Someone is stat-checking crimes against children in the US. The goal: fact checking narratives about who's committing sex crimes against children. The site contains a set of data and statistical analysis of that data, nothing more.
Guess who the boogymen really are.
Believed to be the source of the jackalope myth, this condition is caused by a relatively common virus. Shope papillomavirus causes wart-like growths that protrude from their faces like horns.
Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns. The rabbits are infected with the relatively common Shope papillomavirus. The virus likely inspired the centuries-old jackalope myth. It also helped scientists learn about the connection between viruses and cancer, such as the human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer. Experts say the virus cannot spread to other species. The growths don’t harm rabbits unless they grow on their eyes or mouths and interfere with eating. Rabbits’ immune systems are able to fight the virus. And once they do, the growths will disappear.
TIL Half a russet potato and kosher salt will remove rust from cast iron.
"To say that we’re binary is philosophy. It’s not biology. It’s declaring oneself essentialist: there are [men and women], two types of humans. But our biology doesn’t validate that position. Yes, there are binary things in our biology, but to say that human beings come in two different types is false. And we can prove it."
Facts don't care about your philosophy.
The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals
Texas Republicans have voted to track down and arrest dozens of Democratic legislators who have fled the state to block passage of a plan to re-draw electoral boundaries to favour Republicans.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dkwnx94ro?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-committee-cdc-cfbdcab84b2a919a6131d471959c3431
U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation’s top medical organizations that they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations. The government told the organizations on Thursday via email that their experts are being disinvited from the workgroups that have been the backbone of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The organizations include the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Several of the organizations issued a statement asking the administration to reconsider, saying it was irresponsible to remove them from the process.
Educate yourself. The worst that could happen is you discover the actual depths of your humanity.
People’s cognitive rigidity predicts their ideological and political rigidity.
