This is a very good interview. The conclusion is combination T3/T4 therapy is preferred by most patients but if you are doing well on T4 only, probably best to stay with that for now. Slow-release T3 is nearing FDA approval. Studies show no difference in the lab work between combo therapy and T4 only, but patients generally prefer combo therapy. Also, combo therapy has no downside over T4 if TSH is monitored and kept within range. ABN
The emergence of cryptic lineages: Another example of how a lack of immunological insight leads to empty prejudices.
People often speculate that if my predictions come true (of which I remain 100% convinced), the unvaccinated will once again be scapegoated for exacerbating the public health damage caused by the virus. However, I firmly believe this won’t be the case, as it will become unmistakably clear that cases of enhanced severe Covid-19 (C-19) disease will almost1 exclusively occur among the C-19 vaccinated, leaving healthy unvaccinated individuals unaffected.
Vanden Bossche’s predictions of a deadly pandemic among the vaxxed have not come to pass. Indeed, many credible researchers now claim there never was a pandemic. That said, even if there never was a pandemic, billions of people were vaxxed, so Vanden Bossche may yet prove to be right. Right or wrong, I interpret his motives as being highly ethical. ABN
A new book by David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., and Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., The Assassination of JFK: The Final Analysis (2024), was published on 8 March 2024 and had sold 4,000 copies by 15 March (“The Ides of March”), which reflects the public’s thirst for truth about the death of our 35th President. David and I began collaborating in 1992 in the wake of Oliver Stone’s magisterial film, “JFK”, which presents the most accurate, complete, and detailed account of what actually happened in Dealey Plaza on 22 November 1963 ever offered to the American people through the mass media. But now we know more.
Having published three collections of expert studies on JFK with David Mantik—Assassination Science (1998), Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) for which he suggested the title and The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003)–I would like to explain the dozen-shot/five-hit account of what happened that day in that place, while recommending everyone should follow the lead and obtain this book, which presents the most authoritative analysis of what actually happened based upon the research of the leading expert on the medial evidence regarding JFK in the world today.
This article, together with the comments below it, makes a terrific reference source for the JFK assassination. Medically focused, with many links and insightful comments. Well-worth perusing. ABN
Solve Human Intelligence, And Then Solve All The Other Problems
We are on the cusp of a new era in which we acquire the capability to augment our biological intelligence and take over our own evolution. Forget the “3-5 years away” timelines previously advanced by Razib Khan and Charles Murray. Embryo selection for IQ will become publicly available in 2025, opening up the possibility of 6-7 IQ point increases with every subsequent generation. And that’s just with the standard IVF cycles of ten embryos. More speculative but scientifically grounded approaches in the pipeline such as embryo genetic editing, adult gene therapy, iterated embryo selection, and synthetic embryos open up the possibility of multiple S.D. increases in polygenic IQ scores by the 2030s, and the appearance of young men and women much smarter than anybody who has ever lived as early as the 2050s.
In this essay, I will briefly outline the basics of intelligence research, and its importance with respect to individual life success, national wellbeing, and the long-term prospects of our civilization. I will then make make the case for radical human intelligence enhancement across all three of those levels. I will then survey public attitudes towards intelligence enhancement, outline the business case for the noocelerationist space, and conclude with an overview of my own plans for Sophia DAO and how you can get involved.
…11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The cache also points to cities in Ukraine, the Cayman Islands, and Australia, among others.
Near Intelligence, for example, tracked devices visiting Little St. James from locations in 80 cities crisscrossing 26 US states and territories, with Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York topping the list. The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
The coordinates also point to various Epstein properties beyond Little St. James, including his 8,000-acre New Mexico ranch and a waterfront mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, where prosecutors said in an indictment that Epstein trafficked numerous “minor girls” for the purposes of molesting and abusing them. Near’s data is notably missing any locations in Europe, where citizens are safeguarded by comprehensive privacy laws.
The data seems to be close but not specific. It also reveals how bad phone security laws are in USA; no such data available for all of Europe. The linked story is long and fairly involved, but provides good info. ABN
In 1786, just over two hundred years ago, comparative historical linguistics was born, when Sir William Jones (1746-1794) discovered the relationship between Old-Indian Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. Since then, the emerging Indo-European philology has thrown much light on the early history of mankind in Eurasia.
During the past two hundred years, many suggestions were also made in regard to relationships of Indo-European to other languages such as Semitic, Altaic, Austronesian, Korean etc,, but IndoEuropeanists commonly rejected such attempts for want of convincing evidence. As to Chinese, Joseph Edkins was the first to advance the thesis of its proximity to Indo-European. In his work China’s Place in Philology. An Attempt to show that the Language of Europe and Asia have a Conrmon Origin ( 187 1 ) he presented a number of Chinese words similar to those of Indo-European.
Health officials have long warned that gonorrhea is becoming more and more resistant to all the antibiotic drugs we have to fight it. Last year, the US reached a grim landmark: For the first time, two unrelated people in Massachusetts were found to have gonorrhea infections with complete or reduced susceptibility to every drug in our arsenal, including the frontline drug ceftriaxone. Luckily, they were still able to be cured with high-dose injections of ceftriaxone. But, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bluntly notes: “Little now stands between us and untreatable gonorrhea.”
If public health alarm bells could somehow hit a higher pitch, a study published Thursday from researchers in China would certainly accomplish it. The study surveyed gonorrhea bacterial isolates—Neisseria gonorrhoeae—from around the country and found that the prevalence of ceftriaxone-resistant isolates nearly tripled between 2017 and 2021. Ceftriaxone-resistant strains made up roughly 8 percent of the nearly 3,000 bacterial isolates collected from gonorrhea infections in 2022. That’s up from just under 3 percent in 2017. The study appears in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
While those single-digit percentages may seem low, compared to other countries they’re extremely high. In the US, for instance, the prevalence of ceftriaxone-resistant strains never went above 0.2 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to the CDC. In Canada, ceftriaxone-resistance was stable at 0.6 percent between 2017 and 2021. The United Kingdom had a prevalence of 0.21 percent in 2022.
This interview is long but well worth viewing. I recommend taking it in sections over a few days or weeks. Much of it fits with what I know personally, though my angle is different from Griggs. ABN
NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind’s dramatic downfall.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence at a Manhattan court hearing after rejecting Bankman-Fried’s claim that FTX customers did not actually lose money and finding that he lied during his trial testimony. A jury found Bankman-Fried, 32, guilty on Nov. 2 on seven fraud and conspiracy counts stemming from FTX’s 2022 collapse in what prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history.
Kaplan said Bankman-Fried had shown no remorse.
“He knew it was wrong,” Kaplan said before handing down the sentence. “He knew it was criminal. He regrets that he made a very bad bet about the likelihood of getting caught. But he is not going to admit a thing, as is his right.”
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