13 July 2023

About a year ago, Peter Schiff debated Alex Mashinsky about which is the better investment - gold or cryptocurrency.  What a difference a year has made.  Gold is about $200/oz higher than a year ago, and the SEC filed suit against Mashinsky and now he has reportedly been arrested.  Schiff has shown time and again that he has a better, more practical, sense about what's going on in the economy.

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FDA approves first OTC birth control pill.  It's a "mini-pill" - low-dose progestin only.  Less likely to cause blood clots, but you have to be super-compliant with taking it, same time, everyday, else your pregnancy rate will be 6% to 9%. 

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Chemically-induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging.  Sounds good, doesn't it?  They used a cocktail of two special compounds, CHIR99021 and E-616452, along with valproic acid, sodium butyrate, and forskolin.  What they really did was just change the DNA methylation patterns to get the transcriptome of older fibroblasts to resemble that of younger fibroblasts.  The constitution of the transcriptome was obtained from the KEGG database.  Whether this truly indicates age-reversal remains to be seen, inasmuch as cosmetic surgery doesn't make you younger.  But it's a start.

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Hospitals were sued by using Meta's Pixel for analytics, not knowing that they were sending sensitive information to Zuckerberg's company.  Taxpayers, like H&R Block did not read this news, apparently, and used Pixel themselves

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If you're asymptomatic, taking a SARS-CoV2 rapid antigen test is worthless.  "Only 7.2% of the 69 participants with RT-PCR–positive results for shorter than 48 hours tested positive by Ag-RDT within 1 week; those with Delta infections remained consistently negative on Ag-RDTs."  Are people still testing themselves for this virus?

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Palestinian boy suffers decapitation.  Israeli physicians re-attach it.  Wow, is that not the best story of the day?

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