Links 6/16/25

Walking a minimum of 2,517 steps daily results in lower mortality rates. Additional improvement noted at 2,735 steps, and again at 7,126 steps and again at 8,763 steps.

People who read books at least 30 minutes a day will live longer than those who do not read books at all.

Saltwater Drops in Nose Could Shorten Kids’ Colds

Creatine Supplementation in Women’s Health

Beef fat prevents alcoholic liver disease in the rat

The impact of vitamin D administration on mortality in COVID-19 patients

Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease

Detection of Rabies Virus Antigen in Dog Saliva Using a Latex Agglutination Test

Surgeon catches CANCER from patient in first-of-its-kind case

The corresponding author did not reply to inquiries; however, one of the coauthors did respond and admitted that the study published above was not actually performed

Some children starting school ‘unable to climb staircase’, finds England and Wales teacher survey

A federal judge said Kraft Heinz must face a proposed nationwide class action alleging that it defrauded consumers by claiming its Kraft macaroni and cheese, one of its best-known products, contains no artificial preservatives

An asthma drug prescribed to millions of children has been found to cause suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and other psychiatric conditions.  Montelukast, sold under the brand name Singulair, attaches to cells in the brain that control mood, decision making, attention, impulse control and sleep. 

the Hep B vax was tested in just 147 infants for five days, and that’s all the FDA needed to approve it for the Day 1 vax schedule for newborns?

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of Six Papers by Top Researchers

Dementia got better when statins removed, Then got worse again when statins restarted

A recent study found that people taking SSRIs had higher levels of a brain protein linked to neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s.

Or maybe SSRIs improve brain function in people with Alzheimer’s.

A new drug is found to slow Alzheimer’s decline by 57% by blocking a harmful enzyme secreted by the bacteria responsible for tooth decay (invades brain too)

The researchers found the children who grew up during the pandemic were unable to distinguish between a frightened and a happy face. Happy faces were particularly difficult to process

Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

STUDY FINDS DEI TRAINING INCREASES PREJUDICE

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports

California Defaults On $18.5 Billion Debt, Leaving State Businesses Holding The Bag

It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

An airline employee was giving the DEA names of passengers who bought a last minute ticket. DEA would then try to intimidate them into consenting to searches. If civil forfeiture occurred, the employee would get a cut of the $.

What Do Van Halen & Brown M&M’s Have To Do With Safety?

The Story of How I Shot Myself Down


Links 3/30/2025

Ok, the number of links I have saved up to post is epic….

But first off, if you ever used the 23andMe DNA testing service you need to go log in and have them delete your data. ASAP!

The Slow-Burn Nightmare of the National Public Data Breach

The best use case argument for Neurolink I’ve seen (and I HIGHLY dislike the idea): Teams of neurologists at six research centers asked 241 unresponsive patients to spend several minutes at a time doing complex cognitive tasks, such as imagining themselves playing tennis. Twenty-five percent of them responded with the same patterns of brain activity seen in healthy people, suggesting that they were able to think and at least somewhat aware.

California Autism Prevalence by County and Race/Ethnicity: Declining Trends Among Wealthy Whites

California Reveals All Job Gains In 2023 Were Fake

Oxford study of 820,926 adolescents, age 12-15, & 283,422 children, age 5-11 1. No deaths from COVID, meaning death rate for age 5-15 is between 0 and 0.00003% 2. Heart inflammation is 37/MM in vaccinated & 0/MM for COVID infection. 3. Vaccine risk-benefit ratio unfavorable

How effective was the 2023-24 mRNA covid vax vs Covid infection?

Bad policy literally stole young girls childhood. “MRI scans found evidence of premature brain ageing in both boys and girls, but girls’ brains appeared on average 4.2 years older than expected after lockdowns, compared with 1.4 years older for boys.”

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services links fluoridated drinking water to a 2-5 point IQ drop in children

One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever: >cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery >Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research >turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%

A Nobel prize-winning genetics researcher has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to 13. 

over 100 NIH-funded Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research papers contain completely made up data, according to new allegations. Billions in funding and years of research now in serious doubt

Elevating the Status of Motherhood Solves Low Birthrates: The Extraordinary Case of Mongolia

Now, a large-scale study from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., has found that liquid thickening doesn’t actually help such patients.

Childhood vax schedule in the USA vs Denmark

Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins

Coffee is good for you again! Oh, nope, its bad again.

Hope you don’t have the mthfr gene mutation: new California law will require tortilla makers to add an extra ingredient

What School Didn’t Teach Us: How It Feels to Work Hard

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Fear Is Good for You

Face blind. Vs. Super-recognizer.

So apparently, scientists are using human brain tissue as computer processors now and are renting them out to people

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

Charles and Heather Maude, a western South Dakota farm and ranch couple, have been indicted for theft of federal property

The Oregon DMV has admitted to registering at least hundreds of non-citizens to vote since at least 2021 due to errors in its auto voter registration system. Additionally, every registered voter is sent ballots by mail. The audit is still ongoing and more illegal registrations

we’re finally allowed to disclose a vulnerability reported to Kia which would’ve allowed an attacker to remotely control almost all vehicles made after 2013 using only the license plate.

“Global warming” between 1880-2020 overestimated by 42% because of unaccounted for weather station aging, reports new study. Results confirmed against NASA satellite data.

Researchers make stunning discovery after examining farmland treated only with organic fertilizers for decades

a new study reports the first ever successful transplant of stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for type 1 diabetes. the patient became insulin-independent just 75 days after transplantation and has maintained this for over a year

Scientists say they have developed an “adaptive brain pacemaker” that eases Parkinson’s symptoms

In France, some crows have been trained to pick up cigarette butts on the street. The crows pick up cigarette butts and put them into a machine, where they receive food as a reward.

These kids threw a combined no-hitter at the Little League Baseball World Series


Blog going forward

I’m debating moving this blog to Substack and I’m curious as to folks thoughts on that.

When I first moved it to my own site I was blogging enough I felt it was worth it. These days? I’m doing good to blog once a month. And I feel like I’m not getting my money’s worth out of the site. I will likely keep the site, and direct the substack to here (supposedly thats possible anyway) so that you won’t have to change any links. Maintaining the ownership of the domain name isn’t expensive, its the hosting of the page itself that adds up.

In theory I can move all the blog posts over there, so that I won’t lose any posts, testing shows it doesn’t move all the meme posts over correctly (it just appears to grab the first meme) but everything else appears to move over correctly. At the link I posted in the first sentence you can see the last 10 posts I imported to see how it works. I don’t know if that means I won’t be able to do meme dumps at all, or if I’ll have to break them up more, or what. But that appears to be the only potential issue that I’m seeing.

Edit: Ok, it’ll import the first 10 posts and nothing else. I’m waiting response from tech support to find out what I’m missing.


Alzheimer’s Research

In my various Links posts I’ve posted a selection of articles and studies looking at modern Alzheimer’s research. The community has imploded unfortunately due to the discovery of fraud in the research. Its frustrating to watch. Alzheimer’s, and dementia in general, touches many families and it’s horrifying to watch a family member forget, well, everything till they turn into a breathing shell.

Yesterday this article was in my feed:

My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better.

““It’s Alzheimer’s.”

My mom was 61 years old. She had been struggling for years with mysterious symptoms that no doctor could explain.

……

But a year ago, my family experienced a miracle.

In January 2023, my mom went into the hospital to have a small surgical procedure, meant to patch a leak of spinal fluid. Instead, it cured her of all her symptoms. “

“We later discovered that, a year before Mom had her procedure, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center had published a newsletter subtitled “Physicians Treating Dementia Should Look for Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak—A Treatable Cause of an Otherwise Incurable Condition.” The study had examined 21 patients who presented with headaches, significant fatigue, and a diagnosis of Chiari and dementia; nine of them were found to have a leak, and repairing it had entirely cured their symptoms.”

The newsletter referenced:

New Research Detects Potential Hidden Cause of Dementia

A new Cedars-Sinai study suggests that some patients diagnosed with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)—an incurable condition that robs patients of the ability to control their behavior and cope with daily living—may instead have a cerebrospinal fluid leak, which is often treatable.

In this study, investigators used this imaging technique on 21 patients with brain sagging and symptoms of bvFTD, and they discovered CSF-venous fistulas in nine of those patients. All nine patients had their fistulas surgically closed, and their brain sagging and accompanying symptoms were completely reversed.

21 isn’t a huge number, but 9 patients with an identifiable specific issue, who ALL experienced complete reversal of the symptoms after the procedure….well THAT feels pretty damn significant. I hope that the medical systems are watching.


Links 10/25/24

Nebraska teen allegedly derailed trains just to get ‘insane’ footage for YouTube

Profits at the German auto giant Mercedes plunged on Friday as sales of its slick new range of electric vehicles (EVs) went into freefall. Porsche abandoned its sales targets for battery-powered cars amid waning demand from customers. Ford is losing nearly $50,000 (£39,000) on every EV it sells, while Tesla’s profits dropped 45pc

Visualizing the Tax Burden of Every U.S. State

X thread with links: Social psychologists long ago proved something utterly terrifying People will disregard WHAT THEY SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES to conform to what other people say

We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media to look for this material, and then follow up with arrests

Indiana is intercepting packages at a FedEx shipping hub, running K-9s over them, and forfeiting any cash found w/o saying a specific crime that was violated.

X thread with links: When I went to law school, I knew a law degree would be helpful no matter what I chose to do in life. Never did I imagine that I would use my skills & training to “prove” my husband’s innocence to federal prosecutors

Vermont Supreme Court rules that family cannot sue their child’s school district after their 6-year-old was given a COVID-19 mRNA injection without their consent

X thread with links: The Biden admin spent almost a billion dollars to push falsehoods about covid vaccines, boosters, and masks on the American people

X thread with links: I was sure that this was some red-tribe red-meat bullshit, so I did my normal thing of looking for evidence to disprove it … and, nope, this is 100% real

I thought we were told over and over again that voting machine are never connected to the internet

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American

A doctor died at a Disney Springs restaurant from an allergic reaction after being assured the meal was allergen-free The widower then sued Disney is now trying to dismiss the suit — arguing he agreed to arbitrate all disputes when signing up for a Disney+ free trial years earlier

I’m confused…if these items are so super duper dangerous then why are they just sitting out there on this table with a buncha people casually standing around (H/T for quote)

FDA approves first-of-its-kind nasal spray for allergic reaction emergencies

New Auntie Anne’s perfume is childhood nostalgia in a bottle

Forensic science cracks the ‘unsolvable’ case of a World War I soldier’s identity, enabling his re-burial

Playing Mario 64 reverses aging in the brain.