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New Class of ‘Gene Silencing’ Medicine Reverses Disease

Written by James Gallagher

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Image caption Sue Burrell no longer has severe bouts of pain.

Doctors have used a new type of medicine called “gene silencing” to reverse a disease that leaves people in crippling pain.

The condition, acute intermittent porphyria, also causes paralysis and is fatal in some cases. The novel approach fine-tunes the genetic instructions locked in our DNA.

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‘I was the only girl studying electronics’

Written by Judith Burns

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Image caption Khadijah Ismail’s unusual A-level choice led to a top apprenticeship

As a little girl Khadijah Ismail would spend hours watching aeroplanes through the window of the attic bedroom she shared with her sister near Manchester Airport, England.

She even wrote the airport a letter “on fancy paper and everything”, giving her address and asking them to send more planes past her house.

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Now Even Germans Are Becoming Climate Skeptics

Written by Pierre Gosselin

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German climate skepticism may have awakened, and ironically it may in large part be an unintended consequence of the “Greta demonstrations.”

Germans may be finally getting fed up with the hysteria that has emptied out schools and turned into an ambush on their industrial jobs.

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Three-minute Video Exposes CO2 Climate Baloney

Written by John O'Sullivan

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This helpful 3-minute Australian video puts carbon dioxide and climate change in perspective. You get the whole message in the first 30 seconds.

Using the visual aid of a pile of rice beside a grain of rice to demonstrate how little CO2 humans add to the atmosphere, Malcolm Roberts explains the utter absurdity of claims humans are dangerously altering the climate.

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Humans Do Not Control Atmospheric CO2

Written by Joseph E Postma

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I don’t know why no one ever references the data, but a global experiment was recently performed to test whether or not human emission of CO2 from the use of hydrocarbon energy was the cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

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Breaking: U.S. Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’

Written by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

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Breaking news: Former U.S. intelligence officers cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key “assessment” that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails. Newly-released memo published in full below.

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The Julian Assange Arrest: An Important Signal

Written by Matt Agorist

On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.

Moments later, the Department of Justice released a statement charging Assange with computer hacking “conspiracy” for allegedly working with US Army soldier at the time, Chelsea Manning.

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‘First Black Hole Image’ Claim Challenged

Written by John O'Sullivan

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As the world’s press rush to share news of the world’s ‘First Black Hole Image‘ some skeptics are challenging the claim.

Australian researcher, Stephen J Crothers has issued a dissenting open letter to the author of the original assertion, Dear Sabine Hossenfelder. The open letter is posted below in full and we invite readers to draw their own conclusions:

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Some Thoughts on Evolution

Written by Richard Cronin

Obviously, the natural selection process would favor the most adaptable, most intelligent, and most symbiotic species. Evolution would tend to favor these characteristics.  For example, we love and care for dogs and they would sacrifice their lives for us.

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Duke University Pays US$113 million to Settle Academic Fraud Case

Written by Arturo Casadevall

Last week, Duke University announced it would pay the US government US$112.5 million to settle claims that fraudulent data were used in dozens of research-grant applications.

This is a communal punishment for an institution where the overwhelming majority of scientists are honest, hard-working individuals seeking knowledge for the good of humanity.

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