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.


Links 10/24/24

We have been quarantined by the CDC. Nobody can exit the plane until the CDC lets us off. Because of a tummy ache.

A Harvard study from 2020 found wind turbines will cause more warming in Minnesota than emissions reductions would avert.

Your LED Light Bulbs Aren’t Safe From Net Zero

Hell, I’m not even 50 yet, and I remember this!

Taxpayers have told school administrators they don’t want to pay for electric buses, making it seemingly impossible for districts to meet the legally required transition

Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America

Got Cameras on Your Car? Hire a Remote Driver to Get Home From the Bar

(X thread video) We have built safe mobility offices in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica to reach people where they are so they don’t have to take the perilous journey

2015-The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’

Big new annual report on kids shows “decades of lost progress” due learning loss during – and even after – Covid.

X thread: Cuomo recently claimed his mask orders were only voluntary recommendations. Now he’s saying nursing homes were just “confused” by the “must admit” order for Covid+ patients, and they didn’t have to accept sick patients?

Kansas Attorney General sues Pfizer for “misleading Kansans on COVID vaccine.”

On Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, and Reasonable Doubt

Nicotine has been found to have potential benefits in preventing Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Studies on animals suggest that nicotine can protect against neuronal degeneration, improve motor abilities, and enhance cognitive performance

Nicotine effects on adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

What City Kids Learn on My Farm

The results show, that neutered males from both breed clades more frequently displayed aggression toward humans than intact males

Should women in their 40’s be screened for breast cancer?

Is Delaying Menopause the Key to Longevity?

What If the Most Notorious Murder of a Gay Man Wasn’t a Hate Crime?

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned. AG called the prison warden and told him not to release prisoner after judge ordered release. Convicted solely on confession during interrogation while she was heavily sedated.

Autism can be reversed, scientists discover

Not a B movie: Sharks are ingesting cocaine in the ocean, scientists find