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This Week: Government Climate Propaganda, Health Gutted, SeeMe, Less Pain With ADRIANA, It’s Not You, It’s Us, Justin Trashes a Study, Correlation? Causation on the Toilet?, Electrical Immunity?, Spleendid Healing, That Succulent Glow, and Much More Science Unplugged!
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
Science… is not a brand.
It’s a process of discovery.
A catalog of knowledge.
A way of understanding the world
Without human bias
But a brand, it is not.
That’s why the US health and human services department
A historically science-based agency
That funds health and welfare programs, conducts medical research,
oversees food and drug safety via the Food and Drug Administration
manages health insurance programs like Medicare and Medicaid
And responds to public health emergencies
by taking advice from the National Institutes of Health
And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ceases to be a science-based agency when it…
Stops using science as a process of discovery,
Stops relying on a catalog of knowledge,
And only understands the world
Through the lens of human bias
Since becoming the head of the US Health and Human Services Department
Robert FK Jr…
Has never been briefed by a CDC expert… on anything
Despite altering research priorities, shutting down pandemic preparation, and replacing positions held by experts with people who are not…
Soon, the CDC itself will have a new hand-picked leader.
And the top science-driven public health organization… will be pointless.
It won’t matter
what the CDC says,
What the NIH researches,
or what the FDA sanctions.
Despite the long histories of these agencies using science to make decisions, the credibility of their science-based brand is gone.
And the same is happening at the Department of Energy…
Without science, these are meaningless organizations
Putting out unvalidated, untrustworthy, and dangerous nonsense.
Science is not a brand.
But it is what keeps the brand of health agencies credible.
And increasingly, the only place you can find a credible agency is right here on
This Week in Science
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Interesting News of the Week!
Government Climate Propaganda
Why do you think the US DOE is so wrong about climate change?
Health Gutted
What is happening to public health in the US?
SeeMe
do not unplug me!
Less Pain With ADRIANA
Who is ADRIANA & why are we so excited about her?
It’s not you,
It’s Us
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Quick Stories with Justin!
Justin trashes a study
This time it’s a GLP-1 Study
A correlation study
That spends too much time on the toilet
Brainy Stories with Kiki!
Electrical Immunity?
What happens when macrophages are shocked?
Spleendid Healing
Is the spleen the secret to repairing heart damage?
That Succulent Glow
Want a glow-in-the-dark plant? How about a succulent?
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