Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (3)
1. They’re Bland, 2. Normalization, 3. Man Made Information Disasters, 4. Where have all the Fish and Water Gone, 5. Medicalization of Violence, 6. Doctor, Stay Away, 7. Dharmic Climate, 8. Boisecurity Journal, 9. Medical Scam Control, <ADDED >1. Grasping the Worst, Ignoring the Worst, >2. A Priori Panel, >3. Plastic Erosion, >4. Don’t Like Green, >5. Pyro Forests, >6. HIV Stall, >7. Climate Drama, >8. Climate Filicide, >9. Wolf in Aid Clothing, >10. Controlling Business Pigs, >11. Bio GOF, >12. Insect Diet, >13. Mass Morgue, >14. Before Real Estate Sinks, >15. Self Inflicted Ebola. 190303-Polemic. 190303-VCP.
Other Topics: Dominionism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Apocalypse, Real Estate, Invasive Species, Fake News, Gentrification, Climate Urban Planning, DMORT, Frogs, GMO, Venezuela Crisis, Swine Fever, Gain of Function, CRISPR
-1. Some of GMO fears are perseveration of some interesting food myths. The Strange Story Behind Your Breakfast Cereal. Kellogg's Corn Flakes were originally created by a doctor who believed bland food would reduce people's urge to masturbate. Kellogg continues that tradition by offering GMO free. -9↓.
-2. It Only Takes a Few Years for Perceptions of Extreme Weather to Normalize. According to a survey of two billion tweets, people stop viewing weather anomalies as extreme after just two to eight years of recurring temperatures. This probably applies to more than weather, but to the whole spectrum of natural and man made phenomena. Climate Change Is the New Normal but We Don’t Seem to Notice. As the Climate Changes, Are We All Boiling Frogs, -190224-1.3↓.
-3. Overcoming the Challenge of Fake News. The advent of the Internet and the Information Age was initially hailed as ushering in a new era of transparency and interconnectivity in binding the world closer together. Yet, the Information Age has also brought a proliferation in the phenomenon known as fake news, a trend that is set to continue for the foreseeable future. In this, the potential impact of fake news on international relations should not be underestimated, particularly given the extent to which the phenomenon has been exploited by various entities, from political ideologues and political partisans to government espionage agencies, to skew the media narrative. This article will examine what fake news is and the challenge that it poses to civil society, before moving on to discuss the various types of fake news that have begun to emerge in recent years. Based on this discussion of the threats posed by the fake news phenomenon, this article will conclude by examining how educators, civil society and other stakeholders may respond to the challenges posed by fake news. The Threat of Fake News 1) Deliberate forgeries, 2) Cherry picking the facts, 3) Conspiracy theories, 4) Justifying morally reprehensible perspectives, 5) Agent provocateurs, 6) Deliberate Audio and Visual Mislabelling, 7) Deliberate audio and visual distortions. Counter Histories of the Internet, suppose that the architects of the web had chosen that to enter a website would cost a few cents, would we be more discriminating. Fake news, consequently, might spread across smaller ranges and at slower speeds. The Sharing Epidemic. -9↓, 190303-VCP-UK.
-4. Earth's Fish Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change. Fish Are in Hot Water: Climate Change Shrinking Fish Populations Worldwide. How Climate Change Could Knock Fish Off of Dinner Plates. Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries. Climate Change Is Shifting Productivity of Fisheries Worldwide. Climate Change Could Make it Harder for Blue Whales to Find Food. Scientists Shocked by Rare, Giant Sunfish Washed up on California Beach. Warming Oceans Are Hurting Seafood Supply – and Things Are Getting Worse -2-, Climate Change Takes Maine Shrimp. | People are also facing a water problem, U.S. Faces Fresh Water Shortages Due to Climate Change. Population Increases and Climate Change Point to Future Us Water Shortages. Ruined Crops, Salty Soil: How Rising Seas Are Poisoning North Carolina’s Farmland. | As always neither of these are new problems: What Would Happen if There Were No Fish in the Ocean 2016, Where Have All the Fish Gone. How Climate Change Is Displacing Marine Species 2015, The End of Fish$ 2014, Seafood May Be Gone by 2048 2006, Where Have All the Fishes Gone 1978, Pollution Video 1965. 190203-5, <ADDED 190106-180819-7.1>3, <ADDED 180812-180708-8>3, 180805-6, 180617-4‡, 180318-2, ##↓↓. -190224-1.2, -180715-4↓.
-5. The perspective of violence, specifically gun violence – 190120-2, <ADDED 181125 <ADDED 181118-181111-4‡>7, 181007-10 – has been framed in Public Health terms before this. The medicalization of any problem however creates its own problems. Though medicine can deal with the consequences of violence, it by itself is not a cure for violence. Problematizing the Medicalization of Violence: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the ‘Cure Violence’ Initiative. Violence has in recent years been framed as a public health problem. The medicalization of violence has involved various public health initiatives, with the USA based violence prevention initiative Cure Violence (CV), being one of the most prominent. CV, which operates in 23 US cities and multiple countries abroad. Its public health approach maintains that violence is an actual disease, which can be controlled and contained via epidemiological methods and strategies applied in disease control. This study used discourse analysis to explore how medicalization of violence is tied to a neoliberal rationality of governing that disentangles violence from structural factors and explains violence solely by reference to individual pathology. In doing so, CV produces new identities based on assumptions concerning biological infection or immunity resistance, which, as its visual language shows, are grounded in race. Through a politics of exclusion, CV turns these ‘at risk’ identities into appropriate targets for health intervention, with the aim of encouraging these to act upon themselves to improve or restore their productive capacities in order to achieve the idealized form of healthy citizenship.
-Quote: Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. – Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. -190224-1.3>1↓.
-6. Why We Run When the Doctor Comes: Orang Asli Responses to Health Systems in Transition in Malaysia. Globally, indigenous peoples live with stark disparities in health when compared with national populations. The disparities arise from a combination of factors that relate to the social and economic determinants of health, combined with disenfranchisement, and a rapid destruction of indigenous health systems, forests, natural resources and indigenous knowledge. In Malaysia, the indigenous peoples, known as the Orang Asli or ‘Original People’, are often viewed by authorities as ‘backward, ignorant and resistant to modern health services’, and therefore responsible for their poor state of health. This view situates the problem in the indigenous community, with the state as the benevolent provider of progress and improvement including health services. Orang Asli responses to this benevolence ranges from pragmatism to resignation to resistance. Drawing on a two year ethnographic study, this paper explores, from the perspective of the Orang Asli, the dynamics of state and non state societies, the structure and role of indigenous health systems and the effects of socioeconomic transition in shaping Orang Asli responses to modern health services. Already burdened with poorer health compared with the national population, there is a growing problem of non communicable diseases among the Orang Asli. Addressing this will require a shift from the benevolent dependency creating approach commonly adopted by state public health services to one that is inclusive, responsive and participatory. -180513-1.1↓.
-7. Hindu Climate Activists Take Lead on Combating Climate Change. What climate change presents is answering the question at the heart of Hinduism – What does it mean to be a person in this world. Followers of Hinduism and other Dharmic religions like Buddhism have long argued a different model than those of Abrahamic faiths in combating climate change. Rather than looking at climate change from a matter of human rights, Hindu philosophy prioritizes the idea that all life has rights. Dharmic religions are more likely to accept holism concepts such as One Health, while One Health, being a Western concept, is still dealing with incorporating the Holism of the range of human cultures as the influence the perception of health and environment.
-8. New journal. Global Biosecurity is a quarterly peer reviewed, open access electronic journal for cross disciplinary research in all aspects of human or animal epidemics, pandemics, biosecurity and bioterrorism including prevention, governance, detection, mitigation and response. We publish work on risk analysis, outbreak investigation, epidemiology, modelling, bioinformatics, phylogenetics, surveillance, intelligence, strategic foresight, forecasting, ‘One Health’, policy, governance, law, law enforcement, defense, ethics and first responder preparedness.
-9. Because they are so common PDWN tracks but does not report on medical scams -2- -3$- -4$- -5$- -6- and health food fads -2- -3- -4- (often the same as a medical scam). This is a response too a form of medical scam, where people fake a medical problem to get money, New Health Funding Site Aims to Prevent Fundraising Fraud. A Little Rock start up wants to help people raise money for their healthcare costs by also giving reassurance to donors. -1, -3↑. In a sense this related to the demands on social media platform to control fake news, such as anti vaccination, 190303-VCP-UK.
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-190224-1.3>1. # Book World: Destruction from Climate Change Will Be 'Worse, Much Worse, than You Think'. Here is a modest proposal. Climate scientists should shut up about global warming. The gatekeepers for what we know and think about climate change should take a vow of silence and let some other people get a word in edgeways. Because, important though the science is, we need to stop defining the great issue of the 21st century in scientific terms. How to Think about Climate Change When You're Very, Very Afraid. How the Weather Gets Weaponized in Climate Change Messaging$, -5Quote↑. The Best Way to Get to a Climate Couch Potato – Humor, The North Pole Video, -180715-4↓.
-‡. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ponders "Moral" Climate Change Question: Is it Still Okay to Have Children, Listen: How Parenthood Changes Minds on Climate Change. Robinson Repeats Fallacies of Climate Change the apocalyptic fallacy fallacy, first I’ve seen of gaslighting by someone with an eschatology bent, who normally make the Doomsday Argument -2- -3-; Stop the Charade on Climate Change Denial. Should Therapists Treat Climate Change Denial as a Psychological Disorder. Mankind Is like the Fabled Frog. We're Being Boiled Alive by Climate Change, [Cartoon -2- -3- -4-] -2↑. Flat Earthers and Climate Change Deniers Beware, New Book Has Your Number. The New Divide in the Climate Change Fight: Immediately Vs. Eventually$. Can Geoengineering Slow Climate Change, or Will it Be Used as an Excuse Not to Cut Emissions <ADDED 180812. “Denial Playbook” Hearing Highlights Resistance to Inconvenient Truths.
-A. NASA News 2019: Earth Now Greener, Shows Humans Actually Care About Climate Change, Rep. Paul Gosar Says Climate Change Isn't Real Because of Photosynthesis, GOP Lawmaker Says 'Climate Hoax Believers' Deny Impact of Photosynthesis, this is likely a preview of what the Trump Dominionist panel will find, in concordance with the a priori of the panel leader Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide 2013, CO2 Coalition, MIT Physicist Warns Against ‘Alarmism’ over Climate Change, Junk Science or the Real Thing. ‘Inference’ Publishes Both, Meet the White House's New Chief Climate Change Skeptic, -190224-1‡↓, Is Carbon Dioxide Really a Pollutant Video, Climate Change: CO2 Emissions Fall in 18 Countries with Strong Policies. Gorka: Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Is Socialism Stalin Dreamt About. | Sen. Leahy Addresses Climate Change on Senate Floor. More than 30 years ago, when cooperation and bipartisanship were a hallmark of the United States Senate, a bipartisan group of Senators sounded the alarm about climate change. They made a modest request of the Office of Technology Assessment: Study the issue of climate change, and make recommendations to avert global disaster. Those Senators were concerned that human activity might directly cause permanent, destructive, and widespread changes to our planet’s climate system – changes that would put our entire economy, ecosystem, and our very own existence at risk. How the Hamburger Became the GOP's Rallying Cry Against the Green New Deal. New Chapter in Climate Change Politics Begins with Simultaneous House Hearings. How to motivate a climate couch potato
-190224-1‡>2. In White House Cooler Heads Now Prevail on Climate Change. Today’s climate change conversation has an Orwellian doublethink quality to it. Global cooling is global warming. Weather isn’t climate, except when it is. Unquestioning allegiance to climate orthodoxy is science. Debate is denial. Three decades haven’t global warming predictions haven’t come true, but hurry up because we only have 12 years left to act. House Committee Chairs Question Rationale for Proposed NSC Climate Change Panel. Trump Adviser Created Group to Defend CO2, -190224-1.3A↑. White House Convenes Panel of Scientists to Make Case That Trump Capable of Crushing Train with Bare Hands.
-190224-1.2>3. Bagez, an Effective Solution to the Ultimate Battle Between Plastic and Climate Change. Forget Plastic Straws. Starbucks Has a Cup Problem. Sea Creatures Still Arriving in the U.S. on Plastic Debris From the Japanese Tsunami Eight Years Ago. California Considers Environmental Laws on Single Use Plastics, Climate Change, Wastewater Reuse and More. A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches -4↑, <ADDED 181202-171210-10>13.
-190217-4.2>4. Center Right Group: Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Could Cost $93 Trillion. Unclear how this figure was arrived at, but if true the loss of a few billion in money and lives would seem unimportant, unless of course it was their billion or their lives, -180916-5D↓ | New Study: 99.9999 Percent Chance Humans Are Causing Climate Change. Evidence of Humans Causing Global Warming Hits Gold Standard, there is only a one in a million chance that similar data would appear if there was no warming. Now if this did happen would it still be a black swan event <ADDED 181118-180805-6>4B*, 180301-2.4. | Democrats Brush off GOP 'Trolling' over Green New Deal, Senators Not Backing Green New Deal Received on Average 7 Times as Much Fossil Fuel Cash. No, the Green New Deal Doesn't Aim to End Air Travel, as Florida Sen. Rick Scott Says. #History #Linguistics Is it Climate Change or Global Warming. How Science and a Secret Memo Shaped the Answer.
-190217-7>5. Wildfires Rage Across Britain after Hottest Winter Day on Record. Fires, Floods, Destruction: Washington Copes with Worsening Climate Change. FEMA: Trump Never Issued Order to Cut off Wildfire Aid to Californians. “It Eats Everything” – The New Breed of Wildfire That’s Impossible to Predict, these pyroCbs -2- -3- -4- -6- -7- have been known in the US for a long time as megafires, ones that create their own weather (fire storms) and cover even larger geographic areas with smoke that is a health hazard; Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging Are to Forest Soil. Fortunately during WWII the conditions of the US West Coast were not the same as today, Balloon Bombs – How Japan Killed Americans at Home in WWII. 190303-Polemic-4B.
-190210-1.1>6. <ADDED 190217>1. Weeks after 2030 HIV Pledge, Report Shows Us Headway Stalled. CDC: Progress in Preventing HIV Stalled. Too soon to say if Trump’s effort will come to anything or naught, but the pre Trump track record indicates it may go nowhere. To Effectively Talk About HIV, We Need to Listen to Black Women. In 2017, 60 percent of newly diagnosed women were African-American. Their voices have been largely absent from the national discourse; Black Women and HIV: Oral History Reveals Their Pain, Disenfranchisement and Endurance$. Its not unusual for whole sections of communities to be ignored in epidemics. This is one of the reasons for spread without being noticed. San Francisco Is Beating H.I.V. Why Can’t Houston.
-190106-1.1>7. <ADDED 190113>1*. Evening of One Man Shows Tackle Shakespeare, Climate Change, Review: PlayMakers Tackles Difficult Climate Change Conversations in “Life of Galileo”, 190127-2.1, 181223-5, <ADDED 181021-181014-6>3, 180930-3‡, 180902-2.1, 180701-8.1, <ADDED 180204-171015-3>13.
-181223-1>8. <ADDED 190106>1. The First Victims of Climate Deniers Are Their Own Kids, not exactly true, first victims are their employee’s kids 190217-4.2‡, by encouraging climate change denial because it will mean the end of their jobs. 181118-5.1,
-181209-4>9. <ADDED 190224>4. The Battle at the Venezuelan Border$. Attacked and Powerless, Venezuela Soldiers Choose Desertion, though there is a question if a soldier can make a statement about a policy by deserting, desertion and failure to report to work during an epidemic, or others times when ones work requires physical risks, is justifiable or a criminal act. -180513-1.1↓. Maduro Accuses US of Fabricating Crisis to Start War in South America. Looking more and more like Hussein’s Iraq, but with humanitarian aid replacing WMD. US Hits Venezuela Officials with Sanctions for Blocking Aid. Mike Pence Criticizes Venezuela’s Use of Torture, Starvation on non Homosexual Citizens. U.S. Aid to Venezuela Just Lit Stick of Dynamite Painted to Look like Carrot.
-181118-VCP-China>10. <ADDED 190224>5. Pigs Fly: China Pork Producers Surge as Swine Disease Cuts Supply. China Moves to Halt Swine Fever with Hog Industry Overhaul.
-181111-VCP-II-USA>11. <ADDED 190224>6. The Apocalypse as a Rhetorical Device in the Influenza Virus Gain of Function Debate. The US Is Funding Dangerous Experiments It Doesn't Want You to Know About$. Similar reasoning is seen in, GM Seed Use Has Exploded in India: Socially Motivated Decisions. They're using technology to be as successful as they can so that they can help their families. That's at the core of how people are making these agricultural decisions – it doesn't have to do with yields, or economic payoff, or agronomy, what's making and breaking Indian agriculture and GMOs in the developing world is people reckoning with being good farmers, good parents, good members of the community. It's entirely a social decision. | This CRISPR/ GOF/ GMO fear is made all the more credible with Gene Edited Babies, One of the Most Censored Topics on Chinese Social Media, Gene Editing Is Trickier Than Expected but Fixes Are in Sight$, China Tightens Its Regulation of Some Human Gene Editing, Labeling It High Risk$. 181209-VCP-China, 190303-VCP-China. CRISPR Base Editing, Known for Precision, Hits a Snag with off Target Mutations, CRISPR Offshoot Still Makes Mistakes Editing DNA, Raising Concerns about its Medical Use. Your Questions About Italy's GMO Mosquito Experiment, Answered <ADDED 190224>6. What are some of the leading arguments against this experiment. What happens to other species in the food chain. Isn't developing a vaccine a better way to go. Biolabs Accidents, and Genetic Modification Research, Human Error in High Biocontainment Labs: a Likely Pandemic Threat. Controversial Experiments That Could Make Bird Flu More Risky Poised to Resume. 190303-Polemic-4.
-181021-3>12. <ADDED 190224>7. Ecologists Urge Birds to Avert Global Decline of Insects by Adopting Seed Based Diet. A parody of recommendations to curb climate change by changing the human diet. First Ever Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets the World’s Poor.
-180916-5D>13. <ADDED 190210>6. An accelerated biocalamity implies a mass fatality event. No country has the ability to handle a surge of loss that equals 1% of its population in a short period. This is exacerbated if what resources that are available are mismanaged, or withheld. FEMA Denies Puerto Rico Request for Help Processing Backlog of Bodies. The Funeral Directors Deployed to America's Deadliest Disasters. Officials in a Small Louisiana Town Establish a Morgue for Hurricane Katrina Victims 2005. Revised Death Count Makes Hurricane Maria Deadliest Storm in Modern US History. Another arbitrary way to decide if something was a mega bioenet, ie a biocalamity, if the economic cost is a $Billion or more, [Tweet w/ Map], -190217-4.2↑. One Thousand Ways to Experience Loss: a Systematic Analysis of Climate Related Intangible Harm from Around the World.
-180715-4>14. In Los Angeles, Climate Change Gentrification Is Already Happening, when the effects of climate change cause residents in one area to relocate to another area that is not experiencing those problems, which drives up property prices; The North Pole - Episode 1: Endangered Video -190224-1.3↑. Are Our Cities Effectively Planning for Climate Change. Insurer Group Fears Property Losses Due to Climate Change. ¿Whose Key West? Climate Change Is Driving up the Price of Paradise. 181223-3.1, 180930-3, 180304-6.1, Trump Administration Climate Change Report Has Plenty of Bad News for Florida <ADDED 181202-180902-2.1>10, 180204-3.1. Climate Change Is Hurting Coastal Real Estate Values. Oh, We’re Losing Ocean Fish, Too$ -4↑.
-180513-1.1>15. <ADDED 190224>9. Attackers Torch Ebola Treatment Center in Congo, Patients Evacuated, suspect this is not just because of local beliefs but more similar to attacks on polio workers in Pakistan, a way for those against the current government to win concessions by holding a population hostage, -181209-4↑. The Ministry's Statement on the Katwa Attack. Ebola Response in Democratic Republic of the Congo Risks Slowdown. Why Does Ebola Keep Spreading in Congo. Here's a Major Clue. Butembo: Mayor Pledges Double Efforts to Secure Ebola Treatment Centers, MSF Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo Attacked. Lubero Health Zone: A New Health Zone Enters the Ebola Epidemic. If the Epidemic Continues, it Means That There Are Still Gaps in the Response. North Kivu: Ebola Centre Inoperative after Violent Attack, Congo Ebola Center Set on Fire after Armed Attack, Congo: 4 Ebola Patients Missing after 2nd Clinic Attack, Ebola Medical Center Attacked in Congo for 2nd Time in Week, WHO Expresses Concern over Damage to Ebola Treatment Facilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Butembo: Gunmen Attack Ebola Treatment Center and Kill Guard. Arsonists Attack Ebola Clinics in DRC as Climate of Distrust Grows, Congo Ebola Center Set on Fire after Armed Attack, Arsonists Attacked 2 Facilities Treating Ebola Patients in Congo. That’s a Major Setback. MSF Pulls Staff from DRC Ebola Hot Spot after Attacks, After Attacks, MSF Suspends Ebola Treatment in Epicenter of Congo Outbreak, Why Doctors Without Borders Is Suspending Work in the Ebola Epicenter in Congo, Ebola Response Teams Scrambling to Care for Patients after Attacks Set Back Efforts\fs24plain , after Suspension of Activities in North Kivu, MSF Notes There Are Still Worrying Signs of the Epidemic. Police Officer Killed in Attack on Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo, Butembo: Two Ebola Sites Burned in the Space of Four Days – Complicity or Negligence, -6↑. Ituri: 23 Deaths Following Ebola Outbreak since its Declaration in this Province. Ebola Escalated Response: US$80 Million Commitment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it would not have cost this much or been as difficult to control as it is now if sufficient action had been taken months ago. CDC Director Planning to Travel to DRC as Country Battles Ebola Outbreak, which is significant after <ADDED 181209>8. Speculation: If Ebola expands into non rebel areas effectiveness of response may improve dramatically. Currently there may be subtle encouragement of attacks to justify allowing the disease to be a bioweapon by proxy. Ebola Care Rebounds in Attack Area; World Bank OKs Funds, which does not track with Joanne Liu: We Are Forced Today to Suspend Our Activities in Katwa and Butembo. Not known for certain if this type of corruption also occurs in DRC, What We Found out about Bribery Patterns in Uganda’s Health Care System. I Knew I Could Make a Difference: Motivations and Barriers to Engagement in Fighting the West African Ebola Outbreak Among U.S. Based Health Professionals, understanding how to support health professionals in responding to outbreak situations may improve mobilization in future public health crises.
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