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@MarioNawfal Will be interesting to see how NATO member countries respond to an attack on Turkey.

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@RealCandaceO “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair

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@BreannaMorello What is the explanation for no charges?

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If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

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@JordanTSilveira Murray threw 2 in the dirt and the other went for 2 yards. Maybe Wentz is QB 1?

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@RyanPaganetti, after watching the Vikings offense goal to go play calls today, can you reach out to KOC about what an absolute no-brainer the QB sneak is in those situations?

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@NickHannula Was a great state to move to in 1994.

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@DomClare If we’re going by today, Wentz is QB1.

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@losoredd21 He’s good at play by play, not great commentator, def not X & O’s football guy, to much schtick, radio guy so he talks more than needed on TV, borderline annoying for many.

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@DailyNorseman Didn’t love his football IQ on that one

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@JodyChaseTN Don’t forget Haim Braverman & Brigitte Macron.

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@ILikeBigDecks 100% right.

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Bullet didn’t split in air, they are designed to mushroom on impact while retaining maximum mass for one shot knock down power on large game. Remington engineers would agree. Besides, if it spilt into multiple fragments in air there would be multiple entrance wounds &/or victims.

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@AustinLostroh That part didn’t go well for Wilson, but he was able to evade the actual question - what charges does he think Robinson is guilty of?

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@SomethingEra2 What most Vikings fans are losing sight of is the fact that historically QB2 gets 4-5 starts behind Murray.

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@GeneralMCNews The “Masters of Mankind” building dozens of MW+ data centers domestically/globally & they are deleting your records after 7 days? Suspect!

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@verysadvikings Who was Turner going against on 2 sacks today & 2+ yesterday?

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@vikingzfanpage Who was Turner beating today?

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@lizcollin Sounds like they’re protecting comrades, Walmart was a leading sponsor of “No Kings”.

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@RyanPaganetti Great coaches (Flores) scheme to amplify roster strengths.