FREE RADICALS AREN’T ALWAYS BAD: How oxygen radicals protect against cancer. “Oxygen radicals in the body are generally considered dangerous because they can trigger something called oxidative stress, which is associated with the development of many chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. In studies on mice, scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have now discovered how oxygen radicals, conversely, can also reduce the risk of cancer and mitigate damage to the hereditary molecule DNA.”
Archive for 2021
April 27, 2021
TUCKER: You should call the cops or CPS on parents who mask their kids outdoors.
The idea of calling CPS or the police on a parent for masking their kid is so beyond the pale that I can only assume Tucker will spin it tonight as a type of satire. One firm rule of populism is that you can’t admit error or regret, especially for intemperate remarks about “the enemy,” and so presumably he’ll retreat by claiming it was hyperbole to make a point. “I wanted to give the pandemic’s rule-enforcers a taste of their own medicine,” he might say, “to see how they’d react to the prospect of busybodies on the anti-mask side hassling them for a change. Of course I wasn’t serious.” The truth is that he was probably just reaching for a new culture-war outrage to rally around, not unlike the brief frenzy over the weekend about Biden supposedly wanting to ban burgers or whatever. Either way, whether he was serious or not, don’t take his advice here. Needless to say.
Tucker’s advice has certainly triggered Bill Kristol:
Did Bill not investigate Tucker for his National Socialistic past before he decided to publish him?
Curiously, in his dotage, Kristol is also not averse to spreading socialism on a national scale:
GINA CARANO WILL NOT BE CANCELED EASILY: Gina Carano’s NatGeo Episode With Bear Grylls WILL Air Next Month.
“MISINFORMATION” IS A PRC TERM FOR UNACCEPTABLE POLITICAL NARRATIVES. Facebook Oversight Board Member Warns Against Censoring Misinformation.
THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM (IT JUST PAYS BETTER): Diversity pays… consultants. “The Racial Literacy Curriculum begins in kindergarten with 5- and 6-year-olds using Pantone Color Charts to match their skin tone so that they might start to see themselves and one another by skin color.”
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
● Shot: Payback? Chauvin Defense Witness Dr. David Fowler Under Investigation.
—The Lid, today.
—The Babylon Bee, April 19th.
WE’VE GOT PLENTY OF LAWYERS WORKING ON OUR SPACE PROGRAM: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin files protest over SpaceX lunar contract.
CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: Chauvin Medical Defense Witness Is Now Being Investigated for Wrong-Think. “Because Fowler was on the ‘wrong’ side of the case, his reputation must die.”
I’d wager this is less about punishing Fowler than it is about pre-intimidating future expert witnesses in “politically sensitive” trials.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Parents Revolt After Texas’s No. 1 School District Tries To Institutionalize Racism.
THE RENEWABLES FRAUD: After the Texas Blackouts, Follow the Wind and Solar Money – All $66 Billion of It. “What was the result of all that spending? When combined with the shutdown of several gigawatts of coal-fired capacity, it’s apparent that the $66 billion spent on renewables before the blackouts didn’t make the Texas grid more robust – it made it more fragile.”
KERRY’S DENIAL ON LEAKING TO IRAN DOESN’T ADD UP: “This isn’t a lie designed to smear Kerry. There’s no good reason to think Zarif is lying to the interviewer. Kerry’s reputation is collateral damage in a fight among factions within the Iranian government. We as Americans have very little ability to influence who runs what within the Iranian regime. But we can decide which people can be trusted with secrets within the U.S. government — and John Kerry isn’t one of those people.”
Meanwhile, Kerry’s former(?) colleague Ben Rhodes is BenSmithing the story:
STUNNING ONLY IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION: Jen Psaki Makes a Stunning Admission About Biden’s ‘Unity’ Pledge.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Liz Cheney Might Run for President, Hilarity Ensues.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Are delusions of grandeur an essential ingredient before considering a presidential bid after repeatedly angering your own party’s most vocal, loyal, and numerous supporters?
Answer: No, but they don’t hurt.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- We apologize in advance for the Fauci video we’re about to make you watch
- Cops take to TikTok to troll LeBron
- “Where’s the beef?” Not on Epicurius anymore
Bonus Sanity: Meet the Stanford prof daring enough to tell the truth about Ron DeSantis.
Yes, Stanford.
YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHO SHE WAS STEALING FOR: Coca Cola Researcher Convicted For Stealing $120 Million In Trade Secrets. “A Coca-Cola chemist was convicted of stealing $120,000,000 worth of trade secrets from American companies for the Chinese Communist Party.”
So the “Trump Bump” appears to have outlasted Trump. Just another American industry he saved.
THE ONLY COLOR THAT REALLY MATTERS IS GREEN: Social scientists (at Yale, of all places) have produced a preliminary study showing that Americans are less responsive to race-based appeals than they are to class-based appeals. JustTheNews reports that:
“Appeals to class interests are best at increasing support for progressive policies across racial and political groups “despite leftward shifts in public attitudes towards issues of racial equality,” according to Josh Kalla, assistant professor of political science and data science, and doctoral student Micah English.”
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes reading Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and yes, even Marx understand that our human instincts — and political choices — are more geared towards satisfaction of personal basic needs rather than “political identification.” For most, the latter is merely a means to acquire the former. In shorthand, regardless of race, most people inherently want security and sustenance, and political choices are merely means to obtain those things. But apparently the approach of most policy-makers is to override the peoples’ preferences with their own, allegedly superior, understanding:
“It questions the wisdom of “Democratic elites,” including President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, racializing ostensibly race-neutral issues such as infrastructure, climate change and minimum wage increases.”
There is a certain amount of bravery in these scholars publishing this work, given Yale’s (and the rest of the so-called “progressives”) propensity for cancel culture. It if does not fit their world-view or narrative, it is doomed be pounced upon by keyboard warriors:
“The duo could become a target of race-focused progressive activists, given the repercussions faced by data scientist David Shor for tweeting research that found peaceful protest was historically more successful than violent protest […] Shared during the riots stemming from George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, the tweet drew widespread criticism in progressive circles, and Shor’s employer fired him soon after.”
I’m still waiting for self-righteous and “woke” Yale students and alumni to demand that the school be renamed “Harriet Tubman University” instead of honoring a slave trader, but I’m not holding my breath.
The value of having a Yale degree is money in the bank, and as if to prove the researchers’ point, these elite will act — like everyone else — in their own self-interest.
JOSEPH MASSEY: A Letter to the Cancelled.
SPOILER: THEY DON’T GIVE A CRAP. If Black Lives Matter Gives A Crap About Black Lives, It Will Retract Its Ma’Khia Bryant Statement.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Barnard College instructor discusses blowing up and gassing whites in coming race war.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New ‘G’ grading policy will allow Pitt professors to pass students who don’t complete coursework by end of semester.