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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

Emails reveal the National Institutes of Health colluded with EcoHealth Alliance to circumvent federal restrictions on gain-of-function (GOF) research and avoid oversight
NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own GOF experiments
At least two NIH officials expressed concern that the experiment might fall under the designation of GOF banned under federal moratorium. They later accepted EcoHealth’s illogical justification for why the research should not be restricted
The NIH is now trying to evade responsibility by shifting blame for the unlawful research onto EcoHealth Alliance, saying they violated the grant rules
According to EcoHealth president Peter Daszak, the parent virus for his proposed chimeric SARS-like viruses, WIV1, had “never been demonstrated to infect humans.” Yet three months earlier, his collaborator, Ralph Baric, Ph.D., had published a paper showing WIV1 did indeed have the ability to infect humans and posed a threat to the human population

Shocking microplastic pollution in the home: up to 100 times as bad as predicted! New research, 2021

Source: https://herculeanstrength.com/microplastic-pollution-home/

Exposure of Human Lung Cells to Polystyrene Microplastics Significantly Retards Cell Proliferation and Triggers Morphological Changes

Study: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00486

Abstract

Microplastics in the environment produced by decomposition of globally increasing waste plastics have become a dominant component of both water and air pollution. To examine the potential toxicological effects of microplastics on human cells, the cultured human alveolar A549 cells were exposed to polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) of 1 and 10 μm diameter as a model of the environmental contaminants. Both sizes caused a significant reduction in cell proliferation but exhibited little cytotoxicity, as measured by the maintenance of cell viabilities determined by trypan blue staining and by Calcein-AM staining. The cell viabilities did not drop below 93% even at concentrations of PS-MPs as high as 100 μg/mL. Despite these high viabilities, further assays revealed a population level decrease in metabolic activity parallel in time with a dramatic decrease in proliferation rate in PS-MP exposed cells. Furthermore, phase contrast imaging of live cells at 72 h revealed major changes in the morphology of cells exposed to microplastics, as well as the uptake of multiple 1 μm PS-MPs into the cells. Confocal fluorescent microscopy at 24 h of exposure confirmed the incorporation of 1 μm PS-MPs. These disturbances at the proliferative and cytoskeletal levels of human cells lead us to propose that airborne polystyrene microplastics may have toxicologic consequences. This is the first report of exposure of human cells to an environmental contaminant resulting in the dual effects of inhibition of cell proliferation and major changes in cell morphology. Our results make clear that human exposure to microplastic pollution has significant consequence and potential for harm to humans.

McMillian Research – COVID-19 Research Project

Source: https://mcmillanresearch.com/

COVID-19 Research Project

The aim of this research project is to understand the immune dysregulation in COVID-19 which is the primary cause of lung damage, leading to death, in order to change the course of the pandemic. The hypothesis is that autoimmunity to ACE-2 (the viral entry receptor) is triggered when elevated levels of serum ACE-2 bind to viral spike proteins. Research at Johns Hopkins University recently confirmed a part of this hypothesis by identifying IgM autoantibodies to ACE-2 in the serum of severe cases. This research project is expected to focus on a comprehensive search for autoantibodies to ACE-2 in people with COVID-19.

Just News – Rob Skiba shares his testimony, the high price of doing research and discusses getting back to SEED

Rob Skiba – Rob Skiba shares his testimony, the high price of doing research and discusses getting back to SEED

This is an elaborated version of an interview Richie from Boston did with me back in June of 2017. He asked me about my testimony and what led me to doing the various types of research I’ve done. So, I shared with him a story I’ve never told before regarding the major crucible of my life and what happened next, which has led me down the path I’ve taken with my research. We discussed what it means to “count the cost” as it pertains to standing for what you believe in. And finally, in the last half-hour or so of the interview I discussed my SEED project and revealed that I am redirecting all my time and energy back onto making it a reality.

Just News – RichiefromBoston II – Why Isnt anyone Talking about this massive Program? & Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program

RichiefromBoston II – Why Isnt anyone Talking about this massive Program??
They told us they would spray and they did not meet any resistance and they stuck to their word. In just 5 hours they can and DO spray to the point the sun is an unrecognizable object behind a veil of plasma heavy metals intertwined with blood cells, and whatever illness du jour they pick.

Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Programv

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