This Is Why Hillbillies Distrust Revenooers

Not that I've ever trusted the gov't. (going to public "schools" cured me of that early on), but this just seems to beat all:
 
Immediately after World War II, researchers at Vanderbilt University gave 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta. At least three children are known to have died from the experiments, from cancers and leukemias. Four of the women's babies died from cancers as a result of the experiments, and the women experienced rashes, bruises, anemia, hair/tooth loss, and cancer.

And that's not all.

Nobody can disconvince me that the Feds (or whoever it might be) aren't using "persistant contrails" as a camouflage for other vile experimentation or worse.

The Age of the Intellectual Wimp

It's no secret that ever since the late 60's, the obsession with emotions and sensations (that first poisoned the West's bloodstream with the advent of Romanticism) has made rational thought and discourse ever more scarce.  Standard PCism is of course a truism in this regard.  But what are we to make of the following?!

Person X:  "I believe that Communism is an ersatz-religion."

Leftist:  {foaming at the mouth} "That's hate speech!!"

Whine, whine.   Why don't you just cut all our tongues out and fingers off, while you're at it?

When Nature Becomes A Parable

Notice how the following bit of science info provides a mini-allegory of what has been happening to the Western Middle Class for the past 48 or so years (the ultimate irony residing in the name of the small molecule, with the key syllable being the 2nd).

Researchers working on the question of antibiotic resistant found that in an experimental Escherichia coli colony, the most antibiotic resistant bacteria in the group produce a small molecule called indole. This protein then floods through the communal broth of the population, triggering protective mechanisms in the less resistant members.

However producing the indole weakens the individuals bacteria that made it in the first time, the scientists at Boston University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard showed. "They don't grow as well as they could, because they're producing indole for everybody else," James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, said in a release.

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