Read This First 170423, Heuristics 170928, Glossary A-H, Mini Lessons 170827
1. Fake News, 2. Opioid Fatality, 3. Ant Invaders, 4. Bretrix Distraction, 5. Enochlonososphobia, 6. Ignoring Symptoms, 7. Cultural Inflamation, 8. Edutainment, 9. Microscope, 10. Ebola Cascade, <ADDED >VCP, > VCP, >1. Biasing Women’s Health, >2. Mapping Care, >3. Snake Oil,>4. Climate Migration, >5. HIV/AIDS History, >6. Flint Fruit. >7. Migration Barriers.
Other Topics: BioTrumpism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, Chimpanzee War, On Line Medicine, Tipping Point, Official Quackery, Flu 2nd Wave, Brexit, Pertussis Resurgence, Snake Oil, Disinformation, Mass Gathering Enochlophobia, Holism, Medical Neutrality, Cultural (In)Competence, CDC, Anti-EPA, Pruitt, Flint Fruit
-1. The Psychology of Fake News, it has become a topic of scientific investigation. Parademic has many examples of fake news, conspiracy theory, rumor, false advertising, erroneous beliefs, hype, disinformation, misinterpretation, marketing, medical scams, April fools, Poe’s law. The Science of Fake News, considers what we do and don't know about the science of fake news. Fake news is fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent, essentially self serving lies. The paper is unusual in bringing together 16 authors who span disciplines, academia and industry. >VCP•Uganda↓. Without Context or Cushion, Do Online Medical Results Make Sense. Selfie Medicine: Phone Apps Push People to Take Their Pills. Why You Stink at Fact Checking. Learning a Little About Something Makes Us Overconfident. How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet. ¶ [Meme, Meme, Meme]. Europe Threatened by Nuclear Cloud, <ADDED 171210-171008-5>6. Disinformation coupled with a parademic when information vacuums***B exist or are manipulated leverage the damage of the biodisaster. Hepatitis A Epidemic Quickly Spreading in Ukraine. Bill Gates Wants to Depopulate the World in contrast with Bill and Melinda Gates Think a Weaponized Disease May Be the Biggest Threat to Humanity. Here's How Worried You Should be. European Countries Without Mandatory Vaccine Programs Are More Successful, Vaccination Causes Autism. American Laboratory in Georgia* Creates Biological Weapons, A Secret US Lab in Georgia* Might Be Spreading Deadly Pathogens Against Russian Interests**, Ukraine Asked the United States to Spread the Ebola Virus among Pro Russian Separatists in Donetsk, 180311-6. | Logitech Revolutionizes Business Communication with the Introduction of Business Speak Detection Software, Snapchat’s April Fools' Gag Pokes Fun at Facebook's Russian Bot Problem
-*A. Not the state in the US but the country [Map]. Caught, US Hiding Germ Warfare Lab Near Russian Border 2018 [Map]. **Is a Secret US Lab in Georgia Spreading Deadly Pathogens Against Russian Interests 2017. BWC Violations in Georgia and Ukraine: Two Grey Research Bio Weapons Banana Republics 2017. Georgia: Vanishing Bio-Weapons Lab in Tbilisi 2014. US Lab in Georgia at Center of Storm Over Biological Warfare Claims 2013. Georgian Authorities Take Over Joint US-Georgian Biological Research Facility Under Russian Pressure 2013. Russian Official Accuses U.S. of Using Lab in Caucasus for Bio-Warfare 2013. | The lab is probably the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Bioresearch Support to the Lugar Center in Tbilisi 2016. R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research – Unique Opportunity for Research and Innovation on Health in Georgia 2016. Building Infectious Disease Research Programs to Promote Security and Enhance Collaborations with Countries of the Former Soviet Union 2015. About the Center: The Lugar Center 2014. Georgia Lab Receives New Name 2012.
-***B. One of the effective ways to avoid believing disinformation is to have effective identification and then communication. Five Tips to Improve Your Public Warnings. A recent PrepTalk offers five suggestions for making your public warnings more effective by using the lessons from social science. 1) Focus first on alerts and warnings for imminent (rapid onset) events. 2) Remove delays from the system. 3) Planning can reduce issuance delay. 4) Disseminate alert and warning messages wisely. 5) Issue messages that reduce public action delay. ¶ An effective strategy to counter disinformation is not dissimilar from the strategy for biodisaster. 1) 41253 deg2, 24/7/365 BioThreat Assessment, what are you trying to protect and is it worth the cost. 2) Integrated Prevention, Preparation, Surveillance, Contain, Control. Consider also what are the consequences of these and what new vulnerabilities are created. Triage, hopefully early before biodisaster accelerates so it is a matter of setting priories, if one waits then triage becomes choosing who lives and who dies. 3) Education and Training, who needs to know what, and in what form. 4) Assess Behavioral Risks of how will people and other living things respond to the bioevent and measure to prevent and manage. 5) Test and Examination of Solutions, especially monitoring and feedback when being used to make corrections.
-1.1. Afghan Clerics in Talks with Isis to Break Polio Vaccine Myths, to allow access to remote areas. Hard line militants and clerics in the three countries where the disease still exists, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, have been opposing polio vaccination campaigns, as myths have become ingrained that they are part of a conspiracy to sterilise Muslim children or a cover for western spies. Islam won’t deny the treatment and prevention of sickness and disease, if our aim is to have a normal and healthy society then we need to allow and support health field workers and polio vaccinators to reach every child under five in each and every household, village and district. Over the years similar efforts have eventually failed. -VCP•Afghanistan↓.
-2. Drug Related Mortality Rates Are Not Randomly Distributed Across the US. Economic and social conditions underlie geographic disparities in overdose rates. Between 2006 and 2015 there were more than 515,000 deaths from drug overdoses and other drug related causes in the US. The economic, social, and emotional tolls of these deaths are substantial, but some parts of the US are bearing heavier burdens than others. Evidence from the first national study of county level differences suggests that addressing economic and social conditions will be key to reversing the rising tide of drug deaths. Currently drug related death is not a biodisaster. The mortality rate is far from being a depopulation crisis. It is however parademic in terms of what leads to the overdoes and the form response, or lack of response, takes that will either do nothing about the problem, exploit it, exacerbate it, or contain and control it.
-‡. Infectious Disease Deaths Decline Across US, but Not Evenly. Trends and Patterns of Differences in Infectious Disease Mortality Among US Counties, 1980-2014. As with opioids there appears to be a correlation between the places of highest mortality and trumpland, [Map] the gerrymandered voting districts that leveraged his minority support base, U.S. Opioid ODs Cluster in Centers of Poverty. Unfortunately biotrumpism tends toward increasing the probability of biodisaster and its severity. ¶ Trump Opioid Plan Writes in Favoritism to Single Company’s Addiction Medication, 180301-5. World Leaders Have the Power to End TB. They must Seize the Moment.
-3. Are Fire Ants Worse this Spring Because of Hurricane Harvey. Ecologists are checking to see if floods gave advantage to invasive ants. This is one of a number exacerbated pre existing health threats <ADDED 180325-180304-6>8. Not sufficient to cause a cascading collapse, but another nudge toward a tipping point that could eventually culminate in anthrome collapse, an accelerated biodisaster.
-4. Brexit and the NHS. The Office for National Statistics released the latest data on child mortality in England and Wales. After decades of progress, both infant and neonatal mortality rates rose for the second consecutive year. In an analysis of 15 similar countries the UK compares badly in seven of 16 indicators of child health. These data warrant an urgent response from the UK Government. But Brexit – the process of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) – is absorbing parliamentary time and distracting all political parties from the business of improving health. Another example of the politics of now diverting resources from health and environment.
-‡. We’ve Definitely Come to a Tipping Point’: States Scramble to Address Maternal Death Crisis. They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result. Did Vote Leave Cheat to Win the Brexit Referendum. UK Renews Commitment to Fund Pandemic Preparedness. Global Outbreaks Threaten US Economy.
-4.1. Along with the NIH Budget Hike Comes a less Welcome Large Hike in the Budget for Quackery for the NCCIH. Congress passed an omnibus budget bill that provided a large hike in the budget the National Institutes of Health. Unfortunately, along with that budget hike was an even bigger percent hike for the NIH's bastion of quackery, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. $142 Million for Quack Medicine Buried Inside the New 2018 Budget. Meet Trump’s New, Homophobic Public Health Quack, <ADDED 180325-180304-6>8.
-5. Influenza Vaccination Among Saudi Hajj Pilgrims: Revealing the Uptake and Vaccination Barriers. Hajj is the world's largest annual mass gathering that attracts two to three million Muslims from around the globe to a religious assemblage in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The risk of acquisition and transmission of influenza among Hajj pilgrims is high. Therefore, influenza vaccination is recommended, and was monitored frequently among pilgrims from different countries. However, the vaccination uptake among Saudi pilgrims has not been assessed in recent years. Along with other mass gathering stories, this has been an annual one, though not always about the flu. So far there has not been a global spread of an infectious disease linked to a mass gathering, but there has been a priori parademic fear of an infectious disease spread from a mass gathering is directly linked to mass gatherings, while incidents like the Disneyland Measles were not publically predicted. 180211-5, 170806-5. 170604-4.1A, 170430-11, Mumps Outbreaks Reported in Philadelphia Region; Most Linked to Delaware Dance Party. -5.2↓. Mumps Cases Confirmed in the N.W.T. for 1st Time in 23 Years. Affected individuals recently attended hand games.
-5.1. A Second Wave of Flu May Be On the Way, CDC Warns. Flu season may have peaked in February, but we're not out of the woods yet. The bulk of this year's deadly flu season was dominated by the H3N2 virus, an influenza A strain that is more severe and less receptive to vaccines than other types of the disease. As the season winds down, however, influenza B has overtaken influenza A, setting the scene for a possible second wave of flu, according to CDC data. Readers may have noted that parademic did not note the waning cases of flu in the US. Given that there are multiple strains circulating this year this 2nd wave is the reason why. Again officials are either trying to calm fears and report success, or don’t understand epidemiology. This does not mean there will be another wave, but if people become complacent that this year’s flu is over the chances increase. Like wildfires, flu season is becoming year round. Thailand: Doctor Stands Firm on Bird Flu Warning amid Govt Denials.
-5.2. Decades Long Trends, Not Flawed Vaccine, Explain Resurgent Whooping Cough. Officials have struggled to explain the resurgence of whooping cough in the US since the late 1970s. Suspected shortcomings of the current generation of vaccines are often blamed. A new study concludes that the resurgence of the highly contagious respiratory disease is the result of factors that began in the middle of the last century, long before the latest vaccines were introduced in the late 1990s. The resurgence of pertussis is still great fodder for anti-vax and quacks, taking advantage of a complex topic that make simple fanciful explanations credible. It was determined around 2011 that the combination of the vaccine being successful, and people not vaccinating, the immunity was waning because people were not being reexposed to reactivate immunity. This gets more into the mechanics involved, but due to its complications it does not change beliefs in the simpler occam’s razor* 2, 3, 4. Vaccine Waning and MumpsReemergence in the United States. -5↑. 180325-4‡.
-*. Quote: Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate. – William of Ockham, or Occam. Mistranslated as “the simplest explanation is always the correct one”. Actual translation is “Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” or the Law of Parsimony. Medicine uses Hickam's Dictum. [Meme, Meme].
-5.3. Politics and Public Trust Shape Vaccine Risk Perceptions. Public mistrust of vaccines is heightening, fuelled by new communication environments such as social media. Using the recent case of the Dengvaxia vaccine, Heidi Larson -VCP•India↓ explores public and political reactions to vaccine risks. Vaccine Hesitancy Around the Globe: Analysis of Three Years of WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form Data 2015-2017. #SaidNoMother: Combining Dehumanization of Autistic People with Antivaccine Pseudoscience in Time for Autism Awareness Month.
-6. In World First, UK Reports High Level Gonorrhea Resistance. This is not the first report. Superbug Gonorrhea was identified well before this. Gonorrhea May Soon Be Resistant to All Antibiotics 2016. The Terrifying Truth about Super Gonorrhea 2015. Sex and the Superbug: Meet Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea 2013. Management of Pharyngeal Gonorrhea Is Crucial to Prevent the Emergence and Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae 2012. This unfortunately is the normal pattern, ignore until the problem grows so pervasive that only the most hard core deniers will continue to dismiss it as a threat. Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea, Congenital Syphilis, Budget Cuts – Oh my 2015. Gonorrhea Strain Thwarts 2 Main Drugs, Raising Concerns It's Becoming Untreatable. [Cartoon 2016]. Our Greatest Fear: Highly Drug Resistant Gonorrhea Confirmed by Health Officials.
-7. This is vicious humor about cultural competence being used as a vehicle for paroxysm. ER Doc Closes Papercut with 14 Stitches to Protect Gang Member’s Street Cred. Though appearing to be culturally sensitive to a ludicrous degree this is a highly nuanced insult and dissing of gangs that ignore the neutrality* of hospitals, and the first world medical personnel who feel that they are being culturally sensitive, when they are perceived as culturally arrogant while attempting to gain social capital 2 3. This is Eres tan patético, que resultas entrañable (You’re so pathetic, you’re actually entertaining). Everything from the Tattoo pictured (eclectic blackwork, not Latino, gang and prison tats) to Mierda Verde (green shit, implying domesticated animal that defecates in own living space) Sinhuevos’ (without eggs, no testicles) comment of Mucho amor y respeto, much love and respect (parody of Victorian formal close to a letter, implying arrogant imperialism). ¶ Comic Relief Tries to Improve its Charity Ads. How's it Doing. Diversity, Conflict, and Recognition in Hospital Medical Practice.
-*. Maintaining Security When Gang Members Visit Your ER, Gang Members in the Emergency Room, Bitten, Shot, Spat On: Violence in Hospitals Common for Staff. In this context neutrality does not mean safe space for all, but a place that combatants do not enter or only one group at a time. Ones own territory is neutral and to violate means that the territory of the other and everyone else in that area can be attacked. 2 Bitter Options for Syrians Trapped Between Assad and Extremists. <ADDED 180325-180225-4>9. It is not difficult to inflame pre exiting disinformation during medical surges to cause even more disruption.
-7.1. Teaching and Learning at the Boundaries of 2 Cultures. We all stand to lose from the gulf between the sciences and the humanities, and the classroom is the ideal place for conversations between these two cultures to unfold. It’s one place to start. Better to have art/ humanities and hard science to have an inkling of the other before they discover the need after years already isolated in their field. This conversation is already happening. Cultural Crossings of Care: An Appeal to the Medical Humanities.
-8. Contagion. The Viral Hit That’ll Have You Reaching for the Hand Sanitiser. In the biggest science experiment of its kind, the BBC show is both a cheery piece of Reithian edutainment and a grave portent of our impending doom. Trailer: Contagion, The BBC Four Pandemic. Contagion. The BBC Four Pandemic – The Model Behind the Documentary. ¶ Thought provoking about medicine. Medical Subspecialty Spin Offs of Game of Thrones, Medical Specialties as Game of Thrones Characters. | Apr 1, 1963, Soap Operas General Hospital and The Doctors Premiere.
-Quote: The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not Eureka but That’s Funny. – Isaac Asimov.
-9. It’s not just technology that causes the change, its having the mental templates to appreciate how the technology could be used. The Evolution of the Microscope. The first compound microscopes date to 1590, but it was the Dutch Antony Van Leeuwenhoek in the mid seventeenth century who first used them to make discoveries. Augmented Reality in Medicine. Augmented reality has the potential to revolutionize how physicians access data while caring for patients, whether in the operating room or clinic. AI Will Change Radiology, but It Won’t Replace Radiologists. #Book How We Found about Germs [Cover].
-10. Ebola Outbreak Brings to Light an Unforeseen Impact of Tsetse Control on Sleeping Sickness Transmission in Guinea. In addition to the thousands of deaths due to the ebola outbreak, national health systems in affected countries were deeply challenged impacting a number of diseases control programs. Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), a deadly neglected tropical disease for which no vaccine or prophylaxis exists. Ebola has provided a unique framework to challenge current HAT control strategies. The screen and treat strategy is fragile as rapid bursts of the disease may occur in case of disruption. Vector control reducing human-tsetse contacts, even implemented alone, is effective in providing a good level of protection against infection. Scientists in Africa Wonder If There's Bias Against Their Research.
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-VCP↕>. News Archive: (Not in VCP) • Portugal Measles Outbreak Rises to 82 • Turkey: If Anti-Vaccination Trend Gains Pace, Epidemic Risk. 180325-6.1‡•Turkey. Not an if, it will happen along with the correlated behaviors. • India: Before School Starts, Kerala Parents Worry About Vaccination Certificates. Undoubtedly they will have ways to get fake ones, or find doctors who will certify without vaccination. (As Mercury Rises, a Dengue like Fever Has Delhi Doctors Worried, and likely the current vaccine will cause a backlash -5.3↑. India Ranks #1 Globally in 11 Neglected Tropical Diseases). • France: HPV Vaccination Rates – An Example of Information Mistrust. Is this mistrust or lack of information, not learning critical thinking to reject invalid information or accept what is valid. • Afghanistan: Afghan Clerics in Talks with Isis to Break Polio Vaccine Myths 1.1↑. • USA: (HPV Vaccine Coverage on the Rise, but Still Far from 2020 Goal). Parents of an Autistic Child Are less Likely to Vaccinate Any of Their Kids, (Children with Autism less Likely to Be Fully Vaccinated, Children with Autism Are less Likely to Be Fully Vaccinated. Thanks, Antivaxers). • Uganda: Anger over Fake Hepatitis B Vaccine. This has been a widespread and long term problem -1↑ (Targeting Counterfeit Drugs in Uganda 2009, Fake Medicines Flourish in Africa Despite Killing Thousands). (• Brazil Faces New Yellow Fever Outbreak – and Questions over Lack of Preparedness, planning to vaccinate its entire population against the lethal mosquito borne disease but specialists doubt its capacity to do so. Brazil Yellow Fever Outbreak Necessitates Vaccines. Yellow Fever Circles Brazil’s Huge Cities).
-180325-2>1. How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses and Misdiagnoses Women's Symptoms, having a "systemic and unconscious bias" against women that's rooted in "what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools". Doctors Urged to Heal Misperceptions about Treating Women. This is just an assumption on my part, but if the reproductive part of the population is reduced that would hamper recovery from major depopulation events. The Complex Legacy of World War I's Women Scientists. ¶ How Infighting Turns Toxic for Chimpanzees. How did a once unified community of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, end up at each other's throats. Researchers mapped the chimps' social networks at different periods leading up to the split to pinpoint when relations began to fray, and test ideas about what caused the rift. The most likely culprit was a power struggle among three top ranking males, which was made worse by a shortage of fertile females [Photo]. Could there be a connection between chimps and their homo cousins, where conflict arises between a social system that dismissed and exploited females, and an emerging one with gender equality/ neutrality. Only Known Chimp War Reveals How Societies Splinter 2014. Gombe Chimpanzee War, legacy; sentence and footnote 12 is parademic addition.
-180325-4>2. Mapping Malaria by Combining Parasite Genomic and Epidemiologic Data. Physicians Devise Emergency and Trauma Care Referral Map for US. In response to repeated calls for an integrated emergency care system in the US, physicians rose to the challenge and divided the nation into hundreds of referral regions that describe how patients access advanced care, in a way that respects geopolitical borders. Wish I had this when I was doing the pandemic planning and analysis for Region E. One of the problems I had was how to set up Area Commands under ICS 400. [Map] Pitt Physicians Devise Emergency and Trauma Care Referral Map for U.S.
-180311-2>3, <ADDED 180325>4. Snake Oil Salesman. The Naturopath Whistleblower: It Is Surprisingly Easy to Sell Snake Oil, Doctors Hate Them: Homeopathic Physicians. Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways. Fish Oil Could Be a Modern Day Snake Oil 2014. The premise that fish oil is good for your heart is based on questionable data. What’s in Century Old Snake Oil Medicines. Mercury and Lead 2013. A chemical analysis of early 1900s medicines, billed as cure alls, revealed vitamins and calcium along with toxic compounds. A History of Snake Oil Salesmen 2013. How Snake Oil Got a Bad Rap. Hint: It Wasn't the Snakes' Fault 2011. Snake Oils of Old Showed Big Pharma How to Market Health 2010. Snake Oil Is No Balm for America 2009. Snake Oil Salesmen Were on to Something 2007. 180121-9, 171015-10.1, <ADDED 170917-170521-7>8, 170820-5.2, <ADDED 170806 <ADDED 170730 -170723-7>, <ADDED 170709-170702-1.1>, (170312-3 . [Slide, Slide, Slide, Slide, Slide, Slide, Slide]. -180304-6¶↓. Sometimes one follows the tangents off the path⋘ (deduction), other times one stays on the path and still finds it leads to multivocalic tangents⋙ (induction). Snake Oil ⋙ (Stub) Right to Try → | (Articles) Trope → Naturopath/ Homopath (Humor) → Lying → Natural Remedy → Toxins → History of Quacks → Marketing → BigPharma → Fake cure → Efficacy | (Database) → Jenny McCarthy → Quackery → Conspiracy Theory → Biotrumpism → Fear Mongering → Un Health Gurus → Amish Con → FDA → Witchcraft → | → (Slides) Evolving meaning. Basically this all comes down to occultism, magical thinking. Medicine as Performance: What Can Magicians Teach Doctors, #Book Mystery, Magic and Medicine [Cover] in the beginning they were one and the same.
-Quote: Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting. They think that the whole country is sick of it, and they could be right. It isn't the gold standard that they want to put us back on. They want something even more basic. They want to put us back on the snake oil standard. – Kurt Vonnegut (2005). A Man Without a Country.
-180311-11>4. Land Degradation Drives Mass Migration, Climate Change. Billions of people live on farmland that is deteriorating and producing less food, and this situation could force hundreds of millions of people to migrate over the next three decades. Dust Bowl Migration, 20 Tragic Photos from America’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Worldwide Degradation of Land and Nature Threatens Prosperity and Wellbeing. Although there are opportunities to turn things around, fears of further deterioration in the coming decades must not be taken lightly. The Sahara Desert Is Expanding. Confronted with Severe Climate Change, Ancient Britons Kept Calm and Carried on, [Poster]. ¶ A Measles Outbreak in Ailing Venezuela Is Threatening Colombia and Brazil, not because of anti-vax but a broken health system. [Tweet]. More Measles: New Case at Area's Largest Hospital May Have Exposed Patients.
-180304-6>5, <ADDED 180325>8. Treat the Opioid Crisis like the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. It's time for Congress to show the same political courage on the opioid crisis that our colleagues showed 30 years ago for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. CDC Director Pledges to Bring Opioid Epidemic ‘To its Knees’. With the Help of a Loved One, a Family Finds What Is Essential in the End. CDC Director: U.S. Could End AIDS Epidemic in Three to Seven Years, there is a possibility of a treatment by that time, but mathematically impossible to end within that time span; AIDS Researcher Robert Redfield Is the New CDC Director. Here's Why the Pick Is Controversial, The New CDC Director Was Once Accused of Research Misconduct; even one antivax conspiracy theory blog has questions, Likely CDC Head Omitted HIV Research, Was Reprimanded by Army, New CDC Director Misstates Influenza Vaccination Effectiveness. The Washington Post: In Emotional Speech, CDC’s New Leader Vows to Uphold Science. [Meme]. ¶ This CDC shake up may be the start of the EPA trend. The EPA Ousted Science Advisers. Now It’s Going after the Science Itself, Scott Pruitt's Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A., There’s Still No Such Thing as Sound Science, [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. Again not a surprise, Trump EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Would Trash Air and Water Safeguards, Scott Pruitt and Anti-Science Activity at the EPA, Snopes Articles tagged: Scott Pruitt, [Meme]. China and the Children Will Save the Electric Car from Scott Pruitt's EPA. Trump EPA Expected to Roll Back Auto Gas Mileage Standards, EPA Rolls Back Emissions Standards to Increase Consumer Choice over Type of Apocalyptic Hellscape Earth Will Become. Leaked Memo: EPA Issues Talking Points Downplaying Climate Change, Fack Check: Science Contradicts EPA Warming Memo. Former Coal Lobbyist on Tap for No. 2 Spot at EPA. The EPA Is Letting Key Staffers Keep Their Political Consulting Side Gigs. EPA Hires GOP Media Firm to Produce Report Praising Pruitt. Trump Picks Dow Chemical Lawyer for Key Role at EPA. Tainted Study Casts Doubt on EPA Plan to Scrap Truck Emissions Rule, Tennessee Tech Withdraws Industry Funded Study Used to Back Controversial EPA Truck Rule. EPA Ends Clean Air Policy Opposed by Fossil Fuel Interests. Superfund Work Touted by Trump EPA Was Completed Years Ago. Official Who Improperly Helped Redskins Owner Cut down Trees Picked as National Park Service Deputy Director. -180311-2↑, 180311-1.1*. Why the Campaign to Force Scott Pruitt out of the EPA Could Backfire, There’s Now a National Campaign to Oust EPA Head Scott Pruitt. EPA Chief's $50 a Night Rental Raises White House Concern. As New Details Emerge, Scott Pruitt’s Housing Arrangements Come under Scrutiny. Rented part of a Capitol Hill condo, for an exceedingly good rate, from a health care lobbyist; EPA Chief Pruitt under More Pressure after Condo Reports. [Meme] What Scott Pruitt's Misapplied Bible Verse Says about Science and Religion and is antipode to 12 Leadership Essentials from The Joshua Principle.
-180204-6.4>6, <ADDED 180218>5. Not sure if this is an appropriate application of fruit of the poisoned tree. Edwards: Flint Witness Falsified Research Claims. The Flint water crisis has spawned a new controversy pitting Virginia Tech water expert Marc Edwards, who helped discover the city’s lead contaminated water, against a Wayne State University professor leading a multi-university study of the region’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak. Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards confirmed Thursday he’s filed a complaint with Michigan regulators that Wayne State professor Shawn McElmurry used a falsified research proposal and exaggerated work resume to obtain grant funding. McElmurry leads a research team that was awarded a $3.1 million grant to investigate Genesee County’s 2014-15 Legionnaires’ outbreak that killed 12 people and sickened 79 others. Edwards’ accusations that McElmurry appropriated another researcher’s ideas for a proposal submitted to the National Institutes of Health and made false claims that he had worked on Flint water problems since 2010 have called into question the credibility of a key witness in the prosecution of Michigan’s two highest ranking health officials. Doctor: State’s Top Doc Threatened Flint Researchers.
-170924-1>7, <ADDED 180128>6. Vulnerability and Extinction Risk of Migratory Species from Different Regions and Ecosystems Worldwide. Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents – enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans, these thoroughfares are a boon, enabling them to move with ease from place to place. But for migrating animals who are also hemmed in by dams, rivers, shipping lanes, urban development and agriculture, they create another barrier. [Sign, Photo]. Proposed Border Wall Will Harm Texas Plants and Animals, Scientists Say.
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