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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ancel Keys drew a graph in 1953 with six countries on it, and four years later two statisticians who had sat in the same room as him published the same graph with all twenty-two countries the data actually covered.

You have heard a garbled version of this story. Let me give you the accurate one, because the accurate one is worse.

In 1953 Keys published a paper arguing that the more fat a country ate, the more of its men died of heart disease. The evidence was a chart: six nations, six dots, a line running up through them at a satisfying angle. Japan low and lean at the bottom left. The United States fat and dying at the top right. It is one of the most consequential pictures ever drawn in medicine.

Jacob Yerushalmy was a statistician at Berkeley. Herman Hilleboe was the New York State Commissioner of Health. Both men had attended the World Health Organisation meeting where Keys pressed his case, and neither was impressed by the arithmetic. So they went to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the WHO and pulled the fat consumption and heart mortality figures for every country that had them. That was twenty-two countries, not six.

They published in the New York State Journal of Medicine in 1957, under the title Fat in the Diet and Mortality from Heart Disease: A Methodologic Note, which is about as aggressive as statisticians get in a headline.

With twenty-two dots on it, the line went slack. It did not disappear. An association was still visible if you wanted one. What vanished was the certainty, the tidy diagonal, the sense that anyone looking at the picture would draw only one conclusion. They also pointed out that the death certificates were not comparable between countries, that France recorded a large share of its cardiac deaths under a different heading, and that moving those deaths across changed France's position on the chart entirely.

Their central objection was not about fat. It was about selection. They wrote that when a study picks its own data, the method of picking largely determines whether the answer means anything, and that Keys had never explained how his six were chosen.

He never did explain it.

Look at what was left out. Norway ate a great deal of fat and had modest heart disease. The Netherlands did not fit. Finland, which would later become the poster child of the whole hypothesis, sat in an awkward place. Countries emerging from occupation and rationing had eaten whatever they could get for six years, and their mortality figures reflected a war rather than a diet. None of that complexity survives on a chart with six dots.

Keys replied in an editorial in the Journal of Chronic Diseases the same year. He argued about death certificate categories and about time lags between a diet and the heart attack it supposedly causes. He did not concede the point about how the six were picked, because there was nothing to concede that would not have finished the argument on the spot.

What he did instead is the part I want you to hold on to. In 1958, the year after that critique, Keys launched the Seven Countries Study, the work that made him famous and that underwrites the dietary guidelines of the English-speaking world to this day. And in the Seven Countries Study, the seven countries were selected by Ancel Keys.

He answered a charge of cherry-picking by designing a study in which the picking was the method.

Yerushalmy died in 1973. Hilleboe in 1974. Neither man's name appears in a single dietary guideline, a single medical school lecture, or a single leaflet in a GP's waiting room. Keys got the cover of Time magazine, a hundred years of life, and the base of the food pyramid.

The 1957 paper is still there. It is not suppressed, it is not secret, it is not hard to find. It is simply never mentioned, which turns out to work just as well.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson lets slip a number on Clarkson's Farm that explains almost everything wrong with British food. A sausage from his own pigs costs 74p. The identical sausage made from imported pig meat costs 18p.

Most people hear that and assume the foreign farmer is simply better at it.

Britain outlawed the sow stall in 1999, alone in Europe bar Sweden, because the public here decided a pregnant animal ought to be able to turn around. The national pig herd then fell by roughly half.

British people did not eat half as much bacon.

Work out where the difference went. Twenty-seven years on, the National Pig Association reckons around 95 percent of the countries selling pork into Britain still permit the stall. Most of the EU allows four weeks of every cycle. Much of America allows the full sixteen-week gestation. Brazil allows it outright.

The sow was never spared. She was moved abroad, into a shed with looser rules and no British inspector, and the farm that would have kept her shut its gate.

Now watch the same thing happen to beef and lamb, on a far bigger scale.

British beef is grass. Native cattle standing out in the rain on ground that grows nothing else, doing what they have done on those hills since before the language was written down. What the NFU says we are being asked to compete against is a feedlot finishing up to 50,000 head on one site, which it called unacceptable here on both moral and environmental grounds.

The deals were signed anyway. Australian and New Zealand beef rises to a quota of 110,000 tonnes by 2033, and after that there is no tariff at all. Lamb runs to 60,000 tonnes this year and climbs from there, and we already import between a quarter and a third of what we eat.

Every one of those deals was announced with a firm assurance that food standards would not fall. That assurance is true, and it is beside the point.

The standards enforced at our border cover what is in the meat. Hormones stay banned, and rightly. What crosses untouched is how the animal lived. There is no border check for a feedlot, no tariff on a gestation crate, no form anywhere asking whether the thing we made illegal here was used to make the thing arriving here.

So a minister can say food standards are protected and back British farming in the same breath, and be telling the truth twice, while signing the document that finishes the job.

The pattern runs through the lot. Barren cages banned here in 2012, egg products still arriving from countries that use them. Force-feeding outlawed in 2007, foie gras on sale every Christmas.

And the campaigners who won those bans never once came back to see what happened next, because the victory was legislative and the consequence was six thousand miles away. Nobody counts sows in Iowa. Nobody films a feedlot in Queensland.

Clarkson absorbs that 56p on every plate that leaves his kitchen, on television, which is the only reason anybody can see the number at all. Inside a supermarket price it has been invisible for a quarter of a century.

Fifty-six pence is what this country charges a man for obeying it.

He is not competing with foreign farmers. He is competing with his own ban, on a shelf, standing next to the version of himself he was forbidden from being.

[gript @griptmedia]

A former NASA meteorologist claims RTÉ never invited him back after a 2015 interview discussing his climate research.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

"There is no climate emergency."

That's the message from over 2,000 scientists and professionals worldwide, including Nobel laureate John Clauser, MIT's Richard Lindzen and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne Ian Plimer.

They all say climate science has become too political and that the models behind global policy are flawed.

"Warming is far slower than predicted," they assert.

"CO2 is not pollution, it's plant food, the basis of all life on earth."

And there's zero evidence that hurricanes, floods or droughts are worsening.

'The World Climate Declaration,' led by the Global Climate Intelligence Group, calls for science over panic, and prosperity through reliable, affordable energy.

"There is no climate emergency," say more than 2,000 scientists.

[Ben Gilroy @BenGilroyIRL]

No correlation between reckless immigration and crime???

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Don’t fall for the fear campaign...what is MEASLES?...a fever, a cough, a rash, runny eyes & runny nose.
-Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

"The measles vaccine came out in 1963. In 1962, the death rate from measles was two in a million.”

"So it was not even deadly BEFORE we had a vaccine."

IF YOU FEAR MEASLES...

You must not know that even in the 60s, before the vaccine, the survival rate was over 99.9%.

You must not know that the MMR is a live virus vaccine & can cause measles.

You must not know that the MMR vaccine is linked to 2,657% MORE DEATHS than measles since 1995.

You must not know that it's a very mild childhood illness for well-nourished children.

You must not know that natural measles infection provides lifelong immunity, unlike the vaccine.

You must not know that there are huge lifelong health benefits to getting measles, including a lower risk of cancer, lower risk of heart disease & stronger immune resilience.

You must not know that the MMR insert lists over 60 serious adverse events, ranging from encephalitis, seizures & death.

You must not know that studies show Vitamin A drastically reduces measles complications-yet public health officials ignore it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

English has been rating fat for a thousand years, and every single entry says the same thing.

- The fat of the land: the best of everything.
- Living high on the hog: the costly cuts, up the back.
- Butter wouldn't melt: innocence itself.
- Bring home the bacon: to provide.
- Butter someone up: to win them over.
- The fatted calf: what you kill for the son who came back.
- Fat years and lean years: the good ones and the bad.
- The cream of the crop. The cream always rises.
- Chew the fat: what good company does when the work is done.
- Fatten up: what you do for someone who has been ill.

Not one idiom in the language treats lean as the good news. Not one.

That is a thousand years of people who worked outdoors, raised the animal, rendered the fat and buried their own dead, all arriving at the same verdict and building it into the words their grandchildren would inherit.

Set against that, a committee formed in the 1980s.

Your ancestors wrote their nutritional advice into the language itself so it could not be lost. Go and read it back, then go and eat the butter.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Got asked yesterday, in all seriousness, whether I miss vegetables.

Miss them. Like they've emigrated. Like there's an empty chair at the table and I sit there on Sundays looking at it.

Mate. I eat ribeye cooked in butter. You're asking if I pine for a boiled carrot.

That's the audacity. He's not asking whether I miss a food. He's asking whether I miss the ballast, the hedge trimmings, the stuff we grow to get animals through a winter, and he's asking with real sympathy in his voice, head slightly tilted, like a man visiting somebody in hospital.

Do you miss the sprout. Has anyone in the history of these islands ever missed a sprout.

Do you miss the courgette, a vegetable so committed to tasting of nothing that it has to be salted, drained, oiled, charred and hidden inside something else before a human will approach it.

Do you miss the bagged salad. Wet leaf, washed in chlorine, dead by Thursday, binned in silence on Friday. That's the real national relationship with fresh vegetables and everybody knows it.

Nobody's ever asked whether I miss margarine.

Do I crave something? Yes. Another steak.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There is a hint of delicious irony to all this.

China currently manufactures 80% of the world’s solar panels, 75–80% of all batteries, 60–65% of wind turbine parts and 55% of global crude steel.

This staggering modern-day success story represents the largest, quietest transfer of industrial might and power in human history.

China's manufacturing grunt is more than the next 15 countries combined—larger than the US, EU and Japan together. To power this industrial onslaught, China commissions around six state-of-the-art coal plants a month (50–80 GW a year).

It operates over 1,200 coal plants totaling 1,271 GW—more than half the world’s total capacity. Its coal mining fleet is four times larger than second-place India.

As a result, China’s share of global manufacturing grew from 6% to 30% since 2000. Meanwhile, America’s plunged like a lead balloon from 25% to around 12%, and Europe’s collapsed from 25% to around 14%.

How? China uses abundant, reliable coal power, refuses to bind itself to net-zero, and has leadership that treats factories and steel mills as critical assets—unlike the West.

In geopolitical terms, this should be a lightning rod across the decaying West. But the job on the West is just about done, and the Western green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by China.

This rise to dizzy heights was only made possible by using the same demonised dense fossil fuel energy that has already sent the Western world spiralling into a brackish, foul-tasting, latter-day mediaeval backwater.

It should be the biggest, loudest, and most outrageous news story in the Western world—but it hardly rates a mention.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

An egg costs about twenty pence. Here's what's inside it.

- Complete protein (the muscle-building standard every other protein is scored against)
- All nine essential amino acids (the raw materials your body can't make itself)
- 147mg of choline (memory and brain function, and nine in ten people fall short)
- Vitamin D (bone and immune health, and one of the few foods carrying any in winter)
- B12 and selenium (the nerves and the thyroid, neither one offered by a plant)
- Lutein and zeaxanthin (the eyes, sat in the yolk you were told to bin)
- 186mg of cholesterol (the raw material for every hormone you run on)

All of it in the yolk. The half the egg-white brigade tips down the sink to hide from a warning that was quietly dropped in 2015.

For sixty years the ruling was three a week. The space it freed up on the breakfast table went to a bowl of grain with twelve vitamins added back in, because the processing took them out first. One of those two things was food.

Twenty pence. Whole. Nothing added, nothing to remember.

Eat the whole egg. Yolk and all.

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

6M views and 3 years later, NOBODY has ever found an unvaccinated Amish child with autism.

You can't argue it is genetics or anything else, because vaccinated Amish kids have autism. That's the difference.

However, science will NEVER be able to figure out why only vaccinated Amish kids have autism, because they are not allowed to even THINK that it MIGHT be the vaccine causing it.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Britain's new "innovation agency," ARIA, funded with $800 million of taxpayer money, is now planning to dim the sun to fight "climate change."

Projects include spraying salt water into the sky and even building a giant sunshade in space.

It is climate lunacy, bought and paid for by the public, with zero accountability.

ARIA is exempt from freedom of information laws, answers to no one, and recently burned $56 million on sun-dimming experiments that could disrupt global weather and agriculture.

While Britain's real economy buckles under high taxes and energy costs, its leaders are funding crackpot schemes to block out the sun.

The UK, where ideology, not science, drives policy.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Bible picks a side on food. It picks it on page two, holds it for sixty-six books, and never once asks anybody to cut down.

Genesis 4. Abel brings the fat of his flock. Respected. Cain brings the fruit of the ground. Not respected.

Page two, and the plants have already lost.

Genesis 9. "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you." Not reduced thirty percent by 2035.

Genesis 27. Isaac wants "savoury meat, such as I love." Not savoury pulses, such as I tolerate.

Exodus 16. "At even ye shall eat flesh." Not at even ye shall receive a veg box.

Deuteronomy 32. "Butter of kine, milk of sheep, fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan." Not semi-skimmed of kine.

1 Kings 4. Solomon gets through ten fat oxen, twenty more out of the pastures, a hundred sheep, plus harts, roebucks and fatted fowl. In one day. Not a wellness bowl in sight.

Isaiah 25. The feast the Lord lays on for all people: "a feast of fat things, of fat things full of marrow." Not a feast of lean things, trimmed.

Matthew 22. The invitation to the wedding: "my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready." Not my lentils are soaked.

Luke 24. Christ, three days out of the tomb, is handed a piece of broiled fish and eats it standing there. Not handed a smoothie.

John 21. He builds a fire on the shore and cooks fish for the men. Not a courgette.

Acts 10. The sheet comes down loaded with four-footed beasts. "Rise, Peter, kill and eat." Not rise, Peter, forage.

Beef, over 130 mentions. Lamb, close to a hundred. Vegetables barely make double figures.

Even the one verse they quote at me concedes it. Proverbs 15: "better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

The ox is still the better dinner. Love is just worth more than the ox.

Leviticus 3. Of the whole animal, the portion set aside for God is the fat.

It's now the part we trim off and bin.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

This compilation of Fauci lies brilliantly assembled by Matt @0rf Orfalea should be watched by all. Thank God he has secret service protection. It would be awful if they were pulled.

https://t.co/cv6Jl7uUIW

[GorillaScience @WatchGorillaSci]

Wildfires & 'climate change' my ass ... a film from @TomANelson explaining the actual data.

[IrishInquiry @IrishInquiry]

“That is the man I know and it has been difficult, at times heartbreaking, to sit in this room and watch 32 years of service reduced to a handful of posts made during one of the most divisive and uncertain periods in modern history. You have seen Billy through documents, I have seen him through a lifetime. You have seen the tweets, I have seen the man. The Billy I know is not reckless. He is not indifferent to suffering. He is not motivated by ego or personal gain. He is someone who asks questions. He is someone who thinks for himself. He is someone who has always been willing to stand alone if he believed something needed to be said.”
“That quality may be uncomfortable at times, it may even be unpopular but it is also a quality that has driven progress in every profession throughout history. I am not asking you to agree with Billy. I am not asking you to endorse what he said. I am asking you to recognise that he said those things because he believed them, not because they were fashionable, not because they were safe, not because they were profitable, but because he genuinely believed he had a duty to speak.”

“Whatever conclusions have been reached about that decision, I ask you to remember that conviction is not the same thing as malice, disagreement is not the same thing as dishonesty, and independent thought is not the same thing as professional misconduct.”
Repugnant

“During the closing submissions I listened to examples involving sexual assault, fraud, neglect and other serious forms of criminal activity. While I understand that these examples were used to illustrate legal principles and were not allegations against Billy, sitting here as his wife I found that moment deeply upsetting and repugnant. The man I know had somehow disappeared from the room, the man I love, the doctor who has dedicated years of his life to caring for others seemed to become a case, an argument, an example.”

“Whatever conclusions have been reached about Billy’s conduct, those comparisons felt profoundly disconnected from the man I know. How did you come to view a man’s conduct almost entirely through the lens of a few months in a long career?”

“Billy’s life is bigger than this hearing, his career is bigger than this hearing, his contribution to medicine is bigger than this hearing and his character is bigger than this hearing.”

Please see @blueskylou’s full article in comments to read the full statement.

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

“That is the man I know and it has been difficult, at times heartbreaking, to sit in this room and watch 32 years of service reduced to a handful of posts made during one of the most divisive and uncertain periods in modern history. You have seen Billy through documents, I have seen him through a lifetime. You have seen the tweets, I have seen the man. The Billy I know is not reckless. He is not indifferent to suffering. He is not motivated by ego or personal gain. He is someone who asks questions. He is someone who thinks for himself. He is someone who has always been willing to stand alone if he believed something needed to be said.”

“That quality may be uncomfortable at times, it may even be unpopular but it is also a quality that has driven progress in every profession throughout history. I am not asking you to agree with Billy. I am not asking you to endorse what he said. I am asking you to recognise that he said those things because he believed them, not because they were fashionable, not because they were safe, not because they were profitable, but because he genuinely believed he had a duty to speak.”

“Whatever conclusions have been reached about that decision, I ask you to remember that conviction is not the same thing as malice, disagreement is not the same thing as dishonesty, and independent thought is not the same thing as professional misconduct.”
Repugnant

“During the closing submissions I listened to examples involving sexual assault, fraud, neglect and other serious forms of criminal activity. While I understand that these examples were used to illustrate legal principles and were not allegations against Billy, sitting here as his wife I found that moment deeply upsetting and repugnant. The man I know had somehow disappeared from the room, the man I love, the doctor who has dedicated years of his life to caring for others seemed to become a case, an argument, an example.”

“Whatever conclusions have been reached about Billy’s conduct, those comparisons felt profoundly disconnected from the man I know. How did you come to view a man’s conduct almost entirely through the lens of a few months in a long career?”

“Billy’s life is bigger than this hearing, his career is bigger than this hearing, his contribution to medicine is bigger than this hearing and his character is bigger than this hearing.”

Please see @blueskylou’s full article in comments to read the full statement.

[🇬🇧💥𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓💥🇦🇺 @Maxwellpainn]

🇬🇧 A former British Prime Minister just said the quiet part out loud:

Liz Truss:
“The deep state is real. NGO activists and globalist networks have quietly captured the levers of government and media… reshaping the West from the inside.”

For years, anyone who pointed this out was mocked, smeared, and called a conspiracy theorist.
Head teachers, journalists, ordinary people ,all dragged through the mud for noticing the same pattern.

Now a woman who actually sat in Downing Street is confirming it on camera. No apology. No walk-back.

This isn’t fringe anymore.
This is a former Prime Minister describing how unelected activists, foreign-funded NGOs, and transnational networks have more power over policy than the people we actually elect.

Ideas that get labelled “conspiracy” today have a habit of becoming accepted fact tomorrow.
The people who were paying attention were right the whole time.

Watch the full clip. Share it.
The more they try to bury this conversation, the louder it needs to get.

The capture of our institutions is not a theory.
It’s the reason nothing ever seems to change , no matter who you vote for.

[gript @griptmedia]

BEN SCALLAN compares a news segment on RTÉ from 2016 and 2026 on a 30-degree heat wave to demonstrate just how far down the rabbit hole of climate hysteria the broadcaster has gone.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Contra to the hysterical media reporting on Climate change causing wildfires, even rolling out Prince William er…

162 people have been arrested in France since 6 July linked to fire outbreaks and 9 in Spain.

The French government says 9 out of 10 fires are human caused, with around a quarter started deliberately and the rest by negligence.

Arson & idiocy are not climate change 🔥