The the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized $18 million in vaping products from China. They're cheering that they are protecting American youth but...from what? $18 million is nothing, and yet the Biden administration spent three months preparing to nab it. All because on surveys, if you count any young person who claims to have used a vaping tool, and massage the numbers, you can manufacture an 'epidemic.'

With so many epidemiology papers published each month, everyone in a giant academic industry essentially created by Harvard School of Public Health in the 1980s is pushing out "correlation" between some common food or chemical and some disease or health benefit, it is hard to get noticed.One way corporate journalists will notice is if a Republican says it. A WHO "miracle drug" was dragged through the mud for suggesting it might be a therapy for COVID-19 - after a Republican listed that peer-reviewed research.

The Hamas terrorist attack is the top news search, according to Google, while in cinema the top searches were about "Barbie" and in music Yoasobi's "アイドル (Idol)" wins the prize.There was a health-related win. Among people, Damar Hamlin's near-death cardiac arrest on the field during a Buffalo Bills NFL game in January ended up being the top for the year. 

There is an environmental playbook that hasn't changed in decades - because it works.Find something useful that is a successful industry, advocate and lobby for an alternative to replace it, then turn against the alternative after it's successful.It sounds cynical but if you look at hydroelectric power, natural gas, GMOs, and ethanol, they were all once demanded by environmental groups. Then when they succeeded, those same groups declared them bad.Right now, solar is "the new new" - it's for wealthy white people, the biggest donors to activists, it's in opposition to the natural gas activists lobbied for until 20 years ago, and they can pretend the strip mining to get the precious materials to make panels and batteries doesn't exist.

The dirty secret of alternative energy in Europe was that it never worked. You just wouldn't know it talking to Europeans. They believe in their government, and culturally that is what sets apart America - we believe in our country, but we don't trust our government unless they earn it.

Virtual water is one of those 1990s breezy claims created by activists, just like 'it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef.'Anyone with any middle school ability to do arithmetic knows it isn't true, or the Mid-East would have been fighting wars over water for 2,000 years, instead of fighting over everything but that. Virtual water uses estimates of all the water that goes into a process while ignoring that water is recycled. So you can believe it takes 30 gallons of water to make your cup of coffee, activists said just that and New York Times reporters repeated it as fact, but the water that went into growing coffee also went into aquifers and the sky and rained all over again. None of it disappeared.

A California nutritionist who routinely extols supplements, fad diets, and alternatives to medicine is prominently covered by corporate media for claiming food diaries using twins shows that vegan diets are healthier.Yet it is so full of confounders that even IARC epidemiologists would have to ask awkward questions about his conclusion using that methodology.

Look what participation trophies hath wrought; they don't think they can be happy for less than $500,000 per year.

In 2000, 2016, and 2020, a political party declared that the electoral college needed to go - because they lost. What they don't realize is that despite how state results appear in their favor, they are not. If it was a direct vote, a candidate would win with 26% of the electorate, parties would be irrelevant, and the victor would be the candidate with the most aggressive position on a hot-button issue, abortion, guns, whatever. The rest of us would have to live with it.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked dietary grifters Evig LLC, of St. George Utah, and the company’s CEO, Douglas Lex Howard, as well as Premium Production LLC, of St. George, Utah, and its Manager, Ryan Petersen, to stop selling "Balance of Naure" supplements because they are lying when they claim they can diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, cirrhosis, diabetes, asthma, and COVID-19 The hucksters refused to comply, and even continues to promote their products even though they knew they were adulterated and unsafe for use. Now a federal court has ordered them shut down.