Cancer can outwit the human immune system and resist treatments – including chemotherapy, which can wreak damage of its own on organs and tissues. Now a team of German and Swedish bioscientists is testing a way to kill cancer cells by denying them energy. Until recently, cancer was thought to grow without needing mitochondria, the...
Tag: jan 26 2021
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“FATHER OF THE INTERNET” INVENTS NEW COMPETITOR
Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the computer codes 30 years ago that made the Internet possible, has become disenchanted with his creation… so, he’s designing an alternative. Unhappy about the hordes of personal data, as well as the power and control, amassed by giant corporations such as Amazon and Google, Berners-Lee has created Solid, which he...
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“PUZZLING PHENOMENON”: FLU GONE
As the Wall Street Journal headline declared last Friday: This Season, Flu is All but Wiped Out January normally is a time when the common flu wreaks havoc on populations around the globe. The WHO estimates between 500 million and one billion get infected every year, which causes three to five million serious cases. The...
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BIDEN BACKS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, CASE NUMBERS DROP
In timing that seemed quintessentially “quid-pro Joe,” the WHO suddenly updated its vaccine test guidelines just as the new American president signed an executive order to rejoin the organization that former president Donald Trump abandoned. The WHO’s new directives advised laboratories that a positive PCR test will no longer be considered by itself enough to...
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EU COUNTRIES: NO TRAVEL = NO VIRUS?
With concern over new coronavirus variants, governments across the European Union announced last week new travel restrictions in hopes to limit the increase of new cases. Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced his country would ban all nonessential travel until at least 1 March. He said, “When people travel, the virus travels with them.”...
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DUTCH OFFICIALS: LOCK IT DOWN
The Netherlands announced last week it aims to put into place a curfew from 9:00 PM to 4:30 AM due to virus infection fears, reports said. Prime Minister Mark Rutte blamed the curfew on the new variants that have emerged. Euronews reported some lawmakers in the country lashed out at the new restriction and said the Dutch...
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SWITZERLAND REFERENDUM TO CHALLENGE COVID LOCKDOWNS
A petition in Switzerland surpassed the number of signatures required to trigger a referendum on stopping Bern’s COVID-19 restrictions, which hopes to limit future lockdowns that can be mandated by the government. Friends of the Constitution, the group spearheading the initiative, have criticized the country’s approach in dealing with the virus outbreak. Christopher Pfluger, a...
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MERKEL EXTENDS CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWNS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last Tuesday the extension of the country’s coronavirus lockdown. “Now is the time to take preventative measures against the threat of this virus,” she said. The mandate has been in effect since December and calls on school closures, limiting household interactions, a ban on drinking alcohol in public, and all...
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ANTIPARASITIC COULD REDUCE CHANCE OF COVID DEATHS UP TO 75%
Ivermectin, an off-patent antiparasitic drug, has shown promise in the treatment of patients with moderate to severe cases of COVID-19, and in some studies have reduced the chance of death by 75 percent, according to a report last week in the Financial Times. The report said the drug is usually used in the treatment of parasitic...
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PCR TEST NEEDS ADJUSTMENT
Among those calling attention to problems with the PCR test is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who the media and politicians have ordained “America’s #1 infectious disease expert.” Back in July, Dr. Fauci appeared on the podcast, “This Week in Virology,” where he stated the following about the higher levels of PCR results: “What is now sort...