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  • Should Biology Be Taught in Law School? Another Biden Judicial Nominee Cannot Define What a Woman Is

    06/05/2024 9:52:31 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/05/2024 | Becky Noble
    Most Americans probably do not like it, but it is a sign of the times. Judicial nominees appear to be no longer selected because of their education, experience, and exceptional knowledge and application of the law. But for their ideological bent, how they can help the party in power in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. They are picked, or not picked, for the cases they might hear, on their political views, and how those views might affect how they rule. It is during the nomination process that the responses of those nominees are getting downright silly, but they have real-world consequences.Biden...
  • Academic Publisher Wiley Retracts Over 11,300 Papers and Shuts 19 Journals As It Is Overwhelmed by Fraud

    06/05/2024 9:46:55 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/05/2024 | Streiff
    Academic fraud is forcing Wiley, a major publisher of scientific journals, to close 19 journals after some were overwhelmed by industrial-scale research fraud. In the last two years, Wiley has retracted over 11,300 papers containing some fraudulent content.Academic publishing is a major industry for two reasons. The publishing industry generates about $30 billion in revenue, approximately 40% of which comes from within the United States. These publications don't make their money from advertisers. To have a research paper published in a top-tier journal will cost the research team several thousand dollars. That money typically is an authorized expense of the...
  • Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis -- One of his own doctoral examiners at Oxford

    06/05/2024 9:15:18 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Evolution News & Science Today ^ | 05/30/2024 | Daniel Witt
    Back in 2016, The Guardian ran a glowing piece for the 40th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins’s influential book The Selfish Gene, which argued that organisms (like humans) are merely the vehicles that genes use to survive and propagate themselves. The author of the piece, evolutionary biologist Adam Rutherford, wrote that the book’s fame would last forever, for “as long as we study life, it will be read.” Yet even in 2016, Dawkins’s selfish gene model had begun to come under attack from other scientists. Since then, the cracks in the theory have grown. Leading the charge against...
  • 55 Years Ago: Star Trek Final Episode Airs, Relationship with NASA Endures

    06/05/2024 10:33:38 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 34 replies
    NASA ^ | June 5, 2024 | John Url
    The voyages of the Starship Enterprise came to a sudden and premature end on June 3, 1969, with the airing of the final episode of the Star Trek original television series. Ironically, the show’s cancellation came just six weeks before humanity embarked on its first voyage to land on another celestial body. Although the show ran for only three seasons, it generated a devoted fan base disappointed by the cancellation despite their write-in campaign to keep it on the air. But as things turned out, over the decades Star Trek evolved into a global phenomenon, first with the original episodes...
  • Fauci: I Made It All Up

    06/02/2024 8:28:00 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/02/2024 | Bob Hoge
    To some Americans, the COVID pandemic interrupted their lives but didn’t do lasting harm. The draconian measures taken by so many of our “leaders” were an inconvenience but not a game-changer. Maybe you watched a little more Netflix, curbed your social activities for a bit. But for others—like me—it’s deeply personal, and the ramifications of what they did still resonate to this day. My son struggled in his first year of college, so it was with immense pride that our extended family made plans to attend his graduation. Only, that commencement never happened—we got a Zoom ceremony. I’m blessed with...
  • Bright green fireball over Montana, U.S.

    05/24/2024 2:44:18 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 18 replies
    Watchers News ^ | 5/23/24 | Teo Blašković
    A bright green fireball illuminated the night sky over Montana, U.S., at approximately 05:45 UTC on May 21, 2024 (23:45 LT, May 20). The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 65 reports from users in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, U.S., as well as in Alberta, Canada. This event follows an exceptionally bright meteor over Spain and Portugal on May 18. The meteor was described as unreal, massive, and a once-in-a-lifetime event. “That’s crazy! Mad props to the person that was able to get this footage,” one eyewitness wrote on X.
  • How DNA Testing Revealed European Ancestry in Elongated Paracas Skulls

    05/22/2024 9:14:08 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 57 replies
    Ancient Origins ^ | 5/21/24 | Joanna Gillan
    The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far”. A second round of DNA testing was completed in 2016 and the results almost as controversial – the skulls tested, which date back as far as 2,000 years, were shown to have European and Middle Eastern Origin. It was claimed these surprising results would change the known history about how the Americas were populated. But did they? Paracas is a desert...
  • [VANITY] A rant about Extreme Environmentalism

    05/20/2024 2:34:37 AM PDT · by Windcatcher · 21 replies
    For years we've heard that humans are the problem when it comes to the environment. The complaints in recent years have become so intense and extreme that we're being told that humans have been likened to a harmful virus, even to the point that some individuals have begun a "human extinction project" in the crazed belief that the only chance to "save the planet" is to erase humans from existence. It's gotten to the point where hardly a day goes by where we don't hear about someone who expresses a desire to see the Earth "depopulated", at least to the...
  • We Are Being Warned That Nanobots Will Be Flowing Through Our Bodies “By 2030” And Will Be Used To Connect Our Brains To The Internet

    05/18/2024 6:11:48 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 30 replies
    End of The American Dream ^ | 5/16/24 | Michael Snyder
    nce thousands of nanobots are zipping around inside your body, will you still be in control of your mind, will and emotions or will the nanobots be running the show? According to Google, a nanobot is “a hypothetical, very small, self-propelled machine, especially one that has some degree of autonomy and can reproduce”. Scientists here in the United States have been working on nanobots that can travel through our bodies at astonishing speeds, deliver medicines to targeted locations, and even enter our brain cells. Eventually, researchers hope to use nanobots to connect our brains directly to the Internet. I realize...
  • Mayo Clinic Apologizes For Allowing Professor to Say There Are Only 2 Sexes

    05/17/2024 9:06:13 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/17/2024 | David Strom
    It doesn't get much more absurd than this. No, scratch that. It is 2024. We live in a simulation scripted by the Babylon Bee, and those guys are geniuses. It will get more absurd every day. Dr. Mary O'Connor is so respected by her colleagues that they invited her to speak as the keynote speaker at a Mayo event on the Florida campus. This is Dr. Mary O’Connor. She's employed by Mayo Clinic and was invited to speak at one of their conferences.Dr. O'Connor believes there are only 2 s*xes and men cannot be women. Due to these radical beliefs,...
  • NOAA’s Latest Climate Data Shows the Global Land Region Temperature Anomaly Peaked in February 2016 Over 8 Years Ago

    05/17/2024 1:00:22 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    Watts Up With That? ^ | May 17, 2024 | Larry Hamlin
    The graphs below from the NOAA April 2024 Climate Report show comparisons of the latest April 2024 Global Land and Ocean average temperature anomaly results compared to all other April months from 1850 to 2024 and all January through April Global Land and Ocean average temperature anomaly results from 1850 to 2024 Unfortunately, NOAA’s latest climate report does not provide comparisons of the April 2024 average temperature anomaly results for all months over time which led to an incomplete and misleading evaluation of the April 2024 outcome. Fortunately, NOAA’s extensive climate temperature data base provides the information and data needed...
  • Starlink soars: SpaceX’s satellite internet surprises analysts with $6.6 billion revenue projection

    05/11/2024 8:35:56 AM PDT · by srmanuel · 37 replies
    Space News ^ | Sandra Erwin
    With Starlink now launching Satellites with Cell Phone capabilities and 6000 satellites in orbit I look for Starlink to keep exploding in subscribers, it might be an investment worth considering
  • SIX SOLAR STORMS ON THEIR WAY TO EARTH

    05/10/2024 6:12:25 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 50 replies
    SIX SOLAR STORMS ON THEIR WAY TO EARTH (3 minute and 51 second video in link below)https://twitter.com/SunWeatherMan/status/1788895213290758201
  • Self-Replicating Nanobots Found In Both The Vaxxed And UnVaxxed

    05/09/2024 6:34:14 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 45 replies
    Rum ^ | 05/09/24 | Greg Reese
    If we the people can not unite and stand together now, then what exactly are we?https://gregreese.substack.com/For decades, Ray Kurzweil has been an unofficial spokesman for the trans-humanist movement. And in 2008 he said that humans would become infused with nano-robots which would vastly improve the human body.“If you go out even to 2045, that's only, you know, four decades from now, most of our intelligence, of our civil... of our human civilization will be non-biological. We're going to put this inside our bodies and brains. So we're going to become machines, but not... and if you say that people go,...
  • Bill Gates Admits the Shots Contain Nanotech

    05/07/2024 6:01:48 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 46 replies
    X (formerly Twitter) ^ | 05/07/24 | Greg Reese
    So long as we do nothing, the outcome is predictable.https://gregreese.substack.com/When the COVID vaccines were first being distributed to the public, the vaccine inserts were intentionally left blank. Because they were never safe and effective. And for those who did their own research, they were discovered to be deadly. The Moderna patent for this mRNA technology stated that they contain self assembling lipid nanoparticle technology. And now that an estimated six hundred million doses have been administered to the US public, Bill Gates admits this.“Making the mRNA is really easy and really cheap. And that's the magic of this thing. But...
  • "Where Did All of Mars' Carbon Go?" --JPL and Caltech

    11/25/2015 7:24:14 PM PST · by lbryce · 21 replies
    Galaxy Today ^ | November 24, 2015 | Staff
    Caltech and JPL scientists suggest the fingerprints of early photochemistry provide a solution to the long-standing mystery. Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere—one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researchers have suggested that the planet was once shrouded in an atmosphere many times thicker than Earth's. For decades that left the question, "Where did all the carbon go?" Now a team of scientists from Caltech and JPL thinks they have a possible answer. The researchers suggest that 3.8 billion...
  • Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is Confused by Astronomy: “The Moon is Made Up Mostly of Gases”

    04/09/2024 1:00:16 PM PDT · by fwdude · 57 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | April 9, 2024 | Margaret Flavin
    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ( D-TX) once sat on the House Science Committee and the House Space Committee. But understanding astronomy seems to elude her. Jackson Lee attended an event at Booker T. Washington High School where the “Trust the Science” party member clearly does not understand the science. Jackson Lee explained to the crowd, “You have the energy of the moon at night.” What?
  • It’s Time For A U.S. STEM Talent Strategy To Compete With China: This is a national call-for-action.

    04/10/2024 8:51:55 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    RealClear Wire ^ | 04/10/2024 | Dan Reed & Dario Gil
    U.S. innovation fuels our economic strength and is vital for our national security. Released last earlier this month, the National Science Board’s congressionally mandated State of U.S. Science and Engineering Indicators report shows that an accelerating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent crisis is imperiling America’s economy and security.Let’s start with a bit of perspective. The U.S. STEM workforce is now one quarter of the total U.S. workforce – 38 million people at all degree levels who use STEM skills in their jobs, including 19 million skilled technical workers without a bachelor’s degree. That number will only rise as...
  • Removing 50 years of rust and dirt with a laser

    04/10/2024 7:08:55 AM PDT · by Fai Mao · 20 replies
    You Tube ^ | 4-8-2024 | CT Moog
    Demonstration of a LASER cleaning device in an automobile restoration shop.
  • Hospital Fights "Structural Racism" [semi-satire]

    04/08/2024 9:51:56 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 7 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 7 April 2024 | John Semmens
    The Mass General Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts discovered that its policy of reporting cases of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) to public authorities was disproportionately affecting Black individuals. Sarah Wakeman, MD, senior medical director for SUD at Mass General Brigham Hospital, observed "we don't fully understand why SUD is more prevalent among Blacks. Regardless of whether the pathogen for this disease comes from the wild or some bioweapons lab, the racially disparate effects are concerning. Do non-Blacks have some sort of inborn immunity? Or are there environmental influences that could be responsible?" "While we explicitly reject the idea that sufferers...