Also see Musks pay package was passed at yesterdays Tesla stockholders meeting...probably much to the disappointment of the left. This would probably explain the total absence of reporting on this event from the "main stream media". Nothing for them to crow about.

Meanwhile NASA focuses on the science of trans worship wile Musk does all the heavy lifting for them!

Any science blog that contains the words "skeptical science" in its heading should be treated with the same caution one uses when visiting countries with the words "peoples democratic republic" in its name. Extreme caution.

Robbo,

The media uses emotion to manipulate the young and impressionable exactly because they can be manipulated with emotion to support any position the media deems worthy. Hence why we only ever hear about palestinian children dying in overly emotionally dramatic news broadcasts because that kind of propaganda works on the emotionally under developed so well. Kinda why it doesnt work on those of us who are older, more jaded and worn down by life! ;)

In regards to the Lancet, Ive mentioned here before that I had an exchange with the geezer back in the early naughty's about the politicisation of their research, to which the geezer replied that it was deliberate and intentionally used to manipulate people and what they supported/believed for their (The Lancets) benefit.

Really wish I had kept those emails as they were eye opening.

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I should have known that that misspelling was not a mistake.

They repurposed my ironic take on Paypal "buyer protection" for Australia's "whistleblower protection", but I forgive them.

The underlying error in that video is who they blame. They seem to think the party sitting in government actually controls the government machine. Commands from the bridge are only advisory when they get to the engine room.

Amusing that Skeptical Science had an uphill battle trying to push their propaganda on LinkedIn.

The Australien Government

tomo,
Yes, the Lancet is sinking, but it seems to have that in common with all the other formerly esteemed journals. We're hearing Side-B of The rising tide lifts all boats.

Mailman,
The propaganda is so blatant. Time and again we get footage of the man carrying a young child while running to an ambulance. It should tug at the heart strings but, having seen similar footage dozens of times, I don't recall ever seeing the child having an obvious injury. Might be cynical of me, but even if the child is crying, I suspect it's probably because his dad has given him a Chinese burn (or whatever) for dramatic effect.

But if the propaganda doesn't work on you or me, it seems quite effective on a fair number of university students. Perhaps it's today's Spanish Civil War as a fashionable cause celebre.

Today, Jo Nova has a piece on the NIH doing Monkeypox gain of function work, then hiding that fact from Congress. They were mixing a more deadly, but less infectious strain with a less deadly, more infectious one. I thought there might be a benign interpretation — to reduce the infectiousness of the less deadly strain — but no, if the story's correct, they simply wanted to make the more deadly strain more infectious. Mad.

I am absolutely loving the lefts latest mental breakdown over the 4 Jews that were taken as war trophies (and in the womans case, sex slave) by Hamas being rescued by the IDF! I mean how very dare the Jews be rescued in the middle of a Gaza civilian area and wont everyone just think of all the innocent children murdered by the IDF during the raid...which at last count was 4 bazillion children aged between new born and 6 months old!

Absolute chefs kiss!!

tomo,
It's just a bit weird when an academic medical journal starts opining about world geopolitics. Perhaps the recent European election results will move the Lancet's dial a bit.

Watched about half the Carlson interview. Rather long and, much as Internet publishers might push it, I don't think length equates to depth.

On overordering vaccines, it would have been interesting if Kelly had asked how many doses have already been discarded due to expiry (date or failure to meet storage requirements).

John Kerry... I mean... what do you say?

The COVID thing: the graph and figures surely make it look like COVID was just another year. I know *nobody* who suffered badly from COVID, but have seen a number of sudden onset cancers and deaths amongst my friends and acquaintances. Some of them, I feel, must be due to the vaccines. Still not inclined to see a great conspiracy, but there was certainly an intoxication with power and profit going on.

BTW, I don't think I can see replies to tweets (as a casual viewer). A Twitter login is probably needed for that.

Quite an interesting John Anderson interview with a couple of merchant navy men. Amazing to hear that the UK merchant fleet is about 4x the size of the US's. Australia's is now a nice round number: zero. They suggest this needs a serious rethink given our extremely short-term utter dependence on shipping for import of fuel. Of course we export a lot of stuff too. Nice point that most Australians would think we're self-sufficient for food; thing is, growing that food is highly dependent on fuel.

Again, a not very polished interview by Anderson. Some of his mispronunciations are slightly charming. He has bother with "emeritus". In one of his older interviews he pronounced it like a disease (patterned, say, on myelitis). I assume he was taken to task for this, because he did get emphasis onto the /MER/ in a later interview. Unfortunately, he kept the /itis/ ending as well, so we got /emerititis/. Best mispronunciation so far was Klaus Schwab, called him Claws Schwab. Maybe it wasn't a mispronunciation.

Credibility deficit - see replies

https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1800099031261007994