MK Ultra _ Science Deny Editorial

Knowles: Science Is Fake

Climate Change

Gender

Michael Knowles

Readers Pass

Science

Social Issues

U.S.

The Biden administration has reportedly launched a federal investigation into one of Elon Musk&#8217;s companies over allegations that the company may have violated animal-welfare laws.
The investigation into Neuralink, where Musk serves as CEO, was launched by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/">reported</a>.
The neurotechnology company is developing &#8220;ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,&#8221; according to its website.
The report said that the investigation centers around potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which &#8220;regulates the treatment of animals in research, teaching, testing, exhibition, transport, and by dealers,&#8221; according to the agency.
<a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA&#8217;S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%.</a>
The report admits that &#8220;Neuralink treats animals quite well compared to other research facilities,&#8221; according to interviews with employees. Executives at the company have talked of building a “Monkey Disneyland” at one testing facility while wanting the animals to live in a “monkey Taj Mahal” at another location.
A small number of employees at the company have reportedly claimed that Musk&#8217;s insistence on pushing for faster times in getting products to the point where they can be tested on humans has led to mistakes in the tests that have been conducted on various animals, including monkeys and pigs.
The employees allege that the mistakes have led to more animals having to be killed because of botched surgeries and because the experiments have to be conducted again. The animals are often killed at the end of the experiments because post mortem analysis is often needed to determine the effectiveness of the experiment.
Some of the mistakes that have reportedly plagued the experiments are simple in nature, like implanting the wrong device or implanting a device in on the wrong vertebra of animals.
The news comes after Musk said last week that he expects a the company&#8217;s wireless brain chips to enter human clinical trials within the next six months. The goal of the implants is to help disabled people be able to move and communicate.
&#8220;We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;The progress at first, particularly as it applies to humans, will seem perhaps agonizingly slow, but we are doing all of the things to bring it to scale in parallel. So, in theory, progress should be exponential.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-will-not-sign-autographs-ever-again-as-he-warns-assassination-risk-is-quite-significant">Elon Musk Will Not Sign Autographs ‘Ever Again’ As He Warns Assassination Risk Is ‘Quite Significant’</a>

Elon Musk Visits Germany

Biden Admin Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Company Neuralink: Report

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk

This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
All Eyes On Georgia
The<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/id-rather-be-fat-john-kennedy-slams-woke-high-iq-stupid-people-who-eat-kale-in-georgia-senate-campaign-pitch" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Georgia Senate runoff election</a> will be held Tuesday between incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker. Early voting has shattered even more records as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-breaks-record-on-last-day-of-early-voting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 1.8 million people</a> have already voted. Polls indicate that the race is still neck and neck.
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments
On Monday, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-starts-case-with-enormous-religious-freedom-implications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began oral arguments</a> in 303 Creative v. Elenis — a case that revolves around Colorado designer Lorie Smith, who is challenging the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. Smith is fighting for the right to create messages consistent with her religious beliefs and publish those beliefs on her website. The case could have far-reaching implications for religious freedom.
Justice Samuel Alito questioned Colorado’s Solicitor General about the specifics of the law.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Justice Alito: &quot;Do you think it&#39;s fair to equate opposition to same-sex marriage with opposition to interracial marriage?&quot;
Colorado Solicitor General: &quot;Yes, in how the law applies.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/xqYOSangjm">pic.twitter.com/xqYOSangjm</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1599802940729851910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text">
<div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text">
<div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer">
<div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first">
<div class="p-rich_text_block" dir="auto">
<div></div>
<div class="p-rich_text_section"><a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA&#8217;S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%.</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="c-message_kit__reaction_bar c-reaction_bar c-reaction_bar--light c-reaction_bar--collapsed" role="group" data-qa="reaction_bar" aria-label="Reactions" data-stringify-ignore="true"></div>
Bye-Bye, Monkey Pox Emergency
The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-finally-announces-end-of-emergency-declaration-for-monkeypox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Friday it will lift the public health emergency declaration for Monkeypox, after a precipitous decline in new cases. The declaration was issued in August 2022 and is set to expire at the end of January 2023.
GOP Wants To Ban TikTok
Republican members of the House are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-drafting-bill-to-ban-chinese-based-tiktok-among-federal-employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> creating legislation that would ban federal workers from using TikTok. Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher introduced legislation last month for an outright ban of the app in the U.S.
In a recent interview, Gallagher called the social platform “digital fentanyl.”
&#8220;It is a weapon that it can use to track your location, to <a href="https://localtoday.news/wi/wisconsin-congressman-warns-about-tiktok-demands-ban-48364.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collect</a> data on your keystrokes, which they can compile into a dossier they could use against you to blackmail you in the future,&#8221; Gallagher said.
2024 No Cake Walk For Dems, Senior Pollster Warns
Stan Greenberg, a former senior pollster to President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, is <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/bill-clintons-former-pollster-warns-070058773.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warning the Democratic Party</a> that the elections in 2024 will be more difficult than 2020 or 2022. Greenberg added that Biden is likely not the candidate who can win in the next presidential election.
&#8220;I think there’s a chance for an election like we had in 1992 when Bill Clinton came into kind of modernize the party,&#8221; Greenberg told Fox News. &#8220;In my mind, the part has to change on a whole range of issues in the same way that happened when Bill Clinton made the party a modernized and sustainable party.
Wormholes Could Become Real?
Researchers have created a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/01/scientists-simulate-baby-wormhole-without-rupturing-space-and-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">simulated</a> wormhole using a quantum computer, according to a paper published in the journal Nature. The simulation suggests that the popular sci-fi concept could become a reality.
Morality Police Abolished
In international news, Iran has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-morality-police-abolished-attorney-general-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> abolished its morality police after months of nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for not properly wearing a hijab.
The Drama Loves Taylor Swift
The Taylor Swift tour drama continues as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-fans-sue-live-nation-over-eras-tour-ticket-presale-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fans are now suing</a> Live Nation Entertainment for breach of contract and fraud following the presale fiasco for her “Eras Tour” tickets.
Bob McGrath, Deceased, Age 90
And, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/original-sesame-street-star-bob-mcgrath-dies-at-90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob McGrath</a>, one of the four original hosts of “Sesame Street” when it premiered in 1969, died Sunday at the age of 90.
To listen to the audio version of this podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.

Monday stock photo

Monday Afternoon Update: ‘Digital Fentanyl,’ Georgia Runoff, Simulated Wormholes

Monday Afternoon Update: 'Digital Fentanyl,' Georgia Runoff, Simulated Wormholes

2024

Free Speech

General

Georgia

Morning Wire

Podcast

Supreme Court

TikTok

Hawaii officials are closely watching a major highway on the Big Island as lava flow from the Mauna Loa volcano threatens to shut it down.
Hawaii Route 200 covers more than 50 miles across the island between Hilo and Kona. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory&#8217;s latest news release on Saturday indicated that the lava flow was about 2.4 miles away.
&#8220;Fissure 3 is generating a lava flow traveling to the north toward the Daniel K. Inouye Highway (Saddle Road) that has reached relatively flatter ground and slowed down significantly over the past several days, as expected,&#8221; it <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Rep. Kaiali&#8217;i Kahele (D-HI) and other Hawaiian officials requested federal assistance in a letter to President Joe Biden.
<a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dwsite&amp;cid=dwplus&amp;mid=z&amp;xid=0" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA&#8217;S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%.</a>
&#8220;We are not waiting for the lava to cross the DKI, we are preparing the @WhiteHouse now in the event that it does. Today, @RepEdCase and I sent a letter to the President to update and prepare the administration on the #maunaloa,&#8221; Kahele tweeted on Friday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
We are not waiting for the lava to cross the DKI, we are preparing the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> now in the event that it does. Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepEdCase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepEdCase</a> and I sent a letter to the President to update and prepare the administration on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/maunaloa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#maunaloa</a> 🌋. <a href="https://t.co/oiHyH4pTex">pic.twitter.com/oiHyH4pTex</a>
&mdash; Congressman Kaiali‘i Kahele (@RepKahele) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepKahele/status/1598498806156259328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
&#8220;Access restricted by the lava flow can severely impact emergency services as one of the island’s primary hospitals is located in East Hawai’i. Additionally, a traffic diversion will add significant congestion to two state highways,&#8221; the letter from Kahele and other Hawaiian officials stated.
On Thursday, experts <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/us/hawaii-mauna-loa-kilauea-eruption-sunday/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> that the earliest the lava could reach the highway would be in about a week, indicating a time around December 8 or 9. The lava flow remains unpredictable, however, and could change.
<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/usgs-hvo-new-mauna-loa-webcam-views" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Several live webcams</a> from the U.S. Geological Survey continue to track the lava flow.
The blocked roadway could add hours to commute times for residents as drivers seek alternative routes.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawaiis-largest-active-volcano-erupts-ash-fall-warning-issued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Mauna Loa began erupting more than a week ago, with lava flow warnings issued to the surrounding area.
The eruption of Mauna Loa, considered the world’s largest active volcano, was detected at approximately 11:30 p.m. local time on November 27 inside the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The overnight eruption also led to several small earthquakes recorded in the area.

Mauna Loa

Hawaii Volcano Threatens To Cutoff Major Highway

Hawaii

Weather

The federal government has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists called Hacks/Hackers to develop software that will encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over &#8220;harmful&#8221; posts, and &#8220;correct misinformation&#8221; by replying with text suggested by the software.
The group is also organizing <a href="https://newsq.net/2022/07/29/why-does-wikipedia-need-a-reliable-sources-list-on-vaccines-update/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia censors</a> to determine who is a &#8220;credible source&#8221; on vaccines, and block anyone else from being cited on the online encyclopedia. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220823173618/https:/www.hackshackers.com/hh-is-hiring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Job ads</a> for the project do not require that applicants have any expertise in medicine.
That <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vaccine_safety/Reliable_sources#Perennial_sources">list</a> is already taking shape on Wikipedia, with liberal outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and The Atlantic all marked &#8220;reliable.&#8221; Conservative sites, including The Daily Wire, Daily Mail, Epoch Times, and The Federalist, are all classified as either &#8220;unreliable&#8221; or &#8220;conspiracy.&#8221;
The group led by Hacks/Hackers received $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop &#8220;the <a href="https://artt.cs.washington.edu/response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust</a> (ARTT), a suite of expert-informed resources that are intended to provide guidance and encouragement to individuals and communities as they address contentious or difficult topics online,&#8221; it <a href="https://www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hackers-partners-advance-phase-ii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on October 24.
Users are encouraged to paste in their friends&#8217; Twitter and Facebook posts, and the tool will tell them how &#8220;harmful&#8221; they are. Then it &#8220;suggests relevant responses through tailored response examples or templates&#8221; that the user should copy and paste as a reply, according to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qye0Fk3gcp8&amp;list=PLGhBP1C7iCOlKk7pNWHP6BN7irpwy9z9Y&amp;index=15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> demonstrating the software.
&#8220;Every day there are motivated citizens, like librarians, health communicators, and amateur volunteers, who engage with the misinformation that is posted by their peers and make efforts to share reliable information to empower their communities,&#8221; the video said
ARTT says it uses psychology techniques to change people&#8217;s views&#8211;though when purveyors of “misinformation” do similar, the ARTT tool calls it &#8220;psychological manipulation tactics.&#8221;
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-469649 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ss1-1021x576.png" alt="" width="1021" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss1-1021x576.png 1021w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss1-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss1-768x433.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss1.png 1468w" sizes="(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px" /></div>
Another ARTT <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3tnct4zDg&amp;list=PLGhBP1C7iCOlKk7pNWHP6BN7irpwy9z9Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> said that while social media platforms have made efforts to combat misinformation, influencing people&#8217;s views is more effective when it comes from friends than from social media companies directly.
&#8220;That&#8217;s why we want to focus on these peer connections when it comes to having these conversations online &#8230; Instead of coming to you from the platform, it&#8217;s actually coming to you from a friend,&#8221; the video said.
Project materials suggest the view that journalists should help enforce that others only echo &#8220;authoritative guidance&#8221; from governmental and quasi-governmental bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO), which served as an advisor on the project.  The group also indicates that the vaccine issue is just a pilot project for using the software on other topics.
Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center, which monitors bias in media, said journalists like those behind the project &#8220;want to remove dissenting views from the internet and leave the rest in a state of reprogramming. For a profession that’s allegedly taught to oppose a herd mentality, they sure seem hell-bent on creating manufactured consensus.&#8221; The NSF, for its part, is acting like &#8220;a weapon to be wielded against the American people,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
Hacks/Hackers did not return a request for comment.
The ARTT funding is part of NSF&#8217;s <a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence-accelerator/updates/nsfs-convergence-accelerator-releases-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Convergence Accelerator</a> program, which has a focus on &#8220;Trust &amp; Authenticity in Communication Systems.&#8221;
&#8220;Modern life depends on access to communications systems that offer trustworthy and accurate information. The Convergence Accelerator is funding tools and techniques to help the nation effectively prevent, mitigate and adapt to critical threats to communication systems,&#8221; NSF said, noting that it is &#8220;very hands-on with our funded researchers.&#8221;
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-470135" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ss2.png" alt="" width="1361" height="814" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss2.png 1361w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss2-300x179.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss2-963x576.png 963w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/ss2-768x459.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px" /></div>
In September 2021, the Convergence Accelerator awarded <a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence-accelerator/portfolio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$21 million</a> to 28 groups including Hacks/Hackers as well as to others like &#8220;Course Correct: Led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this team creates a dynamic misinformation identification dashboard, empowers journalists to identify misinformation networks, correct misinformation within the affected networks, and test the effectiveness of corrections.&#8221;
It also went to &#8220;Expert Voices Together: Led by George Washington University, this team is building a rapid-response system to assist journalists, scientists, and other experts whose work is being undermined by coordinated online harassment campaigns.&#8221;
In August 2022, 12 teams including Hacks/Hackers went on to a more heavily-funded Phase II, at a combined $60 million.
“Phase II of the ARTT project is led by Hacks/Hackers, a non-profit organization focused on journalism and technology, and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science &amp; Engineering at University of Washington. Throughout Phase I, a variety of organizations including Wikimedia DC, MuckRock Foundation, and Social Science Research Council collaborated and partnered in the project,” Hacks/Hackers said. “Additional advising in Phase I has come from members of WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net.”
Hacks/Hackers is <a href="https://www.hackshackers.com/about/organizers/">governed</a> by three people with connections to the left-wing Knight Foundation, including San Francisco-based journalist Burt Herman and former New York Times writer Jennifer Lee. Knight has also <a href="https://knightfoundation.org/reports/opennews-insights-from-building-a-community-of-newsroom-technologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funded</a> a similar group, OpenNews, which runs the <a href="https://opennews.org/what/community/dei-coalition/join/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms</a>. The Wikipedia project is an initiative of <a href="https://newsq.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsQ</a>, a Hacks/Hackers subsidiary that is also supported by the NSF.
NSF recently spent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/500000-national-science-foundation-grant-produced-paper-saying-science-is-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$500,000</a> for a 22-page study that used Critical Race Theory to argue that science itself is racist.

NPC Wojak

Feds Pay Journalism Group $5M To Create Software To Turn People Into Anti-‘Misinformation’ Bots

Censorship

COVID-19 Vaccine

Journalism

Media Bias

Misinformation

Social Media Censorship

An underwater volcano that erupted earlier this year is believed to be the “largest ever recorded” with modern equipment, researchers <a href="https://niwa.co.nz/news/tonga-eruption-confirmed-as-largest-ever-recorded" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> this week.
On January 15, 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in the Tongan archipelago, triggering tsunami waves and sending a sonic boom that could be heard throughout the world. Since then, a team of scientists have been investigating the historic eruption, concluding that it turned out to be one for the record books. 
“The eruption reached record heights, being the first we’ve ever seen to break through into the mesosphere,” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/tongan-volcano-eruption-largest-recorded-zealand-scientists/story?id=93708595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) marine geologist Kevin Mackay. “It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” he added.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
“It was a shotgun blast directly into the sky”. 💥
NIWA scientists have confirmed January’s eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano was the largest ever recorded with modern technology. 🌋
🎥 Watch the full video here ➡️ <a href="https://t.co/XBEIjuWE7C">https://t.co/XBEIjuWE7C</a> <a href="https://t.co/BMwcp0YP7C">pic.twitter.com/BMwcp0YP7C</a>
&mdash; NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href="https://twitter.com/niwa_nz/status/1594483275493359616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The eruption in the South Pacific Ocean displaced 10 cubic kilometers of seafloor, which is equal to 2.6 million Olympic sized swimming pools, according to the NIWA. According to their findings, 75% of that material ended up within 20 kilometers of the volcano, meaning much of it remains unaccounted for.
“The volume of this ‘shotgun’ plume is estimated to be 1.9 [cubic kilometers] of material, which has been circulating in our atmosphere for months, causing the stunning sunsets we saw following the eruption,” Mackay said. The group added that the volcano’s caldera, or crater, is now 700 meters deeper than it was prior to the eruption.
NASA Earth Observatory <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149367/dramatic-changes-at-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that the blast from the volcanic eruption “released hundreds of times the equivalent mechanical energy” of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The powerful blast was <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/12/asia/tonga-eruption-biggest-in-more-a-century-scn/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heard</a> all the way in Alaska, 6,000 miles away.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/NASAEarth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASAEarth</a> scientists are tracking the effects of the Jan. 15 volcanic eruption in Tonga and sharing satellite data with disaster response agencies: <a href="https://t.co/LKO6BWlFkq">https://t.co/LKO6BWlFkq</a> <a href="https://t.co/6KhVMImRh3">pic.twitter.com/6KhVMImRh3</a>
&mdash; NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1483970727913078787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Pyroclastic flows, which were said to be one of the great unknowns from the eruption, “are currents made up of dense lava, volcanic ash, and gases which can reach temperatures of 1,000 [degrees celsius] and speeds of 700km/hr,” according to NIWA. Researchers collected 150 sediment cores that were sent to the University of Otago in New Zealand and the National Oceanographic Center in the United Kingdom, revealing deposits up to 80 kilometers away from the volcano.
These are the first pyroclastic flows of this magnitude, according to Mackay. “It’s the interaction with water that made this event so unprecedented. It’s still speculation but the latest science shows that this phenomenon may be more exaggerated under water,” he said.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
🧵 Here are some amazing facts about the eruption ⬇️
🌋 Most of the material was deposited within 20kms of the volcano. But more than three cubic kilometres appears to have been shot up to 58km into the sky – causing the stunning sunsets we’ve been seeing.
📸 Pununu Tukuafu <a href="https://t.co/QoYKhXF22X">pic.twitter.com/QoYKhXF22X</a>
&mdash; NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href="https://twitter.com/niwa_nz/status/1594483285035393024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The tsunami waves that were created by the blast reached 15 meters high when they hit parts of Tonga, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60039542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">devastating</a> the small South Pacific kingdom and leaving it covered in volcanic ash. 1,500 people were displaced and four were killed throughout the Tongan islands, according to the United States Geological Survey, who also noted that damage was recorded in Fiji, Hawaii, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, and California.
“While this eruption was large – one of the biggest since Krakatoa in 1883 – there have been others of similar magnitude since then that didn’t behave in the same way,” Mackay said, adding that “the difference here is that it’s an underwater volcano and it’s also part of the reason we got such big tsunami waves.”

Views Of Tonga Following Volcanic Eruption And Tsunami

‘Shotgun Blast Directly Into The Sky’: Scientists Say Underwater Volcano Eruption Was The ‘Largest Ever Recorded’

Scientists Say Underwater Volcano Eruption Was The ‘Largest Ever Recorded’

History

Natural Disaster

Pacific Ocean

While many pregnant women generally know of the risks involving drinking alcohol while pregnant, a new study is shedding light on the effect that even a small amount of the substance can have on a developing baby’s brain.
A recent MRI <a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/pregnancy-alcohol-brain-development-21920/">study</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221122111554.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that even minor to moderate amounts of drinking alcohol during pregnancy can alter a baby’s brain structure and postpone brain development. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can open up the growing fetus to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
If a baby is exposed to alcohol in utero, he or she can go on to have a scope of these FASD symptoms, such as learning disabilities, language and speech delays, problems seeing or hearing, heart, bone, and kidney issues, as well as physical limitations, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/facts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC).
&#8220;It might be a very small risk associated with every glass you might drink during pregnancy, but you never know if that may be the one that pushes you over the edge,&#8221; co-author Dr. Marlene Stuempflen <a href="https://www.insider.com/brain-imaging-study-1-drink-week-pregnant-change-fetal-brain-2022-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Insider.
In the study, scientists looked at fetal MRI scans of 24 unborn babies who had been exposed to alcohol while in utero. When the MRIs were conducted, the babies’ gestational ages were 22 to 36 weeks. Mothers submitted anonymous answers to questions about alcohol in order to reveal the babies’ exposure to alcohol. 
&#8220;Seventeen of 24 mothers drank alcohol relatively infrequently, with average alcohol consumption of less than one alcoholic drink per week,&#8221; lead author Patric Kienast <a href="https://press.rsna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_target.cfm?id=2384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Nevertheless, we were able to detect significant changes in these fetuses based on prenatal MRI.”
Three of the mothers <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/drinking-during-pregnancy-may-change-babys-brain-structure#Details-on-the-study-on-alcohol-and-babies-brains" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they had one to three drinks each week, two said they consumed four to six drinks each week, and one said she drink an average of at least 14 drinks each week. Six of them also said they engaged in binge drinking alcohol at least once while they were pregnant, which is defined in a press release as more than four drinks in one instance.
“We found the greatest changes in the temporal brain region and STS,&#8221; the study’s senior author Gregor Kasprian, said. &#8220;We know that this region, and specifically the formation of the STS, has a great influence on language development during childhood.&#8221;
In the fetuses who had been exposed to alcohol, their “fetal total maturation score (fTMS) was significantly lower than in the age-matched controls, and the right superior temporal sulcus (STS) was shallower,” the press release noted. “The STS is involved in social cognition, audiovisual integration and language perception.”
While it’s not clear how the babies will be impacted once they are born, Kienast said &#8220;we can strongly assume that the changes we discovered contribute to the cognitive and behavioral difficulties that may occur during childhood.&#8221;
&#8220;Pregnant women should strictly avoid alcohol consumption,&#8221; Kienast added. &#8220;As we show in our study, even low levels of alcohol consumption can lead to structural changes in brain development and delayed brain maturation.&#8221;
The CDC <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8735564/">noted</a> that there was no <a href="https://utswmed.org/medblog/alcohol-during-pregnancy/#:~:text=Pregnancy,%20drinking,%20and%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic&amp;text=In%20both%20years,%20approximately%2014,women%20consuming%20alcohol%20in%20pregnancy." target="_blank" rel="noopener">difference</a> in how many pregnant women said they drank alcohol in 2019 and 2020, but in both years, around 14% to 15% of pregnant women said they drank alcohol and around 6% said they had engaged in binge drinking.
&#8220;Unfortunately, many pregnant women are unaware of the influence of alcohol on the fetus during pregnancy,&#8221; Kienast noted. &#8220;Therefore, it is our responsibility not only to do the research but also to actively educate the public about the effects of alcohol on the fetus.”
The study’s findings will be presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting next week and have not been published yet.

B59F20CB-BC2B-4ED4-829B-A2F2903DDAA3_1_201_a

Study Shows Even Light Drinking In Pregnancy Can Affect Baby’s Brain

MRI RSNA Study Shows Even Light Drinking In Pregnancy Can Affect Baby's Brain

Alcohol

Health

Pregnancy

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee">Tennessee</a> couple made history by welcoming a pair of twins born from embryos that were frozen 30 years ago.
Before the birth of these two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children">babies</a>, the record for longest-frozen embryos resulting in a successful birth was 27 years.
Rachel Ridgeway delivered Lydia (5 lbs. 11 oz.) and Timothy (6 lbs. 7 oz.) on October 31 after adopting the embryos from the National Embryo Donation Center. Ridgeway and her husband have four other children who were not conceived using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/science">fertility treatments</a>.
&#8220;There is something mind-boggling about it,&#8221; Rachel’s husband, Philip Ridgeway, told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/health/30-year-old-embryos-twins/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;In a sense, they&#8217;re our oldest children, even though they&#8217;re our smallest children.&#8221;
The embryos originally belonged to an anonymous married couple at a West Coast fertility facility and were created using the sperm of the husband, who was in his early 50s, and a 34-year-old egg donor. The embryos were then frozen in 1992.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve never had in our minds a set number of children we&#8217;d like to have,&#8221; Philip continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always thought we&#8217;ll have as many as God wants to give us, and … when we heard about embryo adoption, we thought that&#8217;s something we would like to do.&#8221;
The outlet noted that five embryos were thawed in February and three survived. &#8220;You just showed me a picture of my three children,&#8221; Rachel said of seeing photos of the embryos. &#8220;I have to have them all.&#8221;
Following the transfer, two embryos were successfully implanted. 
The Ridgeways said they had specifically sought out embryos that had been waiting a long time for parents to adopt them. “We weren’t looking to get the embryos that have been frozen the longest in the world,” Philip explained. “We just wanted the ones that had been waiting the longest.”
The National Embryo Donation Center is a private, Christian-led organization that requires recipients to pass a “family assessment” and matches embryos with couples who are “a genetic male and a genetic female married for a minimum of 3 years.” The group said it has helped more than 1,260 babies from donated embryos find families willing to adopt and birth them.
“Embryo adoption is not a legal ‘adoption’ at all, at least in the sense of a traditional adoption which occurs after birth,” the National Embryo Donation Center says. “However, the term allows all parties to conceptualize the process and eventual reality of raising a non-genetically related child.”
Embryos can potentially survive in liquid nitrogen indefinitely. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem like a sperm or an egg or embryo stored in liquid nitrogen ever experiences time,&#8221; Atlanta fertility specialist Dr. Jim Toner said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like that Rip Van Winkle thing. It just wakes up 30 years later, and it never knew it was asleep.&#8221;
“If you’re frozen at nearly 200 degrees below zero, I mean, the biological processes essentially slow down to almost nothing,” Dr. John Goner, who assisted the Ridgeways, agreed. “And so perhaps the difference between being frozen for a week, a month, a year, a decade, two decades, it doesn’t really matter.”

Baby Toes

Couple Welcomes Twins From 30-Year-Old Frozen Embryos, Breaking Previous Records

Children

Medical Research

Parenting

Tennessee

The remarkable James Webb Telescope has now offered mankind a possible glimpse of the farthest starlight from Earth anyone has ever seen, and a galaxy that was formed closer to the original Big Bang than any galaxy seen before.
Two galaxies billions of light-years farther behind the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744 were discovered by the Webb. One is estimated as having come into existence 450 million years after the Big Bang — which has been estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago — while the second, titled GLASS-z12, emerged only 350 million years after the explosion. Both galaxies are estimated to be tiny compared to the Milky Way galaxy of which Earth is a part.
“These observations just make your head explode. This is a whole new chapter in astronomy. It&#8217;s like an archaeological dig, and suddenly you find a lost city or something you didn’t know about. It’s just staggering,” said Paola Santini, one the authors of a research paper led by Marco Castellano of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, Italy.
Another research paper outlining the discovery was led by Rohan Naidu of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both papers were published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“With Webb, we were amazed to find the most distant starlight that anyone had ever seen, just days after Webb released its first data,&#8221; Naidu <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-draws-back-curtain-on-universe-s-early-galaxies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of the second galaxy.
“Everything we see is new. Webb is showing us that there&#8217;s a very rich universe beyond what we imagined,” Tommaso Treu of the University of California at Los Angeles echoed. “Once again the universe has surprised us. These early galaxies are very unusual in many ways.”
The first galaxy reportedly has a redshift of 10.5 while GLASS-z12 has one of 12.5. Redshift and blueshift describe how a light wave moves, whether toward us or away from us. As a light is stretched, it is “shifted” toward the red end of the light spectrum. Thus the greater the redshift, the farther the light is from us.
GLASS-z12 is thus even farther away from us than the first galaxy found with it.
“At least three types of redshift occur in the universe — from the universe&#8217;s expansion, from the movement of galaxies relative to each other and from ‘ redshift,’ which happens when light is shifted due to the massive amount of matter inside of a galaxy,” Space.com <a href="https://www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explains</a>.
Up until the discovery of GLASS-z12, the farthest known galaxy that was discovered was GN-z11, found in 2016 by the Hubble Space telescope; its redshift was 11.1.
“We’ve nailed something that is incredibly fascinating. These galaxies would have had to have started coming together maybe just 100 million years after the big bang. Nobody expected that the dark ages would have ended so early,” Garth Illingworth a member of Naidu&#8217;s team, enthused. “The primal universe would have been just one hundredth its current age. It’s a sliver of time in the 13.8 billion-year-old evolving cosmos.”

Space warp travel trough universe

‘Just Make Your Head Explode’: Scientists Awed As Webb Finds Farthest Light Seen By Man

Scientists Awed As Webb Finds Farthest Light Seen By Man

Air and Space

Big Bang

James Webb Telescope

World

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> astrophysicist is organizing an archeological expedition to the South <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pacific-ocean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pacific</a> in search of a possible <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alien</a> probe.
Professor Abraham &#8220;Avi&#8221; Loeb <a href="https://www.news.com.au/national/ive-got-news-for-you/podcast/addc2b261d7ffa5efaf36d1dc52803c0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday that he had received $1.5 million in funding to lead an expedition to Papua New Guinea (PNG), an island north of Australia, to scope the ocean floor for a 2014 meteor that crashed into the ocean which he suspects may be of alien origin.
“The fundamental question is whether it was an unusual rock from another star, or was it a spacecraft,” Loeb <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/16/harvard-professor-avi-loeb-to-search-for-crashed-alien-technology/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during an episode of the “I’ve Got News For You” podcast. “We’re planning an expedition to Papua New Guinea and scoop the ocean floor and figure out the composition of this object.”
Some believe that the object, which was officially identified as an interstellar meteor by the U.S. government, could be some kind of an alien probe. The object is said to be the first confirmed object known to have crashed into Earth from another solar system.
Loeb’s expedition to PNG, a former Australian colony, will head to the nation’s Manus Island, where the object went down in the waters around the island. Manus Island was also the location for many years of an Australian detention center for migrants.
&nbsp;
<div id="attachment_465165" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465165" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-465165" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-300x169.jpg" alt="Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea. It is covered in rugged tropical rain forest. Australian government has been relocating asylum seekers to the island between 2001-2004 and since 2012. " width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-501828769-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Manus Island: Credit: (c) HADI ZAHER via Getty Images.</div>
The trip will take place in March or April 2023 as the researchers hope to find the object in order to better understand its composition. They will be using giant magnets to comb the Pacific floor where the meteor is believed to have crashed.
In 2017, another object, known as the ​​Oumuamua, or “messenger sent from the distant past,” slingshotted around the sun. At the time, it was the <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vd4w/alien-hunting-astronomer-says-there-may-be-a-second-interstellar-object-on-earth-in-new-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vd4w/alien-hunting-astronomer-says-there-may-be-a-second-interstellar-object-on-earth-in-new-study" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">first known</a> interstellar object to pass through our solar system — before speculation from Loeb and later confirmation from the government about the 2014 meteor.
“And then with my student a couple of years later, we found that actually four years before Oumuamua there was a meteor that was discovered by the U.S. government, which moved really fast at 28 miles per second, disintegrated in the lower atmosphere of the Earth about 100 miles off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and it came from outside the solar system,” he said.
Loeb, who is in charge of Harvard’s UFO-research dedicated Galileo Program, added that the light curve of the meteor demonstrated that it was composed of something stronger than iron and most other space rocks studied by the government.
<div id="attachment_465172" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-465172" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-465172" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1093919982-300x200.jpg" alt="CAMBRIDGE, MA - JANUARY, 28: Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA on January 29, 2019." width="300" height="200" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-1093919982-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-1093919982-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-1093919982-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/11/GettyImages-1093919982.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Photo by Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images.</div>
Due to the fact that the nearest star to Earth is more than 25 trillion miles away and the fact it would take millions of years to reach the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, Loeb claims that any alien civilization would likely send a probe instead of attempting a journey itself due to the “hazardous conditions of space.”
“I call these AI astronauts and most likely we will see gadgets that are very intelligent; they might be well ahead of what we have,” he said. “It might take us a while to figure out what they really are doing here and what they’re seeking, but at the same time we can distinguish them from rocks, natural objects like meteors falling on Earth.”
The scientist added that he had promised to ensure that any “gadget” found at the bottom of the ocean would go to a museum, and not end up with the government. “Because it would represent modernity for us, even though it represents ancient history for the senders,” he said.
Speculation about otherworldly beings crashing near PNG is not the first time the island has been <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-03-12/png-hunts-giant-mystery-creature/150454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shrouded</a> in mystery. In 2004, police scoured remote areas of the island with M-16s and machetes after locals reported a “dinosaur” sighting. The animal apparently had the tail of a crocodile and the head of a dog.
A previous version of this article said Oumuamua passed through Earth and exploded over Portugal. It has been corrected.

Meteorite Against Clear Sky At Night

‘AI Astronauts’: Harvard Professor To Lead Expedition To Locate Possible Alien Probe Off Of Remote Island

Harvard Professor To Lead Expedition To Locate Possible Alien Probe Off Of Remote Island

Aliens

Australia

Outer Space

Researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new vaccine for the dangerous drug fentanyl, which has killed thousands of Americans.
Illicit fentanyl, which is primarily smuggled into the United States from Mexico, is being mixed with other illicit drugs, then sold as powders, nasal sprays, or even pills looking like legitimate prescription drugs.
“Over 150 people die every day from overdoses of synthetic opioids including fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine,” SciTech Daily <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/fentanyl-vaccine-breakthrough-potential-game-changer-for-opioid-epidemic/">notes</a>.
“Two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past usage,” the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) <a href="https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>.
“Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered,” Anne Milgram, administrator of the DEA, has<a href="https://www.dea.gov/fentanylawareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> stated</a>. “Fentanyl is everywhere. From large metropolitan areas to rural America, no community is safe from this poison. We must take every opportunity to spread the word to prevent fentanyl-related overdose death and poisonings from claiming scores of American lives every day.”
Roughly 80% of people who have become dependent on fentanyl suffer a relapse, estimates say. But the new discovery can act as a relapse prevention agent.
“Our vaccine is able to generate anti-fentanyl antibodies that bind to the consumed fentanyl and prevent it from entering the brain, allowing it to be eliminated out of the body via the kidneys,” lead author Colin Haile stated. “Thus, the individual will not feel the euphoric effects and can ‘get back on the wagon’ to sobriety.”
“These preclinical results demonstrate efficacy in neutralizing FEN’s effects and warrant further development as a potential therapeutic for OUD and overdose in humans,” the study <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/14/11/2290/htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a>, adding, “We expect minimal side effects in clinical trials because the two components of our formulation (CRM and dmLT) are already in other vaccines on the market or have been tested in multiple human clinical trials and shown to be safe and effective.”
No side effects were observed in the rats used in the study; the research team has plans to start manufacturing clinical-grade vaccine soon followed by clinical trials in humans .
Study co-author Therese Kosten added, “Fentanyl use and overdose is a particular treatment challenge that is not adequately addressed with current medications because of its pharmacodynamics and managing acute overdose with the short-acting naloxone is not appropriately effective as multiple doses of naloxone are often needed to reverse fentanyl’s fatal effects.”

New York CIty sweep of homeless encampment

New Vaccine Targets Fentanyl, May Offer Route Back To Sobriety

Fentanyl

Vaccines

The Department of Justice wants Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, 38, who made billions of dollars before she was ultimately convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy, to spend 15 years in prison rather than walk free.
Additionally, the DOJ wants Holmes to pay $800 million in restitution to investors who were defrauded.
“Considering the extensiveness of Holmes&#8217; fraud&#8230; the sentencing of 180 months&#8217; imprisonment would reflect the seriousness of the offenses, provide for just punishment for the offenses, and deter Holmes and others,” federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/business/us-seeks-15-years-in-prison-for-elizabeth-holmes-over-theranos-fraud-3518686">stated.</a>
Theranos Inc. claimed initially that it could use a few drops of blood to obtain results as far-ranging as cancer and cholesterol. “Investors have poured more than $400 million into Theranos, <a href="http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/?co=Theranos" data-type="link">valuing it at $9 billion</a> and her majority stake at more than half that, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901">reported</a> in 2015.
By 2014, Holmes, worth $4.5 billion, was touted as the youngest self-made female billionaire. But In 2015, the Journal commenced writing about the company, finding that its claims were inaccurate. In January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services charged Theranos with deficient practices that could jeopardize patients’ health.
Theranos soon closed its medical lab operations. In April 2017, over 175,000 people were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/arizona-attorney-general-reaches-settlement-with-theranos-1492538329?mod=article_inline">awarded</a> a full refund in a settlement that forced Theranos to pay $4.65 million into an Arizona state reimbursement fund.
“I wanted to make sure that every Arizonan who had paid for a test, whether or not it was accurate, would get a refund,” Attorney General Mark Brnovich stated.
In June 2018, federal prosecutors charged Holmes and her number two, Ramesh Balwani, with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. The trial was delayed twice, once for the COVID pandemic and another when Holmes told the court she was pregnant.
At her trial in November 2021, Holmes said she had not targeted former employees Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung, who had given information to the Journal. But prosecutors displayed a letter sent to Cheung from a law firm threatening litigation if she confessed trade secrets, and indicated that someone confronted Shultz and urged him to sign legal papers.

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Attends Court Hearing

DOJ Wants Theranos Founder, Once Youngest Woman Self-Made Billionaire, In Jail For 15 Years: Report

DOJ Wants Theranos Founder, Youngest Self-Made Billionaire, In Jail For 15 Years: Report

Theranos

Menu