Sunday, November 23, 2025

Links 5/11/2021

Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn

Mexico has already gone mano a mano with Monsanto before, and it came out on top. But this time it’s on a direct collision course with Big Ag and the U.S. government.

Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”

Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.

How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class

A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.

WHO, CDC Throw in the Towel on Covid Aerosol Transmission, Biden Administration Seems Oblivious

Tired: Droplets, fomites. Wired: Aerosols. Let us go forth and mitigate!

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2021

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide

For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.

Links 5/10/2021

CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases

The CDC’s latest move in contrary to the interest of sound public health and science.

Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence

Michael Hudson and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of the Poor People’s Campaign discuss Biden “reforms” and the (mis)use of religion in economic justice.

Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate

Wandering through the kelp forests (which turn out to be a carbon sequestration option).

Links 5/9/2021

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

Preventive policies, containment strategies, and early responses are more efficient, cost-effective, and manageable than combatting a full-scale infectious pandemic outbreak.

Links 5/8/2021

Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs

Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.