Xero

I only got Twitter to point out bullsh*t when I see it... And to follow spaceflight news. Unfortunately there's been too much of the former lately.

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

When the dermatologist was just on Fox News debunking the idea that some chemicals in sunscreen aren't good for us, it sounded illogically dismissive of the studies and research.

I took a quick look.

I didn’t hear her disclose her paid relationships with big sunscreen makers. ☀️

This is part of a trend that I discovered decades ago. It permeates our news media landscape.

I learned that nearly every member of the national board of experts that lowered cholesterol guidelines and basically recommended that people should take more statins, worked for the statin makers.

I learned that many members of the board set up during Covid that restricted hydroxychloroquine... were paid by the companies that made other controversial treatments for Covid like remdesivir that were then prioritized over hydroxychloroquine.

It doesn’t stop there.

When the government and the cosmetics industry tried to falsely debunk the scientific studies linking antiperspirants and breast cancer, they referred me to the American Cancer Society for an interview. I learned that the expert at the American Cancer Society hadn’t even read the relevant studies, and yet was claiming the link was a myth. I asked and found out that the American Cancer Society takes money from the antiperspirant industry and other allegedly cancer, causing industries. However, they wouldn’t tell me how much.

When the nonprofit “every child by" was illogically denying the proven vaccine autism link, I dug in and found out the nonprofit was actually started by a vaccine maker in order to defend vaccine companies, and to controversialist those of us exposing the risks.

I was the first journalist to ask and report that the expert the government kept referring us to in order to debunk the vaccine autism link, Dr. Paul Offit, was not an independent expert at all, but was a vaccine inventor and vaccine industry insider… though that was never disclosed in the media at the time. He was always presented falsely as if he were an independent expert.

When I saw a lead dietary group giving questionable advice about nutrition, I learned that the group takes money from the sugar, cola, fast food, and preservative snack industry.

In short, whenever I’ve looked for a tie between experts defending a chemical or risk that could impact an industry's bottom line... I’ve always found one. Food for thought.

"Dr. Jody Levine has financial and professional relationships with several prominent consumer product companies that manufacture and market sunscreens.
Because sunscreen is legally regulated as an over-the-counter drug and is a core component of commercial skincare lines, her consulting roles inherently create potential conflicts of interest when she recommends sun protection or reviews skincare products in the media. 

Her specific ties to major corporate sunscreen manufacturers include:

1. Johnson & Johnson / Kenvue

Dr. Levine has served on the Medical Advisory Board for Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health spin-off, Kenvue, owns Neutrogena and Aveeno, two of the largest and most widely distributed sunscreen brands in the United States. In her media and print features, she has regularly recommended product categories or specific options overlapping with these brands, such as recommending Neutrogena Sport Face in broad consumer media interviews. 

2. Galderma (Cetaphil)

She has acted as a consultant and advisor for Cetaphil, a brand owned by Galderma. Cetaphil produces a substantial line of daily facial moisturizers with SPF, mineral sunscreens, and broad-spectrum sun protection lotions marketed heavily toward sensitive skin and pediatric care. 

3. Beiersdorf (Eucerin)

Dr. Levine has maintained consulting arrangements with Eucerin, a brand under the Beiersdorf corporate umbrella. Eucerin manufactures a wide range of daily anti-aging lotions with SPF, sensitive skin sunscreens, and body sun protection products. 

Impact on Media Appearances

When Dr. Levine appears on networks like Fox News or in print publications to deliver general public health messages—such as advising viewers to apply sunscreen 15 minutes before going outside or warning against the dangers of tanning beds—she is providing standard medical advice aligned with the American Academy of Dermatology. However, because she does not routinely issue on-screen financial disclosures listing her corporate partners during short news segments, viewers are generally unaware that she is paid by the parent companies of the very products sitting on drugstore shelves."

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

After today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Monsanto I will officially be introducing legislation stripping pesticide companies of any liability protections for the harm their products cause the American people. These companies purposefully omit labeling information knowing their products cause cancer and other health problems. It is time they are held accountable. Enough is enough.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision reflects that the capture of government by big industry is nearly complete. It affirmed the right of chemical companies to injure, maim, and even kill you and your children with their pesticides, herbicides, etc., with near complete impunity.

This means you can expect increasingly toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc., because the more toxic they are, the better they will kill weeds, pests, etc. And farmers that then use the most effective products, no matter how harmful to humans, will have a competitive advantage. The result will be that the farmer who adopts the most effective products (meaning most toxic) will have the largest crop yield. Other farmers, to compete, will then also be forced to adopt the more harmful product. With that, the race to the bottom has begun.

I expect that in the coming decades we will look back and wish to return to the “safer days” of glyphosate. So, bottom line: your government has abandoned you and your children. Think about this decision: 7 out of 9 Supreme Court judges sided with the chemical company against the public, and Trump’s DOJ intervened in the case on the side of the chemical company. Anyone who thinks this administration cares about you over industry profit is, at this point, delusional.

Shame on the DOJ, shame on the Trump admin, and shame on the Supreme Court for letting chemical companies get away with injuring, maiming, and killing Americans with their products instead of just allowing normal market forces to protect us and our children. Now, in addition to vaccines, we can add pesticides, etc., to the list of products that can injure and kill with near complete immunity.

Below is the decision and, in a nutshell, it holds that failure to warn claims brought under state law (which is the primary type of claim one would bring for harms from a pesticide, herbicide, etc.) are preempted by the EPA-approved label such that, if the harm is not on the label, your claim loses (since EPA didn’t add it to the label as a harm), and if the harm is on the label, your claim loses (since it has been disclosed on the label). Meaning heads or tail they win, and you and your children lose.

https://t.co/KGl3RCQqTt

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

It’s hard to believe this is real, even though we all just lived through it together.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions.

Dr. Fauci personally signed off on these experiments, then lied to Congress about it. Biden tried to protect him with a last-minute pardon. That’s the very definition of a cover-up.

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Grounding increased ATP production and reduced mitochondrial ROS.

These are the results of the first grounding-mitochondria experiment ever published.

For years, grounding's effect on oxidative stress was considered speculative — lacking direct empirical support.

In June 2025, Giulivi and Kotz at the University of California, Davis changed that.

Using fluorescence-based assays specifically designed to avoid the confounding effects of metal probes, they performed the first direct measurement of grounding's effect on mitochondrial function.

Three conditions were tested:

Grounded — wire submerged in solution and connected to earth.

Sham — identical setup, same wire submerged in solution, but not connected to earth.

Not grounded — no wire, no cable, no connection of any kind.

What they found:

Grounded mitochondria produced 5–11% more ATP.

Grounded mitochondria produced 22–33% less ROS.

Mitochondrial membrane potential decreased 5–6%.

That last finding sounds like reduced mitochondrial function.

But it is the opposite.

The authors explain that a modest reduction in membrane potential can dramatically reduce ROS production while maintaining or increasing ATP output.

The mitochondria run cleaner and more efficiently.

The authors connect this directly to the stakes that matter.

Lower ROS means less oxidative damage.

And less oxidative damage means slower progression of the processes associated with aging and chronic diseases linked to mitochondrial decline.

The implications extend far beyond a test tube.

This is the same mitochondrial machinery operating inside every cell of your body.

It may help explain why ungrounded modern humans accumulate oxidative damage at rates their ancestors did not.

Naturally, a skeptic might ask:

What if the wire itself changed the chemistry?

What if trace metals, surface effects, or physical contact influenced the results?

That is precisely why the sham condition existed.

The sham used the identical setup.

Same copper wire.

Same stainless-steel wire.

Same physical contact with the solution.

The only difference:

No connection to earth.

So what did the sham condition show?

For ROS production, the sham and not-grounded groups were statistically indistinguishable.

The physical presence of the wire alone could not trigger the dramatic reduction in oxidative stress.

The same pattern appeared in ATP production.

While the sham condition produced a small increase compared to the not-grounded group, the highest ATP production occurred only when the system was connected to earth.

The physical presence of the wire was not enough.

The electrical connection was.

Once that same wire was connected to earth, ATP increased and ROS fell significantly.

Meaning, the effect was not mechanical. Not chemical. Not coincidental.

It was electrical.

And the story becomes even more interesting.

The authors note that the gold-standard method for measuring mitochondrial respiration — Clark-type oxygen electrode polarography — has historically been performed under grounded conditions to reduce electrical noise.

In modern oxygraph systems, mitochondria routinely come into contact with metal electrodes.

According to the authors, that grounding influences charge distribution, membrane potential measurements, and potentially oxygen consumption rates themselves.

Because most mitochondrial studies employ metal probes, the authors warn that prior research may suffer from underestimated respiratory control ratios or misinterpretation of mitochondrial coupling efficiency.

The implication is striking.

Many researchers believed they were measuring baseline mitochondrial function.

In reality, they may have been measuring what the authors call the natural bioenergetic state.

A state modern humans have largely lost.

Modern humans are largely ungrounded.

Most mitochondrial experiments were not.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Ok I’m going to stop giving engagement to the rage bait.

All his points are either irrelevant, untrue, or overegged as problems. The worst thing is, this sort of strident bluffer is convinced they are more “realist” than the people doing the actual work solving these issues.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Weird that @SecKennedy didn't fire and replace all of the members of the FDA's Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee when he took office. That's what led to the atrocious decision this week to approve even more mRNA shots. It's because @SusieWiles47 won't let him. But then that means that Susie Wiles is the actual HHS Secretary and there's no point in pretending otherwise.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I raised alarms about dangerous gain-of-function research being farmed out to foreign countries, and I was told it was a conspiracy theory. Now, declassified documents show that the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Some of this research was conducted overseas precisely because scientists knew it would face scrutiny on American soil.

I'm calling for a presidential commission of scientists to review all gain-of-function research going forward. We're going lab by lab and pathogen by pathogen until the American people know the full truth.

https://t.co/gtv6sZ7viR

[Xero @Xero_One_]

@jsm2334 @SecKennedy “which had a sound methodology” 🤔

Also, what is the point of peer review if it doesn’t catch such “serious” methodological flaws?

https://t.co/kA3Eyxmbap

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

See the article I just published about this horrific censorship: Gøtzsche PC. Serious editorial misconduct: unwarranted removal of an important vaccine study. It showed that infant deaths after vaccination are clustered in the first three days. Substack 2026;June 17. The journal lied about why they removed the paper, which had a sound methodology.

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

See the article I just published about this horrific censorship: Gøtzsche PC. Serious editorial misconduct: unwarranted removal of an important vaccine study. It showed that infant deaths after vaccination are clustered in the first three days. Substack 2026;June 17. The journal lied about why they removed the paper, which had a sound methodology.

[Robin @xdNiBoR]

No, according to the logic of so many people, Elon actually just gave back billions of dollars to the poor people.

Or something similar idk I don't understand the reasoning of those financially illiterate dumbasses who think like that.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Dr. Andrew Huberman just confirmed a “wild conspiracy theory” about incandescent lights and LED bulbs.

The long wavelengths found in incandescents increase your metabolism and “charge your mitochondria.”

Conversely, the LED bulbs that most of you have in your house are “causing disruptions in mitochondrial function.”

DR. ANDREW HUBERMAN: “Your mitochondria function better, you increase ATP production, your metabolism increases in the presence of red light, long wavelength light to the skin.”

“Shine long wavelength light on somebody, watch blood glucose levels in a blood glucose test, and it’s blunted.”

“Now, the LED lights that are commonly used now… that short wavelength light, in the absence of long wavelength light, has been shown to damage the mitochondria.”

“This used to be considered crazy. This was like chemtrail crazy, right?”

“But now we’re starting to see from animal studies and human studies, from Glenn Jeffreys and others, that people’s vision gets better when they get in front of an incandescent bulb once a day.”

“If they get sunlight, which also has long-wavelength light, your vision improves because of improvements in mitochondria.”

The Biden administration quietly pushed incandescents out of the market through aggressive energy regulations.

But you can still find them online today if you look hard enough.

If that health insight stood out to you, there’s a lot more where that came from.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

@SciGuySpace I found a photo of one of the repair operations, they literally drill a hole through the pressure hull to stop the crack propagating and then immediately seal it with epoxy.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

There's tens of thousands of jobs directly created by billionaires pushing giant rockets that are probably still years away from turning an kind of overall profit.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

You become more fiscally conservative as you get older because you’ve had more time to watch your federal government fail to solve any problems despite taking in trillions of dollars in revenues per year.

You’ve watched the private markets deliver life-changing technologies that bring the entire tide up, all while these hypocrites and fools bark the same nonsense year after year, and somehow cannot manage to deliver anything but massive deficits, finger pointing, and divisive rhetoric.

In this post, Warren transfers nonsense from her brain to her thumbs, and through the magic touch-screen slab to tell you that she’d be able to do something with a few billion more dollars that her and her colleagues haven’t been able to do with a multi-thousand-billion dollar annual budget for years and years.

What is the meaning of her post here? There is no meaning. It is meaningless. The intention? To stir emotions in anyone who isn’t aware of the obvious things I’ve written here. To manipulate and gain the support of sheep.

If you actually think revenue is the bottleneck for government output, you lack basic financial literacy and are being conned by con artists.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

A pediatrician with 10 years of experience shares his experience practicing in California, the outcomes among his vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, issuing medical exemptions, and why physicians fear sharing the outcome among their vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.
@DrJoelGator

(00:00) Introducing Dr. Joel Warsh

(03:27) Unvaccinated vs. Vaccinated Children

(05:55) Health Outcomes of the Unvaccinated

(14:56) The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Vaccination

(17:41) Censorship and Speaking Out

(20:50) Real-Life Stories: Medical Exemptions and Their Implications

(24:42) Challenges in Medical Exemptions and Parental Rights

(33:45) The Explosion of Chronic Health Conditions

(39:24) Who is Most likely Not to Vaccinate

(49:58) Reclaiming the Label Antivaxxer

(57:51) The Argument Around Mandates

(1:06:52) The Challenge of Vaccine Studies

(1:10:27) The Rise of Vaccine-Injured Parents

(1:12:22) The Role of Informed Consent in Vaccination

(1:22:59) Trusting Primary Sources for Vaccine Information

(1:30:24) The Courage to Speak Out Against Medical Norms

(1:32:28) Hope for Change in Vaccine Policy

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

Back in 2009 when SpaceX had not built a hangar yet, the engineers and technicians would work on the rocket in open, exposed, on the hangar's foundation.

A bunch of ULA employees would drive across the road, stop at the fence and laugh and shout mocking comments at them.

Today, ULA's launch pad was demolished to make way for SpaceX's new launch pad.

[tina.in.boca @Boca_Tina]

Lots of misinformation being spread about me the last couple days, so some quick facts
- My name is Tina, not Guo Can (or Jessie Anderson). I’m one of many Raptor flight operators on console since flight2. Before that, I wrote control software for the vehicle, and was a stage software operator for flight1

- Been living in Starbase since surborbital days in 2020, absolutely love it down here. The people are wonderful and so so excited about the mission - the lows are lows but the highs are very high. My friends here are the best in the world, and I love them to the moon/mars and back :)

- The reason I decided to say something was because facts matter, but also because wanted to share my real life journey to how I got here. I don’t have a masters or a PhD, I started full time directly after college after 2x internships also at spacex doing software/automation. I was on a couple design teams in college, including Stanford solar car + mars rover. When I started spacex as a software engineer, I knew very little about fluids / propulsion engineering - I learned a lot of it on the job with some pretty incredible mentors. Then I swapped over to propulsion about halfway through my career and have been loving it ever since