Health/Medical

Are Booster Shots for Kids Safe and Effective?

A CDC study in February 2022 concluded that 75.2 percent of children under age 11 already have natural immunity to COVID 19. Marty Makary MD, MPH -- a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine -- wrote in Newsweek ("Why America Doesn't Trust the CDC," 10 June 2022): "Two weeks ago, with no outcomes data on COVID-19 booster shots for 5-to-11-year-olds, the [CDC] vigorously recommended the booster for all 24 million American children in that age group." The CDC cited a small study of 140 children that a Pfizer spokesperson said did not determine the efficacy of the booster.

Pawns with Lawns

The single most irrigated crop in the United States is (drum roll, please) lawn. Yep, 40 million acres of lawn exist across the Land of Denial — and Americans collectively spend about $40 billion on seed, sod, and chemicals each year. And then there’s all that water. Lawns in America require nearly 9 billion gallons […]
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Exorbitant Military Spending Sacrifices Public Well-being

President Dwight Eisenhower gave his first major presidential speech, The Cross of Iron, on April 16, 1953. He laid out several important precepts guiding US conduct in world affairs as well pointing out the cost of military spending in very concrete terms. Eisenhower stated: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired […]

Covid Deaths in the US (over 1 million) and China (about 5000)

In May and June of 2022 two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid and were widely noted in the press, one in the US and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries and their approach to combatting Covid-19. The first milestone was passed on May 12 when the […]
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For kids in schools, PCBs are more common and more dangerous than guns

CB is short for polychlorinated biphenyls — a group of manmade pollutants that were banned by the U.S. Congress in 1979. Despite this ban, the many PCBs that were used in the construction of school buildings from the 1930s to the 1970s are still exposing kids to a dangerous threat. PCBs are listed as a possible […]

Pouring Poison and Planting Seeds of Dependency 

Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 1950s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the sky, pouring pesticides onto Indian soil. The blurb below the image includes the following: Science helps build a new India – India has developed bold new plans to build its economy and […]
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The entire culture needs to be recycled

Recently, as I neared my local C-Town supermarket, I saw a middle-aged man standing near a recycling redemption machine. In front of him were several massive clear garbage bags teeming full of the cans and bottles he had collected. The man looked bloated, exhausted, defeated — his skin grayish as he went through the motions […]
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