Eating Bugs Is Being Pushed For The Future

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Andrew Bieszad … there has been a push for people to eat insects, which started with a lot of laughter but has been seriously advanced as “legitimate”. … This “trend” of eating insects is being forced, from what everything seems, as a part of a philosophical-political agenda. There is no need to eat insects. People […]

A Parasitological Evaluation of Edible Insects and Their Role in the Transmission of Parasitic Diseases to Humans and Animals

Remigiusz Galecki, Rajmund Sokól From 1 January 2018 came into force Regulation (EU) 2015/2238 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015, introducing the concept of “novel foods”,including insects and their parts. One of the most commonly used species of insects are:mealworms (Tenebrio molitor), house crickets (Acheta domesticus), cockroaches (Blattodea) and […]

Is Eating Insects Safe? The Hidden Dangers of Insect Consumptom

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new realities. The narrative of climate pros of eating insects are seeping into mainstream consciousness again. Eat bugs, use less land, less CO2, feed people cheaply for more profit. But the narrative of human and animals cons of eating insects loom large, while many potentially life-threatening unknowns — from new cross-species viruses, mycotoxin outbreaks — to […]

COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Effectiveness – the Elephant (Not) in the Room

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Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele, Michel Vaillant Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR… Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which […]

Why Medical Freedom is Prerequisite to All Other Freedoms

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Chris Paige … in a truly wise and enlightened society, we must decide that some means will never be used, regardless of the ends at issue.  If stripping people of their medical freedoms is the only way to save our lives, then we should begin planning our funerals, not our lives after freedom. I know […]

Depression is Probably Not Caused By a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain – New Study

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Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain – namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it. … At first sight, the fact that […]