The Connecticut Department of Public Health disclosed on 20 July that 90 people who were told they tested positive for the virus did not in fact have it. A flaw was discovered in a testing system. Many of the erroneous results were with nursing home residents. Acting Commissioner of the state’s public health department, Deidre...
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SELL HATE, FORGET THE FACTS
“Here’s your field guide to the five main types of Pandemic deniers.” That’s the 26 July headline of a Salon article republished in AlterNet.org attacking anyone who doesn’t believe their B.S. and, as noted below, accuses them of being a vicious person. Indeed, their one-sided reporting and hypocritical bias is evidenced by how they describe...
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SCHOOL DAYS MASKED MADNESS
It was a top headline story on Yahoo News this past Friday: “Mom creates ‘virus veil’ for her kids to wear to school – experts applaud the ‘ingenuity’ but say safety tests are needed.” Fearful her young children may go back to school this autumn and thus may be attacked by COVID, the article featured...
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SCHOOL’S STILL OUT FOR OTHERS
Across America, despite strikingly infinitesimal numbers – and the scientific data that children are not vulnerable to catching the virus or are significant spreaders of it, politicians and teachers are demanding continued school lockdowns, claiming reopening would place undue risks on students and staff. Among those representing the Fear and Hysteria of schools reopening is...
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MEDIA HYPE COUNTS, DATA DOESN’T
As reported in last Wednesday’s New York Times: “The disturbingly large numbers of coronavirus cases reported every day since the pandemic exploded may in fact be low – by a lot. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the number of infected people ‘far exceeds the number of reported...
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BLOOD TRANSFERS MENTAL BENEFITS OF EXERCISE
It’s well-known that exercise sharpens the mind. Now researchers at the University of California San Francisco have found that blood from mice that exercise regularly can perk up the mental faculties of mice that don’t. The study was simple: researchers put exercise wheels in cages with mice. The mice ran for miles overnight. After a...
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TEACHING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SPOT DEEPFAKES
The software for creating deepfakes – AI-generated videos of people seeming to say things they never actually did – is freely available online and relatively easy to learn to use. With an election not many weeks away, we could begin to see videos of Donald Trump admitting taking bribes from Vladimir Putin or Joe Biden...
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1,000 TONS OF PLASTIC DUSTS FALLS ON NATIONAL PARKS EACH YEAR
Janice Brahney, a chemist at Utah State University, set out to study how dust carried on the winds brings nutrients to ecosystems. She collected samples from weather stations in remote spots around the U.S. When she looked through her microscope at samples gathered from wilderness areas and national parks, she saw plastic. She used weather...
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LIBYA: CONTROL OF SIRTE COULD SPARK WW III
Last week, we reported in the Trends Journal that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with the leader of Libyan rebel forces and former CIA agent Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar over concerns that the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) was making advances on the strategically significant port city of Sirte. The port is currently...
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IRAN: DANGER ON THE HOME FRONT
Last Thursday, an American F-15 military jet flew within 1,000 meters (1,100 yards) of an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian air space. The close encounter, verified by video of screaming passengers, forced the pilot of the commercial airline to take emergency measures to avoid contact. Iran officially protested the incident to the United Nations, calling...