Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Don’t mention the V-word It’s been very cold in the UK this past week. Cold enough to give you a stroke, apparently…according to “experts”. …
Kit Knightly I mean, the headline says it all really. A study published in August in the Journal of BioMedicine actually claims in its abstract: Fear mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorise people into staying unvaccinated is not just causing people to remain susceptible to viral outbreaks, but …
Just yesterday we ran a story highlighting the sudden shift in news coverage, away from Covid and towards HIV/AIDS. In brief, testing drives and government vows to “end the AIDS epidemic” accompanied news of a scary “new variant”. We won’t detail it all again, you can read it here. Our article reasoned that this was …
Our first “This Week” of 2022 doesn’t just look back over our shoulders, but forward too. What were the unfinished plotlines of 2021? What minor stories of last year could be major stories of this year? This week we review what OffG will be on the lookout for in 2022. 1. Programmable digital currency For …
Researchers announced in April that they may have figured out how eating meat causes heart disease. The nutrient choline, an essential nutrient found in meat and eggs, may feed a certain gut bacteria which produce a compound that makes blood sticky and prone to form blood clots. These blood clots can lead to heart attacks and strokes. [1]
After some counties in New York banned trans fats, heart attacks and strokes fell by more than 6%, say researchers from Yale University. With a national trans fat ban scheduled for 2018, the finding shows that deaths, strokes, and non-fatal heart attacks could plummet nationwide.
