Retrobiologist Peter Duesberg: Retroviruses such as HIV are harmless and do not cause disease
According to Farber: “It’s a good question ‘Who was Fauci in the beginning there?’ How did he transform into somebody so ruthless, so unaccountable? And I’m being nice right now. As an historian of all of this, I place a lot of credence in the symbiosis between Fauci and the AIDS activists, because the AIDS activists were revolutionary, and they did have a revolutionary creed, which was, ‘By any means necessary, we demand what we demand.’
New book on leading virologist questions and contradicts popular narrative that HIV causes Aids
Farber: So, in other words, ‘AIDS spreads like this or like that and is going to affect everybody,’ because that’s what we’re supposed to say politically, not because that’s true biologically or epidemiologically. So, we’re all stuck now in this brand-new era where you get flogged for observing 2+2 = 4.
World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot, now spotlighted by Ukraine conflict
The US military’s oil use and emissions are falling. The US Defence Logistics Agency, which oversees oil buying, said 84 million barrels were purchased in 2022, down almost 15 million from 2018. Emissions in 2022, meanwhile, fell to 48 million tonnes from 51 million tonnes the previous year.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, Nigerians in northeast live perpetual in fear of Boko Haram insurgents, military
In more than 30 interviews in the northeastern town of Bama in late 2022, men and women described the depopulation of the countryside by military “clearance” operations that they said had torched their villages, destroyed food supplies and killed those unable to flee.
How Wagner Group boss Prigozhin-led mutiny against Putin precipitated death of Russian troll farm
Initially, the troll farm sought a new owner, but Reuters reported ahead of the July 4 holiday that the infamous influence machine will instead be disbanded. Prighozin, meanwhile, was said to have been exiled to Belarus – but has now returned to Russia, according to the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
New report unearths how researchers feared to reveal how Covid vaccines weaken immunity
Substacker Igor Chudov: The deep-pocketed funders of Covid vaccines had no problem pouring billions into them without any preliminary data – but helping their victims is not one of their financial priorities.
After long silence medical Science Magazine admits Covid vaccines weakens patients’ immunity
A total of 1,569,668 reports of adverse events following Covid-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and June 23, 2023, to VAERS. The latest available data from VAERS show 770 reports of POTS with 578 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine, 160 reports attributed to Moderna’s and 31 reports to Johnson & Johnson’s.
Forget how your personal data is harvested by your phone, your car ‘knows’ your sleazy secrets
The Vehicle Privacy Tool says Toyota’s documents are “silent” on whether the company collects data from people’s phones that are synced with its vehicles. Proffitt says it doesn’t collect this data, except for “using an identifier for the sole purpose of connecting a user’s profile on the Toyota/Lexus app with a vehicle” if a profile has been set up. “Any synchronization of contact info and call history for Bluetooth purposes remains on the vehicle and is not sent to Toyota,” Proffitt says.
Dogfight: Facebook parent company launches Threads app that might just cannibalise Twitter
The platform also arrives at a particularly weak moment for Twitter. Musk’s recent announcement that free Twitter accounts would, temporarily, only be able to view 600 tweets per day was met with derision. Such moves will likely further hurt advertising on the platform – worsening a crisis that’s been ongoing throughout Musk’s tenure.
Medical doctors raise red flag over how US courts permit drugmaker Merck to sell killer asthma drug
Pre-emption defences became a centrepiece of the George W. Bush administration – and FDA policy under his presidency, Reuters reports. This was part of the Bush campaign’s promise to address what it described as “frivolous” lawsuits.
