The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Bird Flu Terror: Egg Rationing Hits U.S. Grocery Stores Ben Bartee An accurate accounting of just how many chickens have been slaughtered in the name of The Science™ — in the name of combatting a virus that has never been shown to transmit from human to human and is vanishingly rare even with the occasional fraudulent PCR positive they can gin up — would be difficult to ascertain. But even by corporate state media metrics, it’s in the  hundreds of millions . Via  CBS News  (emphasis added): “Whether it's ducks or chickens,  since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized . "It's a staggering number, there is no doubt," said Jodie Guest, a professor of epidemiology with Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. "But it is, and always has been a policy across administrations, with the USDA,  that this is how they handle infections like this among poultry....

  American Pravda: Is Sugar the Deadliest White Powder Drug?  Ron Unz   Audio Player Although I’ve been reading the  New York Times  every morning for almost 45 years, I’ve gradually become more and more disgusted with it, and occasionally say so in my articles. For example, back in 2016  I wrote: For decades I’ve been closely reading several major newspapers every morning, and for the last few years have noticed a striking decline in the quality of their scientific coverage, as exemplified in the weekly Science Section of the  New York Times . Whereas in the past, dramatic discoveries in evolutionary biology or physics might be broken in the pages of that newspaper, these days the coverage seems increasingly skewed toward phone apps and dieting and phone apps for dieting. I’ve always regarded diet books as the quintessential example of worthless content, regardless of how many millions of copies they might sell, and over the years I’ve seen endless nu...