Thursday, October 6, 2022

Found Poetry: the new scientific journalism?

Universities and colleges serve as brokers for the pharmaceutical industries.  Check out the opening line to this article about genetically modified mosquitos capable and designed to deliver vaccines to people.  Like fluoride, the American citizen will be offered consent.  It reads, 
A new study from the University of Washington in Seattle used 200 mosquitoes to deliver live malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites into the arms of human test subjects in a new vaccine trial. 

The point of highlighting that opening line is that it is used to garner some weight, gravitas, credibility in the reader's mind.  Forget for a minute that universities are bought and paid for.  Forget that they're bastions of woke ideologies that have surrendered common sense and common decency.

The introduction continues, 

The Plasmodium parasites were genetically modified via CRISPR technology to not make people get sick. It was reported that the body still makes antibodies against the weakened parasites so it will be prepared to fight real malaria. The lead scientist is reportedly not planning to use mosquitoes to vaccinate millions of people, but what is to stop others from doing so? 

Did you read that line, "The lead scientist is reportedly not planning to use mosquitoes to vaccinate millions of people, but what is to stop others from doing so?"  So do you see what the writer, and his editor, are doing?  

The University of Washington in Seattle.  By the way, anything coming out of Washington University, it means Bill Gates.  Flat out.  That might help explain why you have such ghoulish statements from their scientists who say things like, "  

The lead scientists.  

These writers are using found poetry to create legitimacy and credibility to their article.  They don't use the usual means of rhetoric.  Watch how they cite the journal, 

A new study published last month in Science Translational Medicine used 200 mosquitoes to deliver live malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites that had been genetically modified to inject malaria into the arms of human test subjects in a new vaccine trial. 

"A new study" builds excitement.  

"The lead scientists" builds authority. 

"The University of Washington in Seattle" is its origins story, presumed to be an institution of great learning.

Then the article introduces the test subject, Carolina Reid, trying to connect her to the charm of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest with this introduction, "One Seattle morning . . . ."  

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Home buyers in the US have literally gone on strike.

Melatonin is a well-recognized endogenous hormone involved in the control of brain functions and maintenance of blood-brain barrier integrity.

All I can say is that if you're not taking melatonin, you're not doing the best you can at self-care.   

Remember that in the low dosage is where Melatonin provides some decent sleep inducement.  For me, it keeps me asleep through the night and gives me some of the best dreams.  Meaning that they're always smooth and lead on from one event to the next without any perilous events that startle and wake me.  So I like that.  In higher doses, say, 40-100mg or more is where melatonin's neuroprotective activities kick in.  

Norwegian Salmon, the most toxic food in the world?

What color should your salmon be?  Deep red.  Deep red means it's wild salmon.  Pale orange on the other hand is farmed raised salmon and toxic.  Believe me.  I once bought two gorgeous fillets of farmed salmon because the week before I bought two beautiful pieces of wild caught that had excellent flavor.  But the week later when I got the farm-raised, I literally got sick from eating the salmon although the color didn't look too different.  Turns out the difference was huge.    

Norwegian Salmon, the most toxic food in the world?  Quite a claim.  Yeah, I'd say it's not too healthy or healthful or even fit to eat.  I once had the Norwegian Fish Oil brand, called Nordic, and within a few days I developed a cancerous mole on thigh.  I stopped the oils, and the mole disappeared after one week.  Shocking but surprised too that it disappeared just as quickly.  Which told me how toxic that brand of fish oils was.  And I learned that there are purer forms of fish oil.  Today, I believe that Barry Sears Omega 3s are some of the purest fish oils after verifying that, of course, about 17 years ago.

Yeah, I stopped buying Atlantic salmon a few years ago.  The meat never tasted like Pacific Coast or Alaskan Sockeye Salmon.  Wikipedia explains that 

sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it.

This is a big reason why Republicans haven't put away this election [is that] 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, . . .