journal that pubbed the study and then retracted its attribution of NIAID funding IS HERSELF A BEAGLE TORTURER WHO WORKS FOR ANTHONY FAUCI
This, by the way, is how WaPo reporter @bethreinhard framed up the story she was working on in her email to the beagle experimenters. WaPo already had its verdict even before it began its investigation into the experimenters' sudden about face on who funded their work.
I'm a 100% biased source BTW, both as someone who's ethically against animal experimentation and who recently joined White Coat Waste Project's advisory board. So don't take my word for it. Instead, interrogate my reporting to find any factual flaws. whitecoatwaste.org/wcw-team/#tab_…
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If the Dems were serious about relieving the burden on students for the long term, loan forgiveness should have been paired with reform of the ways that colleges and universities raise and spend their endowments. The way it currently works is like this:
1. Very rich families give money to colleges & universities. They get a tax deduction for it, maybe something named after them too.
2. The donations are ostensibly for paying for actual things, like dorms or scholarships. But the universities don’t actually spend the $ at all.
3. Endowments aren’t for spending, they’re for earning. Universities *invest* their donations, and often earn upwards of 10-20% on them.
4. That’s why when a univ has a big project, they BORROW the $ for it even tho they’re sitting on hundreds of millions or even billions of $.
White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group that fights govt-funded animal testing, ran an ad on Facebook about an island in South Carolina where lab monkeys are bred for NIH. Politifact, FB's official fact checker, jumped in to call it disinformation. There's only one problem...
Politifact "debunked" WCW's ad by pointing to an article that disputed *an entirely different claim.* The AP article wasn't about the South Carolina island. The claims in WCW's ad are accurate, demonstrable and not in dispute.
This is one of many reasons why all the calls for social media monitoring for "disinformation" are short-sighted, ridiculous, and self-serving for those who call for it. The monitors aren't only plainly politically biased; they're also incompetent.
If you want to know how dumbfoundingly cruel San Francisco is toward its drug-addicted and mentally ill unsheltered population, read this. sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/hea…
"One man who arrived by ambulance looked like the Joker, his face and hands covered in animal blood. A 911 caller had spotted him eating a raccoon crushed by a car on a city street...One person on meth was treated after trying to steal a parked ambulance — with a patient inside."
"Charlie Berman, a clinical social worker in San Francisco ... called the city’s emergency rooms 'extensions of the Tenderloin with ambulances providing taxi service in between.'"
For all the propaganda and unreliable media reports, now in 2022 we also have tools like this: a twitter space where you can get real time analysis of the attack on the UKR nuclear plant by actual nuclear scientists. twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyxB…
And by the way, the upshot is that the red alerts you’re seeing about another Chernobyl are bullshit and possibly active disinformation.
(The analysis is by nuclear scientists, not the attack, to be clear. Little eats shoots and leaves problem with that sentence.)
In the 1990s, UC Berkeley tried to build a sand volleyball court on People's Park, which it owns. Berkeley residents suspected it was a stalking horse for building dorms on the park (it probably was). A week of riots ensued.
Decades later, People's Park remains an open air drug market instead of the site of student housing, though that may change soon. Meanwhile, Berkeley and the rest of the Bay Area is in a housing crisis because of a shortage of rental units.
Both the People's Park riots and this NIMBY ass lawsuit are so typical of Berkeley's virtue-signaling politics. The same people who will rail against out-of-control housing costs that fuel economic inequality will do everything including riot to prevent it from being addressed.
Not expecting a mea culpa from the "everyone I disagree with is an anti-science nut job" crowd, but it turns out that Gorsuch was *not* wrong, and Sotomayor was *wildly* wrong on Covid numbers.
Gorsuch, it turns out, did not say that flu kills "hundreds of thousands" of people every year, but "hundreds ... thousands of people every year." Flu kills tens of thousands of Americans every year, so if anything he *under*estimated.
Whereas after the infamous remark from Ben Flowers in which he said that the vaccine does not appear to stop transmission though it does reduce severity — both entirely accurate statements caricatured as "anti-science hysteria," Sotomayor cited a figure, that, if the other side