Preben Aavitsland

Ytringer på egne vegne om det meste fra sørlending, enkeltperson, lege, epidemiolog og professor som bor i Kristiansand. Tvitring på engelsk @epidemino.

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

@audunhjort @nilslidhjortuio @mywaynorway Jeg merker meg et ganske stort overlapp mellom putinister og vaksinekonspiratorikere

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Veldig sterk sak fra VG. Dette er journalistikk. Og mange konspiratører og ytre høyre-blogger som Steigan og Document bør skamme seg. https://t.co/g0oOhDgo8S

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Kokko

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"Do you have evidence?" "That's not evidence." "There is no evidence."

@kwelkernbc kept rebutting Trump's lies about January 6 and about election fraud, and he eventually wrapped up the interview, calling her "crooked." Here's the transcript of the astonishing final few minutes:

WELKER: Do you think anyone who attacked police officers on January 6th should get taxpayer money?
TRUMP: I wouldn't be inclined to say so, but I have to see it. I can tell you this: 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, cause you had a lot of crooked cops, you had dirty cops. Comey was a dirty cop.
WELKER: Well, there is no evidence to –
TRUMP: A guy like Bolton was a dirty cop –
WELKER: But there is no evidence that-- but there's no evidence that people who –
TRUMP: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, you think Comey was a straight cop?
WELKER: We had 170 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.
TRUMP: Comey was a dirty cop.
WELKER: No, no, but the people who assaulted police officers.
TRUMP: They had FBI – listen to me. They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI "Go into the building." Those people are walking around, they're looking, "Oh, isn't this nice?" They weren't in-- they were being ushered into the building.
WELKER: There's no evidence of that, sir. There's no evidence of that.
TRUMP: You had a bunch of dirty cops, and frankly, what they did was weaponization of our government.
WELKER: But sir, there-- there's no evidence of that. More than a thousand people pleaded guilty to crimes –
TRUMP: No, well, yeah, no, there's none. You know what they do?
WELKER: Would you –
TRUMP: Try looking at the tapes one time.
WELKER: Would you take it off the table?
TRUMP: Look at the tapes one time.
WELKER: Okay, but 172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers.
TRUMP: You know why they pled guilty?
WELKER: Should they be exempt –
TRUMP: Because they told they were going to jail for 15 years –
WELKER: – from receiving funds?
TRUMP: – if they didn't.
WELKER: Should they –
TRUMP: They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building. Many of them were arrested without even going into the building.
WELKER: You'd be okay with them receiving taxpayer dollars?
TRUMP: The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated. Now, with that being said, the, as I understand it, the weaponization fund was going to set up a group of people, people that could be picked by anybody, fair people, smart people, and they will go on an individual case basis.
WELKER: Okay.
TRUMP: Now, I don't know what's going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea, because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he's not smart enough to know what's going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong.
WELKER: All right, this is, just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying, but let me ask about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: There's a lot of evidence.
WELKER: Let me ask about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: Listen – listen to me – listen to me.
WELKER: Let's talk about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence.
WELKER: Well, it’s not been presented in a court of a law.
TRUMP: The election was rigged. It was a dirty election.
WELKER: Mr. President –
TRUMP: And it's happening again right now in California.
WELKER:  – you've never presented evidence –
TRUMP: It’s happening right now in California
WELKER: – that the 2020 election was rigged.
TRUMP: Right now, it's look at what's happening in California.
WELKER: Where's the evidence to that?
TRUMP: It's four days –
WELKER: The Republicans are doing well in California.
TRUMP: In California, it's, no they're not. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with the –
WELKER: That's how they count the votes in California.
TRUMP: Do you know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election.
WELKER: There's – What? Do you have evidence to support that?
TRUMP: It's-- all I have to do is look. All I have to do is look.
WELKER: But that's not evidence.
TRUMP: And I listen. And I listen to people. And let's see what happens.
WELKER: But sir, that's not evidence, and that's how they count the votes in California--
TRUMP: Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking a winner?
WELKER: State and local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging–
TRUMP: No, they're crooked.
WELKER: – they're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California.
TRUMP: They're crooked just like you're crooked, your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked.
WELKER: To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue.
TRUMP: Really? Well, you play right into their hands then.
WELKER: Let's continue.
TRUMP: You're either crooked or you're stupid.
WELKER: Let's continue.
TRUMP: You play right into their hands with this stuff. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. Do you know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press.
WELKER: But Mr. President –
TRUMP: You know why I got that?
WELKER: – you've never presented –
TRUMP: Because you have no credibility.
WELKER: -evidence. But you've never presented evidence it was rigged. Let's keep talking about, I want to talk about Todd Blanche.
TRUMP: You have more evidence, there's more evidence than ever presented.
WELKER: Let's talk about--
TRUMP: Your elections in this country –
WELKER: – you went to court.
TRUMP: We're like a third world country.
WELKER: But sir –
TRUMP: Your elections are crooked and you're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked.
WELKER: But Mr. President–
TRUMP: And so is ABC and CBS and CNN.
WELKER: But Mr. President--
TRUMP: You're a one-sided crooked network. Sorry. Let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
WELKER: Mr. President, let's – please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.
TRUMP: I've sat in the rain with you--
WELKER: I traveled all –  I know. I traveled all the way--
TRUMP: I sat in the rain with you for an hour.
WELKER: --to Wisconsin.
TRUMP: On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what?
WELKER: Mr. President--
TRUMP: A country can never be great with a dishonest press.
WELKER: – we traveled all – listen. We traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Mother Who Smelled Something Wrong.

In the spring of 1934, a Norwegian woman named Borgny Egeland walked into Oslo University Hospital with a question that no doctor in the country had been able to answer. Her two children, Liv, age six, and Dag, age four, had been born normal and then stopped developing. They could not speak. Dag could not sit without support. She had taken them to doctor after doctor for years. None of them could tell her why.

What none of them had noticed, or asked about, was the smell. Borgny had been noticing it for years: a sharp, musty odor in her children's urine. She mentioned it to a physician colleague of her husband, who happened to know of an unusual doctor at the university hospital. His name was Asbjørn Følling, and before becoming a medical doctor he had trained as a chemical engineer. He agreed to see the children mainly, as he later admitted, "because I did not want to be hostile to the mother."

Følling ran the standard battery of urine tests in his improvised attic laboratory. All came back normal. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added a few drops of ferric chloride, a routine reagent used to detect diabetic ketones. The solution was supposed to turn purple. It turned a vivid, unprecedented green. He checked the medical literature. No one had ever recorded this reaction before. He checked both children's samples again a week later. Green again. Over the next six weeks, working mostly alone, Følling processed twenty-two liters of the Egeland children's urine under an inert nitrogen atmosphere, filtering, isolating, purifying, until he identified the unknown compound: phenylpyruvic acid, a substance never previously found in a living human body.

He then screened 420 intellectually disabled patients at institutions across Oslo. Eight more tested positive, including two siblings. Five months after Borgny first walked through his door, Følling published his paper identifying a previously unknown inherited metabolic disease. He called it oligophrenia phenylpyruvica. The world would rename it phenylketonuria, PKU. Today, every baby born in the developed world is tested for it in the first days of life, and a simple dietary adjustment begun at birth prevents the intellectual disability entirely. Untreated, the condition destroys the developing brain. Caught in time, children with PKU grow up without any impairment at all.

Asbjørn Følling received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize, the Anders Jahres Award, and the Kennedy Foundation Award. He received honorary degrees and state honors across Europe. He did not receive the Nobel Prize. In the words of his field, he is "by many considered the most important medical scientist never to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine."

He found the answer in the smell no one else had asked about.

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

@olehelgesen7 @mikkelickski Ikveld kl 22 skal set ifølge Yr være 17 grader i Boston og 30 i Greensboro

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Hmm, mellom 30 og 36 grader på dagtid i Greensboro kommende uke. Kan dette gå bra?

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

@mikkelickski Mulig det. Men Greensboro har nå 5-15 grader mer enn Europa. Kan de få noe ut av trening i den varmen?

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

@Bulle44 Neida, men de skal jo trene og holde formen oppe

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!! Sweden's migration minister says it's "insane" that Russian citizens are enjoying European holidays and shopping trips while Ukrainians face death on the battlefield, urging the European Commission to impose stricter rules on tourist visas for Russians.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"Don't cry! I'm alive. I'm so glad to hear you! I haven't heard your voice in four years." — the first words of Ukrainian defenders to their families after returning to Ukraine from Russian captivity.

📹: Zelenskyy

[Алёна Попова @alyonapopova]

Путин призвал жителей западных стран «бороться за повышение зарплат».

Минимальная зарплата:
Люксембург - €2 704
Ирландия - €2 391
Германия - €2 343
Нидерланды - €2 295
Бельгия - €2 112
Франция - €1 823
Испания - €1 381
Словения - €1 278
Литва - €1 153
Россия - €317

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Les i @tidsskriftet hva ekspertene har funnet https://t.co/jLMTk5zlwe

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Trump feirer også Pride

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

There will be no peace: "Do your job, brothers," Putin said in an address to the military, according to Russian media reports.

With this, Putin rejects President Zelenskyy's open letter.

The fighting will end when Russia has achieved its goals—Putin.

What is so hard to understand about that statement? The perverse monster in the Kremlin does not want peace—Putin must be bombed to the negotiating table.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Putin rejected today President Zelenskyy's peace offer, making once again clear that this war only exists because of him and Russia.

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

Les i @tidsskriftet hva ekspertene har funnet https://t.co/jLMTk5zlwe

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Me at the bar after three(3) Sapporo realizing I’m about to get kicked out:

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Home 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Вдома 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Michał Chmielewski @Ten_Psycholog]

A swoją drogą, to rosyjskich sportowców nie powinno być na żadnych kortach, boiskach i stadionach w cywilizowanym świecie. Dopóki trwa atak na Ukrainę.

[Preben Aavitsland @Prebens]

@JohnOBrennan2 @CalltoActivism And they all pretend not to notice