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Inverted Hunder dune swales, Ladakh, India

J. D. A. Clarke1 and S McGuirk1, 2

1Mars Society Australia, c/o 43 Michell St Monash, ACT 2904; 2Fenner School, Australian National University, ACT 0200

The Hunder Dunes are one of a series of small dune fields in the Shyok and Nubra valleys of the Ladakh region of north-western India.  The dune fields are composed of mostly barchanoid and transverse dunes and are composed of sand reworked from the seasonally exposed beds of these rivers.  Wind directions are strongly uni-modal in orientation and controlled by valley orientation (McGuirk 2017).  The Hunder Dunes occur at an altitude of 3083 m in the Nubra valley and cover an area of about 1500 x 700 m.  The area is a popular tourist location because of the visual impression of the dunes against the background of the Karakorum Range rising to over 6000 m, and the presence of a small herd of Bactrian camels. No scientific investigation of the dunes have been previously made. During a 2016 expedition to the area (Pandey et al. 2019) we noticed the presence of numerous inverted swale deposits. Inverted swales have not, to our knowledge, been described in the literature. We here present a brief description of them, and discuss their formation and possible significance.

The Hunder Dune field occurs in the Nubra valley and are centred at 77°29’47.60″E and 34°34’49.00″N.  The dune fields are composed of mostly barchanoid at the present time, although the evidence from Google Earth imagery shows that they have been dominated by transverse bedforms in the past.  The dunes lie on the south bank of the Nubra River The Hunder Dunes occur at an altitude of 3083 m in the Nubra valley and cover an area of about 1500 x 700 m

The climate of the Hunder Dunes is arid with warm summers and cold winters, temperatures falling below zero.  The area corresponds with zone IV of Hewett (1989).  Valley floors experience strong winds, the dominant wind vector responsible for the dunes is from the northwest.  No rainfall data exists for Hunder, but the city of Leh in the valley of the Indus, which is the next valley to the south, has an annual rainfall of 104 mm (Climate data 2018).

Morphology and stratigraphy

The features interpreted as inverted swales consist of small (10-20m long, 5-10m wide, and up to 1.5m high), ellipsoidal mesas exposed in the swales between active dunes.  Most of the mesas have a tiered, wedding cake appearance, due to the presence of stacked cycles of sediment (Figure 2). Individual cycles range from 40 to 50 cm in thickness, and are composed of a repeated succession of lithologies (Table 1), forming cycles. Not all units are present in each cycle, unit A is only present only at the base of the mesa, and is not always exposed. Only one of the rippled units B and C may be present, and rarely the muddy unit D is absent. Some swales are partly buried by dune migration, some others are being exposed by the same process.

As shown in Table 1, the cyclic units are interpreted as showing the flooding of dune swales by muddy river waters, followed by their desiccation.  The convex-upward basal unit A represents the aeolian swale deposits.  The convex upward geometry of the swale is propagated ward through each cycle. The asymmetric cross-laminated unit B represents the influx of river flood water carrying sand and mud.  The symmetric cross-laminated unit C represents wind-driven wave sand deposition water flood recession as isolated the sales into ponds.  Interference patterns between ripple sets are visible on the upper surfaces of the topmost cycles exposed in the mesas.  The uppermost unit C represents settling out of suspended mud in the final phases of drying out of the pond in the swales.  The muddy unit is often desiccation cracked and may preserve vertebrate footprints. Multiple cycles of flooding and desiccation form the swale deposits.

The deposits are very weakly indurated following deposition by precipitated carbonate.  This allows them to withstand deflation to form the mesas.  The muddy unit C is also slightly more resistant than the sands to erosion, so form overhanging caps.  The mesas show small scale landforms showing wind erosion, including polished surfaces and ventifacts (Figure 5).

Several swales in the Hunder dunes were flooded at the time of our visit.  These ponds lacked mud, however, so we interpret the water as being due to either a raised groundwater table, or rainfall runoff, or both.  The sale flooding from the river would carry mud, as the suspended sediment load of the Nubra River is substantial.

While the dune swales can be flooded by the Nubra River we expect the deposits to accrete to the height of the river flood.  When isolated from the river by dune migration, erosion of the swale deposits can begin, leading to formation of the concave upward wedding cake inverted mesas

Jonathan Clarke has more than 40 years professional experience in industry, government and university sectors He is an associate of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Adjunct faculty of the Amity Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology, and post-graduate instructor in astrobiology at Swinburne University

Soil geochemistry imaging gold prospectively in the South West Terrane of Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

De Souza Kovacs, Nadir1 and Lu, Yongjun1

1Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

The South West Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton is prospective for a number of important commodities such as gold, nickel and lithium; however, the region remains poorly geologically understood. The South West Terrane is one of the focus areas of the Geological Survey of Western Australia’s Accelerated Geoscience Program, 2020–21. This terrane is often associated with farming land, viticulture and grain growing; nevertheless it also hosts several word-class mineral deposits such as those at Boddington (Au–Cu), Greenbushes (Li–Ta) and Ravensthorpe (Ni). The geology of these deposits known from open-file statutory exploration reporting (stored in the Geological Surveys MINEDEX and WAMEX databases) provide a wealth of knowledge, that when combined with other publicly available geoscientific data compiled by the survey, data are providing new insights into the geological and mineralisation histories of the terrane.

The gold assay results from 84157 soil samples covering the South West Terrane were extracted from WAMEX and were spatially visualized and evaluated. The distribution of high-grade gold samples (0.53 to 1.37 ppm) cluster along several regional faults, including the Newdegate, Darkan, Manjimup, Tenterden, Koolanooka, Hyden, Pingarning, Dumbleyung Faults and other prominent but unnamed regional faults. By contrast, low-grade gold (<0.001 ppm) samples occur in areas without major faults. The regolith-landform map shows that the southern part of the Lockhart Paleovalley follows the strike of the Newdegate Fault and coincident structures on regional-scale magnetic images. The spatial distribution indicates that gold in soils is genetically linked to the regional faults, which are likely to have acted as fluid pathways during gold mineralization.

One particularly interesting feature is that high-grade gold in soils clustering along the north-trending Newdegate Fault also coincide with the isotopic boundary imaged by whole-rock neodymium isotopes of felsic igneous rocks. This isotopic boundary also correlates well with gravity and magnetic anomaly zones, and has been suggested to be the terrane boundary between the South West Terrane and the Youanmi Terrane (Lu et al. 2021 AESC). This correlation is supported by the spatial distribution of gold deposits including Griffins Find, Tampia and Edna May which are located on or close to this isotopic boundary. It indicates that gold anomalism in soils might be potentially useful for ranking deep crustal structures.

The spatial distribution of gold in soils in the South West Terrane is closely associated with regional faults. Through integration with other data, such as isotopic mapping or regional geophysical compilations, the regional scale gold in soil datasets can assist in prioritising the most prospective areas for exploration.

Nadir de Souza Kovacs is a Senior Regolith Geologist at GSWA, she has compiled several regolith maps including the State Regolith Map of Western Australia. Dr. Yongjun Lu is a renowned Senior Geochronologist Isotope Geologist at GSWA. He received the Waldemar Lindgren Award of Society of Economic Geologists in 2018.

Hydrogeochemistry to explore the Georgina Basin’s phosphate potential

Schroder, Ivan1; de Caritat, Patrice1

1Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia

With the increasing need to extend mineral exploration under cover, new approaches are required to better understand concealed geology, and to narrow the mineral prospectivity search-space. Hydrogeochemistry is a non-invasive exploration technique based on the premise that groundwater interacting with a deposit or supergene alteration can cause anomalous elemental and isotopic signatures down-gradient. Water chemistry can reflect mineralisation directly, but can also reveal other key components of a mineral system, including fluid-flow pathways (e.g. fault/fracture zones), evidence for mineral system traps (e.g. evaporites, shales), or metal sources (e.g. mafic rocks).

The Northern Australia Hydrogeochemical Survey (NAHS) was a multiyear regional groundwater sampling program that aimed to understand the regional mineral potential within the Tennant Creek to Mt Isa area (Schroder et al. 2020). This presentation will explore the application of NAHS for investigating mineral potential of a region and present a workflow for establishing spatial or lithological baselines to evaluate hydrogeochemical anomalies.

The Georgina Basin is well known for its phosphate potential, with several >1 Mt deposits discovered in recent years such as Amaroo and Wonarah; however, the basin has been largely unmapped in terms of phosphate distribution under cover. This work focuses on a subset of 162 NAHS samples collected within two predominant aquifers of the Cambrian Georgina Basin (and time equivalents in the Wiso Basin). This focus restricts us to samples which experience a similar climate, recharge conditions, and aquifer compositions, reducing the hydrogeochemical variation that can mask intra-aquifer anomalies.

Elevated concentrations of P (used as a proxy for PO43- and normalised to HCO3 or Cl) is observed in the groundwater on the eastern margin of the Georgina Basin. This region is known for Cambrian phosphorite deposits, with sampled bores proximal to a number of near-surface Georgina Basin phosphorite deposits. Additionally, several other subgroups within the Georgina Basin were identified with elevated P, corresponding to areas of greater cover and without known phosphorite deposits nearby.

Because the solubility of phosphate minerals depends on many factors — including groundwater physicochemical parameters (pH, T etc.), groundwater chemical composition, and phosphate mineral composition (such as degree of CO32- substitution) — a high (or low) P concentration is not a definitive indicator of the presence (or scarcity) of phosphates in the aquifer or recharge area. Thus, our data analysis focused on minor (i.e. F) and trace (i.e. U, V) elements commonly substituting in phosphate mineral structures or typically enriched in phosphorites, to evaluate these elements’ relationships with P concentration as a tool for recognising dissolution of phosphate-bearing minerals. When normalised to Cl on log-log scatterplots, clear linear relationships between selected minor/trace elements and P concentrations become apparent in several of the identified subgroups that cannot be attributed to other water-rock interactions. This observation supports the implication that there is further undiscovered regions of the Georgina Basin with potential for hosting phosphorites.

Schroder, I.F., Caritat, P. de, Wallace, L., et al., 2020. Northern Australia Hydrogeochemical Survey: Final Data Release and Hydrogeochemical Atlas for EFTF. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Ivan is a geochemist within the Mineral Potential of Australia Section of Geoscience Australia. His focus in recent years has been on hydrogeochemistry and it’s application to mineral exploration. He has been an instrumental part of the Northern Australia Hydrogeochemistry Survey project which he will present on today.

Regolith-Hosted Ferrihydrite: A Forgotten Sorbent in the Search for REE’s?

Tobias Bamforth 1,2, Caroline Tiddy 1, Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez 2,3, Eric Whittaker 4, Leon Faulkner 5

1Future Industries Institute (FII), University of South Australia (UniSA), Adelaide, Australia; 2CSIRO, Mineral Resources Discovery Programme, Kensington, Perth, Australia; 3CET, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia; 4Terramin Australia Ltd., Adelaide, Australia; 5Environmental Copper Recovery Ltd., Adelaide, Australia

The negatively-charged surfaces of clay minerals demonstrate an excellent capacity for the adsorption of rare-earth elements (REE’s) in regolith. Often, this is observed during the formation of secondary phases such as kaolinite and halloysite (Borst et al. 2020. Nat. Comm.), though alternate clay minerals display a similar capacity for REE sorption across low-temperature environments. For instance, ferrihydrite (5Fe2O3 · 9H2O) is an amorphous clay mineral that is widely acknowledged as an excellent REE sorbent in hydrospheric systems. Thus far, evidence for its potential in association with high-grade REE accumulation has been limited; however, new data from the Kapunda Cu mine, South Australia, suggests that even in the presence of co-existing kaolinite, ferrihydrite may act as a principal sorbent during lanthanide fixation.

Petrographic analysis of weathered vein samples from the Kapunda mine, which exhibit total rare-earth oxide (TREO) concentrations of 17.1 wt%, demonstrate that interstitial aggregates of REE phases monazite and rhabdophane are spatially associated with ferrihydrite particulates. In comparison, a negative correlation is observed between REE minerals and crystalline phases of goethite, hematite and kaolinite. Ferrihydrite formed during the acidic dissolution of primary pyritic minerals, which is evidenced by cubic void spaces throughout the sample. In addition, geochemical evidence from Ce/U valency modelling suggests that weathering fluids were highly acidic (pH 1 – 3) and moderately oxidising (Eh 0.7 – 0.9) in nature. REE mobilisation was likely facilitated by the formation of sulphate complexes, which is supported by geochemical whole-rock profiles that exhibit low chondrite-normalised La/Yb ratios (Migdisov et al. 2016. Chem. Geol.). Chondrite-normalised plots also exhibit Pr > Nd > Ce > La enrichment, which compliment previous conclusions on the ability of ferrihydrite to selectively adsorb the valuable REE’s Pr and Nd (Bau. 1999. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.). Phosphate ions were sourced from primary sedimentary apatite, which is evidenced by the pseudomorphic replacement of hexagonal crystals by secondary REE-baring phases. This advocates for the role of ferrihydrite as a catalyst following the co-adsorption of REE’s and PO42- (Arai and Sparks. 2001. J. Colloid Interface Sci.), and explains the observed spatial boundaries of lanthanide accumulation, as apatite is not expressed in notable quantities throughout the bulk of the Cu deposit.

Results demonstrate the potential of ferrihydrite as a principal sorbent for economic REE mineralisation, when considering: (1) its relative pervasiveness across global regolith profiles; (2) its crystal structure, surface area and adsorption capacity and; (3) its potential ability to selectively adsorb the valuable light rare-earth elements Nd and Pr. Additionally, this work emphasises the importance of apatite as a phosphate source in REE-mineralising systems, and advocates for the increased consideration of ferrihydrite as a potential catalyst for REE accumulation as the demand for these critical metals escalates under the development of renewable technologies.

Tobias studied BSc Geology at the University of Southampton, before completing an MSc in Global Management of Natural Resources at University College London. During this time, he completed a mineral exploration studentship at UniSA and CSIRO, and is now studying a PhD in Geochemistry at Murdoch University, Perth.

Martian regolith: from cryolithosphere to atmosphere

Caprarelli, Graziella1

1Centre for Astrophysics, School of Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia

Regolith is: “everything, from fresh rock to fresh air”1. The term indicates the layers of loose material that mantle bedrock, although there is disagreement among regolith experts between the camp that subscribes to the broad definition given above, and the camp that discriminates between the material formed in place as a product of weathering, and sediments formed elsewhere, transported and deposited on bedrock which was not the parent material2. We now know that regolith mantles the surface of all rocky bodies in the solar system: on many of these objects there are no geological processes leading to sedimentary erosion and deposition such as on Earth. Thus, here I use the term in its broader sense.

Mars is a hyperarid planet3, with water stored as ice in its polar caps and in the ground. The uppermost layers of the martian crust are thus termed the ‘cryolithosphere’. Meteoritic “gardening” since early Noachian times (~ 4.0 Ga) has produced the thick layer of broken rocky material covering Mars’s surface globally. Wind erosion and mass wasting also act on a global scale, while chemical processes have led to the deposition of hydrous minerals in the soil. The martian regolith thus comprises dust, sandy soils and sediments, pebbles, rocks, secondary minerals, and may include water ice at mid- to high latitudes, where permafrost landforms are observed4, and where additional disintegration of bedrock occurs owing to thaw/freeze cycles. Aeolian processes move solids across the martian surface: dust particles (< 10 mm) may remain in suspension indefinitely; dust and silt (< 60 mm) are lifted and may be deposited at great distance by atmospheric currents; sand particles (up to a few hundred mm) move by saltation, breaking into smaller fragments that may then be lifted; coarse grained material (1-5 mm in size) is dragged or accumulates as lag deposits. A way to study the distribution of these materials is through satellite thermophysical data: mapping based on thermal inertia and albedo classification5 shows links between type of material and geology.

My colleagues and I have investigated the spatial distribution and vertical composition of the martian cryolithosphere through impact processes6 and by ground penetrating radar7. Here, I show and discuss the main outcomes of our work in relation to: (a) the spatial distribution of the martian regolith and its composition; (b) ground ice and regolith; (c) the link between cryolithosphere and atmosphere. These aspects underpin part of the geological and climatological history of the planet, with far reaching implications about the selection of landing sites and possible future human missions to Mars.

1Eggleton RA, Ed. (2001) CRC LEME, ISBN 0-7315-3343-7, 144 pp.

2Pain and Ollier (1996) AGSO J Austral Geol Geophys 16(3), 197-202.

3Baker VR (2001) Nature 412, 228-236.

4Lasue et al. (2013) Space Sci Rev 174, 155-212.

5Jones et al. (2014) Remote Sensing 6, 5184-5237.

6Jones et al. (2016) JGR Planets 121, 986-1015.

7Orosei et al. (2017) JGR Planets 122, 1405-1418.

Dr Graziella Caprarelli FAIG is Adjunct Research Fellow with the Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland, Adjunct Research Professor at the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (Italy), and member of MARSIS science team. She explores the martian subsurface geology looking for water.

About the GSA

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Selected tech trends from upcoming 2021 Market Overview

Looking ahead to 2021 -- pre-CES, what trends will persist?  So that's just about enough of 2020 -- a year worth putting behind us, if ever there was one. Much creativity and stopgap solutions were the signs of the Covid-19 times.  There was an awakening about older adults as targets of ageism and victims of social isolation, true. But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place, the investment category of older adults, the market power of older adults, including the 65+ population of 54 million. And who knew that the fastest growing subsegment was those aged 80+?  Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? All that and more make up the new entrants in the 2021 Market Overview of Technology for Aging.

Five New Technology Offerings for Older Adults

Long ago in a city far, far away, there was CES 2020.  It was filled with tech from wall-to-wall and bus ride to bus ride.  CES 2020 was a January 2020 nightmare of related products sited at opposite ends of convention space that seemed to span miles in one direction, and up elevators to suites in the opposite direction. A competition winner here, a spotlight on hearing there,  health tech herethere a robot,  there a drone – everywhere a bus ride and 170,000 people. Leaving with sore feet and tired brain, vowing never to attend in person again (having said that multiple times over the years).  Who knew that Covid-19 was about to take over the world -- and with it, the world of events?  Soon there will be CES 2021, entirely online -- no smoke-filled hotels, no Bellagio fountain, and no need for comfortable shoes. There should be many to note in January 2021.  Meanwhile, pre-CES, here are five recently surfaced.  All content is drawn from the company websites.

Not just older adults – everyone lost the tech user interface war

Once upon a time, a new technology user interface was just annoying.   It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes.  At some point, the user gets mad. The BMW iDrive example prompted some drivers to turn around and bring the car back to the showroom.  Consider the whining from this site in 2012 about smartphones and again in 2013. But a poor UI doesn’t always guarantee poor sales. It’s quaint to read the complaint about the Apple Watch interface, which is quite annoying and 100% dependent on a smartphone app. But it may turn out to be Apple’s most popular product (30 million sold in 2019) and enjoys great popularity in 2020.  Furthermore, its fall detection validated the market transition of caregiving smart watches replacing PERS pendants.

The Digital Divide -- Why haven't all older adults crossed it?

A hot topic now – crossing the so-called ‘Digital Divide’.  It’s ironic – the topic has been under discussion forever. Long ago, in a world far, far, away – it was easy for the oldest to say that they don’t see the benefit in technology, Internet access or other devices.  That was pre-pandemic of course. In 2020, the divide looks like a chasm, depending on how it is viewed. What will close it?  What is the missing link? More training?  Discounted devices?  Free Internet?  Grandchildren photos?  Worsening social isolation?  Telehealth visits?  And do we mean ‘Digital Divide’ – or do we really mean Internet Access Divide? Or is it the smartphone ownership divide? The how-do-I-use-this-thing divide? And what does it mean for one's life to be on the wrong side?

Four Technology and Aging Blog Posts from November 2020

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Prof Steven Salzberg and the Congressional Autism Hearing: Why Can’t He Answer or Correct

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One of the few public responses to the Congressional hearing into autism by a vaccine programme advocate was from Steven Salzberg, professor of medicine and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University Medical School on While Prof Salzberg’s blog was open to comment he has unfortunately not only ignored serious criticism but most disturbingly - for a senior scientist and academic - correction of basic facts.  Here are a few points, some taken or adapted from my comments.

(1)    Salzberg criticises Congressman Burton:

“Bang bang, two false claims in 10 seconds. First he claims that mercury from vaccines “accumulates in the brain”, a statement with no scientific support at all … Unfortunately, some quack doctors have experimented with chelation therapy on autistic children, despite that fact that it can cause deadly liver and kidney damage, and one of them caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2005.”

However, Burton had presumably read the Burbacher paper (NIH funded). Here is and extract:

““There was a much higher proportion of inorganic Hg in the brain of thimerosal monkeys than in the brains of MeHg monkeys (up to 71% vs. 10%). Absolute inorganic Hg concentrations in the brains of the thimerosal-exposed monkeys were approximately twice that of the MeHg monkeys. Interestingly, the inorganic fraction in the kidneys of the same cohort of monkeys was also significantly higher after im thimerosal than after oral MeHg exposure (0.71 ± 0.04 vs. 0.40 ± 0.03). This suggests that the dealkylation of ethylmercury is much more extensive than that of MeHg.”

We really have to ask whether Salzberg can truthfully state that there is “no scientific support at all”. Here, by the way, is a two part list of 90 peer review studies condemning the safety of thimerosal.

Salzberg is also deeply misleading or worse regarding chelation and autism citing a 2005 case and a contemporary report . Subsequent to that report it transpired that the child had been administered with the wrong chelating agent and this was not in any way representative of chelation therapy for autism (and in seven years there are no more cases he can cite). A senior academic ought to know better than to cite an out-of-date and provisional journalistic report, when a later one would have given a different story. He has taken no steps to correct his article in either respect.

Salzberg then goes on to refer to Andrew Wakefield’s Lancet 1998 paper as “fraudulent” failing to acknowledge that earlier this year an English High Court judge exonerated Wakefield’s senior co-author, Prof John Walker-Smith. Re-examining the GMC finding he could not find evidence of misreporting, no evidence that the investigations were inappropriate (i.e. the children were genuinely sick) or unauthorised, or that the paper had been commissioned by the UK’s Legal Aid Board, and this was uncontested by the GMC. It remains anomalous that charges against Walker-Smith’s colleagues Wakefield and Simon Murch have not been reversed on these matters but then we are dealing with corrupt and politicised institutions.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services have acknowledged a causal connection between vaccines and autism. At the time of the Hannah Poling case CDC director (now head of Merck’s vaccine division) Julie Gerberding told CNN:

“….. if you’re predisposed with the mitochondrial disorder, it can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms can be symptoms that have characteristics of autism.“

The HHS told Sharyl Attkisson on CBS news and David Kirby in Huffington Post:

“We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.”

Tragic to report that the media have become amnesiac about these statements, and Stephen Salzberg’s memory seems to need further jogging too.

The premise of Salzberg’s article is farcical: that whatever products government and industry choose to foist on us, we must always be good little children and do what we are told, and without any questions. In the case of vaccine culture we are faced with the even greater threat to the population that products in the US are more or less compulsory (and getting more so) while the manufacturers have no liability. The truth is that Coleen Boyle has been a ‘public servant’ in this business for 30 years or so, and if she can’t stand up to awkward questioning there is “something wrong”, yet she is painted as a victim by Salzberg. You expect someone in such a position to have a confident, competent manner, but the problem is not just her demeanour it is the content.

Of course, it is the problem with Salzberg too. How can you answer credibly such a range of scientific and political issues with a “four legs good, two legs bad” approach? Once you have surrendered that much intellectual and ethical freedom (as so many have) you have created a culture in which things are simply bound to go wrong, and individuals are going to be hurt by the machine.

Salzberg’s defence of the vaccine programme and the machinery behind it is neither intellectually adult or responsible. If you are not frightened of the questions why not let people ask them? Instead his reaction is along the lines shut everyone up, stop them asking questions, ignore all inconvenient facts,  insult anyone who disagrees…

Salzberg’s blog could not be a better indication of what is wrong with vaccine culture. I am not against vaccines per se. It is not an ignoble project in itself to wish to prevent infectious diseases. I am against a culture where all the counter evidence, much of it published in scientific journals, much of it just the experience of ordinary citizens, is blithely swept aside in an act of scientific and social suppression. The unwelcome news is that the “cruise missiles and drone helicopters” of the war on disease often hit the wrong the target, and the more cruise missiles and drone helicopters you unleash the greater the risk.

Also, my bigger concern about indemnity (or effective indemnity) for manufacturers, is not that people have no opportunity to be compensated but that there is little sanction on manufacturers to get it right and every incentive to foist defective products on a captive market – you can argue till you are blue in the face what is “avoidably” and what “unavoidaby” unsafe (to which the answer is entirely subjective), but “unsafe” is the operative reality.

 John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

I agree it was rather peculiar the way Nurse Ratched dismissed your job and credentials.
"She" spews vitriol and accuses others of the exact same thing she is doing. Project much? She accused Anne of being a bot, so out of curiosity I counted and 44/224 comments-20% -were hers.

At first I thought she was just a lonely person- (in need of a cruise somewhere lovely so she could meet some real friends)- looking for approval by throwing rocks and running back to base camp for the pat on the back.....but I agree with Jenny Allen..most likely one of many sock puppets.....the righteously indignant professional with decades of experience caring for and comforting patients stricken with every disease non-vaccinators are responsible for. But if you look closely (I know it’s hard) at his/her posts, they always include several of the talking points from Pharma’s Guide to Shutting Down Discussion Regarding Vaccine Concerns:
Throw out the term “anti-vaccine” at every opportunity.
Use the word “conspiracy” at least once a post.
Throw in as many links to pharma-backed organizations such as ASF.
Disparage parent support organizations.

Oh and sock puppet must have some deep matriarchal issues given the way s/he sneers “Grandma”.

BTW, “banging on about” is a British expression. OMG!!! That vitriol seemed very familiar!! Must be a drag to be in between jobs.

Jenny Allan

Jen-Lilady is a pro pharma troll, pure and simple, and you mustn't let her confuse or upset you. That is exactly 'her' objective. I have no idea who she is, but I am quite certain about WHAT she is, and I suspect there is more than one person using this anonymous 'personna'. I also suspect there are actually very few trolls presently active in this particular 'stable', operating out of multiple untraceable e-mail addresses and pseudonyms.

Yes!! I too have 'caught out' Lilady making contradictory statements about her personal circumstances. Personally, I don't believe a word she says about anything!

Twyla, thanks for defending me and Dr Wakefield on the above thread, from Lilady's personal attacks. I have developed a thick skin. Lilady only makes herself look stupid and vindictive.

The odd thing about Lilady to me is how she has attacked what I do (working as an educational assistant) in a number of instances -referring to me as 'only' an ed assistant/aide. It just seems odd to me that as a nurse and someone who supposedly had a child with severe disabilities that she would do that. To me it seems to directly hint at some kind of insult to the kids and it is very inappropriate. Lilady goes on and on about how parents who try and help their children through diet etc. are abusive and must dislike their children, so I find it strange that she would diss a front line profession who works with exactly these types of kids some of the time. Today I worked at a school for severely disabled kids and fed kids, changed them, helped with therapy, baked cookies with them. I just don't know if she even is who she says she is. It doesn't make sense. She is a nasty person at the least. Personally, I think there are many instances where the person who is front- line sees what is going on in a way that others higher up can't - I guess that's the premise behind shows like "Undercover Bosses" or whatever they're called.

But john, she knows about screen shot. SCREEN SHOT! We don't stand a chance ; )

I wonder if there was any news management here whether the idea was that the vaccine court news (which was pre-ordained for a long time) would eclipse any reporting of Thorsen
For one that has investigated the entire UK spy ring operating with impunity it would seem hardly a wonder for the joint Rueters-GSK venture to scramble and have something out in seconds.

The problem is for all of them...they hit the gas and not the brakes.

The three test cases were just human shields...for a disease-mongering terrorists. We haven't forgotten what a terrorist is have we?

Josh Day

How interesting to watch the cockroaches scuttling about after the disastrous hearing for their agenda, which obviously shook them up big time. Once again, the All-Vax, All-the-Time brigade doesn't have anyone but B-team players, jokes like this guy.

Tim Bolen, I've been following you for years. It's great reading your comments here on AoA. And thank you for doing your part in throwing the light on these scumbags.

Disheartening to learn about TED's corruption and obvious sweetheart relationship with industry/Monsanto. When they featured chef Jamie Oliver, I thought there could be some hope. But then following with scum matchstick men like fellow bench warmer Michael Specter who essentially gave a fellatio monologue on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation showed where their heart truly lies.

John Stone

Hi Media Scholar

I wonder if there was any news management here whether the idea was that the vaccine court news (which was pre-ordained for a long time) would eclipse any reporting of Thorsen - of course there has been no mainstream reporting of Thorsen anyway.

But there seems to be increasing agreement that Salzberg is small fry. Perhaps more interesting is that the big guys are lying low. I don't think that Lilady is going to save them all.

media scholar

Salzberg looks like just the kind of guy that knows something about why it was when Thorsen's FRAUD story broke the vaccine court DID NOT hit the brakes.

The national story broke at on March 12th.

Later that day, the vaccine court decided to throw out three test cases.

They hit the gas instead.

Dilbert-speak for "glorified epidemiologist"?

Protect The Vulnerable, ALL of Them

The medical establishment expects some will be damamged by vaccines to protect the whole, yet has no sense of obligation to investigate which sub-populations may be damaged and why, so these people can also be protected. That's inexcusable in this day in age when so much is understood about genetics, not to mention medical neglect and a gross violation of the Hippocratic Oath.

I would refer this doctor to the following study that suggests kids with Regressive Autism are more likely to get vaccine injured:

Even if he believes available scientific evidence doesn't prove vaccines cause Regressive Autism, there is mounting evidence that people with Regressive Autism are more vulnerable to vaccine injury. Does he think such kids should line up for boosters of shots that have damaged them? There's a word for that kind of doctor. It's the same word he used to describe doctors who chelate Autistic kids.

I would also remind him that, after reviewing the data, The Institute of Medicine agreed that Thimerosal is likely implicated in speech delay and Tourette's, which is why T has been largely removed from childhood vaccines. I wonder by what mechanism he thinks Thimerosal led to those outcomes if not by accumulating, to some extent, in the brain? I wonder if he's even thought about it?

It's doctors who need to be held accountable above all. They continually vaccinate kids who are sick and on antibiotics, which is contraindindicated on the package inserts. It's not the vaccine company's fault if doctors misuse the product. That's the doctor's fault.

Ed Yazbak

At Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Salzberg’s title is:
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics
Director, Center for Computational Biology
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Salzberg authored and mostly co-authored 114 publications from 1995 to date with no mention of Autism, vaccines, MMR or Thimerosal in any title.

John Stone

Of course, Johns Hopkins is in Maryland (which is not I think one of your favourite medical boards). He is listed as a "Professor" at McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine:

and he is owner of a university email address. He clearly has a position but perhaps the rubric 'Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics' is not a genuine title.

media scholar

The fact that a "anthrax" guy is attacking political officials for investigating vaccines means somebody needs to check this guy out cuz he really needs to be checked out.

The Anthrax crap was a hoax designed to scare people into making Anthrax vaccine a number one seller on the American market.

These scamdemics, some easily treated with South Korean sour kraut, have their origins not in a dust bin in some third world desert, but a germ lab somewhere else or in a major pharmaceutical company's black ops department.

Memories, light the corner of my mind....

The oxes are slow, but the earth is patient.

Tim Bolen

I haven't done an in depth investigation of Salzberg. I just summarily identified him, and my article comes up number one on Google for him, and moved on.

Usually these people, loosely connected through the skeptics, use CV padding to accomplish their goals. It is very likely that he has a "professor title," not an actual appointment. There are different levels of "Professor" available, most of which are just crap titles with no real affiliation with a University.

My guess is that he is a weakling, puffing himself in a world where he sees REAL scientists working, and this is his defense mechanism. I mean, after all, here is a guy with a degree in English (High School Teacher?), a Masters in Philosophy (cab driver?), and a PhD in Computer Sciences (EVERYBODY offers those degrees). He wants attention - so he blogs for Forbes. No big deal.

He's just not interesting. Kind of pathetic.

And yes, impersonating a physician. What State is he located in? Every State Medical Board frowns on that activity. Maybe he needs to be reported.

Tim Bolen

Farmer Geddon

email him and ask him to clarify perhaps ?
Is it against the law to misrepresent himself like this ?

Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Broadway Research Building, 459
733 N Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-614-6112 Email:
Blog: and

Dr. Steven Salzberg is a Professor of Medicine in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics and Computer Science. From 2005-2011, he was the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) and the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 1997-2005 he was Senior Director of Bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, one of the world's leading DNA sequencing centers at the time.

Dr. Salzberg received his B.A. degree in English and M.S. and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. He joined the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in 1989. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, and become a Research Professor in 1999, after joining TIGR.

Before switching to bioinformatics and genomics, Dr. Salzberg's research focused on machine learning and its applications to fields ranging from astronomy to molecular biology. His interest in the human genome project motivated him to develop one of the first computational gene-finding systems for the human genome in the early 1990s. His initial collaborations with TIGR at that time led to the development of a gene-finding program (Glimmer) that has subsequently been used in the analysis of hundreds of bacterial, archaea, and viruses, including the genomes of Borrelia burgdorferi (the Lyme disease bacterium), Treponema pallidum (the syphilis bacterium), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Vibrio cholerae, Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), and many others. He and his research team developed a eukaryotic gene finder for Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, and later adapted it for the human genome, the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), Cryptococcus neoformans, Brugia malayi, and other species.

His group has a major focus on large-scale genome assembly and has developed a number of assembly packages, including the open-source AMOS assembler. Recently they have developed several pioneering applications for efficient alignment of next-generation sequencing reads, including the Bowtie, Tophat, and Cufflinks alignment systems. All of the group's software is free and open source, and their systems have been downloaded by thousands of scientific laboratories around the globe. In addition to his software systems, Salzberg has contributed analyses to many genome sequencing projects, including the human genome, using computational methods to analyze genome duplications, rearrangements, and other evolutionary phenomena in a wide range of organisms. He was a co-founder of the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, the first large-scale genomics study of human and avian influenza viruses.

Dr. Salzberg has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in leading scientific journals, and his h-index is 89. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a former member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Genome Research, Genome Biology, BMC Biology, Journal of Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, and Biology Direct, and he is a member of the Faculty of 1000. He co-chaired the Third (1999) through the Eighth (2005) Conferences on Computational Genomics, the 2007 and 2009 International Conferences on Microbial Genomics, and the 2009 Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics.

Personal information: Steven Salzberg is married to Claudia Salzberg (nee Pasche) with two daughters. His hobbies include tennis and golf.

Thank you for the clarification. That explains the disconnect, the attitude, and possibly his naiveté. But it doesn't explain how both Forbes and Johns Hopkins can sign off on Salzberg impersonating a physician. "Professor of medicine" has only one meaning that clearly doesn't apply to him.

Jim Thompson

Thank you. You do a great job of busting these incorrect statements. So much of the criticism, by these industry scientists, of proponents of vaccine injury as the cause of autism falls in line with the kinship the industry scientists have with vaccine manufacturers.

As you know J.B. Handley wrote about how CDC jumped on the bus with the industry scumbag scientist Poul Thorsen and a vaccine manufacturer in this Age of Autism report.

“The ‘something’ Dr. Simpson did was find a Danish vaccine company, Statens Serum Institute, willing to work with CDC. A company who sold thimerosal-containing vaccines and a company who would soon see an enormous rise in the number of vaccines sold to the United States. Along with her colleague, Dr. Paul Stehr-Green, Dr. Simpson was heading to Denmark. Two years later, Dr. Simpson and Dr. Stehr-Green would be published authors, along with employees of SSI, letting the world know that the Danish data proved that thimerosal does not cause autism. These Danish studies would then form the basis for a NEW IOM, initiated by CDC, that in 2004 would declare that the thimerosal-autism hypothesis was without merit, and has since been referenced as ‘proof’ that thimerosal is safe.

It all started with Dr. Diane Simpson's trip to Denmark. We even found a copy of her travel voucher.” See

Also John, your comment about this “axis” between the CDC and industry scientists on J.B. Handley’s article on Age of Autism was:

“This is fascinating but also note that the CDC Thorsen axis was already established more than a year earlier when Thorsen proposed the MMR study to the CDC as recorded in a letter from Dr Mashalyn Yeargan-Allson, an epidemiologist at the CDC to Another NIP Deputy Director Jose Cordero:

‘Jose, As we discussed on Friday, we have become aware through Poul Thorsen of an exciting opportunity to study the role of MMR vaccine and autism using several registries/existing studies and the repository of biologic specimens and laboratory capabilities in Denmark. Attached below is a proposal for such a study. Poul will be leaving on Thursday to travel to Denmark where he will be meeting with the PIs for the proposed study on June 6th. We would like to be able to have Poul say whether it is likely that CDC (NIP) can fund the study, if NIP is interested. The proposed budget is included; there may be additional sources of funding (in addition to NIP) but we are not certain at this time. Unfortunately, the DD Branch does not have much (if any) $$ to fund the study, but we do have the expertise that we have developed due to the autism surveillance in Atlanta and the MMR/autism casecontrol study. I will be out of the office tomorrow, but you may contact Diana or Poul if you have questions. Thank you so much for considering this proposal. Marshalyn.’

From F Edward Yazbak, 'The CDC finances, writes and helps publish Danish research', p 4.”

John Stone

Hi Tim,

That's very interesting. Note in the Forbes blog Salzberg states:

"I'm a Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine."

So, of course it should concerning for everybody (notably Forbes and Johns Hopkins) that he should be putting it about that he is a professor of medicine, even if there is an ambiguity. This is the rest of the biog:

"Until mid-2011 I was Professor and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining UMD, I was at The Institute for Genomic Research, where I sequenced the genomes of many bacteria, including those used in the 2001 anthrax attacks. At TIGR I was part of the Human Genome Project and the co-founder of the influenza virus sequencing project (which is when I first learned of the anti-vaccine movement). My research group develops software for DNA sequence analysis, and our (free) software is used by scientific laboratories around the globe. I did my B.A. and M.S. at Yale University, and my Ph.D. at Harvard University, and I have published over 200 scientific papers. Follow me on Facebook or Google plus, or just subscribe to my alternate blog site."

Tim Bolen

I checked out this Steven Salzberg some time ago. He is NOT what he wants people to believe he is.

First,he has NO DEGREES in the hard sciences - only in English, Philosophy, and Computer Sciences. Below is his CV:

More, he claims to be a Software Engineer in "Bioinformatics," (pseudo-science) which means that he, and his associates, enter data into computers (data entry). With "Bioinformatics" data-in equals garbage-out. I wrote about him a while back:

Basically he teaches students how to enter scientific data into a computer software program.

I am unimpressed, and underwhelmed, by him. He is NOT a Professor of Medicine. He is a Professor IN the department of Medicine - big difference.

Tim Bolen

Man's destiny is freedom, and, despite the perpetual smoke screen, men are not blinded to ignorance without first the removal of freedom. By law or by book, by whatever devices the despot chooses, he shall, himself, learn it inevitably by heart, that man shall never be subject to tyranny. Only by force is slave taken and made subject to obedience just as sure as ignoble man can not nail himself to a cross. One hand is left hanging.

Check this Salzberg guy, too, cuz he needs to be checked.

Lester Royce

The real genius I ecognized in Salzberg is when he suggested you could only study immunized vs unimmunized by denying immunizations to those who want them.

As for this Salzberg guy...Johns Hopkins University Medical School?

Doesn't move the needle.

I'm afraid I have to agree with Kerbobblog. If Only.
You don't have to be afraid to agree with me.

Somebody needs to check the guy cuz the guy needs to be checked.

RE: "The unwelcome news is that the “cruise missiles and drone helicopters” of the war on disease often hit the wrong the target, and the more cruise missiles and drone helicopters you unleash the greater the risk."

The entire pharmaceutical industry regards the 100,000+ drug induced deaths per year (10% reported = 1 MILLION)and the 40,000+ new cases of autism per year as simply "collateral damages in the line of fire". They continue to sell their toxic drugs and inject their toxic vaccines without any conscience whatsoever. The pharmaceutical/vaccine WAR, is not AGAINST disease, but against HEALTH, and we are fighting EVIL.

Jenny Allan

Prof Stephen Salzberg is a geneticist, according to his Forbes 'bio', so it can be safely assumed he already has a 'vested interest' in finding a genetic cause for autism. No doubt the Johns Hopkins Uni gets a great deal of pharma financial backing for this so called 'research'. Meantime, the autism epidemic continues unabated.

In his blog, Prof Salzberg argues the steeply rising autism rates are a myth. He insists better diagnoses and a broader definition of the condition is responsible, But then he WOULD say that wouldn't he? After all, as Mark Blaxill pointed out forcefully to Congess. There is NO SUCH THING as a genetic epidemic!!

Perhaps the Johns Hopkins University, which also provided a recent lecture platform for Brian Deer to promulgate his vendetta against Dr Wakefield, should reflect on the long term damage this will inevitably cause to once well respected academic institutions.

Salzberg's blog, headed up with the worthy title, "celebrating good science by fighting pseudoscience and bad medicine", is nothing more than a very unscientific diatribe, which demonstrates all too clearly how the twin worlds of academia and research have become 'dumbed down', and are totally in thrall to their corporate sponsors.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I wish that it were just a matter of ignorance, or somehow not knowing the facts. Sadly, all of the facts point to a very deliberate attempt to hide the truth, which is all too easy for the majority of the population who trust the mainstream media for their information. We will never win this battle in congressional hearings, in court or in any other official arena. They know the truth, they deliberately conceal the truth, and they are happy to distract those who actually see what is going on with kangaroo hearings and studies. There are hidden agendas afoot, and we must continue to shout the truth from the rooftops, to our friends and neighbors, and any other way we can, that some will believe and be spared from needless tragedy.

Carolyn Kylesmom

Marks of good science:

Actually by the following TED standards, our side wins: \

Good Science . . .

It makes claims that can be tested and verified
It has been published in a peer reviewed journal (but beware… there are some dodgy journals out there that seem credible, but aren’t.)
It is based on theories that are discussed and argued for by many experts in the field
It is backed up by experiments that have generated enough data to convince other experts of its legitimacy
Its proponents are secure enough to accept areas of doubt and need for further investigation
It does not fly in the face of the broad existing body of scientific knowledge
The proposed speaker works for a university and/or has a phD or other bona fide high level scientific qualification

On the related note of posturing posing as science:

Pseudoscience Saps the Power of TEDx Brand (written by a former writer for Fortune magazine): "TED posted a letter to the TEDx community on its blog warning of the pitfalls of bad science. TEDx conferences happen in cities and towns across the world. To date there have been 5,000 events and 21,000 TEDx talks put up online."

"Below is an email sent to the TEDx community regarding our view on bad science/pseudoscience talks at TEDx events."
(posted 07 December, 2012)
"The consequence of bad science and health hoaxes are not trivial. As an example, Andrew Wakefield’s attempt to link autism and vaccines was exposed as a hoax last year. But while his work was being investigated, millions of children went without vaccines, and many contracted deadly illnesses as a result."
"2. Red flag topics
"These are not 'banned' topics by any means — but they are topics that tend to attract pseudo-scientists. If your speaker proposes a topic like this, use extra scrutiny. An expanding, depressing list follows:
"Food science, including:
"•GMO food and anti-GMO foodists
"•Food as medicine, especially to treat a specific condition: Autism and ADHD, especially causes of and cures for autism
"Because of the sad history of hoaxes with deadly consequences in the field of autism research, really look into the background of any autism-related talk. If you hear anything that sounds remotely like, 'Vaccines are related to autism,' — RUN AWAY."

Excellent detailed critique as usual, John, pointing out Salzberg's many factual errors. What a sad state of journalistic affairs when a column like his can run without public correction or retraction.

My thanks also for spotlighting the author's tone and priorities as part of what's wrong with vaccine culture. The finger-wagging smugness, the fear-reactive disease paranoia... these self-inflated pundits set themselves above culpability as bloviating dictators of their perceived inferiors' health care options.

People who view public health policymakers as their protectors soon find out that individuals within the great unwashed are instead feared as potential disease vectors to be subjugated or milked for profit.

Bill Welsh

It is one of the great mysteries of our time that people who are otherwise intelligent are promoting the theory that when a dangerous substance is fused into a ‘vaccine’, the poison becomes benign.
(Is there a hidden hypothesis, not being fully explained to the rest of us?)
Or is it that a deeply flawed vaccination programme is being promoted in a way that explains the damage to thousands of perfect children as some kind of justified ‘collateral damage’.

‘Child sacrifice’ has unfortunately been practised over the centuries in countless ill informed primitive tribal societies but how does that explain the Professor Stephen Salzbergs of today’s world? He operates out of an academic institution, he must know that mercury is a very dangerous substance, particularly when injected into the bloodstream of a child, and yet Salzberg protests its innocence!
Perhaps, as John Stone suggests, Professor Salzberg, should inform us re his intellectual grasp of the hazardous and non-hazardous qualities of mercury.
John-Hopkins University’s international reputation may be at stake.
Bill Welsh

I'm afraid I have to agree with Kerbobblog. If Only.

Pharma's damage control PR machine went into high gear last week after the pivotal congressional autism hearing on Nov. 29th. Spinmeisters like Salzberg were busy blogging away at Forbes and Slate. They must be getting worried. Eventually the truth will come out no matter how hard they try to suppress it.

For all his academic and institutional bragging points, Salzberg is nothing more than a "mono con pistola" as my husband puts it, a monkey with a gun. All that matters is winning the turf war and the load of scientific-sounding rationalizations are the only vestiges of higher human functioning some of these pundits manage to display on the subject. Not surprised he won't respond to corrections, though I'm sure he fanatically believes the lies are for our own good on some level and if you caught him drunk at the club, he'd wave his arms around and shout down any challenges with a moral-hostage-taking spiel on deadly disease. Bang, bang, bang.

Anyone want to researching this guy's Pharma connections? Jake?

I would assume Professor Salzberg is a supporter of the "Autism Gene Theory."

Where the mysterious, "elusive Autism Gene" suddenly appeared in 50 states at the same time in 1991*,and placed 40,000 Autistic kindergartners into the school systems by 1996.

(*when they tripled the amount of mercury in vaccines by 6 months of age)

Could Dr. Thorsen be hiding in Professor Salzberg's basement? Anything can happen in the high-powered world of pharma-academia...

Angus Files

and if they ever find a cure for ignorance ,send it to Salzberg..shame on him,shame on all pharma ,,,

barbara j

and..Boyle said.."it's opportunity"..There it is, if you have status, power, money and the right "degree", your children may not be vaccinated in one day with nine vaccines. You carry yourself in a way that suggests a different schedule, you can be trusted to bring the child in as often and for as long as it takes to fully immunize.Heck with the vaccinated vs unvaccinated, that will never happen, let's look at the medicaid kids vs the doctors kids. If it's all about half lives they can time out before accepting another?

Darrell Issa is no fool
U mad, bro?

billie joe

Here's another Cash for Trash guy. Would someone please make a most wanted vaccine injury denialist list and place him at the top for today. Document everything he says, rebutt it, and document his lame comebacks. Invite him to debate and log how many times he declines. These idiots won't stop their drivel until they are called onto the mat and are seen for their either ill-contrived methods or their stupidity. His children and children's children need to feel the shame so they don't follow in his misguided footsteps. Do it! They need to think before they write, and if they haven't yet read all the studies, they need to be urged to and given a chance to repent.

Samson Wellshire

Darrell Issa is no fool

He now knows where most of the bodies are buried, and he has a very powerful shovel. Hoodwinked he will not be.

Lawyer up, CDC. Interesting days are ahead for you folks. And you know what the Chinese say about living in interesting days.

It's finally coming. Wait and watch.

I love the smell of subpoenas in the morning

Cynthia Cournoyer

If it was about the truth, vaccines would have been long gone by now. If it was about true scientific investigation, vaccines would have been long gone by now. If it was about political and governmental integrity, vaccines would have been long gone by now. Unfortunately it is not a battle of information, rather a battle of cultural conditioning to accept vaccines no matter what, even if the facts against them are enormous.

Thank you so much for counteracting his misinformation so articulately and with such good information.

Farmer Geddon

Sorry correction : I should have asked ..........

Are we in the dark ages ?

Offering a "final solution" to resolve the problem :
Every vaccine should be compulsory at every Doctors surgery in the Western world for all the doctors and all the nurses and staff and all their families . The truth would be known very quickly then .

Just realised what I accidentally wrote down then .....Final solution .....dont know what came over me ....sorry again .

Farmer Geddon

"an act of scientific and social suppression"

John -begs the question - are we in the middle ages ?
It certainly seems so !

great piece of unbiased , free truthful journalism there John .
You are part of a dying breed because majority of the rest of the media are total 100% liars & thieves .

Professor Salzberg apparently thinks he can say whatever he wants from his ivory tower. Let him keep writing his sophomoric hit pieces. When his bed buddies are handcuffed, he'll go along with them for publishing blatant lies for the purpose of perpetuating and covering up the crime of vaccine poisoning. There is no excuse, none, for a professor of medicine to be so wrong, so condescending to the public, and so vicious toward those who question, including our elected representatives. I don't know who this clown thinks he is. He is a disgrace to both medicine and academia.

Farmer Geddon

"and one of them caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2005.”

I'm so fed up of hearing this sad story as a counter argument to the safety of chelation (like any of the parents who enter into the chelation world have any choice - there is nothing left of the child after iatrogenic damage).

Vaccines have killed how many Professor ?
Give me your email address Prof. & let me forward you the vaccine devastation pictures you scoundrel .

Angus Files

And when it all goes wrong they cant undo the destruction from the vaccines..shame on Salzberg..

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March 27, 2020

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Bill would add new layers to reporting pesticide use near schools
State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson added more details this week to a bill that would create additional reporting requirements for county agricultural commissioners. It would require notifications to school principals three days ahead of a nearby application. Commissioners would also have to deliver annual reports to the school on the applications.
Riverside County Agricultural Commissioner Ruben Arroyo said the added step would basically require a farmer to notify the commissioner four days ahead of time. Notifications, meanwhile, are already available to schools through a website portal, though a low percentage of schools currently access the information, according to Arroyo.
He also pointed out that the state began prohibiting nearby applications during school hours in 2018. This means Jackson’s proposal would have commissioners notifying the school of applications that take place when the school is closed.
State Department accelerates H-2A approvals
The State Department agreed to waiving interviews for many applicants as a way to increase approvals of H-2A farmworkers. The move was welcomed by ag groups who feared the embassy cutbacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic would leave farms without needed labor.
Western Growers CEO Dave Puglia said the action will "ease the flow of guest workers at a time when our farmers are redoubling their efforts to provide our nation with safe, healthy, abundant and affordable food.”
Read our story here and a State Department Q&A here.

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State auditor: CDFA ‘poorly managed’ license plate program
A State Auditor report yesterday criticized CDFA’s management of the Pet Lover’s Specialized License Plate Program, saying it threatened the success of the program.
The program subsidizes animal sterilizations through grant funding. CDFA took responsibility for it in 2018. Yet CDFA used “a significantly flawed” selection process for awarding $300,000 in grants, which disadvantaged certain applicants, according to the audit.
Expenditures had begun exceeding revenues during that time, “raising concerns about whether the program can continue to effectively fund…the services,” read the report. It also criticized CDFA for doing little to promote the program.

CDFA is maintaining inspections for eggs, meat and poultry under USDA oversight. Routine inspections performed for FDA have been temporarily suspended to protect the safety of CDFA staff.
Trump plans looks to regionalize risk
The Trump administration is paving the way toward potentially restarting the economy in some areas of the country.
Using a “robust surveillance testing” program, the administration plans to categorize the coronavirus concerns in counties as either high-risk, medium-risk or low risk.
In a letter to the nation’s governors, President Donald Trump says the data will enable state and local policymakers to decide whether they need to maintain, increase or relax social distancing and other mitigation measures.
Why it matters: This could allow rural areas to resume economic activity more quickly, assuming the testing data is there to justify it.
Read the letter here.
House set to clear Phase 3 stimulus
That $2 trillion Phase 3 economic stimulus will soon be headed to President Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicts it will pass the House today by a large, bipartisan margin.
Pelosi said Thursday she wants to pass the measure by voice vote. But if a recorded vote is requested, it may take a while to finish: House members will be voting in groups of 30 lawmakers, 15 groups in all.
Pelosi wants negotiations on Phase 4 to start soon, and this time the talks should, from the outset, involve each of the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, she says.
Take note: One of Pelosi’s top priorities for Phase 4 is a 15% increase in SNAP benefits. Democrats were unable to get that in Phase 3.
EPA offering CAFOs some relief
The Trump administration continues to take steps to provide some temporary regulatory relief during the COVID-19 crisis.
EPA plans to exercise "enforcement discretion" during the coronavirus pandemic, including in the way it treats concentrated animal feeding operations.
In new guidance, the agency says that if an animal feeding operation "is unable to transfer animals off-site and, solely as a result of the pandemic, meets the regulatory definition" of a CAFO, EPA will not consider it as one. Nor will EPA elevate a small CAFO to the category of a medium-sized operation or large operation under similar circumstances.
FDA, USDA ease diversion of product
FDA is relaxing nutrition labeling requirements so restaurants, and manufacturers with food labeled for restaurant use, can sell packaged products directly to their customers and other businesses.
The guidance issued late Thursday says that so long as allergen and ingredient information — among other things — is on the label, it can be sold at retail.
Earlier this week, the Food Safety and Inspection Service relaxed labeling requirements allowing meat, poultry and egg products originally intended for hotels and restaurants to be diverted to retail outlets.
“Restaurants are working overtime to get any food they might have to food banks and charities, in addition to retail, and this would help with the flexibility to do so,” said Vanessa Sink, spokesperson for the National Restaurant Association.
CRP enrollment below expectations
Landowners apparently aren’t as interested in taking land out of production this year as many thought. USDA has accepted 3.4 million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program, 89% of the acreage that was offered for enrollment during the first general signup in four years.
The cutoff point for enrollment was an environmental benefit index score of 210. That EBI “is lower than we would like to see,” said Ferd Hoefner of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
Some of the heaviest interest in CRP was in eastern Colorado, western Kansas and the Texas panhandle.
He said it:
“H-2 labor is vital to the economy and food security of America – our farmers and producers depend on these workers to continue to feed and clothe the world.” - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, talking about the State Department’s H-2 visa applicants.

Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, Spencer Chase and Ben Nuelle contributed to this report.

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Annual Meeting 2013

2013 Annual Meeting of the Farm Woodland Forum (jointly with the Forest Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society).

Woodland grazing.

The meeting took place from 13th to 14th June 2013.

Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland, Fife, Scotland.

Dr Mike Strachan, Forestry Commission Scotland, Perth and Argyll Conservancy, Algo Business Centre, Glenearn Road, Perth PH2 0NJ. Email:

13th June – Presentations, lectures and networking at Falkland Centre for Stewardship. Visit to a new apple orchard on the Falkland Estate and visit to Brackmont Farm and Forestry, St Fort Estate, Newport on Tay, Fife DD6 8RE.
!4th June – visit to the agroforestry experiments at Glensaugh, James Hutton Institute.
No data or images to be copied from this report (or the presentations within it) without the written permission of the author(s).
The meeting commenced with talks by:
Mike Strachan (Forestry Commission Scotland) – Thoughts on implementing agroforestry measures.
Professor Bill Slee (James Hutton Institute) – Integrating woodland management and farming.
Dr Adam Vanbergen (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,NERC, Penicuik) – The effects of grazing on plant assemblages.
Matthew Upson (Cranfield University) – Carbon storage in a silvopastoral system in Bedfordshire.
Ewan Nugent (Natural England) – Findings of the recent agroforestry report for England.
Dr Scott Wilson (Consultant Forester and Ecologist) – Summary of research into current and historical grazing practice.
Ruth Mitchell (James Hutton Institute) – Below ground effects of moorland colonisation by birch and pine.
Bob Wilson (Centre for Environmental Living and Training) – Progress with the all Ireland Agroforestry Initiative.
The session was chaired by Brendan Callaghan (Head of Grants and Delivery Scotland, Forestry Commission).
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[The State of Facial Recognition in America]

We are a student Data Privacy & Ethics group from the organization AI4ALL, which increases diversity and inclusion in AI education, research, development and policy. Our group includes eight members from all over the country. Throughout the year, we have met each week to discuss data privacy issues and have taken a closer look at Facial Recognition Legislation.

Facial recognition has become increasingly more commonplace in our day to day lives. We use it to unlock our phones, try out a new snapchat filter, and to tag our friends on Facebook. However, few of us truly understand how the government uses facial recognition.

To summarize what we have learnt, we have developed a report outlining the role facial recognition plays in our society today, what dangers that imposes, and lastly provide solutions to the problems we’ve discovered. We have also hosted a webinar for people around the country to join featuring Clare Garvie and Emiliano Falcon-Morano, who are two experts on facial recognition use in government that are leading the charge to regulate it.


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Do herbal enemas and other types that cleanse the colon protect against colon cancer?

Q: Do herbal enemas and other types that cleanse the colon protect against colon cancer?

A: No well-controlled, scientifically accurate studies offer support for such suggestions. The mucus and bacteria that product advertisers talk about removing are a normal part of our digestive system, helping it to function and stay healthy. Suggestions that we need special procedures to remove toxins are unfounded. The kidneys and liver have intricate systems to filter and eliminate toxins. Toxins can come from food and from the breakdown of food. Studies do show that food wastes move through the digestive system considerably faster in people who eat high-fiber diets than in those whose diets are low in fiber. Some scientists suggest that fiber helps lower risk of colon cancer in part by reducing the time that any cancer-causing substances in waste are in contact with intestinal membranes. Other scientists credit the healthful substances that intestinal bacteria produce from fiber as cancer-protective.

Not only are colon cleanses, sometimes called colonic irrigation, unlikely to protect against cancer, frequent use of high colonic enemas and other products for colon cleansing might even have negative health effects by reducing populations of health-promoting bacteria called the microbiota that live in your digestive tract. Safety of cleanses or irrigation depends on how they are done; irrigation with large amounts of coffee or other fluids have been linked with some deaths, mostly from the result of severe electrolyte imbalances. To lower risk of colon cancer and for better overall health, the American Institute for Cancer Research recommendations supported by strong scientific evidence are to eat a mostly plant-based diet with plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and beans; get regular exercise; limit consumption of red meat, processed meat and alcohol; and maintain a healthy weight.

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#BrandsInFocus: Nike’s supply chain transparency

Supply chain transparency means brands need good relationships with suppliers to ensure there are shared values. Nike builds long-term relationships with suppliers who share a commitment to making products responsibly and sustainably.

In this video Nike shows the human stories behind its supply chain. Brands are increasingly ensuring that their values and commitment reach every level of their business, recognising their wide impact and reach.

As Nike demonstrates, Brands have a role to play in ensuring that their suppliers embrace values encompassing sustainability and social responsibility - this is achieved through good relationships and communication.

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B-2 Flies 37-Hour Deterrence Mission to the Pacific

A ?B-2 assigned to Whiteman AFB, Mo., prepares for a 37-hour flight to the US Pacific Command area of operations. US Strategic Command did not say exactly where the bomber flew, but did say it made a stop at Andersen AFB, Guam. Screenshot from STRATCOM video.

A B-2 Spirit flew a “long-range” mission from Whiteman AFB, Mo., nonstop to an undisclosed area of the Pacific in a public show of force in the region.

Video posted by US Strategic Command over the weekend shows a B-2, 88-0329 Spirit of Missouri, taking off in the dark on the night of Oct. 28 “to conduct a long-range mission to the Pacific Command area of responsibility.”

STRATCOM declined to provide any specifics about the B-2’s route, other than it landed at Andersen AFB, Guam, for an engine-running crew change. The aircraft then flew back to Whiteman, with the entire mission lasting 37 hours.

“This B-2 mission was part of regular USSTRATCOM bomber operations to maintain a high state of readiness and proficiency, and not part of any exercise events,” STRATCOM spokesman Maj. Brian Maguire said in a statement.

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  • Three bedroom house
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Anthony James Estate Agents are pleased to offer to the market this recently refurbished three bedroom terraced house located on a quiet residential road.

The property is ideally located for Abbey Wood mainline station, Crossrail, bus routes, schools and local amenities.

Features include double glazing, gas central heating, alarm, fitted kitchen with cooker, large lounge, neutral decor throughout, easy to maintain approx 35ft rear garden and off street parking to front.

An internal viewing is highly recommended. Call us today on 0208 304 0666 to arrange your viewing.

Offered un-furnished and available immediately.

Restrictions: No pets, no students

Permitted Payments

In addition to paying the rent, you may also be required to make the following payments permitted under the Tenants Fees Act 2019.

Prior to tenancy start date

Holding deposit (per tenancy)
A reservation deposit equivalent to one weeks rent. This is to reserve the property. This will be withheld if any tenant including guarantors withdraw from the tenancy, fail a right to rent check, provide false or misleading information or fail to sign their tenancy agreement within the deadline or 14 days whichever is the sooner. In such cases we will write to you within 7 days giving the reason for withholding.

Security Deposit (per tenancy)
Equivalent to five weeks rent per tenancy, if rent is less than £50,000 per year. This is refundable by your landlord once you have finished your tenancy.  The landlord reserves the right to lay claim to the deposit under the terms of any breaches on your tenancy agreement.

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Unpaid Rent
Pay interest on any amount outstanding and in arrears after 14 days at the rate of 3% over the Bank of England annual base rate on a day to day basis from the date the rent shall become due until payment is made in full.

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You will be responsible for the cost of lost keys or security device replacement.

Variation to Tenancy (Tenants request)
£50 including VAT for each agreed alteration to cover the cost of taking landlords instruction to prepare and execute new legal documents.

Early Termination Request (Tenants request)
A written request from you and with the agreement of the landlord to terminate the tenancy prior to the end of the fixed term. A fee of £50 including vat will be payable plus the landlords costs of re-letting the property and rent due up until start date of new tenancy.

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