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Last week, while the country reacted to Kennedy’s rewrite of vaccine reality,
Jay Bhattacharya continued his own campaign to rewrite pandemic history.
He did this by retweeting misleading content from an unreliable source.
A closer look at that source, and at Bhattacharya’s long-standing relationship with it, raises serious concerns for science-based public health.

HHS Science Is Rotting From the Head
How RFK Jr and Jay Bhattacharya Are Undermining Science at HHS

🎍 Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-bamboo-based-plastic-biodegrade-quickly.html

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days, presenting a new pathway toward sustainable plastic alternatives.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Butcher Brown:
🎵 HOURS:AFTER
#ButcherBrown
https://open.spotify.com/track/2efKpdGah3AVLf8qjtJ7NE

"MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures
Badger Trust welcomes MPs’ condemnation of the badger cull and calls for urgent, cattle-focused action to tackle bovine TB

It feels entirely appropriate to clock change weekend to make hearty soup and settle down to turning a heel on hand knitted socks.

TIL that 'vegetarian meat' brands Vegetarische Slager ( butcher) and Vivera belong to Brazilian mega meat company JBS, accused of massive deforestation, built on bribing politicians, and brought to the stock market via a Dutch holding company.
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Omstreden vleesgigant JBS gaat naar beurs via Nederlandse brievenbusmaatschappij
JBS, het grootste vleesbedrijf ter wereld, vestigt zich in Nederland. Via een brievenbusmaatschappij in Amstelveen krijgt het omstreden Braziliaanse miljardenbedrijf beursnoteringen in zowel São Paulo als New York.

China can't keep
Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities
Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/23/myanmar-china-pig-butchering-scams-slavery/

China Can’t Keep Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities
Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep.

"Biodegradable wet wipes remain in rivers for more than five weeks"
#WetWipes #Environment
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Biodegradable wet wipes remain in rivers for more than five weeks
Scientists have tested, for the first time, how biodegradable wet wipes break down when flushed rather than composted, discovering that most wipes remain after five weeks—a finding the research team say challenges the marketing of these products.

Michail Chkhikvishvili,
a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”,
did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist,
despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned,
such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech:
close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses…

"Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle
The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical strength.