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Report: Potentially Lethal New Super Strain Of COVID Created In London Lab Renowned Molecular Biologist describes development as “insanity”   A potentially deadly new strain of COVID has been created in a University lab in London, according to a report. The Daily Mail reports  that researchers at Imperial College London have hybridised the original Wuhan strain of the disease with both the Omicron or Delta variants separately. The College is yet to reveal how effective the strain they have created is, and has denied that the work constitutes gain of function, the process now widely believed to have been responsible for the original strain in Wuhan. Molecular biology expert Dr. Richard Ebright warned that the new mutant strain, which was injected into hamsters in London, “is insanity, both in terms of the redundancy and waste,” and that it has zero “foreseeable practical applications.” At least four labs on two continents now have constructed non-natural, lab-generated vir...

Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism Ramesh Thakur he Telegraph  (UK) reported an interesting  case  on October 22. A woman, a victim of a previous sexual assault, went into a private hospital in London for a complex colorectal surgery. During the pre-op clinical assessment involving intimate procedures, she encountered someone she believed was a trans-woman in a blonde wig and make-up who left her feeling uncomfortable.  The patient, who had previously refused to use preferred pronouns, requested an all-female nursing team, saying “mixed sex hospital facilities are unsafe for women.” The CEO replied the hospital “did not share her beliefs” and, because she had caused “unacceptable distress” to the staff, her operation had been cancelled. Baroness Nicholson, chair of the parliamentary campaign group Children and Women First, has written to the Care Quality Commission calling for an investigation into the “astonishing” development that a hospital...

Neil Oliver, “Don’t Pee Down My Back and Tell Me It’s Raining”   Sundance   Against the backdrop of Rishi Sunak being installed as the U.K. Prime Minister, during his weekly monologue today, a fired-up friend of the Treehouse, Neil Oliver, asks two questions: #1) Why should WE put up with the pain predicted in our future by the same people who made it inevitable?… And #2) How quickly do they think we forget what only just happened?   WATCH: [ Transcript ] –  I have two questions this week: Question one: Why should WE put up with the pain predicted in our future by the same people who made it inevitable? And question two: How quickly do they think we forget what only just happened? First the pain. Rishi Sunak conjured up and blew away a mountain of money – hundreds of billions of pounds worth of the funny, all-but-fraudulent money that is the gift only of the private bankers who have him and every other western leader in their pocket. Now he’s got an even bi...