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2 weeks ago | 
scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
In 1951, the act authorizing the CIA was amended with the provision that the CIA and DoD might conduct secret research without revealing their scientific progress to the public or even to Congress. 74 years later, what do they know that university scientists don’t know? And what technologies do they have that are not in the public domain? Thanks for reading Unauthorized Science! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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1 month ago | 
experimentalfrontiers.scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
In just the last 20 years, the North Magnetic Pole has moved 400 miles out of Canada and into the Siberian side of the geographic pole. In Derinkuyu, Turkey, there is an entire underground city, half a million square feet of living space extending hundreds of feet down. It was built in a time before written records — at least 6,000 years ago, but possibly much older.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
experimentalfrontiers.scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
Very early in the pandemic, the infamous “Proximate origins” paper was published in Nature Medicine, using nonsensical reasoning to “prove” that COVID could not have come from a lab. The Big Lie held its ground for over two years, before Jon Stewart sneered at it and Jeffrey Sachs added gravitas to the case against the “Wet Market hypothesis”.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
SV stands for “Simian Virus”, a virus that infects monkeys. Viruses are adept at co-opting our cells’ metabolism, redirecting the native abilities of the cell to ends that benefit only the virus. One of the tricks that SV40 uses is called a promoter. Promoters turn genes on, so they become active. Background: (Almost) every cell in our body has the same genes. But different cells need different genes at different times.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
experimentalfrontiers.scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
You are to be forgiven if you don’t see the difference between a “beautiful theory” and an “ugly theory”. Einstein’s General Relativity is a beautiful theory because it can be described simply in words, and those words lead in turn to horrendously intractable mathematics.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
This new video introduces my work in the context of a hundred years of evolutionary theory and the breakthrough rejuvenation science in the present. VIDEODiscover more from Josh MitteldorfSubscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Josh Mitteldorf
AbstractMixing and sharing of genes is essential for population diversity, which contributes to the resilience and, ultimately, the survival of animal and plant communities. However, sharing of genes is antithetical to individual fitness; hence gene mixing is threatened with extinction if selection rewards selfish (clonal) reproduction. To address this dilemma, mechanisms have evolved to enforce a mandate for gene sharing.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
scienceblog.com | Josh Mitteldorf
In Darwinian terms, sex is good for the community, bad for the individual. If this statement doesn’t make sense to you, perhaps you are thinking that sex is a part of reproduction, and reproduction is the very definition of Darwinian fitness. But sex is the sharing of genes. Reproduction is the process of creating new individuals. There is no logically necessary link between the two.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
conservativeangle.com | Josh Mitteldorf |Carolyn Reynolds
Guest Post by The Pharma-Industrial Complex is the brainchild of the Sackler Brothers, conceived as a long-range plan back in the 1950s, and patiently brought to fruition with shrewd investments in universities, medical schools, scientific journals and continuing education for doctors. The Antimicrobial Resistance Congress was held this week in conjunction with the Disease Prevention & Control Summit in Philadelphia.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
childrenshealthdefense.org | Josh Mitteldorf |Carolyn Reynolds
The Antimicrobial Resistance Congress was held this week in conjunction with the Disease Prevention & Control Summit in Philadelphia. I attended as a sociologist, seeking to understand how these people think and how their organizations work. It was immediately apparent that this was a business meeting, not an academic conference. Dozens of booths were set up in the main exhibit hall. People were giving away chachkas and were eager to talk about their products.
