Outrage as scientists push to create ticks that spread red-meat allergies: ‘Isn’t this biological terrorism?’
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A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after scientists claimed it was ‘morally’ justifiable to infect people with a virus making them allergic to meat.

Researchers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth from Western Michigan University published an inflammatory paper in 2025, making the case that society had a moral ‘duty’ to spread ticks that were infected with or engineered to carry alpha-gal syndrome (AGS).

AGS is a real medical condition transmitted to humans through tick bites, causing victims to suffer allergic reactions when eating red meat, including beef, pork and lamb, dairy and other products derived from mammals.

The symptoms can range from a mild case of hives or stomach pain to severe and even life-threatening cases of anaphylaxis – where blood pressure suddenly drops and the person becomes unable to breathe as their airways swell up.

Crutchfield and Hereth claimed that it was morally wrong to eat meat because of the suffering animals endure and the environmental damage that the meat industry allegedly causes.

They argued that the only reason society should not be spreading ticks to infect people with AGS today is that scientists do not currently have an easy and effective way to do it on a large scale.

However, they added: ‘But it is feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If we are right, then today we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation.’

Their main findings were that promoting genetically modified ticks to spread AGS would make the world better and help people become more ‘virtuous’ by avoiding meat.

They also claimed that this process would not violate anyone’s rights, despite proposing to intentionally infect the population with a life-threatening infection.

“It’s not a bug, it’s a future!”

Bill Gates Releases Hundreds of Millions of Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Across Colombia
Slay News | May 29, 2026 | Frank Bergman

The revelation is drawing renewed scrutiny to Gates’s other mosquito-based biological interventions around the world, with scientists warning that the long-term consequences remain largely unknown.

… and …

Google Reportedly Planning to Release TENS OF MILLIONS of Mosquitoes into Two States to ‘Stop’ Spread of Several Dangerous Diseases
The Gateway Pundit | May 30, 2026 | Cullen Linebarger

America’s most infamous tech company has a bold, potentially risky plan to supposedly reduce the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses, assuming the federal government will sign off on the proposal.

As The New York Post reported, Google wants federal approval to unleash approximately 32 MILLION mosquitoes into the states of California and Florida over the next two years.

Movies that have NOT starred me have NOT been awarded a Best Picture or Best Actor Oscar at a (nearly) 100 percent rate. The solution, I feel, suggests itself. Because of statistics.

Study Suggests Europeans Are Closely Related

SciTech Daily | May 8, 2013 | UC Davis

… thus giving the lie to anyone who called them a bunch of bastards.

A meter is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299,792,458 when expressed in the unit m/s, where the second is defined in terms of the cesium frequency ΔνCs (the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the cesium 133 atom).

And now you know how far a meter is.

A foot is the length of some king’s foot.

Oklahoma Advances Bill To Turn Dead Humans Into Actual Fertilizer
The Daily Caller | March 25, 2026 | Anthony Lafrate

The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up remains of human corpses as soil fertilizer in the state.

“Grandma Got Run Under By a John Deere . . . “

The legislation, HB 3660, seeks to include so-called “natural organic reduction” (NOR), a common euphemism for human composting, “as a form of cremation” under state law. Oklahoma’s lower chamber passed the bill 59-37, with both Republicans and Democrats voting in favor, prompting a harsh rebuke from one of the GOP lawmakers who opposes the legislation.

“… If this bill is put into law, Oklahoma joins 14 BLUE states that have legalized this process,” Republican Oklahoma State Rep. Jim Shaw wrote in a Tuesday X post. “So, instead of outlawing this type of practice outright, we’re on track to take the use of humanure as fertilizer another disgusting step forward.”

The 14 states that have legalized NOR include Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

To err is human

Aerating is humus;

To dig without dignity

Surely will doom us.

Lamented remains

The same old story:

First voluntary

Then mandatory.

Meta, YouTube found liable for woman’s debilitating social media addiction in $3M landmark trial
NY Post | 3/25/26 | Daniel Farr, Jules Corderoy

Jules Corderoy? You should see my corduroy jewels.

A Los Angeles jury found Wednesday that Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube harmed a young user … a 20-year-old woman who claimed she became dangerously obsessed with the apps at a young age because they were deliberately built to be addictive …

Snap and TikTok were also defendants ​in the first-of-its-kind trial; however, both settled with the plaintiff before it began.

… she started using social media apps at just 6 years old, and her addiction fueled depression, anxiety and severe mental health struggles, including body dysmorphia and thoughts of self-harm.

Well, yeah, especially after stumbling across IMAO.

Per SciTech Daily, “Scientists Discover Surprising Quantum Properties in Seemingly Ordinary Element,” 2/16/26:

For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich topological electronic structure that remains stable under everyday conditions, pointing to an unexpected layer of quantum behavior.

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A defining characteristic of cobalt’s nodal lines is that they are inherently spin-polarized. Because ferromagnetism breaks time-reversal symmetry, . . .

What?

the electronic states forming these lines carry a net spin orientation. By reversing the material’s magnetization direction, researchers can fully flip this spin polarization.

“In certain directions inside the crystal, the nodal lines intersect and cross the Fermi energy where electrons can move freely,” explains Sánchez-Barriga. “Near these crossings, electrons in the material behave like massless, relativistic-like particles, similar to how light behaves, and can travel extremely fast. This is an exceptional behaviour that has never been observed in any elemental ferromagnet before. Moreover, by changing the direction of the magnetic field, it is possible either to open a gap at the crossing or to fully control the spin texture of the nodal lines while retaining the unique properties of the gapless state. This is exactly the kind of switch-on-off functionality sought for practical applications.”

Well, electrons’ spin is linked to their magnetism, electrons can behave like photons, ferromagnetism breaks time-reversal symmetry, and I-Don’t-Know is on third.

News I can’t use.

What happens to the humidity in a closed room, if you allow a bucket of water to evaporate?

And what happens to the bucket under a dehumidifier if you never empty it?

Eureka!

For a diagram of my perpetual motion machine, please send cash to me @ IMAO.

(The further amounts required will be revealed after receipt of each installment.)

Scientists Find Clue to High-Temperature Superconductivity in Quantum Materials
Gadgets360 | January 20, 2026

Scientists have recently discovered the underlying hidden magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of a quantum material. The peculiar phase exists immediately above the superconducting transition. The research team employed an ultracold-atom simulator. They were able to detect a hidden antiferromagnetic order even when the material lacked electrons.

This is referred to as doping.

Oh. Which I thought was quite different.

These discoveries are reminiscent of strange occurrences found in ‘spin ice’ magnets. The basic structural units of spin ice crystals are frustrated tetrahedrons of magnetic atoms that do not form a traditional order.

My plan for a government grant: spin some ice made of ultracold atoms into a pseudogap. That should frustrate the hell out of tetrahedrons who were expecting a real gap.

Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Giant Kangaroos

SciTech Daily | 1/22/26

Summary: They didn’t think they could hop. Although they were built like freaking big kangaroos.

Other things Science has been wrong about:

1. Calling fishsticks in Britain “fish fingers.” Sexual innuendo much, scientists?

Covid-19: Super Flu or a Mild Cold?
American Thinker | 03/20/2020 | By Anthony J. Ciani

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FESTIVE FEARS Beware the new ‘super flu’ that leaves sufferers with ‘brains like porridge’ and ‘passed out on bathroom floors’
The Sun ^ | 12-14-23 | Isabel Shaw

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Flu season arriving early in US, amid warning of a fast-spreading ‘super flu’ variant
Just the News | 12-22-25 | Joseph Weber