NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead | Just The News

NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead | Just The News:

• Expert warned agency as much as 87.5 percent of biomedical research was wasteful.

"In a steamy summer day inside the lecture auditorium of the storied National Institutes of Health headquarters, Dr. Michael Bracken delivered a stark message to an audience that dedicated its life, and owed its living, to medical research.

As much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient, the respected Yale University epidemiologist declared in a sobering assessment for a federal research agency that spends about $40 billion a year on medical studies.

...Nearly four years later, Bracken’s sweeping indictment about the financial management, organization and conduct of federal medical research looms large over a series of “what if” questions about the deadly and ever-spreading COVID-19 pandemic:

• What if the research community hadn’t bet all its marbles on the next pandemic coming from a flu instead of a version of the coronavirus?
• What if NIH or other agencies had funded research into the efficacy of drugs like chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and HIV cocktails that had shown promise against coronavirus dating back to 2003?...

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Lunch video-----Climate Alarmism Kills

"One month ago, New York Governor Cuomo unveiled a $33 billion plan to stop climate change. He could have bought a lot of respirators with that money."

Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes

Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes:

Professors are now worried that the political bias they bring to the classroom will be easily recorded and exposed to the public now that their courses have been moved online due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
“The coronavirus-prompted shift to remote teaching was stressful enough for faculty members before Charlie Kirk weaponized online learning,” reported the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, noting a recent tweet by the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder calling on students to share videos of their professors’ “blatant indoctrination.”

"For those still genuinely interested in understanding the data and its limitations, I recommend Alex Berenson's Twitter feed"

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Janet Shagam jk - "For those still genuinely interested in understanding the data and its limitations, I recommend Alex Berenson's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson

He makes very cogent and objective points, cites the scientific literature on things like the availability of critical care beds, ventilators, etc. "...

Explains much.

The Top 10 Lies About President Trump’s Response to the Coronavirus

The Top 10 Lies About President Trump’s Response to the Coronavirus
"It’s troubling to see how quickly disinformation about the government’s response to the coronavirus has spread. 
Democrats and the mainstream media have willingly spread false information in the hopes of damaging Trump politically before the election in November. 
Many of these lies were quickly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped the false information from being repeated over and over.  
The left hopes these lies will continue to spread, but so far it doesn’t seem to be working since Trump’s approval numbers for his handling of the pandemic have gone up. 
But that doesn’t mean the left will give up their disinformation campaign. 
To help set the record straight, I’ve compiled the top ten lies that have been spread about Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. 
There are certainly plenty more, and you are welcome to mention them in the comments.

10. Trump downplayed the mortality rate of the 

...And Trump was right. He wasn’t downplaying the mortality rate, as has been suggested. As testing in the United States has increased, the mortality rate has decreased...

Yet, there were so-called experts who greatly overestimated the mortality rate in order to spark fear and panic. MSNBC contributor Dr. Joseph Fair told a panel that up to 20 percent of the U.S. population might die from the coronavirus.

...9. Trump lied when he said Google was developing a national coronavirus website

1. Trump called the coronavirus “a hoax”

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#1 This day 1961-----THE MARCELS - "BLUE MOON" (1961)

Predictions of doom!-----Coronavirus likely to kill 81K in US in next four months: study

Coronavirus likely to kill 81K in US in next four months: study
"The coronavirus is likely to kill more than 81,000 people in the US over the next four months — but the death toll could be twice that if precautions like social distancing are relaxed too soon, according to an alarming new study.
Deaths from the contagion are largely expected to peak in the second week of April — later in states where the spread is off to a slower start — and will likely still cause deaths until July, an analysis by the University of Washington School of Medicine forecasts.
The final death toll is unlikely to be less than 38,000 nationally and could be as high as 162,000 — with the team predicting the most likely number to be 81,114 deaths..."
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Racist?

LA County Sheriff's Effort to Close Gun Stores Gets Shut Down

LA County Sheriff's Effort to Close Gun Stores Gets Shut Down:

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s efforts to close all gun stores in the county have been suspended pending Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) reconsideration of what constitutes an “essential business.”
On March 24, 2020, Fox 11 reported Villanueva’s order to close gun stores.

12 Chinese-Owned Media Companies, From Dick Clark Productions to AMC (Photos)

12 Chinese-Owned Media Companies, From Dick Clark Productions to AMC (Photos)

• Firms from China have been scooping up production companies and theater chains by the billion in recent years

"A firehose of Chinese investment has been flowing into Hollywood for the last few years, as Middle Kingdom firms have scooped up production companies and theater chains by the billion.
And while D.C. has finally taken notice -- and is asking the government to take a closer look at foreign ownership of American content companies -- Chinese firms have already accumulated a substantial portfolio of media and entertainment-related companies often at healthy premiums.
And Hollywood isn’t ready to look that gift horse in the mouth..."
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AM Fruitcake

History for March 29

History for March 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Tyler (U.S.) 1790, Cy Young 1867, Eugene McCarthy 1916


Sam Walton 1918 - Founder of Walmart, Elle MacPherson 1964 - Model, Lucy Lawless 1968 - Actress ("Xena: Warrior Princess")


1979 - The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy.


1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time.
Dow close 3-27-2020

Border Authorities Find Nearly $37 Million Worth Of Meth In Shipment Of Tomatoes | The Daily Caller

Border Authorities Find Nearly $37 Million Worth Of Meth In Shipment Of Tomatoes | The Daily Caller:

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working in Laredo, Texas, discovered nearly $37 million worth of meth in a commercial shipment of tomatoes from Mexico.
CBP officers assigned to the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge — an international bridge that crosses over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas to the Mexican town of Colombia, Nuevo Le n — on Wednesday encountered a 2007 Freightliner tractor. Upon a canine and imaging system inspection, a massive discovery was made.

The way we were-----Travel aboard the S.S Normandie, from Paris to New York City, 1939.

Boob-tube-----Weekend Update: Dennis Miller & Dennis Miller on Gary Hart - SNL

Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes

Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes
"Professors are now worried that the political bias they  bring to the classroom will be easily recorded and exposed to the public now that their courses have been moved online due to the Wuhan coronavirus...

Charlie Kirk

✔@charliekirk11

To all college students who have their professors switching to online classes:
Please share any and ALL videos of blatant indoctrination with @TPUSA at
http://TPUSA.com/ContactUs 
Now is the time to document & expose the radicalism that has been infecting our schools
Transparency!

...With regards to the possibility of professors’ course material being exposed by students, Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer at Acadia University, in Canada, tweeted, “Simply put, faculty are alarmed because they are paying attention.”...

Jason Stanley@jasonintrator

 · Mar 22, 2020

Replying to @jasonintrator

The vast majority of academics are centrist liberals. Those of you who fall into this category might think you are safe. But nobody cares what you actually think, or your actual political views. You are bait to make a point. We're all in this together.

“If you are recording a lecture on anything controversial, be prepared for right wing sites to ask students to share it,” said Texas Christian University associate professor Emily Farris, reported Breitbart News on Monday..."

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Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus — ProPublica

Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus — ProPublica:

• The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained.

On Feb. 13, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out an email with what the author described as an “URGENT” call for help.

The agency was struggling with one of its most important duties: keeping track of Americans suspected of having the novel coronavirus. It had “an ongoing issue” with organizing — and sometimes flat-out losing — forms sent by local agencies about people thought to be infected. The email listed job postings for people who could track or retrieve this paperwork.

“Help needed urgently,” the CDC wrote..."
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Cotton: Mainstream Media Often Apologists for China's Communist Party

Cotton: Mainstream Media Often Apologists for China's Communist Party:

American “mainstream media” often act as apologists for China’s Communist Party, noted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), offering his remarks on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Alex Marlow while discussing the coronavirus outbreak.
Marlow invited Cotton’s assessment of America’s news media “parroting Beijing propaganda” to their audiences “as if it’s true.

Wealthy Hypocrites Are The Real Climate Deniers | Climate Dispatch

Wealthy Hypocrites Are The Real Climate Deniers | Climate Dispatch
"A recent study by the University of Leeds in the U.K. says rich people are most to blame for human-induced climate change.
As reported by the BBC, the wealthiest 10% of people in the 86 countries surveyed consume 20 times more fossil fuel energy than the poorest 10%.
The largest disparity is in the transportation sector, where the top 10% consume 187 times more fossil fuel energy than the bottom 10%.