$500m Alzheimer’s drug scandal: NY scientist behind NIH-funded therapy busted for allegedly manipulating data in 20 research papers – now there are calls for trials to be cut off
Scientists are calling for stage 3 clinical trials of an Alzheimer’s drug to be scrapped after a report highlighted serious doubts about the legitimacy of research that helped the medicine reach that stage.
A long-awaited report by the City University of New York (CUNY) accused one of its faculty members, neuroscientist Hoau-Yan Wang, of egregious misconduct concerning 20 research papers — defined as workplace behavior so outrageous, dangerous, or illegal that an employer cannot reasonably expect to correct it through progressive discipline.
Wang is being rightly excoriated while others have wrongly received awards for ‘courage’ for their covid anti-science. ABN
Gaza
The people of Gaza are arguably the most abused, debased and persecuted people in the world, in the history of the world. The only ‘moral’ argument against them is they should have left by now. One reason they haven’t left by now is no one wants them because their culture is completely broken.
It is obvious top people in Israel allowed the breaches of the wall and the massacres to happen. Since they had to have known, it is correct to say they Made It Happen On Purpose (MIHOP). MIHOP is a common ruse that can be found at the beginnings of almost all wars. Tonkin, WMD, Pearl Harbor, so on. It is the the rule, not the exception. Absent evidence of no MIHOP, it has to be assumed. When there is proof of MIHOP—absurd coincidences, unexplainable impossibilities—it is proved. It’s obvious. Only in the human realm would anyone dare twist around pretending otherwise or be capable of doing so or want to.
In Buddhism the Human Realm is characterized by suffering. Humans can become enlightened in this realm, but temptations are many and few do. Most humans succumb to greed, anger, ignorance, pride, violence, tribalism. And thus most humans are not reborn in the Human Realm. They go down not up.
The moral conundrum in Gaza today is agonizing. There is no simple or complex answer. It will not end well. It looks like yet another horrible step toward WW3 and global domination by whomever wins.
After that, almost all of us will be as Gazans today.
US holding Israel back from full invasion of Gaza — Alexander Dugin
The delay of ground operation can have different explanation than weather. I guess US observing rapid growth of consolidation of Muslim world on the anti-American basis are hesitating whether let Israel to do that or not. Calculation of direct consequences show total collapse of American policy toward Islamic world. No Muslim at all would agree with ethnical cleansing of Gaza – Nakba 2.0. Many countries , movements and persons would react. Some of them violently. The West in general is facing direct confrontation with global Islam. No one can stay neutral. Ground operation = crossing last line that still separates humanity from irreversible split, war of civilizations and total destruction.
Many ways to think about this situation. I am sure a just and complex ethics will not win. Instead, power-formulas aimed at planetary control will dictate who lives and who dies. The Israeli MIHOP raid was designed to provoke, but this provocation can go more ways than one. It may backfire on Israel and the West, causing years of chaos and war. And it may backfire on the Muslim and anti-West, also causing years of chaos and war. The winner will be the most powerful who uses the best strategy. The immediate provocation was the MIHOP raid in Israel, but there are decades behind that and already there are many avenues of violence and further provocation after that. This is open KOBK war unlikely to be quelled by anything but more violence. ABN
‘We own the science and we think that the world should know it’ — a moron with power
This is Melissa Fleming, the UN under-secretary-general for global communications, speaking an outrageous and harmful lie. We are ruled by incompetents—and this is but one example—who have zero respect for others and zero wisdom or even appropriate knowledge for their fields. It is good that she speaks her mind so we can see how poorly it works. These are the kinds of people who are crazy to control the information all human beings need to live fulfilling lives; and that is the epitome of delusion. ABN
Dr Clare Craig on the propaganda which fueled covid policies
Covid is our best lived-example of Big Government mind-control, propaganda, and anti-science. I hope everyone who lived through this will burn this example into their memories. I am certain we will need to rely on it again, and again. We see similar in the pseudoscience of AGW, the Ukraine War, the southern border, government lawlessness and bribes. I sense a sea change in Europe and USA happening now. Some good may yet come of such enormous corruption and malfeasance. ABN
Your claim to ‘the science’ does not afford you tacit permission to become a human rights monster
‘Deportation, not relocation!’ Poland votes on illegal migration
When did USA have a referendum on this? ABN
Not in Our Names
Medical Journal DISAPPEARS New Study Tying Covid Vaxx To Deaths — with Dr Peter McCullough
Col. Doug Macgregor: the truth behind building Ukraine combat power & IDF’s prospects in Gaza
I think Macgregor consistently misses the point that Ukraine has been deliberately destroyed—denuded of population through flight and death and of military men through death. This has to have been part of the plan, the other part being proxy war against Russia. It also looks like, if possible, the neocon NATO people in control want to expand the Ukraine War to include Poland and the Baltics and possibly all of Europe. The goal is world domination and everything has to be seen in that light, including Gaza which is being denuded of its population in a manner not so different from Ukraine. Neither Ukraine nor Gaza are ends in themselves. They are steps along the way to achieving world domination. The neocons main rivals are Russia and China. ABN
General analyses of signaling systems illuminate fundamentals of psychology
Individual psychology is a locus or node within a larger social system.
More precisely, individual psychologies are particular signaling systems within larger social signaling systems.
It is valuable to see this because general analyses of signaling systems—even those having nothing to do with human psychology—can shed light on human signaling systems, including both individual psychology and many aspects of sociology.
When human psychology is viewed as a signaling system, we can readily see that narcissism is bound to occur because narcissism is fundamentally a simplistic signal system. (See Narcissism redefined (yet again) for more.)
When human sociology is viewed as a signaling system, we can similarly see that parasitism is bound to occur because the exploitation of one system by another is a fairly simple matter. (See Social parasitism in ants and humans for more.)
In like manner, we can see that social hierarchies importantly have evolved because they are simple and decently efficient signal (communication) systems.
We can also see why hierarchical system often are overthrown and why they often do not arise in systems where they are not needed. For example, no hierarchy is needed for a language system once the basics have been established. A parasitic or authoritarian group might impose a hierarchy on a language system, but that’s a different animal.
When individual psychology is viewed as a signaling system, we can see that a great deal of what we consider “disordered” or “ill” within that system is fundamentally a problem of the signal system itself and not the “personality” we have mistakenly abstracted out of that system.
Indeed, most of what we think of as personality is nothing more than an individual signal system attempting to conform to its understanding of the larger social system within which it exists. When science is applied to “personality” erroneously conceived, we arrive at the many psychometric tautologies on personality traits we now have. Psychometrics have limited value for describing societies, but are frequently misleading, even damaging, when applied to individuals. In this, they resemble BMI data which originally was used as a marker for the health of whole populations, not individuals, and which can be misleading when applied to individuals.
When we view individuals as signaling systems rather than personalities, we can immediately see that these systems can and should be optimized for better communication. Indeed, this is the real job of psychology—optimizing individual signaling systems. Not just treating “personality” disorders.
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