Parademic Database Week Notes Ending 190602

Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (4)

1. Pay Now or Later, 2. Evolving Definitions, 3. Jaws, 3.1. Boring Tornado Alerts, Misleading Hurricane, 4. Consistent Behavior, 5. Picture Stories, 6. Plastic-Cine, 7. Charlatans, 7.1. Health Ensemble, 8. Polarized Audiences, 9. Sacred vs Oil, <ADDED >1. Bill Nyah, Satire, >2. Mexican Ebola, >3. Round Down, >4. Credible Conscience vs Ethics, Public Good, >5. Plague Influence, >6. Sasquatch, >7. Drop in, >8. Climate Holocaust, Climate Education, Abortion, >9. Lab Humans, >10. Culling ASF, >11. Ebola Infotainment, >12. Venezuela Cascade, >13. DRC Propagation, >14. Dracunculiasis. 190602-Vaccine. 190602-Polemic.

Other Topics: BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, FDR, Prevention vs Response, FDR, Anthrax, Resilience, Disaster Industrial Complex, Air Pollution, Hiding Data, Informed Growth, Mood Music, Right to Try, Icon, Hemingway, Journalism, Bill Nye, National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

-1. Scientists Have Estimated the Cost of Stopping 11 Diseases That Could Kill Millions in a Pandemic. Creating new vaccines for these diseases will cost billions, but it may be worth it to avoid the next Spanish flu. We now know the minimum cost of developing at a vaccine for each pandemic risks: $2.8 billion to $3.7 billion. That sounds expensive, but so are pandemics: The 2003 SARS outbreak in East Asia cost $54 billion. Moreover, if early development prevents us from experiencing another Spanish flu, which killed nearly one of out of every 20 people in 1918, then it’s actually a bargain. Changing Perceptions of Pandemic Influenza and Public Health Responses. The Unanswered Questions About Anthrax.

            -Quote: Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire...I don't say to him before that operation, "Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it."... I don't want $15 – I want my garden hose back after the fire is over. – Franklin Roosevelt, Press Conference December 17, 1940

            -1.1. The National Health Security Preparedness Index. Results from the 2019 release of the Index indicate that readiness for disasters, disease outbreaks, and other emergencies continued to improve in 2018, but current levels of health security remain far from optimal. The national Index reached 6.7 out of 10 in 2018, representing a 3.1 percent improvement over the prior year and a 11.7 percent improvement since 2013. Large differences in health security persisted across states and regions, with clusters of states in the South Central, Upper Mountain West, Pacific Coast, and Midwest regions lagging significantly behind the rest of the nation. PDWN’s finds the assessment accurate but incomplete, using matrices that don’t give a realistic assessment in context with the current physis threat. 190602-Vaccine-2 is an example of not being able to deal with the human factors or the fact that the US is not a separate biological entity, but intimately connected to the whole biosphere. A rough analogy would be having a cabin in a woods that is fully prepared for a local fire and fire resistant. It is not however safe from fire by refusing to recognize outside help cannot reach the cabin, that there is limited egress from the cabin, that there is insufficient fire fighting resources if the fire in a megafire covering thousands of surrounding acres, there is no safe place if the fire storm sweeps over the area, and the area outside the property has a massive fuel load in drought conditions.

-2. After Paradise, Living with Fire Means Redefining Resilience. An idea that some may think radical: Paying people not to rebuild in this slice of canyon, creating defensible space. This goes against the centuries old American ethos to build, build, build, no matter the costs or the wisdom. It's an ethos baked into the federal disaster response system, what critics call the Disaster Industrial Complex -2- -3- – a system constructed around responding to natural disasters, delivering immediate and long term aid.

            -‡. A Sea of Sagebrush Disappears, Making Way for Fire Prone Cheatgrass. Forging Resilient Community Through Imperfect Relentless Progress. More Intense Wildfires Are Here to Stay, and We Need to Adapt. The Role of the Natural Environment in Disaster Recovery: We Live Here Because We Love the Bush.

-3. An oldie, but still good illustration of popular culture icon influencing parademic behavior : This Day in History: 06/20/1975 - Jaws Released. Jaws Made Us Believe Some Ludicrous Shark Myths – and It Had Devastating Real World Effects. The Jaws Effect: Biting Review Finds Shark Policy Based on Movie Myths. How Jaws Misrepresented the Great White. The Jaws Effect: How Movie Narratives Are Used to Influence Policy Responses to Shark Bites in Western Australia. The Jaws Effect Still Impacts Humans and Sharks Today. Jaws Effect. How Shark Week Hurts the Very Creatures it Celebrates. The Jaws Effect : The Murky Depths of Imagination. Overcoming the Jaws Effect. [Quote, Photo]. -180729-11A↓. Theme Music -2-. Jaws Trope. | The Shark Attack That Changed Cape Cod Forever. Man vs Nature in The Old Man and the Sea: Examples, Symbols & Power, The Old Man and the Sea Quotes, 181118-2.1. | 17 Year Old Girl Wounded in Shark Attack, she is an unwavering advocate for the marine life and the animals who live in the water. She wishes for people to continue to respect sharks in their environment and their safety.

            -3.1. Speaking of entertainment that has damaging consequences one has to wonder at people priorities. Meteorologist Slams Bachelorette Fans Who Demanded Tornado Alerts Stop Interrupting the Show, Meteorologist Has Some Words for 'Bachelorette' Fans Complaining about Tornado Warning, I'm Done with You People. TV Meteorologist Responds to Angry Bachelorette Fans Following Interruption. Heeded Alarms May Have Limited Deaths in Ohio Tornadoes, What We Know about Monday Night's Tornadoes in Indiana and Ohio, [Photo]. In Ohio, Grownups Mostly Agree with Students on Climate but Lack Urgency. Ocasio-Cortez Compares Climate Scientists to Viral Clip of Ohio Weatherman. Trump Calls Ohio Governor to Offer Support after Tornadoes. More than 200 Tornadoes Devastated the Midwest over 13 Days. Why.

            -A. Hurricane Speak: Leaders Seek to Save Lives by Shifting Tropical Storm Language. It’s just a Category 1. Except that Category 1 hurricanes were directly responsible for 175 deaths and $103 billion worth of damage in the last 10 years. Most of those deaths Graham believes could have been avoided if the public had been better educated about the power of tropical storms. It also helps a great deal if one knows how to prepare for a news interview or press conference. 3 Expert Tips to Help You Through Your Media Interview or Public Statement. Creating a Media Interview Checklist. Crying Wolf Pt. 1 – When a Crisis Really Isn’t, Pt. 2 – The Elements of a Crisis, Pt. 3 – How to Prevent the Situation from Spiraling into a Crisis. Environmental Reporting Can Help Protect Citizens in Emerging Democracies. Journalist Killings, Arrests and Assaults Climb Worldwide as Authoritarianism Spreads.

            -3.2. Godzilla Is Back and He's Bigger than Ever: the Evolutionary Biology of the Monster. Actually not biological but social evolution. Social evolution is far faster than biological, with a tendency towards increasing and also diminishing, a reflections of Sharpening, Leveling, Assimilation and Invention (SLAI) 190421-1. Godzilla first made his debut in 1954. At inception, he was a 50 meter tall metaphor for indiscriminate destruction, particularly U.S. hydrogen bomb testing in the Marshall Islands, which, in the film, destroyed Godzilla's deep sea ecosystem. Sixty five years and 35 films later, Godzilla is back and bigger than ever in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. At 119.8 meters tall, Godzilla battles it out for supremacy against three god sized monsters, all with the future of humanity at stake. Film critics and fans have long observed that Godzilla has been getting larger over time, as buildings become taller [Cartoon]. In fact, Godzilla has evolved 30 times faster than other organisms on Earth. Eiji Tsuburaya Made Godzilla Come Alive — and it Changed Film Foreverghlight3 , Godzilla: King of the Monsters [Cartoon]. Godzilla – Icon of Homo Sapiens’ Exponentially Evolving Anxiety. One interesting aspect about Godzilla’s evolution is that it is now the savior of mankind, [Video, Poster]. ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ Is ‘About How Humans Coexist' with the Battling Creatures, [Video]. Godzilla: King of the Monsters Is an Unlikely Climate Change Movie, Godzilla Is the Perfect Monster for Our Age of Environmental Destruction, [Cartoon]. Pandemic Humor-3.6.1, <ADDED 190428-190106-1.1>2, 181028-3‡*.  

-4. We’ll Soon Know the Exact Air Pollution from Every Power Plant in the World. That’s Huge, 190602-Vaccine-4. A good technology to have, but will the data to available for use. Trump Appointees Overruled EPA Experts on Pollution Requirements for Foxconn Site. The EPA Isn't Going to Make the Air Safer; It's Just Going to Say it Is. EPA Scientists Raised Strong Objections about Smog Decision That Came During Politically Opportune Time for GOP. Watchdog Group Requests Ethics Probe for Head of EPA's Air Office. EPA's New Method of Projecting Air Pollution Health Risks Would Erase Deaths on Paper, but Not in Reality Listicle. Research on Children’s Health Risks in Doubt over EPA Funds. Trump's EPA Shifts More Environmental Enforcement to States. 190505-3 Commenters Slam EPA’s ... Air Pollutants. EPA Head Asked to Back up Claim That Climate Change Is 50 to 75 Years Out. Republicans Grasp for a Climate Change Message. Inside the EPA's 'Resistance Room,' Where Trump Was Never President and Climate Change Is Real. Climate Change Evidence Is Overwhelming. When Will Anti Science Ideologues Get It. How Climate Change Became a Partisan Issue. Watchdog Issues Rare 'Alert' That EPA Data on Toxic Substance Releases Inaccurate. EPA Panel Seeks to Bring Back Fired Scientists for Clean Air Review. EPA Science Panel Considering Guidelines That Upend Basic Air Pollution Science, Trump EPA Appointees Want More Air Pollution – That’s a Very Bad Idea. PDWN could go back months further than this with similar items, but this is probably sufficient to indicate a long and consistent pattern of behavior.

-5. Interest here is not migration, though that is part of the parademic narratives, but about the use of images (icons) for communication. More than Victims: Migration Images Provide a Chance to Tell a Greater Story,

-6. Maybe Anthropocene is not best term. Plastikcine maybe the better term. Malaysia Plans to Return 3,300 Tons of Plastic Trash to US, UK, Canada, and Australia. These Three Plastic Recycling Myths Will Blow Your Mind. Remote Island Chain Has Few People — but Hundreds of Millions of Pieces of Plastic. Now Ocean Plastics Could Be Killing Oxygen Making Bacteria^$. Over 180 Countries – Not Including the US – Agree to Restrict Global Plastic Waste Trade. 190526-5. <ADDED 190505-190224-1.2>4. [Art, Art] Rocks Made of Plastic Found on Hawaiian Beach^$ 2014, Plastic Is the New Rock, Say Geologists 2014.

            -6.1. The Toxic Effects of Electronic Waste in Accra, Ghana. Sorting through used electronics is a livelihood for many, but toxic e-waste poses serious health risks. Up to 10,000 workers wade through tons of discarded goods as part of an enormous, informal recycling process, in what has become one of the world’s largest destinations for used electronic goods. The e-waste problem could expand into a global health crisis, largely affecting urban areas, if not addressed: Skin diseases and ailments, respiratory illnesses and toxins entering the food chain with some of the most hazardous chemicals on earth. This will be hard to control as livelihoods depend on having the e-waste and dumping is far cheaper than properly recycling,

-7. The Prince of Quacks (and How He Captivated London). James Graham, founder of the Temple of Health, benefitted from his undeniable flair for showmanship and his talent for leaping on trends. Similar to moral panic, anti GMO marketers and lawyers -190505-3↓, antivax 190602-Vaccine-1 , and political hijacking of causes -190224-1‡ -A‡↓. Finding Conjugal Bliss in Dr. Graham's Celestial Bed: 1781.

            -7.1. Public Health as a Matter of Concern: Victorian England, 1834-1848. Public health is currently evolving, expanding, and reinforcing itself as a governance project in which health authorities’ concerns meet and blend with epidemiology and civil engineering. Rarely, however, are those concerns found worthy of examination, at least not to account for the multiplying involvements of public health, its ability to find political life in things, and its many translations. The shape of public health is dictated as much by its matters of concern as it is by biopolitical and brute matters of fact. This article presents a genealogy of public health in Victorian England between 1834 and 1848 in order to glimpse the matters of concern around which it stabilized. The political medicine that preceded public health holds the clue in its assertion of life as a form of worth, as prominent a criterion for the assessment of sociomaterial arrangements as profitability or efficiency. This article describes public health as an ensemble presence, a unique gathering, in which political will follows medical diagnosis, and life is worth at least as much as money.

-8. Tips To Help You Sort Through Today’s Polarized Publics. More and more often while working with clients we see examples of how extremely polarized audiences have become today. While gauging public reaction to your crisis communications is a recommendation any expert will give you, fewer mention the fact that you may see completely different responses to the same messaging from your various audiences.

-9. Native American tribal leaders and environmental activists have scored a small victory in their years long effort to stave off oil and gas drilling around New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Feds Plan to Allow Drilling Around Chaco Site 2018. US Oil Lease near Sacred Park Pushes Forward. This week, U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced a one-year moratorium on the sale of new oil and gas leases on federal lands in the region. The move comes after Bernhardt, at the urging of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, visited the site and met with leaders of the Navajo Nation and Pueblo tribes. Bernhardt said afterward that the remote, ancient site had “blown him away”, Interior Secretary, Tribes Meet amid Drilling Fight. The new moratorium will delay plans for the sale of oil and gas leases, US Officials to Put off Oil Leases near Sacred Tribal Land, within an informal, 10 mile buffer zone around the park — a zone that is believed to contain important archaeological, religious, and ritualistic sites, Checkerboard Complicates Effort to Protect Sacred Sites. But activists continue to press for the adoption of legislation — introduced earlier this year by members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation — that would make the informal buffer zone permanent. Drilling proponents say that the legislation will be a tough sell in the Republican led U.S. Senate and point to the potential of oil and gas development to deliver economic growth.

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-190519-1>1. Bill Nye's Profanity Laced Video Goes Viral Video. Bill Nye’s Expletive Filled Rant About Climate Change Is Lighting the Internet on Fire. Bill Nye Returns with an Angry Climate Change Rant on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Bill Nye Uses Profanity and Fire to Stress the Enormity of Climate Change. [Meme, Meme, Meme, Icon*]. Note that Nye used Trump like rhetorical devices, but with his own style. The rant was even more shocking that unlike this type of speech is unusual for Nye showmanship, while fully expected for the Trump show. -190224-1‡↓.

            -*Quote: When I was in high school, the boys were waiters at the girls’ athletic banquet. So I said to my dad, “If we’re going to be waiters, let’s dress like waiters”. My father taught me how to tie a bow tie. I tied everyone else’s bow tie in the bathroom at school. Then, doing stand up comedy, I realized that a bow tie would set me apart from other people. Whether you’re a waiter or you’re working in a laboratory, when you lean over, a bow tie doesn’t fall into the flask or slip into the soup. Later in life, what you want is a woman to come up to you and straighten your bow tie. It’s the greatest. Now it’s a thing; I can’t stop it. I have about 500 bow ties.

            -A. [Meme 2012], Bill Nye Blasts Todd Akin: Q. Are your new stories real. A. No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real world issues though satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world. The Quiet Death of ‘The Daily Currant’, Patient Zero in the Fake News Epidemic. The Daily Currant Isn't Funny: Our style of satire is as old as literature itself, but hasn't recently been applied to news articles, which is why many in the media appear to be confused by it. Even in the narrow genre of written news satire, this tradition has a long history with Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain both notorious for publishing such articles. Your criticism is certainly understandable as what we do and what The Onion does are so different. We do distinct kinds of comedy, and perhaps ours isn't for you. It is inaccurate to suggest that we are not in the comedy business, as we do work very hard and many of our commenters and subscribers find us humorous. The Satire Site That Dupes More Professionals than The Onion.

            -Quote: Nowadays I’m talking to adults, and I’m not mincing words. The climate is changing, it’s our fault, and we’ve gotta get to work on this... When someone is first exposed to the idea that _____ may not be true, it takes somebody about two years* to come around to that ... to change their mind. I look at this as chipping away. – Bill Nye, Marines' Memorial Theater in San Francisco, November 6, 2017. Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackles DeflateGate and Promotes Climate Change Awareness in a Funny or Die Sketch Video.

            -*. Could find no reference to validate/ refute that it takes two hears to change minds. There is a study that had two years of data but the body of evidence suggests this is not true. Want to Change Minds. Try This, Why Changing Somebody’s Mind, or Yours, Is Hard to Do. A New Brain Study Sheds Light on Why it Can Be So Hard to Change Someone's Political Beliefs. Changing People’s Minds Requires Willingness. One of the ways to change minds is to isolate from other information sources, which is why cults try to separate members from the large society, and tend to attack erstwhile believers more severely than unbelievers though that can be When Defending Vaccines Gets Ugly^$, 190602-Vaccine-2-Russia. Authoritarian governments do the same through censorship and controlling media 190602-Dezinformatsiya-6. A Formerly Anti-Vax Mom Posted about Why Her Kids Are Getting Vaccinated: Her decision to vaccinate wasn't made all at once, She had to get comfortable with over the counter medicine, learn about the true statistical risks, and trust her doctor. "It sounds silly, but it’s a gradual process". My Staff Doesn’t like it That I Use the Socratic Method with Them, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition, Chapter: 10 Conclusions. How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit (Backed by Science). How Long Does It Take to Break a Habit. Science Will Tell You. [Meme].

-190519-2>2. Ten Steps to Ebola on the Mexican Border. This possibly stems the continued fear mongering of immigrants as disease -2- -3- -4- -5-, the concerns about Ebola -180729-11-A↓ which were first fanned for the 2014 election 181125-5, and continued belief in Cuban sonic weapons <ADDED 190317-180311-6>13, Venezuela socialism threat -181209-4↓, denial of aid to Puerto Rico -2- -3- -4- -5-, 190407-2‡. The recent tariffs against Mexico -2- -3- -4- don’t help, and will accelerate the eroding cooperation between the US and Mexico on public health issues #Document -2-, increasing the possibility of an actual infectious agent from Mexico reaching the US and not being identified for a long time. "Bad Hombres" Memes Going Strong after Trump-Clinton Debate [Icon, Iconht3 , Icon, Icon]. | A Genuine #FakeNews Ebola Website: After just 10 Ebola outbreaks in the DR Congo, and many others elsewhere, the disease has now drawn the attention of those scamps in St. Petersburg who love to gull the gullible. 190602-Dezinformatsiya-3.1.

-190505-3>3. <ADDED 190519>1. Safe or Scary. The Shifting Reputation of Glyphosate, AKA Roundup. Act 1 starts with Monsanto selling Roundup in 1974. For 20 years, it didn't attract much attention. Act 2 Began in 1996 when Monsanto started selling genetically modified crops (GMOs) -7↑. They were modified so they could tolerate glyphosate. This meant that farmers could now spray this chemical right over their "Roundup Ready" soybeans, corn and cotton, and the crops would be fine but the weeds would all die. Then Act 3 arrived. Glyphosate went to court. Lawyers for Bayer, which now owns Monsanto, repeatedly reminded jurors that regulatory agencies had concluded that glyphosate is not a cancer risk. Lawyers for the cancer victims, though, suggested that those same regulators couldn't be trusted because they'd been manipulated or fooled by Monsanto. Don’t Let Good Attorneys Make Bad News Worse. | Scientists Genetically Modify Fungus To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria, GMO Mosquitoes <ADDED 190303-181111-VCP-II-USA>11, 190505-3, 181202-2, <ADDED 180909-170326-4.1>11.

-190505-VCP-2USA-B>4. <ADDED 190526>2. -190203-3↓. Civil Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration over Conscience Protection Rule. HHS Proposes to Revise ACA Section 1557 Rule to Enforce Civil Rights in Healthcare, Conform to Law, and Eliminate Billions in Unnecessary Costs. Conscience Rule Would Create Confusion, Erode Trust Between Patient and Doctor, Civil Rights Groups Claim in Suit Listicle. The Trump Administration Wants to Let Doctors Discriminate Against Trans Patients. Trump Admin Files More Briefs in Religious Liberty Cases than Obama, Bush.

            -A. In contrast a relevant question of medical ethics. The Surgeon Had a Dilemma Only a Nazi Medical Text Could Resolve. Was it Ethical to Use It. The highest value in Jewish law is life. If the illustrations can save a life or alleviate suffering, most rabbis would not just permit using it but say it was mandatory – as long as physicians and educators remember its origins and pay respect to those who were killed to create it.

            -B. Ethical Considerations for Movement Mapping to Identify Disease Transmission Hotspots. Methods for detecting infectious disease transmission (contact tracing one type, identifying antivax clusters as potential hotspots is another). Information and communication technologies, such as global positioning systems, smartphones, and mobile phones, offer opportunities for novel approaches to identifying transmission hotspots. However, mapping the movements of potentially infected persons comes with ethical challenges. Conceivably an infectious antivaxer can claim it is against their conscience to tell public health officials where they have exposed others, and for complaints about violating their privacy by tracking their movement and identifying a antivax cluster as a potential disease hotspot. It is even possible as a matter of conscience to be quarantined that restricts their freedom of movement.

            -C. Ethics, Morality, Public Good, Higher Authority, Logical Fallacies, Scientific Explanations, Statistics, etc, are all credible reasons to justify behavior. A credible reason however is not always the real origin for the behavior and it is not uncommon for people to not know the actual reason, or to examine a credible reason as an untested assumption. Besides being based on erroneous or outdated beliefs credible reasons may be rhetoric to neutralize arguments against a behavior, a delaying tactic, red herring to deflect examination used to cause confusion between conflicting values (such as individual freedom vs community responsibilities and duties), to make something plausible or appear to have a supporting authority. Digging deeper into justifications can be quite revealing and provide insights on why and how to modify it to a more advantageous behavior to the benefit of individuals and communities.

-190505-8>5. <ADDED 190519>3. How the Plague Reshaped the World. The bacterium that causes the plague emerged relatively recently. Yet the pandemics it's created have altered the world. The Black Death Plague Mask Icon. 170220-5.9P, 170115-6 -7B, 161030-14, 160821-4.5.

-190421-4>6. Bigfoot Says Only You Can Stomp out Wildfires, Bigfoot Leads State’s Effort to Prevent Wildfires, Asks Oregonians to Believe. [Poster]. 50 Years Ago, One Scratchy Home Movie Made Bigfoot a Northwest Icon.

-190331-3>7. We Asked, You Answered: Are Fly In Medical Missions Helpful Or Harmful. This is also called band aid fixes, and drive by disaster aid The Complicated Story of NGOs in Post Disaster Haiti, #Book, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster [Cover]. 180826-3. 180408-6.

-190224-1‡>8. <ADDED 190317>3. -7, -190519-1↑. Head of Trump’s Climate Change Panel Uses Holocaust to Liken Demonization of Carbon Dioxide to Jews under Hitler*. That quote sounds bad, but when you listen to it in full context it’s actually worse than it sounds. Note that this is from something said in 2013. Likely that this individual was hand picked to come to an a priori conclusion, but at the same time biasing about biasing is its own form of misleading rhetoric which can lead to its own false a priori conclusions. Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science, Trump Administration Reportedly about to Launch New Assault on Climate Science. Far Right MEPs Could Threaten EU Climate Policy. Trump Administration's Attempts to Limit Climate Change Science like Designing Cars Without Seatbelts. Trump Administration Planning to Change How Long Term Effects of Climate Change Are Assessed. Scientist Compares Trump's Climate Stance to Soviet Union. Lawmaker Criticizes White House over Plans to Influence Science in National Climate Report. Trump’s Latest Attack on Federal Climate Science May Backfire^$. [Cartoon, Cartoon]. Trump Wants to End Worst Case Climate Scenario Modeling. Here's Why That Matters. | The Decline of Trust in Science “Terrifies” Former MIT President Susan Hockfield. Undermining Research at USDA. Trump Administration Takes Aim at Climate Change Forecasting from Federal Agencies. 190602-Dezinformatsiya-7.

            -*. Still speculation but there are still indicators of antiax and anti Semiticism & holocaust denial are connected, Anti Semitic Message Found at Jewish Museum in Brooklyn. Targeting of orthodox communities may be a opportunistic target for antivax or as part of a larger disinformation campaign. It may also be organic to that community. Could it be that the combination of threats to Israel, which has created conditions for the elections of an authoritarian populists there, more hate crimes -2- against Jews, more physical attacks on Jewish facilities, more anti Semitic groups, fear mongering about immigrants (Jews were the target of those in the not so distant past), that the Jewish community is in conditions of uncertainty and feel helpless to protect itself from those potential harms [Icon]. Possibly it has found a proxy in the form of the imagined threat of vaccines that they can do something about, 190414-VCP-2USA-D. The measles outbreak doesn’t help with closing of schools, threats by the state public health, increasing sense of isolation from the larger umbrella community, and questions that threaten identity.

            -A. <ADDED 190310-190224-1‡>2. Climate Change Education Legislation Revives in Connecticut. Connecticut House Passes Bill Mandating Education of Human Induced Climate Change, Connecticut Bill on Climate Change Education Advances, Schools must Teach Climate Change, Connecticut Bill Says. How Climate Change is Affecting Connecticut. Even if the bill does not pass – and that is likely with what happened regarding its vaccine exemption effort 190519-VCP-2USA-A ighlight3 – Likely other states will follow suit. This will probably line up with the division between anti vaccination and severe anti abortion* state legislators. [Chart, Poster, Chart]. Climate Change Education Legislation Persists in Connecticut.

            -*‡B. Unless caused by a global environmental or health anti physis threat abortion is not a biocalamity. If it is a response to perceived social, environmental and health issues then it is parademic. If abortion and avoiding pregnancy as a social response becomes sufficient to cause depopulation (Sperm Counts Are Falling. This Isn’t the Reproductive Apocalypse – Yet) then it is a parademic that leads to a biocalamity 190519-1. Abortion attitudes tend to mirror attitudes about environment and health (and Trumpism), and are an indicator of likely parademic behavior. At this time there are lots of indicators -7↑. Abortion Restrictions Would Cause Women to Carry Children Who Have Fatal, Painful Conditions to Term Listicle. Prosecutors Push Back on Enforcing New State Abortion Laws, A Responsibility to Say No: Prosecutors Vow Not to Bring Charges under Severe Abortion Laws. Google Cracks down on Misleading Anti Abortion Ads in Policy Update. Abortion Bans Create a Public Health Nightmare^$, making abortion illegal is a vast experiment in public health, one with outcomes of sick or dying women and children. Here’s Why the Anti Abortion Movement Is Escalating. Abortion Limits Carry Economic Cost for Women. Why So Many Women Choose Abortion over Adoption. What Republicans and Democrats Are Doing in the States Where They Have Total Power. Recent Abortion Bans Will Impact Poor People and People of Color Most.

            -*‡C. Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Will Stay Open, for Now -2-. Missouri Abortion Provider Wins Reprieve, As Judge Rules Against State. Protesters Flood the Streets as Judge Mulls Decision in Case over Missouri’s Last Remaining Abortion Clinic. Missouri Could Soon Have No Abortion Clinics. Missouri Could Become First US State Without Abortion Clinic at Midnight. Planned Parenthood Head Says Missouri’s Claims That State’s Last Clinic Had ‘Deficiencies’ Are Not Based in Reality Listicle. Missouri Could Become the First State with Zero Abortion Clinics. How Did We Get Here. Missouri Governor Threatens State's Only Abortion Provider, Says it Broke Laws, Missouri Agency Cites Concerns at St. Louis Abortion Clinic, Planned Parenthood CEO: Missouri Is Trying to Weaponize Abortion Regulations. Indiana Fetal Remains Law Could Boost Costs for Abortions. Thomas Cites Eugenics, Says Supreme Court Will Have to Address Abortion Soon. Abortion Rights Activists Renew Battle in Argentina. Gov: Abortion Ban Shows Alabama Values Sanctity of Life, [Cartoon, Cartoon]. A Fetus Doesn’t Try to “Move Away” During an Abortion. Busting the Myth. 190526-6A, <ADDED 190526-190505-VCP-2USA-B>2.

            -*‡D. Pope: Abortion is Never OK, Equates it to Hiring a Hitman. Perspectives: As a Christian Republican I Believe Women in Crisis Should Be Met with Compassion; It's Time to Reconsider Religion's Grip on Public Policy Listicle.

            -*‡E. Poll: Majority of Voters Oppose State Abortion Restrictions like Those in Georgia, Alabama. Pat Robertson: Alabama 'Has Gone Too Far' with 'Extreme' Abortion Law, Harris Invokes 'Handmaid's Tale' after Alabama Lawmakers Pass Abortion Law, In Move Designed to Challenge Roe V. Wade, Alabama Legislature Passes Ban on Abortion, Criminalizes Procedure Listicle, Different Takes: Alabama’s Abortion Ban Has Supreme Court Written All over It; Overturning Precedents, Even If It’s Roe, Needs to Be Done Only on Legal Merits, Not Politics Listicle, 25 Men Voted to Ban Abortion in Alabama. Do They Reflect the Rest of America, States Passing Abortion Bans Have among the Lowest Rates of Women in Power, Courts Say Anti Abortion 'Heartbeat Bills' Are Unconstitutional. So Why Do They Keep Coming. Alabama Effectively Bans Abortion, Woman Walking Alone at Night Picks up Pace after Spotting Truck Full of Alabama Lawmakers Slowly Following Her, Abused 12 Year Old Alabama Girl Doesn’t Think She Can Handle Being a Mom on Top of Everything Else. The History of Outlawing Abortion in America, first criminalized in the mid 19^th century, a key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies. Most Alabama Voters Don’t Support Their State’s Exemption Free Abortion Ban. Planned Parenthood: 'We Do Not Condone' State Lawmaker Approaching Anti Abortion Protesters. Alabama Cracks down on Abortions by Outlawing All Medical Procedures. | Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Heartbeat Abortion Ban with No Rape or Incest Exception, Louisiana Could Ban Most New Freestanding Emergency Rooms, Abortion Rights Group Asks Supreme Court to Strike down Louisiana Clinic Law. Supreme Court Avoids Abortion Question, Upholds Fetal Burial Measure, (this coincides withs24 Attention Louisiana Climate Deniers: Insurers Say Climate Change Now Biggest Risk), New Louisiana Abortion Law Requires Fetuses Be Given Jazz Funeral March Through The French Quarter. | Are Texas Legislators ‘Considering the Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions. | Once a Center of Antiabortion Extremism, Kansas’s Protections Are Now Stronger than Ever, 10 Years After Dr. Tiller's Murder, Kansas' Abortion Rules Could Take Another Turn. Illinois Affirms Fundamental Right to Abortion by Passing New Bill. | Indiana Moves to Expanding Religious Objection to Abortion. | Maine Governor Submits Bill Allowing Medical Professionals Who Aren't Doctors Perform Abortions.

            -*‡F. Doctors Are Not Killing Infants after Failed Abortions, Yet it Is Fast Becoming a GOP Talking Point for 2020 Elections Listicle. Poll: Majority Oppose Trump. Administration Restrictions on Abortion Funding. House Democrats Probe Trump Administration's Funding of Anti Abortion Group. Spate of Bills That All but Ban Abortions Highlights Activists’ Confidence in Roe v. Wade Battle. Supreme Court Rebuffs Anti Abortion Activists in Planned Parenthood Suit, Antiabortion Group Looking to Siphon Patients from Planned Parenthood Gets Significant Family Planning Program Funding Listicle. Trump Administration Awards $1.7 Million Family Planning Grant to Anti Abortion Clinics, Troubled Texas Anti Abortion Group Seeks Federal Grant Money. I'm Building a Wall Around My Uterus: Abortion Politics and the Politics of Othering in Trump's America. With at Least 20 Cases Barreling Toward Supreme Court, Both Sides of Abortion Debate Are on Edges of Their Seats. Trump to Bar Abortion Referrals by Family Planning Clinics, Trump Steps up Attack on Planned Parenthood, NY, California and Washington Threaten to Sue over Trump Rule to Restrict Abortion Referrals, Trump Bans Abortion Providers, Referrals from Family Planning Program, The Trump Administration Is Finalizing Plans to Strip Funding from Planned Parenthood, Trump Sets up Abortion Obstacles, Barring Clinic Referrals. Trump Offers Preview of Abortion Message Ahead of 2020, Tense Exchange Between Trump and Democratic Senator over Abortion Underscores President's Renewed Focus on Issue.

            -*‡G. With Abortion Access Dwindling, a State of Emergency for Women’s Health in America. Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit. US Threatens to Veto UN Resolution on Rape as Weapon of War, over language on sexual health services that it interprets as opposing its anti abortion stance. U.S. to Expand Abortion Gag Rule, Won't Assist Certain Groups: Pompeo, Trump Administration Expands ‘Mexico City’ Policy to Include Groups That Don’t Perform Abortions but Support Ones That do Listicle, Abortions Rise Worldwide When US Cuts Funding to Women’s Health Clinics. The Abortion Green Scarf as a Boundary Object: Beyond the Curse of the Left. House GOP Lawmaker Says Green New Deal Is like Genocide. Christian Conservatives in Trump Administration Build Global Antiabortion Coalition^$.

-190203-3>9. <ADDED 190210>1. When ‘Right to Try’ Isn’t Enough: Congress Wants a Single ALS Patient to Get a Therapy Never Tested in Humans. The issue came to a head this time last year, when a federal “right to try’’ law was passed, which largely cuts the FDA out of the process for determining when dying patients can access experimental treatments being studied in clinical trials. Another way to look at it is right to try is a credible sounding reason to circumvent biomedical research ethics to use human guinea pigs. It will speed things up if one knows for certain right away something will not ultimately not work, and there is the very small probability it may work (far less than MMR causing a vaccine reaction). However very unlikely that anything will be learned from this type of testing that will help make the creation of a treatment more efficient. It sounds moral but I question asking people who are desperate and have no option to be a voluntary guinea pig with a small chance of success. -190505-VCP-2USA-B↑. I Have Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Critics of the $2 Million New Gene Therapy Are Missing the Point.

-181118-VCP-China>10. <ADDED 190526>6. Hong Kong Reports Second Swine Fever Case, to Cull 4,700 Pigs. Vietnam Culls 2 Million Pigs, Urges Whole Nation to Fight Swine Fever. China Detects African Swine Fever in Pigs Illegally Transported to Guizhou. 190602-Vaccine-4. | China's Inner Mongolia Reports Human Infection of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus: Xinhua.

-180729-11>11. <ADDED 190526>7. A NatGeo TV Drama Is 'Inspired' by a 1989 Ebola Crisis in the U.S. How Accurate Is It. The series may be entertaining for the general public, but it is quite flawed in terms of any historical accuracy and there are numerous scientific flaws. Julianna Margulies Wants to Prove Science Deniers Wrong with Ebola Drama Hot Zone. Nat Geo Series 'The Hot Zone' Highlights Threat from Diseases of Poverty. | Published in 1995 the book set up the dread, Review of The Hot Zone that eventually flourished into the Ebola Panic in 2014, How Ebola Entered the American Consciousness: A Trump Tweet, Trump Reacts to Backlash Over Tweet on Ebola Infected American, 2014 Lie of the Year: Exaggerations about Ebola, Ebola Fears Helped the GOP in 2014 Election; influencing events in 2016 and for the current Ebola outbreak -180513-1.1↓ By Reversing Course on Ebola Funding, Trump Brings Compromise. | The Hot Zone Connects with K State’s Long History as Silicon Valley for Biodefense, Kansas Plays Role in New Medical Miniseries 'The Hot Zone', National Geographic's the Hot Zone Shows Biosecurity's Importance. The Other Manhattan Project: Kansas' $125 Billion National Bio And Agro Defense Facility, White House Proposes Shifting Kansas Bio-defense Lab from Homeland Security to USDA, Price Tag of Federal Biodefense Lab Rises for Kansas 2013.

            -A. The Hot Zone and the Mythos of Ebola. The Hot Zone was first released in 1994, the year I graduated high school. Like many readers, that book and Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague [Cover] really sparked my interest in infectious diseases. In some sense, I have those books to thank (or blame) for my career. The Hot Zone is now one of the banes of my existence. Many people have gotten almost all of their Ebola education from just The Hot Zone. You Can Thank this Man for Your Ebola Nightmares. -3, -190519-2↑.

-181209-4>12. <ADDED 190526>5. A Wake for a Venezuelan Boy, and a Nation’s Anguish. Health Crisis in Venezuela: Status of Communicable Diseases and Implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019.

-180513-1.1>13. <ADDED 190526>8. -180729-11↑. Major cholera vaccination campaign begins in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO Set to Vaccinate 800, 000 Against Cholera in DRC. Aid Group: Most New Ebola Cases Were Not Known Contacts. Life Amid an Ebola Outbreak: Combating Mistrust – and Saving Lives. NGOs Push for Decentralised Ebola Treatment in DR Congo. Ebola Patients Are Human Beings Not Biosecurity Threats. Beni: UPLC Mai-Mai Militiamen Pledge to Fight Ebola Outbreak in Kabasha, south of Beni in Eastern DRC. David Gressly on Ebola: We Need to Create an Environment That Will Allow Those Responsible for the Response to Do the Work. Two Journalists Threatened with Death by Militia in Eastern DR Congo. Villagers Kill Ebola Health Worker in Eastern DR Congo. WHO Experts Say Violence Preventing End of Ebola Outbreak. Congo Ebola Response must Be Elevated to Maximum Level, UN Told. Congo's Ebola Epidemic Inflicts Heavy Toll on Children. Congo Forces Kill 26 Islamist Rebels in Ebola Zone Shootout. Butembo: Traditional Chiefs Ask for Public Support to Eradicate Ebola Outbreak in 30 Days. Congo's Ebola Epidemic Inflicts Heavy Toll on Children. 190602-Vaccine-180513-1.1. Kenya to Hold Ebola Outbreak Drill.

-180325-5>14. <ADDED 181118>6. Guinea Worm Disease Eradication: A Moving Target. WHO Warns about Resurgence of Guinea Worm Disease as 150 Ton Parasite Splashes out of Sea. [Art].