Actually it was started by a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, who was paid nearly a half million pounds by a lawyer fishing for a lawsuit against a vaccine maker who gave him a dozen files, 8 of which had autism.

From this, Wakefield decided to make his case that vaccines caused autism using more fraud and Hollywood influencers to create a scare.

He was eventually discredited, lost his license to practice, and moved to Texas to become central to the wellness movement. As a result Texas has had some 3/4 million measles cases and two deaths in otherwise healthy children.

I'm not saying it's not a conspiracy backed by money. Money is definitely a motive. But if there really is a Plandemic, promoting medical mistrust is the first step.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/ne...

Testosterone replacement is gender affirming treatment.

It is well documented that Lance required his teammates to dope in order to keep their jobs https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

No one had the systematic organization to cheat as the one Lance put together.

Lance did pay the central doping doctors so they wouldn't juice his competitors with the top shelf stuff. He bought his strongest competitors and paid them to work for him as domestiques, he paid off doctors and officials to avoid testing positive, and he even committed insurance fraud to pay the bills.

I think it's hard to say he possessed any natural talent beyond grifting.

Meta Platforms experienced its first-ever decline in daily active users in Q1 2026, with the user base for its "family of apps" (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger) dropping by 20 million users.

Their AI must suck if they can't even produce enough bot users to cover the human exodus. To be fair, it is a lot of bots.

To paraphrase Jaws, They're gonna need a bigger data center!

That's the Plandemic plan: spread medical mistrust then release the killer virus after boy cries wolf!

Interesting thing ebola, hantvirus, and Zika have in common is remaining viable and transmissible in semen for years after the patient is otherwise cured and healthy. Testy little beasts.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

In my day, we not only had to be good at fake moustaches, but also deep voices, and cramming three kids balanced one on top of the other just to get in an adult movie.

But the really hard part was getting anyone to do it again after seeing the X rated movie Andy Warhol's Bad and discovering it was only X rated due to the violence. When that baby hit the sidewalk, my confederates were running screaming from the theater to their mommies.

Game over. Interesting that they both grew up to become beauticians. Go figure.

It might be smarter to ban parents from social media so they aren't parenting while distracted.

Sometimes it was. This has been going on since the 80's. Often, the farmers just were unable to prove it because of cost, understanding , and other factors.

Look at the cases where organic farmers lose certification because their field is pollinated by a neighbour's round up ready crop.

You can't say superweeds are stealing proprietary genetics, they just are blowin' in the wind.

Indeed. Good catch! Thanks. I shouldn't type on my phone while biking in traffic. :-)

Meant to say sufficient in animals.

I like the link at the bottom of his Wikipedia entry, List of people granted executive clemency in the second Trump presidency

That's not entirely true.
Remington paid out for Sandy Hook.

My heart goes out to the 1/3 of parents whose babies refuse the screen.

EPA says it is safe, IF used as directed. DDT was similarly found to be safe IF used as directed. And DDT has been a godsend in stopping malaria. But most people don't use as directed and the results have been a disaster.

IARC, part of WHO, classify it as Group 2a, probably carcinogenic, citing limited evidence in humans but sufficient evidence in humans.

The issue isn't just with the toxicity of glyphosate, but the toxicity of Monsanto who has a huge legal team ready to sue anyone in their way.

Look at all the farmers who've lost their farms due to lawsuits due to supposedly using illegal 'roundup ready corn' because their harvest contained some proprietary genetics. Eventually it was established the genetics was introduced by pollen from other farms using the product legally. Even weeds were using the genetics illegally.

Maybe if it was used judiciously, and only in monitored ag applications, it would be safe. But do you trust the neighborhoods of 'Tim the Toolguys' slopping it on their lawns with a more is better attitude in order to have the best lawn on the block?

From my perspective, I think it's way overused. IMHO, it's dangerous to walk barefoot or even sit on a grass lawn.

I'm half tempted to buy a bag of roundup ready corn to protest the chemical's overuse by parks and rec after seeing it be sprayed recklessly on weeds in a water causeway. But then I figure it would only lead to more roundup used and the groundskeepers aren't using PPE so they will likely become advocates against its use soon enough once the NHL sets in.