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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov
#4 | POSTED BY SOMEBODYELSE

Its sad someone posted this on edge science. Like he's trying to argue this science is settled by authority.

This year a meta study found just the opposite.

Fluoride Exposure and Children's IQ Scores
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

"Analysis of 13 studies with individual-level measures found an IQ score decrease of 1.63 points per 1-mg/L increase in urinary fluoride."
jamanetwork.com

Gathering knowledge doesn't make it the truth.
Science is a process.
And its sufficient to say we don't know the answer to this question. But one thing is certain not having Flouride in your water won't affect your IQ.

Also ....

Did you know that you can use one single binary operator to build all elementary math? Its really incredible.
arxiv.org

App on how to use it....
molab.marimo.io

This wasn't known even last week.

From Facebook:

Nobody wanted this conflict. Not one person who understands what war costs wanted this. But the people asking when things go back to normal are asking the right question about the wrong timeline. This didn't start a month ago. It started in 1979. We just finally showed up to it.
Left alone, Iran was not quietly going into the good night. They were not going to stop arming the groups that walked into Israel and slaughtered innocent families at a music festival. They weren't going to stop until every tunnel was sealed, every launcher was buried, every ally we have was in range, and the fortification was done.
And then we were supposed to believe they would politely wave our ships through.
That was never the deal. Everybody in that room knew it.
Every administration from both parties declared them the number one enemy of the United States. They have told us who they are. Loudly. Repeatedly. For 45 years. They wish us harm. They wish our allies harm. They wish your way of life harm.
Eight presidents heard that and chose later.
There is no more later.
The can is gone. There's no road left to kick it down.
By acting now we may have put off the unimaginable. That's not a comfortable thing to say. It's not supposed to be. But it's the only honest answer to the people who want to know when things go back to normal.
They don't go back. They go forward. The only question is whether we chose the moment or the moment chose us.
Nobody gets to pick the timing of history. But somebody always has to answer it.

FTA:

"The struggle over a fallen police barrier lasted less than a minute, but it has forever altered the course of student Muhammad Ali's life.

On 3 June 2024, the 21-year-old University of Pittsburgh senior was protesting in support of a pro-Palestine encampment in the center of campus. University police had set up metal barriers, held together with zip ties, to keep protesters from delivering food, water, and supplies to the encampment. Frustrated, some protesters tried to move the barriers.

Ali bent down to pick up a fallen barrier. An officer grabbed the other side and tried to pull it from his hands. After a brief exchange of words, Ali let go and stepped back, his hands raised. He thought that was the end of it. Weeks later, Ali was charged with multiple crimes, including three felonies. The most serious charges against him carry a maximum sentence of 34 years in prison.

Ali's attorney and supporters say he is being treated harshly because he is Muslim and brown. They point out that the Allegheny County District Attorney's office filed criminal charges against other protesters, but nearly all of them were offered plea deals with lesser charges, or a pretrial rehabilitation program that if completed would leave them with no criminal record.

But Ali and another community member, his co-defendant Cole Florkewicz, who is white, were not offered any deal. Both are still facing felony charges."

In 2024, Columbia University professor Keren Yarhi-Milo, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and diplomat at the Israeli Mission to the UN in NYC, began the notorious and successful national campaign to persecute and expel Palestinian students from America's colleges who were protesting the genocide in Gaza.

@#11 ... When is the drunk rapist/secretary of war crimes going to resign? ...

Good question.

There's this reporting ...

Pete Hegseth's Secret History (December 2024)
www.newyorker.com

... After the recent revelation that Pete Hegseth had secretly paid a financial settlement to a woman who had accused him of raping her in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump stood by his choice of Hegseth to become the next Secretary of Defense. Trump's communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a statement noting that Hegseth, who has denied wrongdoing, has not been charged with any crime. "President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his administration," Cheung maintained.

But Hegseth's record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world's largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran -- Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America"in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct. ...


"Pope Leo brushes off Trump criticism amid growing Vatican"U.S. tensions over Iran war

"I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among states to find just solutions to problems," he said.

"Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there's a better way."

A Vatican spokesman responded to Trump's social media posts, saying they reflected his "impotence" in the face of the Vatican's criticism of the Iran war.

"When political power turns against a moral voice, it is often because it cannot contain it," Father Antonio Spadaro, under-secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery of Culture and Education, wrote in a social media post. " ... Unable to absorb that voice, power tries to delegitimize it. Yet in doing so, it implicitly acknowledges its weight."

''

Trump's rebuke came as three U.S. cardinals chose to speak out against the Iran war in a rare joint television appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

"In Catholic teaching, this is not a just war," Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., told the program.

"This is a war of choice. ... I think it's embedded in a wider moment in the U.S. that's worrying: We're seeing before us the possibility of war after war after war."

The Iranian president also took the opportunity to weigh in. President Masoud Pezeshkian posted a message on Monday that said in part -

"I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person."

www.npr.org

*** After Deleting Blasphemy, Dotard-in-Chief Posts Trumpf Tower on the Moon ***


What in the world is Congress waiting for to invoke the 25th Amendment and impeach this lunatic?

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