The other superweapon: premature fact-checkers

Can any inquiry that shuts itself to scientific possibilities before reaching a conclusion be an inquiry? How do you “fact check” an investigation still in progress?

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US pipeline canceled by hostile cyberattack

When you think of energy, especially hydrocarbon energy as bad, you don’t prioritize a stockpile or reserve of it. You don’t want to stockpile immoral substances which it turns out are absolutely vital.

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“Dual use” of gain-of-function research

This area of scientific activity, experts told Sinclair, carries a “dual-use”: It supports the development of new vaccines and therapeutics but can also be used in covert biological- and chemical-weapons programs, which China is suspected of maintaining.

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Jobs report: US added 266,000 jobs in April, shockingly short of expectations

Experts in the United States have been shocked by a surprisingly weak jobs report, which President Joe Biden is spinning as proof of the need for further stimulus.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/us-added-266000-jobs-in-april-shockingly-short-of-expectations/news-story/53755ce603570eee197dbe642b2eb197

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Destroying the village in order to save it

The latest meme. Democracy is dying in America (perhaps true) but it’s the populist’s fault. They are forcing the progressives to be fascist. By casting the Other as monstrous racists it is psychologically possible to justify the reprehensible as necessity.

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Treasury warns of need to deal with national debt limit

Treasury officials on Wednesday urged Congress to pass either a new borrowing limit or another suspension of the debt before a July 31 deadline. The Treasury will continue to initiate the types of bookkeeping maneuvers it has used in the past to keep the government from breaching a level that would trigger a default on the massive national debt.

AP

https://apnews.com/article/financial-markets-national-debt-health-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-a95665cfc7fbd8504fc91fdb2a6eb861