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BlueSky Librarian, 79-year-old Grandma of 9, 17-8, sister of 5 younger brothers, mom of 4 daughters, Lifelong Feminist. Links to substack, NYT, Guardian, and magazines behind paywalls.
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...by design.
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The insouciance with which they talk about something that would bring about the destruction of NATO is also breathtaking
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5/ off but most people don't realize it yet. It's like Bobby Kennedy and Elon and Trump just drove a big semi full of fertilizer Tim McVeigh-style up in front of the national labs and detonated it. The prospect of more life saving cures and treatments already got much bleaker. If you think you ...
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7/ because of a mix of difficult to fully comprehend pathological motives tied to political extremism, belief that AI will supplant medical research & that destroying the current research world will add to their wealth and political power and cement their hold over what was the American republic.
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8/ It will take a determined, smart, relentless and implacable counterattack to begin to undo the damage.
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6/ or a loved one might one day get one of these cancers, or Alzheimers, or various other dread diseases 10, 20, 30 years from now your chances have already dimmed because of what's happened just in the last two months. And now they've decided to up the pace and make it far worse ...
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4/ it could be real. But it is real. And it's happened so quickly, most of the country doesn't know it yet. Indeed, I got some key indications over the weekend that even people in the biomedical research world outside of NIH don't get yet what's happened. So the bomb has gone ...
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3/ to these and other diseases potential cures are now less likely to be there when you need them. You have to ask: what is the goal when you pull the plug on the whole ecosystem of cancer cure research? What's the agenda? The answers are so dark and twisted most people struggle to believe ...
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2/ On purpose. For many cancers, research has been put back years or decades. Alzheimers treatment and cure research similar story. If you know people who are survivors of these diseases and fear recurrence or have genetic dispositions or are just like everyone else and know they are liable ...