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HHS Quietly Adds Rachel Levine’s Real Name to Portrait Due to Biological Reality
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HHS Quietly Adds Rachel Levine’s Real Name to Portrait Due to Biological Reality

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has altered display information under the official portrait of Admiral Rachel Levine, according to NPR, adding Levine’s previous name beneath the framed photograph inside the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C. Levine, born Richard, served as assistant secretary for health under former President Joe Biden.

NPR reported that “Levine’s official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine’s previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.”

Breitbart News previously noted that Levine had served as Pennsylvania’s health secretary before joining HHS.

Levine’s spokesperson, Adrian Shanker, described the update as an act of “bigotry against her.”

HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon, however, told NPR, “Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science.

We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health.” NPR did not use the name Richard in its report.

Levine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021 after being nominated by President Biden to serve as assistant secretary for health.

During the confirmation process, Levine faced questioning from Senate Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who pressed Levine on medical treatments for minors identifying as transgender.

Critics pointed to Levine’s past support for a January 2020 study promoting puberty-blocking drugs for young children and recommending the acceleration of cross-sex hormones for homeless teens with gender dysphoria who were estranged from their parents.

In 2022, while speaking at a Democratic National Committee pride month event, Levine said, “Gender affirming care is lifesaving, medically necessary, age-appropriate, and a critical tool for health care providers.”

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was violently assassinated in September, had previously been locked out of his Twitter account in 2022 for comments about Levine’s biological background.

Kirk wrote, “Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man. He had a wife and a family. He ‘transitioned’ to being a woman in 2011, Joe Biden appointed Levine to be a 4-Star Admiral and now USA Today has named ‘Rachel’ Levine as a ‘Woman of the Year.’ Where are the feminists?”

Kirk later told Breitbart News, “Twitter just proved it doesn’t believe in truth. It believes in narrative. It doesn’t believe in science. It believes in ideology. It doesn’t believe in biology, it believes in gender theories. They don’t want the truth, they want submission. We cannot give them what they want.”

Scientists Flag Ice Age Risk While UN Pushes ‘Boiling Planet’ Rhetoric
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Scientists Flag Ice Age Risk While UN Pushes ‘Boiling Planet’ Rhetoric

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A new study by climate researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Diego, warns that changes in a major Atlantic current could potentially trigger conditions associated with a new ice age.

The findings were published in Communications Earth & Environment and have drawn wide attention due to their contrast with long-standing claims about accelerating global temperature increases.

The research focuses on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a system of ocean currents that moves warm water from the tropics toward the Northern Hemisphere.

The AMOC includes the Gulf Stream, which flows from the Gulf of Mexico up the U.S. East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe.

Scientists describe the current as a “conveyor belt of the ocean,” essential to maintaining milder climates in Europe, the United Kingdom, and parts of the United States.

The New York Post summarized the study’s focus, noting that the researchers examined how warming temperatures have affected the Greenland Ice Sheet.

According to the report, meltwater runoff is entering the North Atlantic and contributing to stagnation in the current that helps regulate marine temperatures.

The study links these changes to a pattern described as a “distinctive temperature fingerprint” found between roughly 3,280 and 6,560 feet below the ocean’s surface.

“Here we identify a distinctive temperature fingerprint in the equatorial Atlantic that signals the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation change,” the authors wrote.

“The robust physical mechanism and reliable detection make [this fingerprint] a valuable metric for AMOC monitoring in a warming climate.”

According to the Daily Mail’s coverage, the fingerprint suggests the current has been weakening for decades.

The study states this decline could continue and possibly lead to a complete collapse before the end of the century.

The Mail also reported that Iceland has formally identified AMOC’s potential failure as an existential threat.

Iceland’s climate minister, Johann Pall Johannsson, said: “It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security.”

If the AMOC were to collapse, researchers say widespread cooling could follow across northern Europe.

Some scientists have projected that parts of the United Kingdom could experience temperatures as low as -30°C under such conditions.

The study arrives shortly after Bill Gates publicly downplayed the broader impact of temperature fluctuations, urging policymakers to prioritize what he viewed as more immediate risks to humanity. The publication also comes as claims of accelerating global temperature increases continue to dominate international discussions.

In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered some of his starkest warnings during remarks from U.N. headquarters in New York.

“The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived,” he said during a streamed address.

He described scenes of “children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.”

Guterres has repeatedly issued similar warnings throughout his tenure.

At the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, he said, “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”

He also asked, “How will we answer when baby 8 billion is old enough to ask: What did you do for our world and for our planet when you had the chance?”

Earlier, in 2019, he said climate-related damage was striking “on a weekly basis” and urged immediate global action.

His comments at the time aligned with demonstrations by climate activists calling for stronger international intervention.

While declarations about rising temperatures have dominated much of the climate discourse, predictions of a potential new ice age have been rare.

The new study’s findings have drawn significant attention because they suggest that the same warming trends widely cited by international organizations may also be contributing to dramatic regional cooling if AMOC continues to weaken.

Esteemed Science Journal: Difference Between Male and Female Athlete Performance Is Due to “Bias in How They Are Treated in Sports”
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Esteemed Science Journal: Difference Between Male and Female Athlete Performance Is Due to “Bias in How They Are Treated in Sports”

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The so-called Scientific American claimed “inequity” between male and female athletes is due to “biases” in the treatment of both genders in sports.

The journal has become somewhat of a left-wing propaganda machine in recent years, focusing heavily on liberal perspectives and findings within science. In September, it endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the upcoming election.

A piece from Scientific American went viral on Sunday, October 6. Focusing on ultrarunning, the article claimed, “inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes but of bias in how they are treated in sports”.

“As an example, some endurance-running events allow the use of professional runners called pacesetters to help competitors perform their best,” the article continued. “Men are not permitted to act as pacesetters in many women’s events because of the belief that they will make the women ‘artificially faster,’ as though women were not actually doing the running themselves.”

Of course, this is disproved by track and field records across every discipline of the sport, but hey ho!

It is somewhat sad the science journal has become subject to political influence in such a manner.

Such content may even be banned if the Democrats get their way!

New Study Disproves Historic Claim That Black Newborns Were More Likely To Die With A White Doctor
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New Study Disproves Historic Claim That Black Newborns Were More Likely To Die With A White Doctor

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A historic study which claimed Black newborns were more likely to die in the hands of White doctors has been debunked.

The famous study from August 2020 claimed Black newborns had lower mortality rates when looked after by Black physicians. However, a new study has since counteracted these claims, which were widely reported by a number of mainstream media outlets, and even cited by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2023.

The original study omitted low weight births from the data, thus skewing it.

Birth weights under 1500g are more common in Black newborns (3.3%) than White (1.2%), subsequently leading to a higher mortality rate than first accounted for.

With the new consideration, the statistical differences became insignificant, and confirmed that birth weight is more influential in a baby’s survival than the skin color of the physician.

The new study also uncovered that White doctors were more likely to care for Black low-weight newborns than Black physicians, further disproving the original findings.

As such, the original research incorrectly skewed the data and claimed that “racial concordance” between newborns and doctors contributed to a higher mortality rate.

Effectively, the new study disproved the link between a doctor’s and a baby’s race, instead attributing lower birth weights to higher likelihood of mortality.

Climate Protesters Silenced After Interrupting Ted Cruz Speech
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Climate Protesters Silenced After Interrupting Ted Cruz Speech

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Climate protesters attempted to disrupt a speech by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, but the outcome – predictably – went against their expectations.

The Republican Senator was speaking at The Fund for American Studies when climate activists interrupted.

Undeterred, Sen. Cruz placed the protester on the spot and asked: “Which country is the biggest climate polluter on Planet Earth?”

Following a muted response, Cruz added: “You have no idea!”

He continued to say that the United States was leading the world in reducing carbon emissions, much to the delight of spectators in attendance.

Many on social media were critical of the climate protesters and their lack of knowledge over the world’s largest polluter.

Others, however, called for Cruz and the nation to ramp up their efforts in protecting the environment.

China is indeed the world’s largest polluter. Of the 50 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions produced in 2022, China was responsible for 14.4 billion of them (28.8%). The United States, while in second place, was responsible for 6.39 billion (12.8%).

Climate protesters have always had an unusual approach. They expect individuals to make everyday efforts despite the limited impact a single person can have. They are also reluctant to lobby the Chinese Communist Party to reduce their global emissions, instead focusing on politicians who sit as a minority group in the Senate.

What’s your view? Should we all do more to protect the world, or will little change while China remains the largest polluter? Let us know in the comments.

53 Years On… Still No Ice Age
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53 Years On… Still No Ice Age

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Friday, July 9, 1971, saw a number of important events.

It was a day on which then-United States National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger made a secret visit to the People’s Republic of China – a notable moment given that the Communist state would not be part of the United Nations Security Council for another three months. It also marked the funeral of influential jazz legend Louis Armstrong who had passed away three days prior.

However, within the Washington Post, a stark warning of a “disastrous new ice age” headlined the paper. “The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts,” was the opening line in the article by staff writer Victor Cohn.

Well, 1971 was 53 years ago at the time of writing. Unless we are heading for a cold spell in the next seven years, the 70 degrees Fahrenheit in which I’m currently writing this article suggests that prediction, like many before it and many more since, was wrong.

There are many reasons why the predictions are increasingly ignored by the general public. Time and time again, predictions of our impending demise have (thankfully) never come to fruition.

Furthermore, these warnings to society are made despite the fact that an average individual’s contribution to carbon emissions is comparatively limited, particularly when the use of private jets by the rich and famous as well as mass pollution by foreign nations is considered.

Meanwhile, it’s been six years since climate activist and former truant Greta Thunberg warned that we were all going to die by 2023.

Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Apparently Racist
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Apparently Racist

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The Great Salt Lake in Utah has been accused of racism as its dust allegedly affects people of color more than White Americans.

So pervasive is racism in the mind of the liberal that even the Earth itself is now racist.

The 800-square mile bed produces dust which is disproportionately harmful to Pacific Islanders and Hispanics, according to a study published in the One Earth journal on June 21. Particularly, the dust blows towards these communities in the winds, thus increasing the level of pollution along the Wasatch Front.

Pacific Islanders are the most affected by the dust which, according to the study, are the only group exposed to pollution levels above U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Likewise, Hispanic, Black, and Native American residents also highly impacted.

In order to reduce these discrepancies, the report recommends limiting declining lake levels as a lower level reduces the amount of dust produced.

“People here in Utah are concerned about the lake for a variety of reasons — the ski industry, the brine shrimp, the migratory birds, recreation — and this study adds environmental justice and the equity implications of the drying lake to the conversation,” said Sara Grineski, lead author of the study and a professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of Utah.

Social media users were, at the very least, skeptical over the apparent findings with many seeing the humorous side.

Others noted the need for a stronger local media in Salt Lake.

What’s your view? Is the report just your typical liberal race-baiting? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Studies: Young Liberal Women Are the Most Mentally Ill Demographic – Old Conservative Men the Least
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Studies: Young Liberal Women Are the Most Mentally Ill Demographic – Old Conservative Men the Least

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An infographic showing a connection between age, gender, and political affiliation to a mental health diagnosis has sparked debate on social media.

The historic data from a 2020 Pew American Trends Panel study asked respondents whether a doctor or healthcare provider had ever told them that they have a mental health condition.

Results show that white liberal women aged 18-29 were the most likely to have been diagnosed with a mental health condition with 56.3% of respondents answering ‘yes’ in response to the question. This dropped to 27.3% when 18-29-year-old conservative women were questioned.

Trends show a decrease among all political affiliations in older age groups, with the exception being white moderate women aged 30-49 (32.8%) compared to the 18-29-year-olds of the same political viewpoint (28.4%).

White conservatives over 65 were around ten percentage points lower than their liberal counterparts, with only 4.5% of conservative men aged 65 and over answering ‘yes’.

The same study the tweet above is quoting from also had the following statistics for ideology and mental illness not divided by race, and they show the same pattern:

This is hardly the only research coming to this conclusion. In fact, all research on this topic comes to the same conclusion. The results from the paper “Mental Illness and the Left,” which was published in Mankind Quarterly, showed the same correlation between a person’s gender + ideology and mental illness.

And Gallup:

Some factors such as age are perhaps more explainable than others. Scientific research and a changed approach to mental health conditions in recent years could be a factor as to why more young people have been diagnosed, while women are nearly twice as likely be diagnosed with depression than men.

Political ideology is less well-evidenced, prompting social media users to discuss supposed discrepancies in the data. Some suggested generational differences played a factor…

…while others pointed to the widely available resources available to young people today.

One user also noted the outlier for young, liberal females.

Of course, all this really just sounds like liberals trying to come up with excuses for results that are humiliating for them.

What’s your view on the data? Let us know in the comments.

Six Years On From Greta’s Doomsday Tweet… Yet Climate Warriors Haven’t Learned Their Lesson
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Six Years On From Greta’s Doomsday Tweet… Yet Climate Warriors Haven’t Learned Their Lesson

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It’s been six years since climate activist and former truant Greta Thunberg warned that we were all going to die by 2023.

Spoiler alert: we didn’t.

Comedian Tim Young kindly reminded us of her doom mongering prediction on X (formerly Twitter), providing a screenshot of her since deleted tweet where she warned our impending mortality if we didn’t stop using fossil fuels.

The comedian’s helpful reminder that we all should have been dead a year ago sparked comparisons to former U.S. presidential candidates.

Others, quite rightly, were just glad that we are all still here.

Furthermore, Greta’s deleted tweet sparked memories of previous extinction predictions by climate change worriers.

Quite often, those who express skepticism over the true impact of fossil fuels on climate change are often labeled as conspiracy theorists. Yet, this is despite data from reputable sources such as the International Energy Agency suggesting that while fossil fuels are significant contributors to global carbon emissions, their share of total emissions is decreasing due to increased use of renewable energy sources.  

Perhaps the tenacity of climate activists is what deters many from heeding their warnings. Fossil fuel activists Just Stop Oil sparked fury in the United Kingdom for their damage to Stonehenge; in previous years, the group has blocked road networks and disrupted sporting events.

Granted, these disruptive acts and doomsayer predictions may garner attention, but not all publicity is beneficial. It’s hard to listen to such activists when their ‘predictions’ are seemingly churned out in a repeated, never-ending cycle.

FDA Issues New Safety Alert for Infant Formula Due to Cronobacter Contamination
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FDA Issues New Safety Alert for Infant Formula Due to Cronobacter Contamination

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The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning that three products produced for infants aged 0-12 months with a net weight of 12.4 oz have possibly been contaminated by Cronobacter. The products, which are sold in Texas and other locations across the country, are the Farmalac Baby powdered infant formula with iron, the Farmalac Baby formula with iron and low lactose and the Crecelac Infant powdered goat-milk formula.

The FDA warning alerted caregivers and parents about the potential Cronobacter contamination, and noted that the governmental body needed to issue the safety alert following new findings of potential contaminations in a product sample, despite the products being recalled by the company on May 24, 2024. The warning is being issued separately regarding the products by Dairy Manufacturers Inc. due to the company’s failure to comply with US infant formula regulations.

The limited samples did not detect the bacteria, but the company did not submit the mandatory premarket notification to prove the formula’s nutritional adequacy and safety. The firm and distributors are working together with the FDA to remove the flagged products from the market.

Cronobacter sakazakii can cause diarrhoea and fever, as well as meningitis and sepsis in more serious cases. In late December 2023, the FDA announced a recall of thousands of cans of infant formula produced by Reckitt-owned Mead Johnson Nutrition. The recall came after Cronobacter sakazakii was discovered in cans imported into Israel from the US and reported by Israeli health authorities.

In 2021 President Joe Biden’s administration announced plans to address the amount of toxic heavy metals found in baby foods. The FDA faced heavy criticism for being slow to act on limiting infants’ exposure to heavy metals. The reports from 2021 found unsafe levels of arsenic, cadmium and lead in products sold by leading baby food companies.

Cronobacter contamination of infant formula was the main reason for a dire shortage of infant formula in 2022 that resulted from an Abbott Nutrition plant ceasing production due to safety issues. Parents and caretalers are being advised to immediately contact a healthcare provider if they observe any symptoms in the event that the potentially contaminated formula has already been consumed.


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