Vivek's TRUTH

 Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) tweeted at 1:32 PM on Sat, Jun 03, 2023:

TRUTH.

1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to…

(https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1665048724245020675?t=rQ2c-cmM4u6i6hfZ8oxV2Q&s=03) 

Global Goals - Bjorn Lomborg

 Global Goals - Bjorn Lomborg (and Bill Gates)

Bjorn Lomborg is an economist whose work I've been following for many years. Lately we've had some fascinating conversations about global health and development, which led us to write this post together.

The Global Goals are a phenomenal idea. They’re what happened when the U.N. came together and said: “Here are the world’s biggest problems, and here is how we’re going to measure progress on them.” The 17 goals include promises to end extreme poverty and hunger, fix climate change and education, and reduce inequality and corruption.

CO2 Capture is HAZARDOUS to your health WHO Cares?

 CO2 Capture is HAZARDOUS to your health WHO Cares?)

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Past ruptures - questions why  Oil pipelines get all the press

Gaining Trans-Sanity - Church & Culture J.E.White

 

Gaining Trans-Sanity

Recently, two polls laid bare the American stopping point with all things trans.   First, a Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey revealed an increase over the past two years in the belief that there are only two gender identities – man and woman – among religious groups.   This wasn’t simply “white evangelicals,” though their support of two gender identities went up from 86% to 92%. Hispanic Catholics went from 48% to 66%; increases also marked Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and, shockingly, even Unitarian Universalists.   Overall, about 65% of all Americans (up from 59% two years ago) say there are only two genders.   That’s not all.   Americans are also becoming far less supportive of transgender athlete participation in single-gender sports than they were two years ago. According to Gallup’s annual “Values and Beliefs” poll, currently 69% of Americans say transgender athletes should be restricted to sports teams and competitions that conform with their birth gender compared to 61% in 2021. Americans see the issue as having less to do with transgender civil rights and more to do with competitive fairness. Even among those who knew a transgender person, support fell for transgender athletes being able to compete with teams aligning with their gender identity.   Gallup also polled Americans on their general attitudes toward all things transgender and found that the majority considered changing one’s gender to be morally wrong—from 51% in 2021 to 55% in 2023.   In addition to the new polling, the European medical community – once in the vanguard of recommending medical interventions for gender dysphoria among minors – is now expressing doubts about taking that approach. Five countries – the U.K., Sweden, Finland, Norway and France – now recommend caution in using medical treatments, such as puberty blockers, for minors.    I did a three-part blog series on all things gender that you can read: “A Theology of Gender,” “The Transgender Issue” and “Children and Gender Identity.” Here’s the essence of the biblical teaching: 1) We are created male and female as part of God’s plan and intent; 2) Being male and female is rooted in biology—it is not something plastic, on a spectrum, to be determined by us, or based on gender identity or gender role; 3) We are a race of males and females, and that is rooted in how we were made; and 4) To violate that – to dishonor that – is a great and grievous offense to our creation and our Creator.    But we are seeing that you don’t have to be a Christ follower to share many of these convictions. Increasingly people are recognizing what Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State, and Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist at the University of Manchester, call in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex.” Their position can be summed up in a sentence: “Increasingly we see a dangerous and antiscientific trend toward the outright denial of biological sex.” They write that in current cultural thinking:

If male and female are merely arbitrary groupings, it follows that everyone, regardless of genetics or anatomy should be free to choose to identify as male or female, or to reject sex entirely in favor of a new bespoke “gender identity.”

And their response to that as scientists?

In humans, as in most animals or plants, an organism’s biological sex corresponds to one of two distinct types of reproductive anatomy.... In humans, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously male or female at birth more than 99.98% of the time.... No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex “spectrum” or additional sexes beyond male and female. Sex is binary.

All to say, in a healthy psychology, gender and sex are not something simply between our ears, but rather between our legs. Sexuality is not like a favorite color; it is hardwired into our being and was meant to be.    Which is why I am glad that we are starting to gain some trans-sanity.   James Emery White

Bring on the Counter-Revolution - City Journal Christopher F Rufo

 Bring on the Counter-Revolution

America is trapped in the loop of 1968. The politics of that fateful year have set the patterns and bounds of our national life for decades.

It’s as though we have lived an endless recurrence: the Black Panther Party reappears as the Black Lives Matter movement; the Weather Underground pamphlets launder themselves into academic papers; the Marxist-Leninist guerrillas trade in their bandoliers and become managers of an elite-led revolution in manners and mores. The ideology, narrative, and aesthetics of the left-wing social movements of that earlier time, though now often degraded through cynicism and repetition, have maintained the position of a jealous hegemon.

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Scientists Have Achieved Fusion Ignition.

 POWER, UNLIMITED POWER

: For the Second Time, U.S. Scientists Have Achieved Fusion Ignition.

On December 5, 2022, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved something truly remarkable. After firing 192 lasers at a small pellet filled with deuterium-tritium fuel, the resulting reaction essentially created a tiny star for a few nanoseconds. Crucially, the energy created by this reaction was more than the energy put into the reaction. In other words, science had finally achieved nuclear fusion ignition.

Until that point, humans had never been able to recreate the life-giving power generated in the center of our Sun on Earth. But for the first time, the clean energy promise of nuclear fusion—arguably the greatest energy source imaginable—suddenly seemed possible. Now, fast forward only eight months, and LLNL has achieved ignition again. But this time, they had even greater results.

LLNL spokesperson Paul Rhien spoke with The Financial Times on Sunday, and said that “in an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition at NIF. Analysis of those results is underway, but we can confirm the experiment produced a higher yield than the December test.”

Maybe the question now isn’t whether we’ll ever achieve usable fusion power but whether the powers that be would allow affordable, unlimited energy. That certainly hasn’t been the case with nuclear fission in recent decades.

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