BlogHide Resteemschirieleison (52)in liberty • 6 days agoWhat do you think of the new Louisiana law that forces public schools to post the Ten Commandments?Like the law the state legislature passed last year requiring third party age verification to access pornographic websites this one isn’t enforceable. Act 440 isn’t enforceable because of the…chirieleison (52)in economics • 10 days agoWhat is the lowest possible hourly rate that someone would be willing to work for if there was no minimum wage law?Apart from local wage floors that don’t actually cover the full COLA that includes rent for a single worker without having to rely on roommates, the highest return a worker could bargain for their…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 13 days agoWhat exactly caused the "dotcom bubble burst", and why was it so fatal?Like any other speculative frenzy the hype over the anticipated value of hundreds of new internet startups among traders exceeded its actual value among the target customer base of the companies…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 13 days agoAre birth rate declines really bad problems?For economic systems that depend on indefinite growth to remain solvent it is an existential crisis over the long run and not just for capitalism. Social security has to have more working age adults…chirieleison (52)in science • 14 days agoAstraMengele Paid UK Celebrity TV DoctorsWhen The Media Says "Experts" They Mean Paid Corporate Shills (Part 31) Although I didn’t pay much attention to this particular third rate short lived partial immunization, since it never received…chirieleison (52)in science • 14 days agoBoth Paxlovid and Molnupiravir Failed in RECOVERY trialsThe Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 therapy (RECOVERY) has tested antivirals for over 50,000 hospitalized COVID19 patients over the past four years at several different trial sites. In their most…chirieleison (52)in science • 15 days agoWhy do homosexual men contract HIV/AIDS more often?Three main reasons: 1) there are fewer of them (no citation needed) 2) they tend to have more sexual partners than heterosexuals for shorter periods of time 3) male on male sodomy or just sodomy in…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 15 days agoHospital Study Finds Evidence of Antibody Dependent EnhancementYou can read the study that finds evidence of antibody dependent enhancement (of disease) in Frontiers journal. I’ve been compiling such evidence in this answer: What Makes the ModRNA COVID19…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 16 days agoSloppy and Cohort Biased WHO funded study finds annual VE of 15%The test negative case control study conducted in several Eastern European countries (n = 5,165) was missing data on previous infections for nearly half of participants and only enrolled patients…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 17 days agoRare Events Doesn’t Mean What it Use ToRisk of Myocarditis and other AESI > Risk of COVID Hospitalizations (Part 21) A multi-Country European Cohort Event Monitoring Study (CEM) (n = 29,837) found that almost three-quarters of vaxxed…chirieleison (52)in economics • 17 days agoThe Failure of Public Housing (Part 4)The reason public housing projects fail is that governments or more readily public-private partnerships in the U.S. not only don't produce nearly enough units to meet the housing demand of residents…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 18 days agoThe Water is Poisoned (Part 2)The first U.S. based Cohort Study of the effect of Prenatal Fluoride Exposure on child neurobehavior (n = 229), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that Los Angeles…chirieleison (52)in science • 18 days agoIs it valid that some people think that the COVID-19 vaccines are worthless because of the need for a booster shots, and the need to get tested if exposed to someone with COVID-19, the fact that some fully vaccinated people got infected?Let's look at what the actual Package Insert for this product says it’s supposed to do as that contains the officially approved claims about the product. The first official claim is that it…chirieleison (52)in science • 18 days agoHow effective are the current COVID-19 vaccines against milder infections caused by XBB variants, and how will the new vaccine formula change that?I’m assuming this question is from last year since the XBB variants are no longer in circulation making the booster shot formulate for them particularly useless as the viral spike protein has…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • 18 days agoDutch Scientists Made Avian Flu Aerosol-TransmissibleI’m not claiming that the current H5N1 strain in the U.S. was genetically engineered to be easily transmissible between humans and so far it doesn’t appear to have been with only three cases in two…chirieleison (52)in economics • 29 days agoIs it beneficial for governments to subsidize electric car purchases? Are electric cars primarily beneficial for individuals or for companies such as Tesla?It is beneficial mostly to high income homeowners who have the means to afford the EV itself as well as the cost and legal right of installing a charger for their EV. This is especially true after…chirieleison (52)in liberty • last monthQualified Immunity Protects Incompetence, Negligence and MaliceOn March 27, 2019, a SWAT team no-knock raided a house not listed on their search warrant breaking the windows, shattering glass on sleeping children, and breaking down the front door to assault a…chirieleison (52)in economics • last monthWe're always told that human resources are a company’s most expensive asset and I don't doubt that. With that said, if we're in an inflationary environment, then why don't wages ever "inflate"?Wages do inflate. However, whenever incomes rise so do housing prices and rents and in the best case scenario they rise in the same proportion to the income increases over the long run. During the…chirieleison (52)in hive-110786 • last monthHow Big Pharma Pays Practitioners to Prescribe Higher Cost TreatmentsWhen The Media Says "Experts" They Mean Paid Corporate Shills (Part 30) Paxlovid’s recent flop in a RCT, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that it reduced the median…chirieleison (52)in history • last monthWhy did the United States government abandon its principles of serving the American people by putting corporations first?Let’s be honest, the U.S. has always served the interests of the wealthy elites and the original 13 colonies that became the U.S. were settled by corporations so it never abandoned any founding…
