Scary Yankee Chick

These schools have been identified as participants in the scheme to issue fraudulent nursing diplomas….

New laws proposed in NY as Wegmans collects customers’ biometric data

It turns out that when you eliminate things like, car accidents and gun violence, from the data, genetics explains your lifespan.

The “normal” pattern of lowered testosterone with age might not be so normal after all.

FDA OKs First in a New Generation of Knee Cartilage Repair

Coyote that broke into Alcatraz gets fat in two weeks from eating everything that isn’t nailed down

Just changing patient appointment times is supposedly associated with a ~60% reduction in cancer mortality.

Strong humming 1h x 4 days in a row may eliminate sinusitis permanently

How Russia uses neural chips to turn live pigeons into drones

For kids with ADHD, proper sleep might work better than drugs: ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy

Sour Candy Help Alleviate Anxiety

Diet-Induced Obesity Is Linked to Marked but Reversible Alterations in the Mouse Distal Gut Microbiome

Estrogen has effects on salivary glands and contributes to gender differences in oral health

1986: A synchronous relationship between the menstrual cycle and lunar rhythm was confirmed by investigative data, laboratory findings, and clinical experience (28.3% of women sync’d with the new moon). Since 2010: that may have changed drastically affecting fertility among other things.

Having thic thighs may increase your lifespan

Ultrasound stimulation of the vagus nerve as a treatment modality for anxiety

Abdominal ultrasound activates afferent vagus nerve fibers and induces anti-inflammatory effects

Hey, coffee is good for you again!

Toxic metal risk in tampons

RFK Jr. says FDA will ‘act on’ petition to reexamine some ingredients in ultra-processed foods

MIT researchers cleared 50% of Alzheimer’s plaques using 40 Hz sound waves

Zero Plastic coffee maker

Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in employees’ headsets to check if they say “please” and “thank you” to customers

Creatine Supplementation in Depression

30 days in jail for felony sexual exploitation of a minor

Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats

X thread with links: Computer security has a famous 2014 paper on how dramatically different assumptions and practices must be when dealing with the most motivated attacker in the world, who is after -YOU-. This is, -literally-, known “Mossad vs not-Mossad.”

(I did not check his numbers) 2023’s recorded figure gives us a per capita rate of 37 MAID suicides per 100,000 people. During the same year, the United States reported 17,927 firearm homicides, resulting in a per capita rate of five gun-related murders per 100,000 people

SSRI-induced cognitive decline may be being misdiagnosed as dementia on a huge scale

A Virginia hospital faces a $6B reckoning after an abusive doctor is accused of systematically sterilizing hundreds of Black women without cause.

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated.

LexisNexis has allegedly been breached, exposing 400,000 user profiles, federal judge and DOJ accounts, plaintext AWS secrets, customer passwords, and internal IT infrastructure maps

Every Washington resident with a driver’s license or ID may have been exposed in a massive data breach that the Department of Licensing knew about for six years

Counter terror scheme flags popular literature, including Lord Of the Rings, as “far right coded”

Behavioral Biometrics can tell what person is using a device. Gait Analysis Using Accelerometry Data from a smart phone can tell who’s carrying it. Keystroke dynamics can tell who’s typing. WIFI signals can map your movements.

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses

Youth Trumpet & Taps Corps (2014-2024) was founded in Oklahoma City by Katie Prior as her Girl Scout Gold Award. The organization’s mission was to train, support, and recognize high school trumpet players who use their musical gifts to play Taps live at military funerals. Over the next 10 years, 231 student volunteers from 35 states across the country dedicated more than 4,900 hours combined using their musical gifts to honor veterans in their communities

If you are over 40 and applied for (and did not get) a job with a company that used Workday as their HR software, between Sept 24 2020 and now, you may be eligible for a payout.

The enzyme inhibitor drug Bovaer has been mandatory for use in Danish cows since October 1st. Now, many cows are collapsing, and some have had to be euthanized.

A meta-analysis of existing flu shot studies of healthy children by Cochrane concluded that despite decades of published studies, it “could find no convincing evidence that [flu] vaccines can reduce mortality, hospital admissions, serious complications, or community transmission of influenza.”

Amazon confirms it had TB outbreak at warehouse

Women with just 1.36% dehydration experience substantial mood deterioration: ↑ Anger-hostility 8% ↑ Fatigue 17% ↓ Vigor 12% ↑ Mood disturbance 19% ↑ Task difficulty perception 58% ↓ Concentration 45% ↑ Headaches 2x

Also men.

Egg intake moderates the rate of memory decline in healthy older adults

People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of developing dementia over 25 years, while low-fat dairy and other dairy foods showed no clear association, according to a new study.

Viagra may reduce menstrual pain by a noticeable amount, however the study couldn’t get funding to confirm.

Copper scale maille may be an effective radiation shield for women undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer

Has your doctor told you your cholesterol is to high and you need to medicate? Here is a calculator for your risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (the reason they want you to medicate) for the next 10 years.

Review of Harmful Gastrointestinal Effects of Carrageenan in Animal Experiments

For over a month now, people with a disability have been unable to use NDIS funding for seeking sex worker services. Lived-experience advocates say it’s a step backward.

UnitedHealth falls on report it secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

A Trial of a Novel modRNA Flu Shot: Not So Hot

New York realizes it cannot afford its green promises (internet archive link, be patient if its slow to load)

New York looking to add 5GW of nuclear energy to state’s power plants

Your bluetooth headphones may be an access point for hackers

Swiss man jailed for Facebook comment criticising trans ideology

Amazon’s policy of commingling inventory has plagued it for years as people who thought they were ordering legit products from legit sources were actually sent fakes. Effective March 31 2026 they will stop the policy, though it will take time for the commingled inventory to work its way out of the warehouses.

Singapore will cane scammers under a new law as the city-state grapples with crimes affecting thousands of people

Fishermen wanted to catch whoever was looting their underwater crab traps

Wait, its been HOW LONG since I posted?? Dammit….

Harvard doctor says animal products are essential for mental health

Azelastine (Astepro) is sold over-the-counter and is an antihistamine and may prevent covid.

Behavioral and Health Outcomes of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination

Rates of successful conceptions according to COVID-19 vaccination status: Data from the Czech Republic

X-thread: The study claims 46% (159/343) of the cohort hospitalized with Covid and acute kidney injury (AKI) in 2020 was fully vaccinated?!? BUT the Covid vaccine rollout in the US began on Dec. 14, with second doses beginning Dec. 28, so virtually all of the 2020 hospitalizations should have been unvaccinated or partially vaccinated at best

Twelve diabetics were injected with stem cell-derived pancreatic islets. They started producing insulin again. One year in, 10/12 participants no longer needed to inject insulin.

Stevia is an endocrine disruptor and can negatively affect fertility.

Next-Generation Vitamin D3 Supplement Significantly Improves Core Autism Symptoms

The Nutritional Cold War: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement

Do adults really need tetanus booster shots?

You are approximately 3.6x more likely to die from heat in Europe than from homicide by firearm in the U.S., even when adjusting for population

Vitamin May Interfere With Lab Tests, Already One Fatality Reported

Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

Evidence, The Elderly and Common Sense

A new study shows that women who use hormonal contraceptives exhibit significantly stronger emotional responses than women who are naturally cycling and they also, interestingly, remember fewer details of negative events.

Accuracy of genome-enabled polygenic risk score prediction of cruciate ligament rupture risk in the Labrador Retriever

Robert Downey Jr. Says He ‘Intends to Sue’ All Future Executives Who Use His AI Replica

Denmark Is Fighting AI by Giving Citizens Copyright to Their Own Faces

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

A Texas man is awaiting execution for shaking his child to death. But even the detective on the case now thinks he’s innocent.

Website tracking males playing in female sports

X-thread: The most important part is that every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public. Right now, there is literally no one on this planet that knows this information. (BTW, if you’re on X, and NOT following AlexTheChick you should do so)

Senate votes to block California’s rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

College loans are financing ObamaCare, and its not working as well as they thought it would

*Folds hands* Please don’t fuck it up L’Amour’s Flint being brought to the big screen

Vancouver parents blocked from teaching their kids to swim in public pools

X-thread (warning, I didn’t read all links): your reminder that the OFFICIAL definition of “food insecurity” includes “ate leftovers once in a given week”

9 ‘ordinary’ 70s and 80s experiences that built extraordinary resilience

European Court Accepts Gait Recognition as Evidence in Murder Case

Spend $2k on a fridge, get ads streamed straight into your kitchen

Walking a minimum of 2,517 steps daily results in lower mortality rates. Additional improvement noted at 2,735 steps, and again at 7,126 steps and again at 8,763 steps.

People who read books at least 30 minutes a day will live longer than those who do not read books at all.

Saltwater Drops in Nose Could Shorten Kids’ Colds

Creatine Supplementation in Women’s Health

Beef fat prevents alcoholic liver disease in the rat

The impact of vitamin D administration on mortality in COVID-19 patients

Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease

Detection of Rabies Virus Antigen in Dog Saliva Using a Latex Agglutination Test

Surgeon catches CANCER from patient in first-of-its-kind case

The corresponding author did not reply to inquiries; however, one of the coauthors did respond and admitted that the study published above was not actually performed

Some children starting school ‘unable to climb staircase’, finds England and Wales teacher survey

A federal judge said Kraft Heinz must face a proposed nationwide class action alleging that it defrauded consumers by claiming its Kraft macaroni and cheese, one of its best-known products, contains no artificial preservatives

An asthma drug prescribed to millions of children has been found to cause suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and other psychiatric conditions.  Montelukast, sold under the brand name Singulair, attaches to cells in the brain that control mood, decision making, attention, impulse control and sleep. 

the Hep B vax was tested in just 147 infants for five days, and that’s all the FDA needed to approve it for the Day 1 vax schedule for newborns?

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of Six Papers by Top Researchers

Dementia got better when statins removed, Then got worse again when statins restarted

A recent study found that people taking SSRIs had higher levels of a brain protein linked to neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s.

Or maybe SSRIs improve brain function in people with Alzheimer’s.

A new drug is found to slow Alzheimer’s decline by 57% by blocking a harmful enzyme secreted by the bacteria responsible for tooth decay (invades brain too)

The researchers found the children who grew up during the pandemic were unable to distinguish between a frightened and a happy face. Happy faces were particularly difficult to process

Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

STUDY FINDS DEI TRAINING INCREASES PREJUDICE

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports

California Defaults On $18.5 Billion Debt, Leaving State Businesses Holding The Bag

It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

An airline employee was giving the DEA names of passengers who bought a last minute ticket. DEA would then try to intimidate them into consenting to searches. If civil forfeiture occurred, the employee would get a cut of the $.

What Do Van Halen & Brown M&M’s Have To Do With Safety?

The Story of How I Shot Myself Down

Ok, the number of links I have saved up to post is epic….

But first off, if you ever used the 23andMe DNA testing service you need to go log in and have them delete your data. ASAP!

The Slow-Burn Nightmare of the National Public Data Breach

The best use case argument for Neurolink I’ve seen (and I HIGHLY dislike the idea): Teams of neurologists at six research centers asked 241 unresponsive patients to spend several minutes at a time doing complex cognitive tasks, such as imagining themselves playing tennis. Twenty-five percent of them responded with the same patterns of brain activity seen in healthy people, suggesting that they were able to think and at least somewhat aware.

California Autism Prevalence by County and Race/Ethnicity: Declining Trends Among Wealthy Whites

California Reveals All Job Gains In 2023 Were Fake

Oxford study of 820,926 adolescents, age 12-15, & 283,422 children, age 5-11 1. No deaths from COVID, meaning death rate for age 5-15 is between 0 and 0.00003% 2. Heart inflammation is 37/MM in vaccinated & 0/MM for COVID infection. 3. Vaccine risk-benefit ratio unfavorable

How effective was the 2023-24 mRNA covid vax vs Covid infection?

Bad policy literally stole young girls childhood. “MRI scans found evidence of premature brain ageing in both boys and girls, but girls’ brains appeared on average 4.2 years older than expected after lockdowns, compared with 1.4 years older for boys.”

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services links fluoridated drinking water to a 2-5 point IQ drop in children

One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever: >cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery >Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research >turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%

A Nobel prize-winning genetics researcher has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to 13. 

over 100 NIH-funded Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research papers contain completely made up data, according to new allegations. Billions in funding and years of research now in serious doubt

Elevating the Status of Motherhood Solves Low Birthrates: The Extraordinary Case of Mongolia

Now, a large-scale study from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., has found that liquid thickening doesn’t actually help such patients.

Childhood vax schedule in the USA vs Denmark

Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins

Coffee is good for you again! Oh, nope, its bad again.

Hope you don’t have the mthfr gene mutation: new California law will require tortilla makers to add an extra ingredient

What School Didn’t Teach Us: How It Feels to Work Hard

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Fear Is Good for You

Face blind. Vs. Super-recognizer.

So apparently, scientists are using human brain tissue as computer processors now and are renting them out to people

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

Charles and Heather Maude, a western South Dakota farm and ranch couple, have been indicted for theft of federal property

The Oregon DMV has admitted to registering at least hundreds of non-citizens to vote since at least 2021 due to errors in its auto voter registration system. Additionally, every registered voter is sent ballots by mail. The audit is still ongoing and more illegal registrations

we’re finally allowed to disclose a vulnerability reported to Kia which would’ve allowed an attacker to remotely control almost all vehicles made after 2013 using only the license plate.

“Global warming” between 1880-2020 overestimated by 42% because of unaccounted for weather station aging, reports new study. Results confirmed against NASA satellite data.

Researchers make stunning discovery after examining farmland treated only with organic fertilizers for decades

a new study reports the first ever successful transplant of stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for type 1 diabetes. the patient became insulin-independent just 75 days after transplantation and has maintained this for over a year

Scientists say they have developed an “adaptive brain pacemaker” that eases Parkinson’s symptoms

In France, some crows have been trained to pick up cigarette butts on the street. The crows pick up cigarette butts and put them into a machine, where they receive food as a reward.

These kids threw a combined no-hitter at the Little League Baseball World Series