The name is a joke, I take my comentary very seriously.

Juan P... as a former full time smart ass and amateur comedian, you just left me a huge opening there. The question is, do I walk through that door and respond or just let it lie there?? Lets just say that I'm glad that you take your commentary "very seriously", because many of the rest of us regular readers....

Another way to Screw the 99.9 percent is to allow illegal immigration to continue to put downward pressure on wages in developed countries so that our poor have to compete with them. The union members I've spoken to consider the work done by the immigrants to be undesirable for Americans to perform. The Internet is rife with examples of entire industries that have been taken over by cheep labor, it's NOT just farm work.

.... are Liberal NPCs that have never read an alternative perspective?

Harry, here's a riddle. What do you call Israel if apartheid is removed and the Palestinians are given the right to vote? It start with a 'P'.

I presume Juan that the answer you have in mind is PALESTINE.

Am I correctly read your mind?

Am I right to infer from your question that you support apartheid over democracy?

Great article. I appreciate your very intelligent work. Better than anything in the NYT's, WAPO, or the Wall Street Journal.

You hoo, Juan. You still there?

Dear editors, regarding: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2018/10/04/14743_help_stop_radioactive_waste_dump_and_thousands_of

One wonders why LaForge hasn't come up with anything scarier than: "ferociously radioactive material".

After all, the chemical waste from producing just one wind generator is both radioactive and poisonous*. And for anyone thinking to replace nuclear power with such wind machines, consider some facts rather than La Forge's Trumpian fibbery...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7rRPrA7rg
https://tinyurl.com/y83g6htx
https://tinyurl.com/y88f57mz

Given the 2014 and 2019 Polar Vortex events, when wind/solar failed, La Forge, to be factual, should be lauding the performance of reliable, safe nuclear power that saves lives every day around the world.

La Forge also appears to have little science behind his words, or he would know that used nuclear fuel is ~94% plain old Uranium from Ma Nature and only a few % of anything more radioactive than that. He'd also have explained that the most radioactive isotopes in used fuel decay quickly, from seconds to weeks, so any fuel that's not fresh out of a reactor is quite manageable. Even the containers for shipping used fuel have been tested by driving a locomotive into them.

La Forge apparently wants us to be ignorant and afraid, when we should be careful and grateful for nuclear power's clean, reliable energy. But, perhaps NIRS wouldn't be able to survive on truth?

It's always interesting to look up IRS F990s for groups that depend on misleading folks to get donations and then see what they tell the IRS they pay themselves from those donations. ;]
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Dr. A. Cannara
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PS, when submitting without an account, your Capcha system complains its number wasn't typed correctly when the real problem is no account.

* Solar/Wind/Battery Materials
https://tinyurl.com/n3frxms
https://tinyurl.com/ybwpgzvu
https://tinyurl.com/z97vxqc
https://tinyurl.com/y9p45ujn
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https://tinyurl.com/j38as7g
https://tinyurl.com/yb2ewy74
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https://tinyurl.com/ydggt3rp

Democracy, but maybe sometimes that answer isn't as black and white as it should be. It's not well known that there are *a lot* more Palestinians living in Israel than Jews. That being said, there is no way Israel will allow that to happen. Maybe we can solve the problem by creating a new homeland for the Palestinians to Palestine, TX, the Texans rights be damned.

Dr. Gorski here. I thought I'd add my response to Dr. Kohls' misattribution of these comments to me. Duluth Reader, you are very careless to let someone like Dr. Kohls publish something like this that's so obviously wrong. It's not even a question of interpretation or opinion. Dr. Kohls, quite simply, misattributed quotes to me that I never wrote or said. Basically, he's mindlessly regurgitated an antivaccine lie about me. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/02/18/gary-kohls-md-lies-about-orac/

To the Duluth Reader—the following comments are in rebuttal to Gary Kohls article in the Feb. 14th, 2019 edition of Reader. It’s about 1530 words. I hope you will have room for it in your next issue.


Pete



02/10/2019

To the Duluth Reader, about the ideas of Gary Kohls.

RE: One sided open mindedness,


After discovering that I am now a shill for big pharma, I must be the last to know, because in reality, I’m just a retired senior who did well in science and math classes while in high school and college and has no special degree that automatically validates anything I have found to be true. However, the real reason I felt compelled to write an article challenging the views of Gary Kohls, is because I am concerned about the current Zeitgeist which includes many people who are determined to deny objective facts and vilify established scientific knowledge—especially if it contradicts what they want to believe! AGW deniers are of this ilk, religious groups which attempt to deny all geological, biological and evolutionary scientific principles, are of this ilk, the many 911 conspiracy theorists are of this ilk, and so are those who claim that vaccines are dangerous and/or useless—especially those who believe that dedicated physicians are only in it to get kickbacks in exchange for using and recommending the products provided by big pharma, (which they supposedly know kill babies)—who are also of this ilk! And, regardless of what Gary claims, anti-vaccine people do not only support reducing vaccinations, (although that is part of it) i.e. Some are fighting school districts which vaccinate their students and would rather refuse such vaccinations all together.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113438/



Sorry Gary! Neither of us is God, so the best we can do is to explain why we find that the evidence we gather (minus biased filters) affirms our own conclusions. I merely find much of the evidence you rely on to be false and/or misleading. And anybody who calls me a sheeple, a robotic drone, or a bamboozled victim of big bad pharma, can therefore count on me to oppose their dogma!



Since I must avoid posting an extremely long comment, let me just grab the Bull by the horns and share some of my internet research about the myths Kohls promotes. And, I will also leave a link to an article that explains why many Doctors are (not) merely motivated to be rich, and/or how the CDC allocates funds, while (not) a “wholly owned subsidiary of big pharma.”

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/the-myth-of-big-pharma-vaccine-profits-updated/



Gary also frequently vilifies Drs Paul Offit and Dr. David Gorski, so perhaps readers should know what kind of Doctors they really are?

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/debunking-myths-dr-paul-offit/


“DAVID H. GORSKI, MD, PhD, FACS is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the Medical Director of the Alexander J. Walt Comprehensive Breast Center, Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, and faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology. An investigator whose primary research interests include the role of glutamate receptors in promoting the growth and metastasis of breast cancer, Dr. Gorski also runs an active research laboratory and has recently taken an active interest in the problems of breast cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment. His research has been funded by the NIH, the Department of Defense, the Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO, and others, and been published in prestigious journals such as Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Blood, Nature Reviews Cancer, and Nature. Additionally, he has served as co-director of the Michigan Breast Oncology Quality Initiative (MiBOQI), a statewide quality consortium dedicated to improving the care of patients with breast cancer in Michigan.”


Care to dispute any of that Gary?


And how about Dr. Paul Offit?


“Dr. Offit’s biography is simply one of a person who is passionate about helping children. His first book, Breaking the Antibiotic Habit: A Parent’s Guide to Coughs, Colds, Ear Infections, and Sore Throats , was one of the first popular books that asked parents to start reducing the use of antibiotics, because they may have long-term consequences for the children.”


“But most of Dr. Offit’s career has been in studying and supporting vaccines as the best method to prevent deadly diseases. Here are just a selection of what he’s done:

He is Chief of Infectious Diseases at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.”


“He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles in prestigious journals and is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of virology and immunology, was co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, which protects children from the rotavirus infection. Prior to the release of the rotavirus vaccines in the USA, the disease was responsible for more than 400,000 doctor visits; more than 200,000 emergency room visits; 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations; and 20 to 60 deaths in children younger than 5 years of age. Each year, prior to the advent of the vaccine, an estimated 450,000 children died of this disease worldwide.” What an evil guy huh?


Care to dispute the information above?


About the 10,000 vaccines myth attributed to Offit--as explained by Joel Harrison, PhD, MPH:


“the average child is inundated with foreign microbes, literally, many thousands, on a daily basis, through the air they breathe, the food and liquid they take in, and minor cuts and scrapes, even microscopic ones. And these microbes are at full strength, not killed or severely weakened. The one sentence with the 10,000 vaccines simply made the point that our immune systems are ready to defend us against the microbial antigens equivalent to that found in 10,000 vaccines.” Nuff said?


Shouldn’t we empathize with people like Dr. David Gorski and Dr. Paul Offit? Can anyone imagine how hurtful their critics must be while they’re demonizing two men who have made their life’s work about saving children and others sufferers?


Some common talking points used by anti-vaccination advocates:

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/another-anti-vaccine-article-bad-journal-bad-data/


One anti-vaccine advocate dotes on the fact that vaccines have been found to contain trace amounts of metallic or biological particles which supposedly make them very dangerous—and an article in SBM tells of a study that supposedly confirms all the beliefs of anti-vaccine people:


“The researchers used an environmental scanning electron microscope to examine particles usually found in, biological materials. It can also find relatively tiny amounts of inorganic or organic matter in something like vaccines….”


“So, Let’s assume the data is all gathered in an objective manner. What does it mean?”


“Here’s the problem – if dose makes the poison, anything can be a poison or not be a poison, depending on the dose, then what dose are we getting?”


“Therein lies the most problematic issue with the data. The numbers are well below the level of biological activity, if these various chemicals even have biological activity (most don’t). For example, the authors found 1569 particles or precipitates in one drop of Cervarix (an anti-HPV vaccine). Sounds horrific right? Except that one drop of vaccine contains around 1.39 X 10^21 individual molecules. So this so-called contamination is approximately is just 0.0000000000000000000719% of one drop of vaccine.”


And, what about contaminates like lead and copper which can often be found in tap water?—when we drink it we are not usually risking our health are we?—(provided it is not grossly tainted like the contamination in Lansing Michigan’s water supply)—when contaminates are measured in grams per liter as they are with water, don’t they represent a much larger percentage of contaminates than those in vaccines?



Also, many “experts” referenced by Gary kohls deal in outright pseudo-science. For instance, here are some facts about Mike Adams, the founder of “Natural News,” which Gary often quotes:


“Mike Adams, founder of the NaturalNews.com online empire, who resurrected the false 2010 charge of an undisclosed financial COI and has written a series of screeds making false accusations against him—claiming, for instance, that he sabotaged the entry for the movie on Wikipedia (he does not edit Wikipedia) and is in cahoots with a corrupt oncologist (Dr. Farid Fata) who bilked Medicare out of millions, and gave chemotherapy to people who didn’t have cancer. Adams has posted fake patient reviews and even claims to have reported Dr. Gorski to the FBI, Michigan Attorney General, and his state medical board. Worse, in doing so, he has made similar allegations against his cancer center in an effort to pollute its Google reputation along with Dr. Gorski’s.”


Can you or Adam’s prove those allegations or are we just supposed to take your word for it?


https://naturalnews.com/


Here are some typical articles it contains;


“The COSMIC truth: Ten revelations that prove Democrats are DEMON-infested creatures pretending to be human”


“It’s time for the American people to declare our own national emergency and remove destructive Dems from power”


“ANALYSIS: How AOC’s Green New Deal would unleash a catastrophic food collapse and Venezuela-style mass starvation across America”


“Behold, a pale horse? How the “green” environmental movement may be the Biblical Fourth Seal of an End Times global death cult”


Had enough?


In closing let me also say—whatever you do, don’t be afraid to question me, Gary Kohls or anyone else. You have a right to determine the truth for yourself!—no matter what anyone says!


Peter W. Johnson

Superior WI

For a fellow who claims to be proud of his anonymous commentary you punted Juan. Saying democracy isn't possible because Israel won't allow it is as lame as opposing a law you agree with by saying the Supreme Court will strike it down. What a patriot you would be.

As for the "joke" about Palestine, Texas. Just a setup for a cheap joke suggesting Texan's rights would be trampled on.

Of course, I don't offer any solutions either. At least I wear the shoes of both sides.

2/19/2019
For the Duluth Reader,
RE: A lack of understanding which perpetuates a myth

https://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2015/10/06/to-all-who-use-paul-offits-10000-vaccine-paper-to-scare-others-put-up-or-shut-up-and-that-means-you-age-of-autism-and-all-your-team/

“I’ve generally stopped countering the misinformation by the Age of Autism blog. They are pretty much irrelevant now that they lost their star power, now that Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have dropped out of the picture. They still cause harm, but on a much smaller scale than in the past.
That said, I recently saw one of the Age of Autism contributors in an online discussion. And as is typical, the conversation devolved into throwing around the usual tired arguments. For example…That The notorious Offit 10,000 vaccine paper (we might add 10,000 vaccine doctrine) was written to be re-assuring to parents. The reality is that 1 vaccine might kill an infant. But what is the rhetorical effect of saying 10,000 vaccines (or 100,000 vaccines originally) are “theoretically safe”. It really says that if we give them 10 at time and hundreds over a childhood it is no big deal. What we are really on to here is the hit and run strategy. It doesn’t matter(how) egregious the effects of the ever extended and mandated schedule are, you can always insist that it wasn’t vaccines (which are theoretically safe). And you can flood the media with people like you deriding the experience of actual rather than theoretical families who have found that products are not necessarily that safe after all. And you can claim that everything you say is thoroughly scientific (hoho).”

Now, this is a new way to misrepresent what Dr. Offit wrote. So far off that one wonders if the author of the comment (one John Stone) has actually read the original. He claims that the Offit paper’s claim is ” It really says that if we give them 10 at time and hundreds over a childhood it is no big deal.”
Really?

Nope. Not even close.
“Here’s the section of the paper that that is being referred to:

“Studies on the diversity of antigen receptors indicate that the immune system has the capacity to respond to extremely large numbers of antigens. Current data suggest that the theoretical capacity determined by diversity of antibody variable gene regions would allow for as many as 109 to 1011 different antibody specificities.38 But this prediction is limited by the number of circulating B cells and the likely redundancy of antibodies generated by an individual….

….each infant would have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10 000 vaccines at any one time (obtained by dividing 107 B cells per mL by 103 epitopes per vaccine).
The paper merely states that an infant’s immune system can respond to the antigens in 10,000 vaccines.” Matt Carey

So here is the challenge to Mr. John Stone (who wrote the first comment), (for) the Age of Autism blog….

Prove it!

(My words)

I’ll be the first to admit than I am not an expert in molecular biology, nor am I acquainted with all the ways to explain this dispute. But I know that the man who originally wrote the article known as the 10,000 vaccines statement, is very intelligent—to a degree that would take years for someone like me to even dream of equaling. His knowledge is deep and complex, so I would guess that his words are indeed, true, and would make no sense if the anti-vaccine camp had the correct understanding of them?

For a layman like me, the disconnect displayed by Dr. Offit’s critics in regards to his actual statement must come from a similar place as mine—the fact that we are not knowledgeable enough to fully understand his comments, since we lack both the general and specific knowledge he possess. But let me take a shot in the dark;

Perhaps the doctor’s comments referred to the large number of different (ANTIGENS) that a child’s body can defend against at one time—not the incredible amount of fluids (in 10,000 vaccines) that could be injected into its body before his or her system could not handle them anymore—i.e. that the very large number, of (VERY SMALL ANTIGENS) in our bloodstreams would require 10,000 vaccines to destroy them all?

I am may understand this issue wrongly but it’s enough for me to know that Dr. Offit has the right stuff, and that he truly understands why vaccines are needed to eradicate a host of illnesses, While someone who pretends to understand his comments may not even possess the scientific knowledge to do so?

Peter Johnson,
Superior, WI.

I got nothing.

Forrest - socialism means "Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy." perhaps you should use a different word if you don't really mean socialism.

You should read the words of Free Bird. I think it's about a man not wishing to be trapped in a relationship with someone. That's the very same freedom women have today! I'm not sure why you continue to conflate "illegal immigrants" with "multiracial societies" are you pushing the "hidden racists" talking point pushed out by your progressive leadership?

Amy Goodman, also pushing the "underground Klansman" narrative.

Despite having been informed of the misinformation about me in Dr. Kohl's article, the Reader has done nothing to correct or retract it. I will not let this go unnoticed:

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/02/21/duluth-reader-gary-g-kohls/

BTW, Peter Johnson, contact me. My email addresses are on my blogs:

respectfulinsolence.com
sciencebasedmedicine.org