We had an earlier post here with an interview of Martin Shkreli on 2023-11-07, “Martin Shkreli on Pharma, Prosecution, Prison, Contempt of Congress, and Accelerationism”.
In Travis J. I. Corcoran’s Aristillus books, one of the events that triggered the great exodus to the Moon was the “CEO trials”.
District court docket:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16764331/federal-trade-commission-v-vyera-pharmaceuticals-llc/
Summary affirmance:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66676793/federal-trade-commission-v-vyera-pharmaceuticals-llc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
Not much filled in CourtListener.
OKC:
Consilience points to causality:
On 2023-04-03, I posted here about the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant being delayed until 2028.
What a difference three weeks makes!
It has now slipped to 2030, with an increase in cost from £ 26 billion to £ 31–34 billion.
In a statement released on Tuesday evening, EDF said a review of the project had been finalised and the aim now was to bring unit 1 into service “around the end of the decade”. It gave three scenarios, with the first being unit 1 operational in 2029, based on a target productivity for the electromechanical work. The second scenario - the “base case” - assumes some risks in the electromechanical work and the testing schedule, and 2030 operation. The third scenario is for a further 12 month delay to 2031.
The project was initially announced in 2010 and give the go-ahead by the U.K. government in 2016.
It is never a good sign when a project’s completion date is slipping faster than real time.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is seeking to retract six scientific studies and correct 31 others that were published by the institute’s top researchers, including its CEO. The researchers are accused of manipulating data images with simple methods, primarily with copy-and-paste in image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop.
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DFCI Research Integrity Officer Barrett Rollins told The Harvard Crimson that [fraud buster Sholto] David had contacted DFCI with allegations of data manipulation in 57 DFCI-led studies. Rollins said that the institute is “committed to a culture of accountability and integrity,” and that “every inquiry about research integrity is examined fully.”
The allegations are against: DFCI President and CEO Laurie Glimcher, Executive Vice President and COO William Hahn, Senior Vice President for Experimental Medicine Irene Ghobrial, and Harvard Medical School professor Kenneth Anderson.
The Wall Street Journal noted that Rollins, the integrity officer, is also a co-author on two of the studies. He told the outlet he is recused from decisions involving those studies.
(Emphasis mine)
Despite finding false data and manipulated images, Rollins pressed that it doesn’t necessarily mean that scientific misconduct occurred, and the institute has not yet made such a determination. The “presence of image discrepancies in a paper is not evidence of an author’s intent to deceive,” Rollins wrote. “That conclusion can only be drawn after a careful, fact-based examination which is an integral part of our response. Our experience is that errors are often unintentional and do not rise to the level of misconduct.”
“Mistakes were made….”
Harvard’s prestige attracts status-seeking elbowing psychopaths - so there’s more issues there than in many other A-level institutions.
Indentured servitude. You’ve invented indentured servitude.
Big Tech is, of course, way ahead of you.
On average, food produced through urban agriculture emitted 0.42 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents per serving, six times higher than the 0.07 kg CO₂ per serving of conventionally grown produce.
“Say it ISN”T so!” Of course, they will!. Over and over, louder and louder.
Finally an explanation that makes sense - it’s about the privacy of Chinese spies:
Does this represent some tendency of individuals drowning large societies with lots of irrational rules (both self- and state - imposed) to intermittently go NUTS?
Oh, this last selection of subjects has so much to comment upon.
Note, first and foremost, the leading role DEI has played. As a leading “co–conspirator” are women. The graph of progressive leftism among women is, I would suspect, THE underlying cause. Women have entered the work force, though not necessarily by force. Instead, it is the “allure” of “doing something” - as if raising children and caring for a family is now nothing. As such, we have more and more “working women” (not in the old, traditional sense!) and so less and less time for those “inconveniences” like child-bearing. Birth rates are falling all over the “civilized world” - as only the barbarians reproduce.
Then we have women of means doing what was done to Harvard - and emasculated men on the governing board too afraid of speaking out. NO ONE on the board apparently felt it their duty to vet the newly proposed Harvard CEO. ?When did those shenanigans begin.
Then we have China. Why in the world, especially today’s ‘woke’ world would ANYONE listen to ANYTHING they have to say. They are CLEARLY THE LARGEST TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT on the planet today. If we just shut down Chinese and Iranian influence, 90%% of the world’s problems would go away. (And if our own State Department would shut it’s yap, we might make the other 10% go away too!)
The US had gas fields in the Mid-Continent which had a small (0.35%) component of helium – that was the source of the helium reserve, which politicians more farsighted than today’s created in 1921 to store helium in the Bush Dome reservoir near Amarillo TX. The Bureau of Land Management has been selling off that helium for decades, since 1995.
Not to worry – helium is a by-product from the huge Liquified Natural Gas plants in Qatar and (increasingly) Russia. (Oops!) There are also large deposits of helium in Tanzania.
Europe and the US will be able to trade with other parts of the world for helium. The real question is whether a de-industrialized West will have anything to trade that the rest of the world wants.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, U.S. Federal government interest payments exceeded an annual rate of US$ 1 trillion for the first time. Total national defense expenditures for 2022 were US$ 727.45 billion.
I have two close family members in need of sophisticated and resource-demanding medical services (at least) for the next several months. For the first time in my life, I fear these services could become unavailable. The number and kinds of devices necessary to result in the desired outcome - each item representing a single point of failure - is very large. There is limited ability to employ alternatives.
