Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong
The three of us have studied forest fungi for our whole careers, and even we were surprised by some of the more extraordinary claims surfacing in the media about the wood-wide web. Thinking
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Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt
Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?
Spoiler alert: yes. Though it’s not easy!
Read more...Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine
The ranks of Ukraine and US hegemony believers are starting to thin. But not soon enough.
Read more...The Wars We Are Discouraged From Seeing
How the media anesthetizes the American pulblic to our role in wars and their costs.
Read more...Ukraine: Bleeding Out
A plea to analysts and commentators with access to information: when Ukraine runs out of materiel will be decisive.
Read more...Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.
Read more...‘Adversarial Actors, Home and Abroad’
Which non-foreign adversarial types do elites have in mind when they promote domestic censorship and news blockades?
Read more...Some US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine
While it is now acceptable to suggest negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, that’s still a long way from a needed consensus.
Read more...Advertiser Block Lists as a Threat to Media Integrity
Advertiser conventional wisdom about ad placement is suboptimal for them and bad for publishers.
Read more...Rochelle Walensky: Not With a Bang but a Puddle of Tears
We had low expecations for Rochelle Walensky and she underperformed. A partial catalogue of the damage she did.
Read more...KLG: When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict
Who are these scientists and what are their motivations? The default position of the powers-that-be has been to view scientists as disinterested seekers of the truth of the natural world. However, scientists and their patrons who are “science adjacent” can be anything but disinterested.
Read more...Why Regulators Can’t Curb Social Media Hype for Weight Loss Drugs
Weight loss is a fixation as people on average get fatter. Some diabetes drugs presecribed off-label promise help…if you keep taking them.
Read more...Philip Zelikow and the Covid Crisis Group’s “Lessons from a Covid War”: A Pre-Review
It may be that a book is as close as we will come to a Truth and Reconcilation Commission on the Covid pandemic. Will that be enough?
Read more...Berenson: Moderna Falsely Said No Serious Adverse Vaccine Effects in Phase 2 Trial; Their Own Data Says Otherwise
Finally a smoking gun on Covid vaccine injuries? Alex Berenson may have found one in Moderna’s own data.
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