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| 12:17a |
Scientific caution avoids side effects
Scientists were reluctant to try albicidin as a medical antibiotic
because they could not predict what bad side effects it might have.
That problem somehow did not prevent the discovery, testing and
adoption of penicillin. Given the urgent need for new antibiotics,
perhaps medicine has become hypercautious.
If they test albicidin with due care but not hypercaution, they can
find out whether it safe for humans, then use it for treatment if it
is safe. They might find a great new antibiotic quickly, or they
might find it is unusable. This is worth a try, isn't it?
I suspect something nastier underlies the hypercaution: perhaps pharma
companies are not interested in using albicidin because they cannot
patent it. If they develop "better" versions, they will patent those
and make a lot more money, at a byproduct making them too expensive in
most of the world. I suppose they don't want those expensive products
to have to compete with generic albicidin.
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| 12:17a |
Deadly immigration policy
The US "remain in Mexico"
policy has brought migrants to a mass grave
in Tapachula,
at the southern end of Mexico,
one of the cities where Mexico forces them to go and stay.
The cemetery workers don't know how many bodies are buried there
without identification.
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| 12:32a |
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| 12:32a |
Pharmacy owners financial threat
Republican-dominated states are threatening to
sue pharmacy chains
claiming that mailing abortion drugs to people in those states would be a crime
under those states' laws. This is an attempt
to intimidate them into never trying to do so.
The US government claims that those threats are invalid, and
eventually a court will decide. But the Republicans can hope by this
threat to cause lasting life difficulties for tens of thousands of
women, even if they later lose the lawsuit.
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| 12:47a |
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| 12:47a |
Pharmacy owners' financial threat
Republican-dominated states are threatening to
sue pharmacy chains
claiming that mailing abortion drugs to people in those states would be a crime
under those states' laws. This is an attempt
to intimidate them into never trying to do so.
The US government claims that those threats are invalid, and
eventually a court will decide. But the Republicans can hope by this
threat to cause lasting life difficulties for tens of thousands of
women, even if they later lose the lawsuit.
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| 5:32a |
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| 5:32a |
Protest against Shell
Greenpeace activists protested outside Shell's headquarters, demanding
that the company take responsibility for the damage that fossil-fueled
global heating is causing.
Shell's profits last year were twice the estimated cost to repair
the damage caused by the enormous flood in Pakistan,
which was caused by global heating.
The fashion of focusing on which people are suffering how much _just
now_ from global heating is a distraction. Every region is likely to
face enormous suffering within a few decades. We need unite to put
an end to global heating. Then, when things are stable and emissions
are much reduced, we can worry about ending poverty world-wide.
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| 5:32a |
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| 5:32a |
Thugs misrepresenting the truth
The video of thugs attacking Tyre Nichols shows that their reports
misrepresented the truth.
It is not at all unusual for official thugs to cover up the truth of
their crimes, even going so far as to lie on the witness stand.
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| 5:32a |
UK discrimination for attending state schools
Calling for the UK to ban work discrimination against workers for
having attended state schools ("public schools", as we call them in the US).
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| 5:32a |
MDMA and psilocybin
*Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for
treatment-resistant mental illnesses.*
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| 5:32a |
Traffic stops
The history of the "traffic stop" in the US, and how it inevitably
became a vehicle for racism and violence.
The article recommends that traffic enforcement be done by unarmed
personnel.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
Most often they give important information about racism or the fight
against racism.
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| 5:32a |
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| 5:32a |
Spy balloon
*Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying
over US.*
- If it can't get any information that China's satellites cannot get,
why did China bother to send it? I suspect it is doing something useful
against the US.
- I wonder if there is any way to snag that balloon and bring it
down to the ground, so as to study it. That would be better in two
ways than shooting it and destroying it.
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| 5:32a |
Memphis thugs trained by Israel
Memphis thugs took training from Israeli thugs,
who are likely to have taught how to apply the practices they apply
to Palestinians.
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| 5:32a |
Guantanamo prison freed
The US has freed a "high-value" prisoner from Guantanamo prison,
someone who was tortured by the CIA. He plead guilty to crimes and got
a 10-year sentence that has now ended, and he has been released to
Belize.
This overcome one obstacle that stood in the way of closing the prison,
but it still won't be easy.
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| 5:32a |
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| 5:32a |
Democrat proposal to prohibit "latinx"
Democratic Connecticut legislators propose to prohibit the pseudo-word
"Latinx" in state publications, saying that most Latins find it offensive.
I too find it offensive -- because it is an excrescence on the English
language and/or the Spanish language. It does not fit the
pronunciation rules of either language. Basically, the word "Latinx"
stinx.
In English, let's use the noun "Latin" (plural, "Latins"). In
Spanish, I recommend "latini", which uses "-I" as the gender-neutral
suffix. The suffix "-i" is better
because it causes fewer ambiguities than "-e". For instance, "-i"
avoids creating a painful ambiguity for "le".
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| 5:32a |
Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured
*Former Russian soldier reveals he witnessed torture of Ukrainian prisoners of
war.*
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| 3:47p |
Unionization, REI employees
Employees at some
REI stores have overcome union-busting
to unionize.
REI is a cooperative, but it is a customed-owned cooperative,
not a worker-owned cooperative. So it can easily mistreat workers.
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