Facts Matter

It’s been three full years since the Ohio state government decided to detonate derailed train cars containing vinyl chloride in the village of East Palestine.
You might remember the apocalyptic imagery that came out of that explosion—it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off.

Three years later, anecdotal evidence is showing that the residents are experiencing thyroid disease, cancers, respiratory problems, neurological issues, asthma, and other problems.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now announced a $10 million research project to study the long-term health effects on the people living there.

Let’s review what took place there in 2023, what the effects appear to be now, as well as what the NIH is doing about it.

Florida Department of Health officials put out a new report revealing that their independent investigation found arsenic in 28 of 46 candy brands tested. Let’s go through their methodologies, as well as their findings.

Today, let’s examine the Chinese Communist Party’s biowarfare program, specifically Chinese officials’ interest in making a bioweapon capable of targeting the DNA markers specific to distinct ethnic groups.

Today, let’s go through a few recent developments with the Trump administration: the escalating war of words with Canada, the citizenship verification order by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the effort to denaturalize recently naturalized U.S. citizens whose conduct justifies such an action.

The premise for “The Last of Us,” both the video game and the HBO hit series, centers around the survival of two people navigating a post-apocalyptic wasteland after a mutated fungus infected most of the world’s population, turning victims into mindless zombies.
At first glance, it appears like just another interesting take on the zombie genre.

But believe it or not, the game is actually based on a real-life genus of fungus called cordyceps, which survives by infecting insects, hijacking their immune systems, and turning them into vessels that the fungus then controls. The fungus parasite then guides the insect body to a desirable location where it can spread to other hosts.

While the concept that a fungus can turn humans into mindless zombies might seem far-fetched, there is already mounting concern within the scientific community that mutating strains of fungi are rapidly evolving in response to changing climate, to the point where they are beginning to present a real threat to human health.

In recent years, several genera of fungi (which had previously not been a problem) are now able to infect humans.

Let’s go through the current state of pathogenic fungi.