Despite the Left pretending to “follow the science,” the abortion lobby hasn’t kept theirs up to date. Spurning medical research from the last several decades — which is meant to both improve standard care practices for physicians and inform policymakers — abortion supporters are sticking with the science of the 1970s. As they refuse to develop their talking points past those used to get Roe v. Wade through the federal court system, the abortion industry is propagating misinformation and harming patients through a lack of informed consent.
The <a href="https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/gestational-development-capacity-for-pain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)</a> is a particular perpetrator of this.
While the organization is meant to lead medical experts in maternal-fetal care, ACOG states, “The science conclusively establishes that a human fetus does not have the capacity to experience pain until after at least 24–25 weeks [about five and a half months].” In the same breath, however, they also maintain that “facts are important.” Which one is it exactly? Because their former claim fails to recognize the most recent developments in our understanding of fetal pain.
While there does seem to be a real consensus that fetal pain begins at 20 weeks at the very latest, some publications (including <a href="https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/1/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one written by Drs. Derbyshire and Bockmann</a> in 2020) demonstrate the high likelihood that fetal pain is possible <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935428/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as early as 12 weeks</a>.
In studying fetal development, we know the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935428/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physiological pain system</a> (the cortical subplate and thalamus) is present by 12 weeks, but to study whether the preborn child actually feels pain via the developed structures this early would violate bioethical practice not only in the possible infliction of pain upon the fetus but in the invasive nature of the research upon the mother. Consequently, this is really the closest we are able to ethically get at this time.
Unfortunately, when major medical organizations like ACOG deny such research, their misinformation affects both abortion legislation and the advancement and practice of fetal surgery. While some fetal surgeries are performed <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24945-fetal-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as early as 16 weeks</a>, the myth that the preborn child cannot feel pain until 24 weeks can lead to physicians feeling they do not need to provide fetal analgesia. Even if the data on fetal pain was not as clear as it is, morality should encourage medical professionals to err on the side of caution rather than to unwittingly do harm.
But fetal pain is not the only misinformed science propagated by the abortion lobby.
Further along in pregnancy, when discussing fetal viability, abortion supporters work even harder to push the extreme and outdated viability limits under Roe, ignoring their (now reversed) victory in Planned Parenthood v. Casey which <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/#tab-opinion-1959105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least acknowledged the relativity of viability</a> to our society’s ability to advance medical technologies.
As an example, the academic spin room of the abortion lobby, the Guttmacher Institute, “updated” their <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition of viability</a> in August 2022, stating, “A fetus generally reaches viability between 24 and 28 weeks LMP (gestational age).”
This definition could only be considered up-to-date if it was made in 1973. It’s half a century later, however, and as previously noted, viability is not a fixed gestational time point.
The Casey opinion notes fetal viability to be <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/#tab-opinion-1959105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28 weeks when Roe was passed down</a> in 1973, but even the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now notes the window of “periviability” where there is a chance of survival after preterm birth as early as <a href="https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/understanding-and-navigating-viability#:~:text=Later%20in%20pregnancy%2C%20a%20clinician,6%20days%20of%20a%20pregnancy." target="_blank" rel="noopener">20 weeks to 25 weeks and 6 days </a>gestation due to recent advances in the field. In fact, the <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/world-record-for-premature-birth-goes-to-alabama-baby-born-19-weeks-early/#:~:text=Nov%2011%202021-,World%20Record%20For%20Premature%20Birth%20Goes%20To%20Alabama%20Baby%20Born,only%20132%20days%20of%20gestation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">earliest premature baby to survive</a> was born at 21 weeks and 1 day.
Though viability can be a helpful tool in medicine, the legal application of viability is nothing but discriminatory. It assumes viability to be central to what determines human value, but placing any qualification on humanity creates a hierarchical and systematic oppression of the group lacking the quality&#8230;in this case, the previable preborn child.
Pro-life physicians and research professionals must continue to prioritize gaining a deeper knowledge of life in the womb for the sake of defending vulnerable preborn children from the weaponization of outdated science. It’s time the abortion lobby was pulled forward into the twenty-first century and forced to acknowledge the scientific developments that have led to our modern understanding of the preborn human as a unique, whole, and valued second patient during pregnancy.
Let’s stop stealing from the 1970s; abortion supporters, give them their science back.
Gavin Oxley is Students for Life of America’s lead operations supervisor and medical/law coordinator, as well as the founder/CEO of Future Medical Professionals for Life.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a> appointed a new director of UAP research, a position meant to oversee studies into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a>. Although NASA refused to identify the person upon making the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-independent-study-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> on Thursday, hours later — after being confronted about a lack of transparency — the agency changed course and released a name.
Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, shared the plans for a new top UFO investigator upon the release of an independent study team&#8217;s <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-pink/s3fs-public/atoms/files/UAP%20Independent%20Study%20Team%20-%20Final%20Report_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) based on unclassified data that offered no evidence of extraterrestrial life but did call for more investigation into objects they could not explain and beyond.
“NASA’s new Director of UAP Research will develop and oversee the implementation of NASA’s scientific vision for UAP research, including using NASA’s expertise to work with other agencies to analyze UAP and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to search the skies for anomalies,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;NASA will do this work transparently for the benefit of humanity.&#8221;
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Here&#39;s the complete NASA press conference on the &quot;Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report.&quot;
A few of my text alerts bled onto the audio towards the end. Sorry about that. They were from Kirkpatrick. 😀<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufoX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufoX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/uapX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#uapX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufotwitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/aliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#aliens</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/uap?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#uap</a> <a href="https://t.co/3UDMhos7AA">pic.twitter.com/3UDMhos7AA</a>
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NASA later released an updated press release that <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director">said</a> Mark McInerney had been appointed director of UAP research.
&#8220;McInerney previously served as NASA’s liaison to the Department of Defense covering limited UAP activities for the agency. In the director role, he will centralize communications, resources, and data analytical capabilities to establish a robust database for the evaluation of future UAP,&#8221; the news release said. &#8220;He also will leverage NASA’s expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and space-based observation tools to support and enhance the broader government initiative on UAP. Since 1996, he has served various positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and the National Hurricane Center.&#8221;
Earlier in the day, despite a stated commitment for transparency, NASA officials initially resisted disclosure of whom the agency had chosen to lead its UFO endeavor when pressed during a news conference to discuss the independent study&#8217;s findings and NASA&#8217;s plans for disclosure by filmmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/Unexplained2020/status/1702355706249125964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Fox</a> and reporters. The decision to keep the name under wraps stood in contrast to how the Department of Defense handled the announcement of its UAP office last year, <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">naming</a> Sean Kirkpatrick as the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
NASA Associate Administrator Nicola Fox <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQcqOW39ksk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> that her agency had already appointed someone to the role some time ago, but declined to name the individual, saying, &#8220;We will not give his name out now.&#8221; Dan Evans, NASA’s assistant deputy associate administrator for research, said harassment and even threats directed at members of the research group were &#8220;beyond the pale&#8221; and factored into the agency&#8217;s decision not to announce the new director&#8217;s name.
NewsNation&#8217;s Joe Khalil asked the panel whether their decision to withhold the identity of the lead UAP investigator would be permanent and noted that &#8220;it seems to cut against the dedication to being open and transparent&#8221; to keep the name secret.
&#8220;At the time, yes, we are withholding that name. Let&#8217;s not forget that we&#8217;ve only just received this report,&#8221; Evan replied. &#8220;And what we need to do now as an agency is come together and provide a cohesive and coherent response to it that addresses multiple findings and recommendations, okay? We&#8217;re only announcing initial actions today. Will that person&#8217;s name be disclosed, as to your specific question? Potentially, yes. But again, we need to ensure that the scientific process and method is free. Okay? That&#8217;s my response.&#8221;

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A top scientist revealed he intentionally left out key information disputing the climate change narrative pushed by the Left so that his paper would get published.
Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, published an article titled, “<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published</a>.”
“I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like,” he commenced the article. “That’s not the way science should work.”
Brown pointed out that news articles about wildfires across the world this summer declared they were the result of climate change. He surmised that the media parrots that narrative because “it fits a simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.”
Citing his paper “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06444-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California</a>,” he added, “I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.”
“The biases of the editors (and the reviewers they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on the collective output of entire fields,” Brown attested. “They select what gets published from a large pool of entries, and in doing so, they also shape how research is conducted more broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted.”
Brown listed ways in which a researcher should tailor their piece in order to get published: ignore practical adaptation measures, ignore other factors that could cause wildfires, such as poor forest management; ignore statistics that might run counter to the climate change narrative, such as the fact that over 80 percent of wildfires in the US are started by people.
Brown also explained how using metrics that “will generate the most eye-popping numbers” was also advantageous in getting a paper published.
“Another way to get the kind of big numbers that will justify the importance of your research—and impress editors, reviewers, and the media—is to always assess the magnitude of climate change over centuries, even if that timescale is irrelevant to the impact you are studying,” he noted.
“When I began the research for this paper in 2020, I was a new assistant professor needing to maximize my prospects for a successful career,” Brown recalled. “When I had previously attempted to deviate from the formula, my papers were rejected out of hand by the editors of distinguished journals, and I had to settle for <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less prestigious outlets</a>. To put it another way, I sacrificed contributing the most valuable knowledge for society in order for the research to be compatible with the confirmation bias of the editors and reviewers of the journals I was targeting.”
After revealing he left academia over a year ago, he stated, “Climate scientists shouldn’t have to exile themselves from academia to publish the most useful versions of their research. We need a culture change across academia and elite media that allows for a much broader conversation on societal resilience to climate.”
He turned to the media: “The media, for instance, should stop accepting these papers at face value and do some digging on what’s been left out. The editors of the prominent journals need to expand beyond a narrow focus that pushes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. And the researchers themselves need to start standing up to editors, or find other places to publish.”

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A Harvard physicist professor cited remnants from a meteor-like object to claim that they could have come from outside our solar system.
Professor Avi Loeb and a team of researchers retrieved roughly 700 tiny metallic spheres from an impact zone about 85 kilometers north of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. According to composition analysis executed by Stein Jacobsen and his team at Harvard University, 57 reportedly contain compositions that don’t match man-made or natural alloys.
“This is a historic discovery because it represents the first time that humans put their hand on materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system,” Loeb said on Tuesday.
“I was thrilled when Stein Jacobsen reported to me about it based on the results in his laboratory,” Loeb told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12456979/First-alien-object-recovered-Earth-Harvard-Avi-Loeb-says-hundreds-tiny-fragments-bottom-Pacific-Ocean-outside-solar-system.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. “Stein is a highly conservative and professional geochemist with a worldwide reputation. He had no bias or agenda whatsoever and expected to find familiar spherules with solar system composition. But the data showed something new, never reported in the scientific literature. Science is guided by evidence.”
“For now, we wanted to check whether the materials are from outside the solar system,” he continued. “The success of the expedition illustrates the value of taking risks in science despite all odds as an opportunity for discovering new knowledge.”
According to Loeb’s non-peer reviewed<a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> study</a>, the spherules contain beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, referred to in the study as “BeLaU.” “The ‘BeLaU’ abundance pattern is not found in control regions outside of IM1’s path and does not match commonly manufactured alloys or natural meteorites in the solar system,” the study theorized. “We suggest that the ‘BeLaU’ abundance pattern could have originated from a highly differentiated magma ocean of a planet with an iron core outside the solar system or from more exotic sources.”
The expedition to the South Pacific was announced back in January, with Loeb explaining the reasons for the trip in a post on Medium.
“Within a couple of months, I will be leading an expedition to collect the fragments of the first interstellar meteor,” Loeb <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/we-are-going-to-visit-the-first-interstellar-meteor-8cf498d4d6fc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in January. “This meteor is the first near-Earth object ever detected by humans from outside the solar system. We have a dream team, including some of the most experienced and qualified professionals in ocean expeditions. We have complete design and manufacturing plans for the required sled, magnets, collection nets and mass spectrometer.”

Harvard Astronomers Theory On Aliens Earns Him Ridicule, But He’s Standing By It

‘Historic Discovery’: Harvard Physicist Says Fragments Found In Pacific May Be From Outside Earth’s Solar System

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Do you hate those paper straws with every fiber of your being? Well, good news — you might have a medical and environmental excuse never to use them again. Turns out, new information suggests they are worse for both you and the planet.
A <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/28/paper-straws-worse-than-plastic-pfas-study/70702090007/">study out of Belgium published in the journal Food Additives and Contaminants</a> suggests that “forever chemicals” or “PFAS” — officially called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — were found in the majority of both paper and bamboo straws tested. Such chemicals have the potential to cause cancer and other ailments.
Per the study, eighteen different PFAS were detected in total — and the most common one was banned globally in 2020. Those chemicals are also bad for the environment. According to the study, plastic straws contain fewer PFAS.
As flagged by USA Today, the study concluded, &#8220;These ‘eco-friendly’ plant-based straws are not necessarily a more sustainable alternative to plastic straws because they can be considered as an additional source of PFAS exposure in humans and the environment (e.g., after degradation in landfills or through incomplete incineration).”
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It is worth remembering that before the world lost its mind over COVID and masking, it went bananas over plastic straws, thanks in large part to a viral photo of a sea turtle with debris up its nose. In 2015, an online petition using that exact image <a href="https://www.thepetitionsite.com/360/196/292/starbucks-stop-using-plastic-straws/">amassed nearly 150,000 signees</a> while demanding that Starbucks ban the little suckers. Starbucks succumbed and pledged to go paper or another alternative to plastic by 2020.
The rest of the West followed, and voila, millions around the world have suffered from flimsy drinking devices. Turns out, we may have also been harming our bodies and the planet in the process.
If anything, this story serves as another reminder — if it seems like mass hysteria is gripping the nation and that corporations or politicians are getting caught up in it, you&#8217;re probably being sold a false bill of goods in one way or another.
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Popular podcast host Joe Rogan delivered an earful to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-hands-win-to-16-young-climate-activists-in-montana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate activists</a> on a recent episode of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; saying that for all the noise they were making, they weren&#8217;t actually bringing the world any closer to solving anything.
Rogan argued — as a number of critics have – that the United States alone could not possibly bring down <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinas-carbon-emissions-soar-as-biden-unveils-crackdown-on-american-power-plants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global emissions</a> as long as countries like China continued to dwarf America&#8217;s output.
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🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeRogan</a> Just Completely Obliterated the Climate Change Agenda: &quot;You&#39;re Not Saving Jack Sh*t!&quot;
&quot;Even if the United States went to zero carbon output, you&#39;re not going to put a dent in what&#39;s happening to the world because most of it is coming from China and India. So all… <a href="https://t.co/PYUNpvgUXY">pic.twitter.com/PYUNpvgUXY</a>
&mdash; The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1691899154983731315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rogan spoke with former CIA covert operations officer and current CEO of Portman Square Group Mike Baker, and the conversation turned to climate change and which countries were the most responsible for global emissions.
&#8220;China produces more carbon than all the developed nations combined,&#8221; Baker pointed out, and Rogan agreed.
&#8220;Which is very important to talk about when people are talking about going green,&#8221; Rogan replied. &#8220;Because the amount of impact that would happen – even if the United States went to zero — went to zero carbon output, you&#8217;re not going to put a dent in what&#8217;s happening to the world because most of it is coming from China and India. That&#8217;s most of it. So all this s*** about &#8216;don&#8217;t eat meat because we&#8217;re going to save the world.&#8217; You&#8217;re not saving jack s***!&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand where that message is coming from or why there&#8217;s not a nuanced perspective where people are taking into account all these other variables,&#8221; Rogan continued, before proposing an answer to his own question: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t fit the narrative.&#8221;
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Rogan&#8217;s comments come with hours of an ABC News headline about the devastating wildfires in Maui that was reportedly altered to appease climate activists.
The original headline read &#8220;Why climate change can&#8217;t be blamed for Maui wildfires&#8221; — but after the network reportedly received backlash, they changed it to read &#8220;Why climate change can&#8217;t be blamed entirely for Maui wildfires.&#8221;
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Weather department at ABC News received extremely nasty backlash for their article on connecting climate change to devastating Maui fires. A headline change occurred but the article&#39;s (correct) conclusion remains. 
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Gluttons everywhere can belch a sigh of relief as scientists raise the prospect of having one’s cake and eating it too. Researchers at the University of Texas have announced trials of a new drug called CPACC, which has proven to stave off weight gain in mice no matter how much they stuff their fat little rodent faces. The drug works by inhibiting the flow of magnesium through the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. Excess magnesium seems to slow the mitochondria’s ability to burn calories. By mimicking the deletion of the protein-coding gene that controls the flow of magnesium, the drug effectively increases the body’s metabolism. Clinical trials in humans could begin as soon as October.
Much as this dazzling scientific feat might tantalize obdurate butterballs, one doubts how much people really stand to benefit from Rube Goldberg alchemy when they could achieve the same end by simply abstaining from cupcakes. Obesity weighs on certain psyches more than others, and people struggle to develop the discipline to avoid gluttony. But a magic pill will never solve the problem of obesity because obesity is only the outward symptom of a deeper problem.
Modern society, entranced by liberal materialism, often confuses symptoms for causes. Hence the recently disproven “chemical imbalance” theory of depression, according to which misfiring cerebral pistons make us blue rather than the other way around. Instead of working on their marriages, reconciling with their fathers, finally finishing that degree, finding a job, or even perhaps going to church and recognizing the meaning in purpose in life, patients instead pop a few shrink-prescribed Xanax pills to get them through the week until their next fruitless therapy session. Insomniacs no longer need to change their lifestyle; they have barbiturates. And now gluttons can avoid confronting the causes of their compulsive eating because modern science has produced a pill for that too.
Pharmaceutical companies market such drugs as medicine, responsible tools for improving one’s health. In fact, not only does pill popping not conduce to health; it actively undermines it. Because man is no mere bag of chemicals, and physical ailments that arise from habit signify deeper problems pertaining to virtue and vice, which form and constitute our habits. Drugs might mask those problems, at least for a while. But by leaving underlying causes unaddressed, in the long run drugs only ever make those problems worse.
The roly-polies reaching for the CPACC pill consider pudginess the problem, while the more insightfully obese recognize that the deeper issue lies in the bad habits that made them fat in the first place. But the core problem lurks deeper still: in the concupiscence that inclines us all to sin as a consequence of man’s fall from grace. Atheists might recoil at the religious language, but even they can’t deny the anthropological fact of human imperfection. Gluttons desire a box of donuts because our first ancestor ate an apple.
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Quacks have sought quick fixes to the ills wrought by concupiscence since time immemorial. Wise men since at least the days of Aristotle have understood that a quick fix will never work because the natural remedy to vice is virtue. Natural happiness, then, comes by way of excellent rational activity in accordance with virtue. 
Aristotle distinguished between two kinds of virtue: intellectual and moral. The former involves excellence of thinking. We acquire intellectual virtue by taking classes, debating questions, and reading books. One can imagine some technological advancement that would impart intellectual virtue in a more immediate way, by plugging our brains into a computer, say, or even by taking a pill. Moral virtue, on the contrary, is harder won. No one attains moral virtue through books alone because its cultivation entails the disciplining of appetite and desire to accord with our reason, and discipline requires us to develop habits.
The worst-off people ignore their bad habits. Their better-off brethren try to resist vice but often succumb, through incontinence, to temptation. Others, better-off still, successfully break their vices through grit and perseverance. But happy people, who have cultivated virtue, actually enjoy doing good things. One wonders today, in our decadent, skeptical, and impatient age, how many people even understand that the latter two states of being are possible.
It&#8217;s a daunting process. But in all the millennia of recorded history, no one has discovered a viable alternative, no matter what modern-day magicians and pill-peddlers try to sell you. Alcoholics Anonymous promotes a helpful slogan on the matter for anyone suffering from addiction, be it to booze or baked goods. “Wherever you go,” the saying goes, “there you are.” Whether at home, at the office, or on a beach in Tahiti, you can never escape your will and desire, and people tend to get what they want. This is the final discovery of the pilgrim Dante in the last lines of the Divine Comedy. “Already my desire and will were being turned,” he relates, “like a wheel that uniformly is moved”—not by a chemical concoction cooked up in some lab, but “by the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
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Astrophysicist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/neil-degrasse-tyson-tries-to-ruin-top-gun-maverick-nasa-astronaut-spoils-his-fun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neil deGrasse Tyson</a> claimed that when it came to explaining gender identity, basic principles of biology — such as the XX and XY chromosomes that make humans either female or male, respectively — were &#8220;insufficient.&#8221;
Tyson made the remarks during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2gdRvcSec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with ESPN&#8217;s Stephen A. Smith for his &#8220;K[no]w Mercy&#8221; podcast in May, but a short video clip of their exchange — particularly Tyson&#8217;s take on gender — began circulating on Monday.
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“Today I feel 80% female, 20% male. I’m going to put on makeup”
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&#8220;Apparently, the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice. Either the one you&#8217;re assigned, the one you choose to be—whatever it is!&#8221; Tyson said.
&#8220;And so now, just to tie a bow on this, I say to you, somewhere I read — somewhere, I think I read — that the United States was a land where we have the pursuit of happiness,&#8221; Tyson continued. &#8220;Suppose no matter my chromosomes today, I feel 80 percent female, 20 percent male. Now I&#8217;m gonna, I&#8217;m gonna put on makeup. Tomorrow, I might feel 80 percent male. I&#8217;ll remove the makeup and I&#8217;ll wear a muscle shirt. Why do you care? What businesses is it of yours to require that I fill your inability to think of gender on a spectrum?&#8221;
Critics quickly began to call Tyson out over his take on the issue, arguing that people cared because it wasn&#8217;t just about muscle shirts and make-up — and suggesting that it was glossed over the reality that children were being subjected to dangerous and irreversible treatments in their attempts to change biological realities.
&#8220;A lot of mornings I don’t put on makeup. I’m still a woman. And a gender dysphoric person’s right to &#8216;pursue happiness&#8217; doesn’t mean they get to demand that the rest of the world play along. I always kind of thought @neiltyson was in the class of educated idiots. Now confirmed,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Megan Basham <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1686279915442704385" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>.
&#8220;Look, Neil, if it were just about people wanting to put on a dress and makeup, nobody would give a s***. Wear what you want. But it doesn&#8217;t stop there. You also want to give children surgery and dangerous drugs, compel speech with pronouns, and make it a hate crime to disagree with you. And that cannot stand. You need to go back to talking about the universe and lay off this divisive nonsense,&#8221; another said.
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Look Neil, if it were just about people wanting to put on a dress and makeup, nobody would give a shit. Wear what you want.
But it doesn&#39;t stop there. You also want to give children surgery and dangerous drugs, compel speech with pronouns, and make it a hate crime to disagree… <a href="https://t.co/dqoTelTF2d">https://t.co/dqoTelTF2d</a>
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The Blaze host Steve Deace quoted the book of Revelation, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1686341000082358273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;And all who worshipped the beast marveled at the beast, and said who is like the beast and who would make war with it? The beast was given proud words and blasphemies to exercise his authority.&#8221;

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A controversial study <a href="https://www.change.org/p/retract-the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2?source_location=search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">credited</a> with fueling the notion that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> had natural origins was just a &#8220;point of view&#8221; rather than a research project, the medical journal that published the paper is now saying.
Nature Medicine&#8217;s fresh characterization of the &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; report, as conveyed in a story from <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/prominent-scientist-downplayed-covid-lab-leak-theory-to-avoid-upsetting-china/ar-AA1ecREg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a> published over the weekend, stands in stark contrast to how chief editor Joao Monteiro pitched the findings when they were <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published in March of 2020</a> during the early stages of the pandemic.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s put conspiracy theories about the origin of #SARSCoV2 to rest and help to stop [the] spread of misinformation,&#8221; Monteiro said in <a href="https://twitter.com/JMinImmunoland/status/1239966983279366145" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> trumpeting the study at the time.
The study returned to the spotlight earlier this month after the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-agreed-to-downplay-chinese-lab-leak-theory-for-fear-of-s-show-messages-indicate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> internal messages between the authors of the paper before some of them testified before the panel. The messages indicate a desire to downplay the Chinese lab leak theory over concerns about international fallout, or, as Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) put it, showed a &#8220;preferred political narrative.&#8221;
One of the authors, Dr. Andrew Rambaut, said on February 2, 2020, &#8220;given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural process.&#8221;
In response, Dr. Kristian Andersen said, “Yup, I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but it&#8217;s [sic] impossible not to, especially given the circumstances.&#8221;
There are <a href="https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1682177068056956935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several more exchanges</a> that have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-accidentally-releases-heap-of-hidden-messages-on-conspiracy-to-suppress-lab-leak-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised eyebrows</a>, including a Slack message in which Rambaut said he personally thought &#8220;we should get away from all the strange coincidence stuff. I agree it smells really fishy but without a smoking gun it will not do us any good. The truth is never going to come out (if escape is the truth). Would need to be irrefutable evidence.&#8221;
Andersen and Robert Garry, another author on the paper, both testified under oath that they stand by their report&#8217;s ultimate conclusion that COVID was not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus — despite the Chinese lab leak theory appearing to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gained traction</a> over the natural emergence theory among agencies in the U.S. intelligence community — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/politics/covid-lab-leak-fauci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back against the idea</a> that the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci sought to steer the direction of their work.
Still, the internal messages among the &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; authors, in addition to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/politics/covid-lab-leak-fauci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerns about undue influence</a> from the National Institutes of Health, have prompted <a href="https://www.change.org/p/retract-the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2?source_location=search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a push</a> for Nature Magazine to retract the study.
Helping to lead the charge is Richard Ebright, the lab director for the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, who <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1682813196455772160">said</a> it is &#8220;deeply disingenuous for a scientific journal that allowed a fraudulent paper to pose as scientific research, for three years — and to influence opinion and policy for three years — would now refuse to retract the fraudulent paper on the grounds it was &#8216;not a research study.'&#8221;
Data journalist Nate Silver, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nate-silver-to-leave-abc-news-in-latest-media-shakeup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded</a> FiveThirtyEight, <a href="https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1682389702374981632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the messages reveal a &#8220;huge scandal.&#8221; Scientists such as Anderson &#8220;believed a lab leak was extremely plausible, if not likely, they concocted a plan to deceive the public about it, and they&#8217;ve been caught red-handed. There&#8217;s not really any ambiguity here. They are [as] unethical as it gets,&#8221; he added.
Andersen, who is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, has argued the internal messages have been taken out of context.
&#8220;These perfect examples of science in progress have been hijacked by grifters and conspiracy theorists, and turned into a nonsensical political circus where individual scientists (i.e., human beings) are being targeted and harassed,&#8221; he contended in a <a href="https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1681778726554705921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>.
In a statement declaring that there would not be a retraction of the study, Nature Medicine&#8217;s top editor Monteiro also warned against taking messages at face value.
&#8220;Concerns raised about any type of article in our journal are always considered carefully,&#8221; Monteiro said, according to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/covid-lab-leak-prof-andrew-rambaut-avoid-upsetting-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a>.
&#8220;However, when it comes to expressing opinions, it is our position that it is the authors’ prerogative to balance their views in a way that reflects the body of robust scientific knowledge available at the time of publication, as well as the impact of their findings,&#8221; Monteiro added. &#8220;Neither previous out-of-context remarks by the authors nor disagreements with the authors’ stated views, are, on their own, grounds for retraction. We have therefore concluded that retraction is not warranted at this time.&#8221;

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How A COVID Origins Study Went From Conspiracy Theory Slayer To Just A ‘Point Of View’

How A COVID Origins Study Went From Conspiracy Theory Slayer To Just A 'Point Of View'

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Scientists who authored a paper on the origins of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID-19</a> agreed the best course of action was to downplay the Chinese lab leak theory over concerns about international fallout, newly released internal messages show.
Dr. Andrew Rambaut and Dr. Kristian Andersen discussed the issue in an early February 2020 Slack conversation with colleagues, which took place several weeks before their &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; report got <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9">published in the journal</a> Nature Medicine in March of the same year.
Rambaut, on February 2, 2020, said, “given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural process.&#8221;
In response to Rambaut’s message, Andersen replied, “Yup, I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but its [sic] impossible not to, especially given the circumstances.&#8221;
Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic disclosed the Slack discussion in a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.07.11-SSCP-Interim-Staff-Report-Re.-Proximal-Origin_FINAL.pdf">staff report</a>, highlighting the exchange as evidence of &#8220;possible motives&#8221; by researchers to &#8220;defend China and play diplomat.&#8221;
During a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?529219-1/hearing-origins-covid-19#:~:text=They%2C%20along%20with%20others%2C%20authored,that%20occurred%20in%20Wuhan%2C%20China.">hearing on Tuesday</a>, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) even confronted Andersen with the Slack messages, saying the witness had a &#8220;preferred political narrative.&#8221; Still, Andersen and Robert Garry, another author on the paper, both testified under oath that they stand by their report&#8217;s ultimate conclusion that COVID-19 was not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
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The GOP staff report also raises concerns that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins, exerted undue influence over the &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; paper to dismiss the Chinese lab leak theory, which over time has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report">gained traction</a> over the natural emergence theory among agencies in the U.S. intelligence community.
Democrats on the COVID panel <a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/For%20Distribution-2023.07.11%20Proximal%20Origin%20Democratic%20Staff%20Report.pdf">released their own report</a> insisting that all evidence available to the subcommittee, including testimony from Anderson, &#8220;demonstrates that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins did not lead, oversee, or influence the drafting and publication of &#8216;Proximal Origin&#8217; or seek to suppress the lab leak theory through the paper’s conclusions.&#8221;

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Scientists Agreed To Downplay Chinese Lab Leak Theory For Fear Of ‘S*** Show’, Messages Indicate

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A nutritionist is warning of the lack of public information available on lab-grown meat, going as far as to say she’d rather eat her shoe than meat grown in a lab. 
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/usda-approves-sale-of-lab-grown-meat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the sale of “lab-grown” meat for commercial sale. In an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/nutritionist-slams-lab-grown-meat-worse-than-mcdonalds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the New York Post, Diana Rodgers, a registered dietitian and author of “Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat,” warned of the unknowns regarding lab-grown meat and advocated sticking to the natural form of meats and food. 
“I’d rather eat my shoe than lab-grown meat,” Rodgers told the Post. “McDonald’s is still better because the meat is a better option for vitamins,” she added later. 
Two California companies, Good Meat and Upside Foods, are now approved to sell chicken created from animal cells in the United States. The U.S. is just the second country in the world — after Singapore — to allow the commercial sale of lab-grown meat, which is also referred to as “cultured” and “cell-cultivated” meat.
Rodgers told the Post that she is concerned about a lack of publicly-available nutritional information regarding lab-grown meat. When asked whether lab-grown meat was healthy or not, Rodgers said, “We just don’t know.”
“I have yet to see a life cycle assessment on the production of it,” she said. “We don’t have any public data.” 
According to Good Meat, its lab-grown meat is made from the cells of chickens, salt, and a base of soy and wheat. They were reportedly unable to provide the Post with a nutritional label because, as of now, the product will only be served in restaurants, not grocery stores. Nevertheless, the company said its product was protein-rich, had “essential amino acids,” and was antibiotic-free. 
“The specific nutrition profile varies for each of our consumer products,” a Good Meat spokesman told the Post. “We use unmodified (non-GMO) chicken cells, which occur naturally in animals.”
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Similarly, Upside Foods told the outlet that their product was real meat that could be digested the same way as traditional meat, and sent the outlet a document detailing how the product was made. 
Rodgers argued that lab-grown meat is not the same as eating traditional meat. “They’re taking mono-crop plant sources, taking them into a factory and using high-energy processes to convert them into meat,” she said.
The FDA had already given the green light for lab-grown meat for the two companies, and the approval by the USDA means it can now be sold commercially, though the companies will not be bringing it to grocery stores yet due to high production costs. The product will reportedly cost upwards of $20 per pound when it comes to stores.
In March, Italy moved to ban the sale of lab-grown meat to protect its food heritage, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65110744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the BBC. The companies argue that lab-grown meat is a more environmentally sustainable option than animals from farms and ranches, despite a preprint <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in May, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, that found lab-grown meat may actually be worse for the environment than regular meat. 
The product, which is not vegetarian, is cultivated from animal cells, which are incubated and grown into masses of meat in steel tanks, then cut and made to look like traditional meat, Fox Business <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/usda-approves-first-lab-grown-meat-sold-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. Lab-grown meat is not the same as plant-based “meat” products, such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat.

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<a href="https://www.nbc15.com/2023/06/16/arrests-made-thefts-yogi-berras-world-series-rings-warhol-pollock-art/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arrests Made Over Theft Of Yogi Berra World Series Rings</a>
Charges against a ring of nine people for thefts of millions of dollars worth of paintings, sports memorabilia, and other valuables have been announced by federal authorities. The thefts took place over more than two decades at 20 museums, institutions, and stores across several states. The stolen goods included an Andy Warhol silkscreen, a Jackson Pollock painting, and nine World Series rings belonging to the late Yankees catcher Yogi Berra.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stem-Cell Babies</a>
Scientists in the United Kingdom claim that they have achieved a remarkable scientific feat — creating synthetic human embryos by using stem cells without any eggs or sperm. Professor Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz, of the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, announced the news on Wednesday at a conference in Boston, but the potential method is still a long way from being used clinically. It also raises serious ethical and legal questions.
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23476" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TCU To Host Class About Drag</a>
Texas Christian University’s course catalog shows the school will offer a course called “The Queer Art of Drag” this coming fall. The course will be taught by Dr. Nino Testa, who also goes by his drag name “Maria von Clapp.” A syllabus for the course indicates that students will use worksheets and vision boards to develop their own drag personas, culminating in a live lip-sync performance.
<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9768269/drug-bust-canola-oil-jugs-bc-australia-cbsa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Meth Ring Busted</a>
After a five-month investigation, law enforcement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have busted a massive drug syndicate accused of smuggling six tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand. The traffickers were intercepted smuggling the drugs through shipments of maple syrup and canola oil.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufc-fighter-conor-mcgregor-accused-of-sexual-assault-at-nba-finals-game-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conor McGregor Accused Of Sexual Assault</a>
UFC superstar Conor McGregor has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the bathroom at Kaseya Center, home to the Miami Heat. According to a report from TMZ, the incident allegedly took place at Game 4 of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Heat and Denver Nuggets. McGregor’s representatives have denied the allegations. According to demand letters from attorney Ariel Mitchell, the victim was separated from her friend by Heat and NBA security, where she was forced into a bathroom inside the arena. McGregor then emerged from a stall and forcibly kissed the woman while security guards allegedly guarded the doors.
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After 41 years at the helm of “Wheel of Fortune,” Pat Sajak has announced that this will be his final season. As Sajak told NBC’s Al Roker, he always put the show first.
Sajak took over for Chuck Woolery in 1983 and now holds the Guinness world record for the longest-serving host of a single game show. Ryan Seacrest, Whoopi Goldberg, and letter spinner Vanna White have all been mentioned as replacements.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-probing-pga-tour-liv-golf-merger-over-antitrust-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOJ Investigating PGA-LIV Merger</a>
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has informed the PGA Tour that it will review the organization’s proposed merger with LIV Golf. The announcement of the deal last week immediately triggered antitrust concerns and sent shockwaves through the golf world.
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