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Premature infants are prone to a host of developmental problems later in life

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Superb informative missive. Thank you.

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I'm not clear. Is Ms. Block pissed at Maryland for going after frat boys and other universities for not shooting pro-Palestinian protesters? Is there some link that's not obvious, other than U of Maryland being a university and the other universities being universities too? What has one to do with the other?

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"Doctors are getting very good at saving very premature babies. In the hospitals with the most experience resuscitating those babies, children born at just 22 weeks now have a 67 percent survival rate. But many hospitals don’t try to save babies born that soon, and parents aren’t made aware of the potentially lifesaving care sometimes available just a few miles away."

Hmmm...an average 22 week fetus isn't very well developed. Around 1980 or so, a study was published about the incidence of what's called a germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH). This is a hemorrhage that happens inside the developing brain of a baby. It is very highly correlated with low weight. At 22 weeks, the average fetus weighs less than half a kilogram, or about a pound. The Colorado study showed that in babies weighing less than 1.4 kilograms--almost three times the 22 week weight--the incidence of GMH was 44% ! While it won't be 100% even in very low weight infants, it's going to be a lot higher than 44%.

So, what does this do to a baby's brain? Nothing good. If the bleeding is large enough, the baby dies. If it's small, it only damages some brain tissue, but the smaller the baby (weight wise--which correlates with development), the higher the likelihood of a "bad baby," i.e., one that is going to lead quite a difficult life.

It would be interesting to see how well 22 week gestated babies do as they grow and develop.

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Data Data everywhere & as the late Steve Jobs said: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

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Look into the these two individuals : Mihail C. Roco & William Sims Bainbridge start from now (links below)

Then work backwards until you get to 2002.

BELOW this list of Eleven consortiums. I had it saved in a note dated : March 2023

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The NIH has recently established a highly interactive consortium of 11 research groups on

Enhancing Development of Genome-wide Association Methods ➡️(ENDGAME) ⬅️

to advance the utility of genome-wide association studies.

The consortium (funded by the NHLBI, NIEHS, NCI, NHGRI, and NIGMS) brings together expertise in genetics, epidemiology, biostatistics, and bioinformatics to develop and test innovative,

NHLBI

National heart lung & blood institute

NIEHS

National institute of environmental health services

NCI

National cancer institute

↘️↘️↘️↙️

⏩️NHGRI⏪️

↗️↗️↗️↖️

National human genome research institute

NIGMS

National institute General medical science

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⬇️⬇️ June 2002 ⬇️⬇️

This was all planned & funded by the NSF.

Converging Technologies

for Improving Human Performance

NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

NSF/DOC-sponsored report

National Science Foundation

➡️ June 2002 ⬅️

Arlington, Virginia

/* in obamaarchives */

Edited by Mihail C. Roco

{ _NOW_ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Roco

}

and

William Sims Bainbridge,

{_NOW_

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sims_Bainbridge

}

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I read the article about sex selection published in Slate (which based on this and a couple other articles i speed read through is not worth the time of day) and all I can say is I’m glad I’ll be dead and gone by the time the impact of that born in hell crap is felt in our society. OMG!!!

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"New analysis by the Manhattan Institute has found evidence of 5,288 to 6,294 “gender-affirming” double mastectomies for girls under 18 between 2017 to 2023, including 50 to 179 girls who were 12.5 or younger when they had their breasts removed."

This is downright criminal.

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Wonder drugs, eh? By whose trust? The FDA's do you think? Do you at the Free Press trust them? They don't know anything about the long term effects of Ozempic. They didn't about Covid vaccines, either. A good friend of mine, at age 58, with no history of it in his family---and no risk factors for it in his body, had a very rare stroke, a blood clot on the left side of his brain. But I suppose, you know, as long as he didn't get covid....Beware any doctor who tells you that a very expensive drug--is miraculous. Beware.

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Be aware and Beware Mark, there are some people amongst us, who are just batshit mad and completely deranged with and keeping the power. The Democrats strike me as those at moment who have become the party of “EVIL” we have to vote them out.

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Polgreen may be stretching the definition of “consensus” as part of an “expert” fallacy. It is not clear that the evidence is settled or that there is an overwhelming consensus of experts.

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It's ironic that we have some in society who see producing females as a "social good," but don't believe we should protect females from men in sports, locker rooms, & prisons. Nor do we protect them from violent migrant crime or from being sexually trafficked. It's a wonder we can even identify and commit to what a female is for purposes of IVF.

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Well written Kim spot on!

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Agreed. And then they (by "they" i mean "them") encourage these girls to trans into being sort of male. If testosterone is so BAD, why encourage teenage girls to start taking it?

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Remember the clamor over Trump's IRS returns? That went on for a long time. There is no obligation for a presidential candidate to release their tax returns, but nevertheless the Democrats used Congress and the Ways and Means committee to compel Trump to turn over the returns. Trump fought it in the courts and lost, so the committee obtained the returns.

The results were bupkis. All of this wrangling over the returns was memory holed by the media and it was if it never happened.

Same thing for the Russiagate hoax. It went on for a long time and way past the time the FBI knew it was bogus. When the facts were revealed the next day msnbccnnabcbbc had nothing to say. It was as if it never happened

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Ten entire years we've been told "we've got Trump this time on all his many many crimes" and in the end they had to make up the crimes to give him 34 felonies.

And Democrat voters don't have a problem with it. Don't have a problem with the lies, the hate mongering, the fact that they couldn't get a real crime to stick on Trump, the boatload of criminal activity among the Bidens, none of it. They don't mind being lied to as long as it's about the villain Trump.

They have no integrity left.

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And then to have the chutzpah telling us Kamala (Momela) is ahead in the polls, it beggars belief at times. Great post.

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Zero integrity left.

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We need to keep reminding Americans everyday how crap the Biden/Harris is and has been for us. We cannot vote them in again make sure they out come 6th November🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Vote for Trump even if you can't stand the man. I like RFK Jr too although he does have some drawbacks and Trump was not my favorite Republicans primary candidate, he was #4.

At least the Republicans actually had a real primary. Look how the Democrat's primaries turned out.

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And all the lies they keep on telling through the Propaganda arms of CNN, MSNBC etc.The grift on Sleepy Joe Biden, how bright he was until the debate. The Russian Collusion and the Christopher Steele dossier and now the biggest crap of all, Kamala is ahead in the poles God you can’t make this shit up!

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Regarding Lydia Polgreen's over the top NYT article - “The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids” - in which she trashes the Cass Report and promotes GAC - be sure to read the comments from the New York Times readers. They are overwhelmingly critical of GAC and Ms Polgreen’s article. The NYT has become too WOKE (sorry or the appropriation from the Old English) even for their readers on issues of gender and race.

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There’s no evidence that it was “the Russians” that pilfered the emails from HRC’s campaign. That’s hearsay.

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Was that one where Podesta fell for a phishing scam?

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I believe that was one of the claims, but the actuality has never been definitively established. It seems More likely that most of the information was smuggled out on a usb zip drive, and the phishing was a misdirect or a separate thing. We’ll probably never know the truth.

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Well, talk about timely! Matt Taibbi is holding a live Twitter Spaces on this very hack in 30 minutes, because documents recently produced via FOIA requests indicate the story "that a private company called Crowdstrike determined Russia was responsible for a hack of the DNC - may not be true." Gentlepersons, I am shocked! Here's the link:

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/twitter-spaces-tonight-at-630-et?r=j9dkq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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It was war propaganda. Same reason they always associated Putin and Trump, most notably with the Russiagate lies.

The goal was to tie hatred of Trump to hatred of Putin and use that to garner support for the most corrupt war the USA has ever been involved with - so Biden could pump hundreds of billions to his corrupt buddies in Ukraine and Russia.

Oliver Wiseman has no capacity to decipher left wing authoritarian propaganda. He believes all of it. You'll notice he's not saying a single word about the President Parkinsons now that the campaign has shifted to the next fake president.

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Oliver's statement as a fact that it was "the Russians" who hacked HRC, despite all the credible evidence calling that conclusion into question, was startling - until I considered the source.

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I thought the opinion at time was an independent hacker performed the deed., whether Russians or the Russian government was involved was not known. Oliver needs to get his facts straight if he cares about his credibility

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💯

It’s quite “Rich” isn’t it?

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Slate is a woke blight on society.

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>>> “Toxic masculinity,” apparently. “For many, going through all the trouble to ensure a girl feels like a social good.”

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An all-out war on half the population.

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This is called "sexism" - would be nice if TFP would start using the word in relation to misandry.

Remember when Americans were horrified that the Chinese would abort their girls to get a boy? Horrible! We Americans know the girls are more valuable.

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If you are a young man excess XX in the population is a good thing

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Assuming your only interest is in getting laid.

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>>> Emails obtained under the FOIA appear to show close coordination between the U.S. government, academia, and social media platforms in their approach to disinformation in the 2020 election. An “FOIA library,” which includes correspondence from University of Washington and Stanford personnel, “illustrate the synergies between the ‘anti-disinformation’ industry and the national security state,” writes James Rushmore.

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It was explicitly anti-Trump. They went out of their way to silence things like the Hunter Biden laptop story which turned out to be true not "disinformation."

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What's amazing to me is that the anti-Trump media bias was happening with "coordination" (seemed more like direction) from within the Trump admin. The Deep State is real. Entrenched bureaucrats and lackeys who switch jobs with each other to/from the private sector.

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