The Tick: Update, Introducing Frankenstein and Igor or Eyegore…
Recently, Chris Morrison reported on the Daily Sceptic about a pair of US academics, Professor Parker Crutchfield and Assistant Professor Blake Hereth, both of Western Michigan University, and their lunatic scheme to genetically modify a certain obscure species of tick to deliberately infect innocent Americans with an allergy to red meat and dairy-products, thereby forcibly turning them vegan to save the planet.
Dissecting their careers further, it turns out the idea of using ticks to spread the debilitating disease of veganism is not even half of it. Professor Frankenstein and Igor are qualified experts in the arena of Medical Ethics, specifically a new, little-known sub-field known as ‘moral bioenhancement’. What does that mean? Quite literally, it means the art of chemically modifying humans – in secret, without their prior permission or knowledge – to make them more agreeably Left-wing. – Daily Sceptic
Alarmists have some real rum characters (ne’er-do-wells) in their midst. And for their part, the propaganda struggle goes ever on…
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/air-pollution-oil-gas-health-study
Sounds pretty definitive – causes, no ifs and/or buts. So, how do they know this to be a solid fact? Attribution modelling.
“They plugged that data into a computer model”
Of course they did.
“While Indigenous and Hispanic populations are most affected by pollution from exploration, extraction, transportation and storage, Black and Asian populations are most affected by emissions from processing, refining, manufacturing, distribution and usage.”
Ah, so the bottom line is it’s also very racist.
I modelled output from the Guardian and got a 98% probability that each day will contain utter claptrap dressed up as a scientific scare for public consumption – partnered by the BBC