Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist quoted in the article, used to work for the New York Medical Examiner's Office in 2001 and was one of the medical examiners who processed the bodies from the World Trade Center on and after 9/11. She's seen some shit.
I read her book a couple of years ago. It was a very good read.
Cuomo loves himself more than anything in the world. No way he doesn't try to become president.
This is the same man who wrote a book about 'leadership during Covid' with Covid ongoing, despite knowing himself that he was leading the elderly to their death in nursing homes. This book is also shockingly high rated, what the hell.
On a related note he also stood on live TV for days, weeks, months on end proclaiming himself Captain Covid himself despite knowing what he was doing.
I'm sure there's more, but this is all I could remember. He is so in love with himself.
I highly recommend the book <em>Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers</em> by Mary Roach. Really interesting look into the all the interesting stuff that can happen to your body after death - from typical mortuary stuff like this to organ donation to scientific research.
It's a really good read.
I just recently read "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" and among other things covers just this. Good book, would recommend.
I'm surprised this comment isn't higher. Funerals are extremely expensive and it seems like such a useless expense. I get it that it's for the surviving family, not for the deceased, but up to $10,000 to get together around a casket and say goodbye?
I'm originally from a country where the cost of cremation are very, very affordable (and subsidized by the government because everyone's poor and there has to be a way to handle remains that doesn't involve poor people scrambling to find a nonexistent place in a cemetery). The first time someone explained the cost of US funeral I nearly choked on my coffee.
Even that bare-bones cremation, directly through a crematory is about $1000 plus oftentimes transportation costs. It's not high enough to require insurance, but also maybe not enough for family to cover easily without going into debt.
I have a list of local universities that accept bodies as anatomical gifts for when I kick the bucket and after reading Mary Roach's Stiff about all the things that can be done with cadavers, I've made it clear to my whole family that they should do their best to donate my remains to the military for a blast tests.
I recommend both! For Stiff, I advise getting the audiobook version. It's very well done. The book itself is not any more graphic than it needs to be and is respectful (although I did take issue with the author's apparent negative view of cosmetic surgery in an early chapter.) I found the whole thing fascinating. I was actually most fascinated though when she got to the chapter about the possibility of human head transplants. Here's the page on Amazon.
As for A Dog's Purpose, I messed up and accidentally failed to notice there was an Audible version until literally just now, so I can't attest to the quality of the reading. But the book itself (as stated, I'm only half way through) is really good. Here it is.
Due to aggressive immunization campaigns, children began to receive the diptheria shot in Austria. Within a year, a new mental disorder unknown to even the most knowledgeable child psychologists in the country began to appear.
The book is second in a proposed thematic trilogy of infection and disease that started with The Moth in the Iron Lung.
There is an active petition to remove the book from Amazon.
Rabies is a very special kind of virus - it is able to infect any mammal. It has probably evolved alongside mammals and, while it has natural reservoirs in nature (mostly bats) it is a very efficient infectious disease. There is a very well-written book about Rabies and its seemingly sid-by-side history with all warm-blooded creatures:
https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0143123572
I suggest buying used so he doesn't get more royalties
I haven't read it. I lived his leadership lessons.
Why do you want me to comment on this? Black women face the same out-marriage disparity that Asian men do. So some black women just think having any other option other than black men is positive. This is especially true for black women who had abusive fathers--the out-marriage disparity is fertile ground for abuse, since black men have more options in society than black women. There is a coffee table book that was popular in the 2000s called "Death Scenes": https://www.amazon.com/Death-Scenes-Homicide-Detectives-Scrapbook/dp/0922915296
It's a collection of murder photographs by an LAPD homicide detective (I want to say mid-twentieth century but not sure). You'd think there would be proportional race/gender here, but no. Literally like half of the victims are black women who were stabbed to death or disemboweled just for trying to have some kind of life.
The other side of BF is to cling as hard as possible to black identity as a means of survival. It doesn't matter that 70% of black households now are single parent households and that BF don't even expect their men to stick around. They work their asses of to get decent paying jobs as nurses or teachers or office administrators hoping that they can buy enough comfort to get a man be interested in them long enough to impregnate them and the child will give them some kind of meaning in life. If the father comes around once in a while and pays a bill, that's a good man.
>Won’t take responsibility
I think the opposite has happened. The guy thinks he’s a hero; he already wrote a book American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic we live in a clown world.
Didn't say there aren't good aspects to modern medicine. There are many in fact. I wouldn't want to go back to a time before, but perhaps a mix of allopathic and homeopathic medicines would be effective too?
>Stop eating junk food and exercise to be healthier
You realize that is homeopathic medicine right? And is the right advice. If I go to a doctor I'd get a pill instead of that advice, boo allopathic. If I need surgery to remove my appendix, yay allopathic. Do you see how the world isn't a cartoon where every issue is black and white?
Smallpox is a good example of vaccination. Polio is not.
https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679
Subtlety is hard I know. But, believe it or not, nearly every issue in the world no matter the topic has multiple facets. Including modern medicine.
God I loved The Hot Zone. As a microbiologist I know that it’s sensationalised and personalises the virus to a substantial extent, but that all works for the narrative. Highly recommend this book.
Vaccines did not save us https://preventdisease.com/news/10/102510_vaccines_did_not_save_us.shtml
Polio isn’t what you think it is https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679
I read a book about a couple years ago called ]Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus](https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0143123572) by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. Pretty good book actually. If I recall, you feel pretty normal while the virus is incubating in your system, which can has been shown to last as long as six years after the original bite, if you can believe that scary shit. Imagine getting rabies donkey you fucked more than six years ago.
He's closing down restaurants. And during the pandemic a couple months ago he started profiting from it by writing a book praising himself for how he handled it. https://www.amazon.com/American-Crisis-Leadership-COVID-19-Pandemic/dp/0593239261
Imagine writing a book on leadership though a pandemic (where did he find the time???) when you had the absolute worst outcomes during the pandemic compared to every other state in America. Over 33k deaths... This guy had time to write you all a book about managing a crisis, during the middle of the crisis... WTF is going on? Cuomo sent seniors into LTC homes to infect more seniors and that killed thousands.
If you want to buy a copy you can find it here as I'm not shittin you this is an actual book.
I’m so sorry about your friend.
That said, I’ve read that this is relatively uncommon for dogs (source: a memoir by a pathologist). She said that even if dogs are starving, a good many of them will actually not consume a human. Cats, on the other hand, are different, it’s very common for them to — spoiler for those with sensitive stomachs — >!eat the eyes!< of their owners. The memoir in question — really gripping but also disturbing af.
According to Viral, by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, starting on page 151, Dr Anthony Fauci was part of a group, including Britain's Sir Patrick Vallance, and US healthcare chief Dr Peter Daszak, which FOI requests by US Right To Know unearthed, privately admitted that Covid-19 could have come from a lab, but published letters denying it.
The letters denied conflict of interest, but Daszak was up to his neck in "gain of function" research with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci used confusion about what the term means to tell Senator Rand Paul that he doesn't know what he's talking about, rather than clearly explaining that it can mean either adding new characteristics to a virus, or "improving" on existing ones, such as transmissability. If the Americans had collaborated with the Chinese to experiment with either, this could have created a more harmful virus, which could have escaped from the Wuhan lab, so they had every interest in denying it. Fauci claimed that Rand's tough questions have led to death threats,
This is just one of the ways Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been discredited. The Guardian just carries on like none of this matters, or it doesn't believe it, despite the evidence, because the critics aren't inside the woke elite echo chamber.
According to Viral, by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, starting on page 151, Dr Anthony Fauci was part of a group, including Britain's Sir Patrick Vallance, and US healthcare chief Dr Peter Daszak, which FOI requests by US Right To Know unearthed, privately admitted that Covid-19 could have come from a lab, but published letters denying it.
The letters denied conflict of interest, but Daszak was up to his neck in "gain of function" research with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci used confusion about what the term means to tell Senator Ron Paul that he doesn't know what he's talking about, rather than clearly explaining that it can mean either adding new characteristics to a virus, or "improving" on existing ones, such as transmissability. If the Americans had collaborated with the Chinese to experiment with either, this could have created a more harmful virus, which could have escaped from the Wuhan lab, so they had every interest in denying it.
This is just one of the ways Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been discredited. The Guardian just carries on like none of this matters - after all, Matt Ridley has far-right views on climate change.
No, though you do generally have to be associated with something where cadavers are necessary or commonly used. Medicine is a biggie (including things like plastic surgery, where you might just get a head to work on), but also going into undertaking or criminal forensics. And don't forget there is an entire industry built on how corpses get cut up and disseminated for research. There's a pretty great book on the whole thing:
https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/0393324826
A little outdated at this point, but still very good on the basics.
You're still not getting it- it's not so much about which side is right or even which side requires fewer assumptions in a rational exploratory mode of inquiry; though I've got a good book for you, which I think will change your mind on that; and the author even leans toward zoonotic origin...but they clearly show that the far more insane position was always the one which immediately dismissed the very notion that it could be a lab leak.
It's about the rank untrustworthiness of all our public institutions and the consistent and intolerable abuses of positions of public authority and how science and the academy have been so thoroughly captured by political power and everything being disseminated by the halls of power and knowledge are scarily, carefully crafted narratives.
If you’re serious about expanding your horizons and learning what you’ve never been taught, read this: https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679
Otherwise, feel free to remain an “ignorant moron”
Perhaps you should read The Moth in the Iron Lung
While the pharma giants love to claim the their amazing vaccines rid us of polio, that may not actually be the entire truth. This book is definitely not "anti vax", but it is a closer examination of the numbers, and the science surrounding polio and its "elimination".
Now I really want to read American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic that got King Andrew paid $5.1 million.
I must be missing something here.
Unfortunately this is the type of thing that's broken up into a million different news articles and is being pieced together as time goes on. Try reading this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/006313912X
The US dept that funded the Wuhan lab is called EcoHealth Alliance. Try web searching for it (note: might not show up in Google)
I haven’t heard of this particular case, but I know people in the industry and while there certainly have been some bad eggs, the reputable companies allow you to put some boundaries on how your donation will be used. It’s 100% true that if you don’t specify your donations could be used for military research. If you’re interested in the fascinating ways cadavers are used in a variety of research I suggest checking out Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. She’s a very entertaining and funny author who researches unusual science research. The military specific cadaver work is also mentioned in her book Grunt, which is all about military research.
The polio outbreak was heavy metal poisoning by pesticide use, DDT was a problem but not the only one.
https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679
Makes ya wonder what the vaccine push was for.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(04)16746-9/fulltext
>Between 1997 and early 2003, say Bookchin and Schumacher, more than 25 published studies found SV40 in human mesotheliomas; 16 others found the virus in brain and bone cancers, lymphomas, and other cancers and in kidneys and peripheral blood. As of 2003, SV40 had been found in human tumours in 18 developed countries. Bookchin and Schumacher claim that the rates of SV40-positive tumours seem highest in countries that used the greatest amount of contaminated Salk polio vaccine, including the UK, USA, and Italy.
Makes ya wonder what the vaccine push is for now...
Not in the same sense as covid has been. The spread of rabies has been more covert throughout history. Epidemic, sure, but much of rabies' spread occurred prior to a global-level of human contact.
I have this book sitting on a shelf, couldn't make it past the first chapter, but it may have more info on the history of rabies and its introduction into new areas.
I highly recommend Moth in the Iron Lung.
The author challenges whether it was a single "poliovirus" that was causing polio, or whether it was the insane amount of lead arsenate and DDT that kids were eating everyday and getting sprayed with.
Interesting read and very relevant today.
https://smile.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679