As I watch Texas oil money purchasing TV stations, and newspapers becoming corporatized, including in California, I see more and more people marching to the tune of oil (and other) plutocrats. I spend time in San Diego and Berkeley, CA and have been watching what’s happening in these two booming cities, as well as our …
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Elder Abuse in the US Senate
Senator Diane Feinstein and Mitch McConnell must go. They have both had long and productive careers in the Senate. Republican and Democratic handlers need to stop abusing these people. Stop. You’re making them look like fools, which neither was until you propped them up for your own power moves. Shame on you.
Finally, Some Good Genetics Research on Aging Processes
Professor Doctor Andreas Beyer, Ph.D., at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics in Germany, along with his research team has discovered that as we age, a critical process in our cells, called gene transcription, speeds up. This process involves making a copy of a specific DNA strand into the form of RNA. When the …
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The Pump-and-Dump Scammer, Vivek Ramaswamy
With money from QVT, a hedge fund, Vivek’s company purchased a failed drug from GSK, renamed it, and performed a non-scientific post-hoc analysis of the failed drug where they cherry picked data and spun it to pump up the company’s stock. Once the stock price soared after the hysterical mass media, such as CNBC, talked …
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Cancer on the Rise, Especially the Young. Physicians are Surprised. Ignorance Abounds.
Many biological systems exhibit remarkably high phenotype robustness, despite mutations. Mutations matter not. It’s the environment, stupid. And the environment is increasingly toxic. Diseases, including cancer, result. The headline reads, “Cancer rates in people younger than 50 are rising, new study finds. Doctors don’t yet know why.” In 1977, four scientists, Higginso, Muir, Doll, Peto …
Stem Cells, Health, Technology 