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A press release from the Mayo Clinic:

Drs. Julie Louise Gerberding, Martine Rothblatt to join Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees

August 12, 2022

By Kevin Punsky

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., chairperson and CEO of United Therapeutics Corp. (Nasdaq:UTHR), were elected by the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees as public trustees at its quarterly meeting on Aug. 12. …

Dr. Rothblatt is chair and CEO of United Therapeutics Corp., a company she started to save her youngest child’s life from a rare illness. She previously created SiriusXM Radio Inc. and other satellite communications systems. She is also responsible for several innovations in aviation and architecture, including the design and piloting of an electric helicopter for Guinness World Records and creating the world’s largest zero-carbon footprint building.

Her company is saving countless lives per year with medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma, and by restoring otherwise discarded donor lungs for transplant. United Therapeutics Corp. is also in preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

Dr. Rothblatt led the efforts to create the first genetically modified porcine hearts and kidneys transplanted into humans — called xenotransplantation.

Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

 
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  1. Not sure if this is related, but (like all of America’s Ruling Class) the WSJ loves seeing Elon get humiliated. CEOs need to be in shape nowadays.

    https://archive.ph/mXs9S

    • Replies: @Henry's Cat
    @HammerJack

    Do you consider Musk not part of the ruling elite?

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @HammerJack

    Grimes doesn't seem to care. Besides, Musk did the same thing to Bill Gates. Live by the sword, die by the sword -- and in this case, it just doesn't matter.


  2. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/alpha-gal-syndrome-tick-meat-allergy/629649/
    https://archive.ph/7tU8J

    [MORE]

    Which brings us to the second remarkable thing about the meal. This bacon was not your regular bacon, or even your fancy pasture-raised, thick-cut bacon; this bacon was so exclusive that it’s not available in stores. It came from Revivicor, a biotechnology company that genetically modifies pigs to create organs suitable for transplant into humans. (One of its pig hearts was experimentally transplanted into a human for the first time this January.) It just so happens that the same molecule—a sugar called alpha-gal—that causes the human immune system to reject pig organs also causes the tick-associated red-meat allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome. To make a pig whose organs could be harvested for transplant, Revivicor first had to make an alpha-gal-free pig. And when it did, the company realized that transplant surgeons weren’t the only ones interested.

    Since last fall, Revivicor has been quietly sending refrigerated packages of alpha-gal-free bacon, ham, ground pork, chops, and pork shoulders to people in the alpha-gal-syndrome community. These packages were free, but Revivicor has told the FDA it is exploring a mail-order business. And so a biomedical company has found itself an accidental purveyor of specialty pork products.

    https://www.revivicor.com/

    • Thanks: Bardon Kaldian
  3. So Martine Rothblatt as Joan Eunice Smith? Rothblatt has remained married to his wife, whereas Smith married a man, but other than that, there do seem to be numerous points of correspondence.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @FPD72


    So Martine Rothblatt as Joan Eunice Smith? Rothblatt has remained married to his wife, whereas Smith married a man, but other than that, there do seem to be numerous points of correspondence.
     
    So not actually cut? Basically, just some weirdo who gets off on wearing dresses ... and really gets off on making other--lesser mortals--bow to his weirdo fetish.

    In other words--a dick.
    , @Muggles
    @FPD72

    I for one don't get iSteve's essay title.

    Though I am familiar with Heinlein (decades ago) I don't get it.

    This person used to be a man? Did Heinlein write about xenotransplantation?

    This "woman" or woman seems highly successful regardless.

    I'm not sure you need to drag Heinlein into this. "Starship Troopers" was bad enough...

    There are a few M-to-F trans folks who seem to be highly successful in their careers. Weird and crazy perhaps, but successful. I don't think the trans part has anything to do with being successful.

    Replies: @MEH 0910, @Brutusale

  4. Arrrgh, I’m still stuck on this situation. Since when is there cross-pollination between the WSJ and Page Six?? Oh well, it’s not your father’s WSJ..

    https://pagesix.com/2022/07/26/elon-musk-lunches-with-ari-emanuel-attractive-people/

    And since when does Elon take calls from Page Six? The man must have 84 hours in a day. I’m gonna phone him up now, BRB.

  5. As Steve has told us, some of those UCLA MBAs are interesting people.

  6. Anon[348] • Disclaimer says:

    preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

    This changes everything!

    Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

    Remind me, did Dr Rothblatt have her feminine dick cut off? If so, fairly well done for a eunuch.

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I’m afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days. Could Rothblatt mayhap provide a sophisticated best-practice ethical argument for turning young girls and boys into surgical monsters?

    From what I can see, the RLSMD is actually part of Queen Mary since about 30 years. Ranked 10th among med schools in the UK these days, after e.g. University of Bristol.

    Queen Mary and Westfield College formally merged with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1995, creating our current medical and dental faculty.

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/extended-history/barts/

    Let me recommend that Steve reviews that most recent book on AI and sheeeiiit so we can see if it’s any good.

    Finally, what you’ve been waiting for: Martine and her black wife.

    • Replies: @clifford brown
    @Anon

    Here is his wife's android head. I really am glad that we have entrusted these people with the future.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bqZp9TPYVk

    Replies: @ic1000

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Anon


    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I’m afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days.
     
    Nowadays "medical ethicist" seems to be synonymous with "psycopathic misanthrope".
    , @Jus' Sayin'...
    @Anon

    Here he is with his hair down: https://www.lifenaut.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/martine-rothblatt-2018.tiff. Basically he is a man with mental disorder, a paraphilia , who is so poisoned by testosterone that he is impelled to force others into pretenses supporting that disorder. That he is a coal burner is just further evidence of his disordered mind. I suspect that his various mental aberrations are ultimately genetic, traits more common among Ashkenazi Jews than they are among other American ethnic/racial groups.

    Two themes that run through Heinlein's work, almost from the beginning are a fascination with being or becoming a woman and a fascination with the possibility of extremely long life/immortality. Heinlein's fans have often argued that the former fascination is an indicator of a deep sympathy with women. I've always suspected that it is actually an indicator of autogynephilia, although it is only recently that I've been able to attach a name to my suspicions. I've also suspected that Heinlein's fascination with immortality resulted from a repressed, deep seated, morbid fear of death. In a graduation speech, which he gave at Annapolis, Heinlein made a passing and mocking reference to Samuel Johnson's well known fear of death. There seemed to me to be a lot of Freudian projection in that comment.

    I still think Heinlein was a good and noteworthy man but even great men have their flaws.

    , @Wokechoke
    @Anon

    His wife.....? She looks like Robert Mugabe.

  7. @FPD72
    So Martine Rothblatt as Joan Eunice Smith? Rothblatt has remained married to his wife, whereas Smith married a man, but other than that, there do seem to be numerous points of correspondence.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Muggles

    So Martine Rothblatt as Joan Eunice Smith? Rothblatt has remained married to his wife, whereas Smith married a man, but other than that, there do seem to be numerous points of correspondence.

    So not actually cut? Basically, just some weirdo who gets off on wearing dresses … and really gets off on making other–lesser mortals–bow to his weirdo fetish.

    In other words–a dick.

  8. Anon[217] • Disclaimer says:

    Is this Steve’s old MBA school buddy, post-transition?

    OT

    This may be paywalled, but John McWhorter wrote a newsletter for the New York Times a week ago decrying the watering down of the credentialing test for social workers:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/opinion/racism-test.html

    This caught my eye:

    There is a Change.org petition circulating saying just that, based on the claim that the association’s clinical exam is biased because from 2018 to 2021 84 percent of white test-takers passed it the first time while only 45 percent of Black test-takers and 65 percent of Latino test-takers did. “These numbers are grossly disproportionate and demonstrate a failure in the exam’s design,” the petition states, adding that an “assertion that the problem lies with test-takers only reinforces the racism inherent to the test.”

    The problem, they say, is that (1) the test is only given in English, and (2) the questions and answers are developed from a white pool of social workers.

    The 84 percent caught my eye because it has meaning in statistics, so I decided to do a little mini-La-Griffe-du-Lion analysis of these three numbers below …

    [MORE]

    86 is 68 plus 16, the percentage of a normal distribution above minus one standard deviation. So in other words, if 84 percent of whites passed the test, any white who scored a low as one standard deviation below the average score for whites passed, about five out of six white test takers.

    So the pass line for this social work test is 1 SD below white average. Coincidentally, the average black IQ is 1 SD below the average white IQ. So you can immediately predict that in this test the black pass rate will be about 50 percent. Hispanics are about two thirds of an SD below whites, so I needed to consult a normal distribution calculator to determine that their predicted pass rate would be 63 percent.

    So these results are completely expected. The predicted results closely track IQ. The results would be right on is you assume a black average IQ of 83 and a Hispanic average IQ of 91, not that far off from the standard 85 and 90 estimates.

    There is no social work test that can be developed, even if optionally offered in Spanish and with questions developed by BIPOCs, that will achieve different results, just as the billions of dollars on the table (from UC, the Ivy League, and elsewhere) for an SAT replacement that will not have this gap has not resultated in any claimants (the Smarter Balanced test is the latest failed attempt). High stakes standardized written tests will always have this gap because such tests are cognitive and are IQ tests, perhaps with a little noise.

    McWhorter thinks the getting blacks to put more books in the home and have more verbal parental-child interaction, using a larger vocabulary, will eliminate the gap. In other words, when black parents turn white and have white kids, the black-white gap will disappear.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Thanks.

  9. Essentially none of these crossdressing weirdos get their dicks cuts off.

    Guess that’s only good for children!

    • Agree: Rob McX
  10. In a healthy society, minorities are just that–minorities. If they don’t cause trouble fine. But you don’t give all the weirdos and freaks who reject the norms of your society positions of responsibility.

    • Agree: Goddard
  11. @Anon

    preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

     

    This changes everything!

    Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

     

    Remind me, did Dr Rothblatt have her feminine dick cut off? If so, fairly well done for a eunuch.

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I'm afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days. Could Rothblatt mayhap provide a sophisticated best-practice ethical argument for turning young girls and boys into surgical monsters?

    From what I can see, the RLSMD is actually part of Queen Mary since about 30 years. Ranked 10th among med schools in the UK these days, after e.g. University of Bristol.

    Queen Mary and Westfield College formally merged with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1995, creating our current medical and dental faculty.

     

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/extended-history/barts/

    Let me recommend that Steve reviews that most recent book on AI and sheeeiiit so we can see if it's any good.

    Finally, what you've been waiting for: Martine and her black wife.

    https://awiderbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Martine-bina-Featured-1.jpg

    Replies: @clifford brown, @Mr. Anon, @Jus' Sayin'..., @Wokechoke

    Here is his wife’s android head. I really am glad that we have entrusted these people with the future.

    • Replies: @ic1000
    @clifford brown

    If it's okay with you, I'll file that creepy Bloomberg segment on the AI-infused animatronic head of Martine Rothblatt's wife under "Uncanny Valley."

    In between her softball questions to Dr. Rothblatt, perky blonde reporter Olivia Sterns Walton gives her plenty of doe-eyed looks. Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult.

    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices, so long as the right people (married into that Walton family) are offering it to the right people.

    Replies: @bomag, @BB753

  12. OT

    Two Canadian harpoon-Indians (not dot- or feather-) stabbed 10 to death and injured 15. What does Sailer’s Law say here?

  13. Well, if s/he’s capable, why not? In most fields yes, but- medical ethics, no thanks.

  14. @Anon

    preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

     

    This changes everything!

    Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

     

    Remind me, did Dr Rothblatt have her feminine dick cut off? If so, fairly well done for a eunuch.

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I'm afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days. Could Rothblatt mayhap provide a sophisticated best-practice ethical argument for turning young girls and boys into surgical monsters?

    From what I can see, the RLSMD is actually part of Queen Mary since about 30 years. Ranked 10th among med schools in the UK these days, after e.g. University of Bristol.

    Queen Mary and Westfield College formally merged with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1995, creating our current medical and dental faculty.

     

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/extended-history/barts/

    Let me recommend that Steve reviews that most recent book on AI and sheeeiiit so we can see if it's any good.

    Finally, what you've been waiting for: Martine and her black wife.

    https://awiderbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Martine-bina-Featured-1.jpg

    Replies: @clifford brown, @Mr. Anon, @Jus' Sayin'..., @Wokechoke

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I’m afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days.

    Nowadays “medical ethicist” seems to be synonymous with “psycopathic misanthrope”.

  15. Early life and education
    Rothblatt was born 1954 into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, to Rosa Lee and Hal Rothblatt, a dentist.[1] She was raised in a suburb of San Diego, California.[9][10]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt

    The early lifer enrichment has gotten so enriching it’s even beyond enriching. It’s like hyper-enriching.

    Another interesting detail: the more poor and in debt everyone gets, the more everything else is called “enriching”.

  16. cough cough “All You Zombies” cough cough

    • LOL: Kylie
  17. Rothblatt sounds like a guy who doesn’t let other people tell him what’s possible or what he should do.

    In general the bimodal distribution of nerdy socially awkward autistic guys and big hulking dominant assholes seems to come about by both groups having low social empathy. Neither group is as restrained by social opinion though mostly often to very different outcomes and pathways. And I wonder if that explains why they are the ones who go through with this and if trying to explain the trans desire by looking at them might be like only looking for your lost keys where the streetlights are shining. Maybe the desire is more evenly distributed among males but only these guys ever go through with it.

    But it is a surreal situation and validation of gender stereotypes that men become women because they don’t care what other people think or if they’ll fit in and adolescent girls become adolescent boys because they are influenced by what other people think and need to fit in.

    • Thanks: ic1000
  18. OT- that’s your Biden’s America:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11178481/Suspect-38-charged-kidnapping-missing-heiress-vanished-jogging.html

    Felon who was arrested for ‘violently snatching’ billionaire heiress, 38, off Memphis street as she jogged ‘cleaned inside of his car and washed his clothes in sink before arrest’: He was released from 20-year sentence in 2020 for abducting lawyer

  19. “But it is a surreal situation and validation of gender stereotypes that men become women because they don’t care what other people think or if they’ll fit in and adolescent girls become adolescent boys because they are influenced by what other people think and need to fit in.”

    Men don’t become women nor do adolescent girls become adolescent boys.

    They pretend they do and they get enough people to go along with the pretense that those who don’t nevertheless use the terms you used.

    • Agree: AnotherDad
    • Thanks: JR Ewing
  20. @HammerJack
    Not sure if this is related, but (like all of America's Ruling Class) the WSJ loves seeing Elon get humiliated. CEOs need to be in shape nowadays.

    https://i.ibb.co/3h1BMHC/e273a685405d93c0ec89f4c855b28aeb36cf92a4.jpg

    https://archive.ph/mXs9S

    Replies: @Henry's Cat, @Buzz Mohawk

    Do you consider Musk not part of the ruling elite?

  21. @Anon
    Is this Steve's old MBA school buddy, post-transition?

    OT

    This may be paywalled, but John McWhorter wrote a newsletter for the New York Times a week ago decrying the watering down of the credentialing test for social workers:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/opinion/racism-test.html

    This caught my eye:


    There is a Change.org petition circulating saying just that, based on the claim that the association’s clinical exam is biased because from 2018 to 2021 84 percent of white test-takers passed it the first time while only 45 percent of Black test-takers and 65 percent of Latino test-takers did. “These numbers are grossly disproportionate and demonstrate a failure in the exam’s design,” the petition states, adding that an “assertion that the problem lies with test-takers only reinforces the racism inherent to the test.”
     
    The problem, they say, is that (1) the test is only given in English, and (2) the questions and answers are developed from a white pool of social workers.

    The 84 percent caught my eye because it has meaning in statistics, so I decided to do a little mini-La-Griffe-du-Lion analysis of these three numbers below ...

    86 is 68 plus 16, the percentage of a normal distribution above minus one standard deviation. So in other words, if 84 percent of whites passed the test, any white who scored a low as one standard deviation below the average score for whites passed, about five out of six white test takers.

    So the pass line for this social work test is 1 SD below white average. Coincidentally, the average black IQ is 1 SD below the average white IQ. So you can immediately predict that in this test the black pass rate will be about 50 percent. Hispanics are about two thirds of an SD below whites, so I needed to consult a normal distribution calculator to determine that their predicted pass rate would be 63 percent.

    So these results are completely expected. The predicted results closely track IQ. The results would be right on is you assume a black average IQ of 83 and a Hispanic average IQ of 91, not that far off from the standard 85 and 90 estimates.

    There is no social work test that can be developed, even if optionally offered in Spanish and with questions developed by BIPOCs, that will achieve different results, just as the billions of dollars on the table (from UC, the Ivy League, and elsewhere) for an SAT replacement that will not have this gap has not resultated in any claimants (the Smarter Balanced test is the latest failed attempt). High stakes standardized written tests will always have this gap because such tests are cognitive and are IQ tests, perhaps with a little noise.

    McWhorter thinks the getting blacks to put more books in the home and have more verbal parental-child interaction, using a larger vocabulary, will eliminate the gap. In other words, when black parents turn white and have white kids, the black-white gap will disappear.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Thanks.

  22. Mayo Clinic was/is at the forefront of pushing Covid mRNA vaccines for kids, and of course it is also at the forefront of “gender reassignment” for kids. Perhaps both things are related.

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/endocrinology/news/mayo-clinics-transgender-and-intersex-specialty-care-clinic-provides-a-home-base-for-transgender-patients-and-those-with-differences-of-sexual-development/mac-20502820

    Of course they would hire a “transgender ” freak who is also a Jew.

    Sailer doesn’t seem to understand how the transgender stuff (and transhumanism in general) is important to the elites. They want to become cyborgs and live forever, having weird sex. Heinlein was probably also into that type of stuff. (To be honest, I know little about his personal life, but way too many science fiction writers seem to be weirdos or sex perverts)

    • Agree: Mr. Anon
  23. Translation:

    Owns a radio station, aka Just another one in the Media

    Piloted a Helicopter

    Sells Crappy Drugs that Don’t Work (Pulmonary drugs never work)

    Restoring Donor Lungs? I don’t even want to know, nor do I care…it sounds like a lie

    Ultimately in the Organ Business

    The Pig Organ B.S. that I’ve heard about since I was a CHILD

    It all sounds like the blonde girl with the blood test company….Basically the ManShe is in the Organ Business but makes it sound all ‘I’m So Fancy’, but I bet at the end of the day they just organize normal organ donations (like how the blood test company sent blood to the normal labs to be analyzed)

    • Agree: Propagandist Hacker
  24. @clifford brown
    @Anon

    Here is his wife's android head. I really am glad that we have entrusted these people with the future.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bqZp9TPYVk

    Replies: @ic1000

    If it’s okay with you, I’ll file that creepy Bloomberg segment on the AI-infused animatronic head of Martine Rothblatt’s wife under “Uncanny Valley.”

    In between her softball questions to Dr. Rothblatt, perky blonde reporter Olivia Sterns Walton gives her plenty of doe-eyed looks. Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult.

    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices, so long as the right people (married into that Walton family) are offering it to the right people.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @ic1000

    Thanks.


    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices...
     
    I've noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.

    Replies: @LP5, @Mr. Anon

    , @BB753
    @ic1000

    "Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult."

    Not so fast! :
    "She [ Martine Rothblatt] founded a religion, the Terasem Movement, which puts together her cultural Judaism (she puts on a mean seder), Zen-like yoga and a deep belief in technology. One of the four founding beliefs: “Death is optional.”"

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/martine-rothblatt-she-founded-siriusxm-a-religion-and-a-biotech-for-starters/2014/12/11/5a8a4866-71ab-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  25. @ic1000
    @clifford brown

    If it's okay with you, I'll file that creepy Bloomberg segment on the AI-infused animatronic head of Martine Rothblatt's wife under "Uncanny Valley."

    In between her softball questions to Dr. Rothblatt, perky blonde reporter Olivia Sterns Walton gives her plenty of doe-eyed looks. Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult.

    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices, so long as the right people (married into that Walton family) are offering it to the right people.

    Replies: @bomag, @BB753

    Thanks.

    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices…

    I’ve noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.

    • Replies: @LP5
    @bomag

    bomag writes:


    I’ve noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump.
     
    Those NPR reporters usually have audible gasps while adjusting their knee pads.
    , @Mr. Anon
    @bomag


    I’ve noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.
     
    Is there a single man on NPR who sounds like he has any testosterone left in his system? They all sound like soy-boys or nancy-boys. The women either sound like butch lesbians or giggling teenagers.
  26. That’s some career, whatever team he/she wants to play for. A real renaissance man, uh, person

  27. @bomag
    @ic1000

    Thanks.


    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices...
     
    I've noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.

    Replies: @LP5, @Mr. Anon

    bomag writes:

    I’ve noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump.

    Those NPR reporters usually have audible gasps while adjusting their knee pads.

  28. We are living at a time when almost every major life-ending child-torturing war-prolonging problem really objectively does go back to one (1) group of people — and nobody’s targeting them.

    • Replies: @Polistra
    @J.Ross

    They've taken extra special care to assign immunity to themselves. They've also assigned it to their schvartze pets, but that's just while they remain useful.

  29. @HammerJack
    Not sure if this is related, but (like all of America's Ruling Class) the WSJ loves seeing Elon get humiliated. CEOs need to be in shape nowadays.

    https://i.ibb.co/3h1BMHC/e273a685405d93c0ec89f4c855b28aeb36cf92a4.jpg

    https://archive.ph/mXs9S

    Replies: @Henry's Cat, @Buzz Mohawk

    Grimes doesn’t seem to care. Besides, Musk did the same thing to Bill Gates. Live by the sword, die by the sword — and in this case, it just doesn’t matter.

  30. That is one impressive Freakshow.

  31. @FPD72
    So Martine Rothblatt as Joan Eunice Smith? Rothblatt has remained married to his wife, whereas Smith married a man, but other than that, there do seem to be numerous points of correspondence.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Muggles

    I for one don’t get iSteve’s essay title.

    Though I am familiar with Heinlein (decades ago) I don’t get it.

    This person used to be a man? Did Heinlein write about xenotransplantation?

    This “woman” or woman seems highly successful regardless.

    I’m not sure you need to drag Heinlein into this. “Starship Troopers” was bad enough…

    There are a few M-to-F trans folks who seem to be highly successful in their careers. Weird and crazy perhaps, but successful. I don’t think the trans part has anything to do with being successful.

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @Muggles


    I for one don’t get iSteve’s essay title.
     
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/more-than-i-care-to-know-about-martine-luther-queen-highest-paid-female-ceo/

    As I’ve mentioned before, I went to UCLA MBA school in the early 1980s with a guy named Martin Rothblatt *, who now tops the list of highest paid “women” CEOs in America under the name Martine Rothblatt. He was a space exploration aficionado who went on to found Sirius satellite radio.

    Now New York magazine has perhaps more than you care to know about the executive whom Howard Stern calls Martine Luther Queen.

    One thing that’s pretty clear is that part of the ongoing World War T irruption stems from science fiction fans like Rothblatt and Larry/Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) who are into sci-fi ideologies like transhumanism that reject any limits on the superior individual’s aspirations, even limits like sex and death:

    [...]
    You can see the roots of these kind of ideas in old sci-fi novels, like Heinlein’s. Scientology is one offshoot of sci-fi, and this kind of thing is another.
     

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-heinlein-hero-strikes-again/

    As I may have mentioned once or twice, he was the most arrogant man at the UCLA MBA school. On the other hand, he had a lot to be arrogant about. When he told me he was going to make a fortune in outer space, I didn’t believe anybody could. But he did it.

    Basically, he’s lived the life of a hero from a Robert Heinlein science fiction story: make a fortune in outer space, make a second fortune saving a child you fathered by inventing the cure for her disease, change sex, start a cult, live forever, etc.

    [...]
    Heinlein was a combination of all-American regular guy and freakazoid. For example, ever since youth, he’d had solipsistic feelings that he was … well, God. Solipsisim tied into some of his other strange interests, like incest (the main subject of Time Enough For Love) because you don’t have to share your family tree with so many plebian ancestors.

    Thus Heinlein’s jaw-dropping 1959 transgenderist short story All You Zombies posits that with the assistance of a time machine and a sex change operation, you, personally, could be all of your own ancestors (and descendants).
     

    And "Ex-Man" is a play on the name of the sci-fi comic mutants:


    https://cdn.britannica.com/16/224016-050-80983C00/2007-Commemorative-USPS-stamp-Marvel-X-Men-September-1963.jpg

    Replies: @Polistra

    , @Brutusale
    @Muggles

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil

  32. @Anon

    preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

     

    This changes everything!

    Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

     

    Remind me, did Dr Rothblatt have her feminine dick cut off? If so, fairly well done for a eunuch.

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I'm afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days. Could Rothblatt mayhap provide a sophisticated best-practice ethical argument for turning young girls and boys into surgical monsters?

    From what I can see, the RLSMD is actually part of Queen Mary since about 30 years. Ranked 10th among med schools in the UK these days, after e.g. University of Bristol.

    Queen Mary and Westfield College formally merged with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1995, creating our current medical and dental faculty.

     

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/extended-history/barts/

    Let me recommend that Steve reviews that most recent book on AI and sheeeiiit so we can see if it's any good.

    Finally, what you've been waiting for: Martine and her black wife.

    https://awiderbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Martine-bina-Featured-1.jpg

    Replies: @clifford brown, @Mr. Anon, @Jus' Sayin'..., @Wokechoke

    Here he is with his hair down: https://www.lifenaut.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/martine-rothblatt-2018.tiff. Basically he is a man with mental disorder, a paraphilia , who is so poisoned by testosterone that he is impelled to force others into pretenses supporting that disorder. That he is a coal burner is just further evidence of his disordered mind. I suspect that his various mental aberrations are ultimately genetic, traits more common among Ashkenazi Jews than they are among other American ethnic/racial groups.

    Two themes that run through Heinlein’s work, almost from the beginning are a fascination with being or becoming a woman and a fascination with the possibility of extremely long life/immortality. Heinlein’s fans have often argued that the former fascination is an indicator of a deep sympathy with women. I’ve always suspected that it is actually an indicator of autogynephilia, although it is only recently that I’ve been able to attach a name to my suspicions. I’ve also suspected that Heinlein’s fascination with immortality resulted from a repressed, deep seated, morbid fear of death. In a graduation speech, which he gave at Annapolis, Heinlein made a passing and mocking reference to Samuel Johnson’s well known fear of death. There seemed to me to be a lot of Freudian projection in that comment.

    I still think Heinlein was a good and noteworthy man but even great men have their flaws.

  33. Gerberding is Peoples Exhibit A about the toxic nexus between Big Government and Big Pharma. She did Big Pharma’s bidding while at the CDC and was rewarded with a plum position at Merck. She has also been busy pushing the mRNA vaccines because you can’t have herd immunity unless everyone is vaccinated (an MD who doesn’t know that herd immunity can be had via natural infection). I’m just kidding about that; she knows full well herd immunity can be reached that way but you can’t force experimental vaccines on people if they know that.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Dutch Boy


    Gerberding is Peoples Exhibit A about the toxic nexus between Big Government and Big Pharma. She did Big Pharma’s bidding while at the CDC and was rewarded with a plum position at Merck.
     
    Another one is Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner who was routinely featured in the media (all channels) as an expert, and yet none of them bothered to mention that he is a (no-doubt generously compensated) board member of Pfizer.
  34. Rothblatt’s “sisters” at a Pride event this weekend in Dresden Germany.

    1) These ex-men really are aggressively nasty towards women.

    2) Of course, the post is in English, EVERYTHING is for American consumption.

    3) The gays already have the entire month of June for “Pride”, but you notice that Pride events continue to pop up all summer long, and beyond. Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue, like the rest of us?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb0wSbeWAAA0oCt?format=jpg&name=small

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Daniel H


    3) The gays already have the entire month of June for “Pride”, but you notice that Pride events continue to pop up all summer long, and beyond. Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue, like the rest of us?
     
    The more shameful they are, the more pride they claim.
    , @Curle
    @Daniel H

    “Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue”

    Let’s start Confederate Pride week and find out!

  35. @Dutch Boy
    Gerberding is Peoples Exhibit A about the toxic nexus between Big Government and Big Pharma. She did Big Pharma's bidding while at the CDC and was rewarded with a plum position at Merck. She has also been busy pushing the mRNA vaccines because you can't have herd immunity unless everyone is vaccinated (an MD who doesn't know that herd immunity can be had via natural infection). I'm just kidding about that; she knows full well herd immunity can be reached that way but you can't force experimental vaccines on people if they know that.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Gerberding is Peoples Exhibit A about the toxic nexus between Big Government and Big Pharma. She did Big Pharma’s bidding while at the CDC and was rewarded with a plum position at Merck.

    Another one is Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner who was routinely featured in the media (all channels) as an expert, and yet none of them bothered to mention that he is a (no-doubt generously compensated) board member of Pfizer.

  36. @bomag
    @ic1000

    Thanks.


    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices...
     
    I've noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.

    Replies: @LP5, @Mr. Anon

    I’ve noticed NPR reporters are adding audible gasps when informed of the latest complaints against Trump. I suppose, in their world, one must be sure to show proper enthusiasm for the approved political concerns of the day.

    Is there a single man on NPR who sounds like he has any testosterone left in his system? They all sound like soy-boys or nancy-boys. The women either sound like butch lesbians or giggling teenagers.

  37. @Daniel H
    Rothblatt's "sisters" at a Pride event this weekend in Dresden Germany.

    1) These ex-men really are aggressively nasty towards women.

    2) Of course, the post is in English, EVERYTHING is for American consumption.

    3) The gays already have the entire month of June for "Pride", but you notice that Pride events continue to pop up all summer long, and beyond. Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue, like the rest of us?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb0wSbeWAAA0oCt?format=jpg&name=small

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Curle

    3) The gays already have the entire month of June for “Pride”, but you notice that Pride events continue to pop up all summer long, and beyond. Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue, like the rest of us?

    The more shameful they are, the more pride they claim.

  38. A few years ago I spotted this on the cover of a paperback in a second-hand bookshop and took a note, thinking it might be worth sharing.

    A man’s mind transplanted into a woman’s body. That is the incredible idea behind one of Heinlein’s most inspired novels to date. Mind versus body. Masculine desires versus feminine appeal. And soul versus soul, for the woman’s soul remains locked in her body.

    The novel was Heinlein’s I Will Fear no Evil (1971) in a paperback reprint of 1981.

  39. @Muggles
    @FPD72

    I for one don't get iSteve's essay title.

    Though I am familiar with Heinlein (decades ago) I don't get it.

    This person used to be a man? Did Heinlein write about xenotransplantation?

    This "woman" or woman seems highly successful regardless.

    I'm not sure you need to drag Heinlein into this. "Starship Troopers" was bad enough...

    There are a few M-to-F trans folks who seem to be highly successful in their careers. Weird and crazy perhaps, but successful. I don't think the trans part has anything to do with being successful.

    Replies: @MEH 0910, @Brutusale

    I for one don’t get iSteve’s essay title.

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/more-than-i-care-to-know-about-martine-luther-queen-highest-paid-female-ceo/

    As I’ve mentioned before, I went to UCLA MBA school in the early 1980s with a guy named Martin Rothblatt *, who now tops the list of highest paid “women” CEOs in America under the name Martine Rothblatt. He was a space exploration aficionado who went on to found Sirius satellite radio.

    Now New York magazine has perhaps more than you care to know about the executive whom Howard Stern calls Martine Luther Queen.

    One thing that’s pretty clear is that part of the ongoing World War T irruption stems from science fiction fans like Rothblatt and Larry/Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) who are into sci-fi ideologies like transhumanism that reject any limits on the superior individual’s aspirations, even limits like sex and death:

    […]
    You can see the roots of these kind of ideas in old sci-fi novels, like Heinlein’s. Scientology is one offshoot of sci-fi, and this kind of thing is another.

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-heinlein-hero-strikes-again/

    As I may have mentioned once or twice, he was the most arrogant man at the UCLA MBA school. On the other hand, he had a lot to be arrogant about. When he told me he was going to make a fortune in outer space, I didn’t believe anybody could. But he did it.

    Basically, he’s lived the life of a hero from a Robert Heinlein science fiction story: make a fortune in outer space, make a second fortune saving a child you fathered by inventing the cure for her disease, change sex, start a cult, live forever, etc.

    […]
    Heinlein was a combination of all-American regular guy and freakazoid. For example, ever since youth, he’d had solipsistic feelings that he was … well, God. Solipsisim tied into some of his other strange interests, like incest (the main subject of Time Enough For Love) because you don’t have to share your family tree with so many plebian ancestors.

    Thus Heinlein’s jaw-dropping 1959 transgenderist short story All You Zombies posits that with the assistance of a time machine and a sex change operation, you, personally, could be all of your own ancestors (and descendants).

    And “Ex-Man” is a play on the name of the sci-fi comic mutants:

    • Replies: @Polistra
    @MEH 0910

    Heinlein's Wakanda

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%27s_Freehold

    Never even heard of this story before.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  40. @Daniel H
    Rothblatt's "sisters" at a Pride event this weekend in Dresden Germany.

    1) These ex-men really are aggressively nasty towards women.

    2) Of course, the post is in English, EVERYTHING is for American consumption.

    3) The gays already have the entire month of June for "Pride", but you notice that Pride events continue to pop up all summer long, and beyond. Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue, like the rest of us?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb0wSbeWAAA0oCt?format=jpg&name=small

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Curle

    “Will the woke world ever get Pride fatigue”

    Let’s start Confederate Pride week and find out!

    • LOL: kaganovitch, Rob McX
  41. @J.Ross
    We are living at a time when almost every major life-ending child-torturing war-prolonging problem really objectively does go back to one (1) group of people -- and nobody's targeting them.

    Replies: @Polistra

    They’ve taken extra special care to assign immunity to themselves. They’ve also assigned it to their schvartze pets, but that’s just while they remain useful.

  42. @MEH 0910
    @Muggles


    I for one don’t get iSteve’s essay title.
     
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/more-than-i-care-to-know-about-martine-luther-queen-highest-paid-female-ceo/

    As I’ve mentioned before, I went to UCLA MBA school in the early 1980s with a guy named Martin Rothblatt *, who now tops the list of highest paid “women” CEOs in America under the name Martine Rothblatt. He was a space exploration aficionado who went on to found Sirius satellite radio.

    Now New York magazine has perhaps more than you care to know about the executive whom Howard Stern calls Martine Luther Queen.

    One thing that’s pretty clear is that part of the ongoing World War T irruption stems from science fiction fans like Rothblatt and Larry/Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) who are into sci-fi ideologies like transhumanism that reject any limits on the superior individual’s aspirations, even limits like sex and death:

    [...]
    You can see the roots of these kind of ideas in old sci-fi novels, like Heinlein’s. Scientology is one offshoot of sci-fi, and this kind of thing is another.
     

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-heinlein-hero-strikes-again/

    As I may have mentioned once or twice, he was the most arrogant man at the UCLA MBA school. On the other hand, he had a lot to be arrogant about. When he told me he was going to make a fortune in outer space, I didn’t believe anybody could. But he did it.

    Basically, he’s lived the life of a hero from a Robert Heinlein science fiction story: make a fortune in outer space, make a second fortune saving a child you fathered by inventing the cure for her disease, change sex, start a cult, live forever, etc.

    [...]
    Heinlein was a combination of all-American regular guy and freakazoid. For example, ever since youth, he’d had solipsistic feelings that he was … well, God. Solipsisim tied into some of his other strange interests, like incest (the main subject of Time Enough For Love) because you don’t have to share your family tree with so many plebian ancestors.

    Thus Heinlein’s jaw-dropping 1959 transgenderist short story All You Zombies posits that with the assistance of a time machine and a sex change operation, you, personally, could be all of your own ancestors (and descendants).
     

    And "Ex-Man" is a play on the name of the sci-fi comic mutants:


    https://cdn.britannica.com/16/224016-050-80983C00/2007-Commemorative-USPS-stamp-Marvel-X-Men-September-1963.jpg

    Replies: @Polistra

    Heinlein’s Wakanda

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%27s_Freehold

    Never even heard of this story before.

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @Polistra

    Lion of the Blogosphere reviewed it:

    https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/farnhams-freehold-review/

  43. @Polistra
    @MEH 0910

    Heinlein's Wakanda

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%27s_Freehold

    Never even heard of this story before.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    • Thanks: Polistra
  44. @Anon

    preclinical development of manufactured kidneys, hearts and lungs to be delivered via autonomously flown electric vertical takeoff and landing systems.

     

    This changes everything!

    Dr. Rothblatt earned her doctoral degree in medical ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to that, she earned her law and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal — its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books. Her most recent book pertains to artificial cognition and cyberconsciousness.

     

    Remind me, did Dr Rothblatt have her feminine dick cut off? If so, fairly well done for a eunuch.

    Having a PhD in medical ethics is, I'm afraid, on the tier of human rights lawyer, particularly these days. Could Rothblatt mayhap provide a sophisticated best-practice ethical argument for turning young girls and boys into surgical monsters?

    From what I can see, the RLSMD is actually part of Queen Mary since about 30 years. Ranked 10th among med schools in the UK these days, after e.g. University of Bristol.

    Queen Mary and Westfield College formally merged with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1995, creating our current medical and dental faculty.

     

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/extended-history/barts/

    Let me recommend that Steve reviews that most recent book on AI and sheeeiiit so we can see if it's any good.

    Finally, what you've been waiting for: Martine and her black wife.

    https://awiderbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Martine-bina-Featured-1.jpg

    Replies: @clifford brown, @Mr. Anon, @Jus' Sayin'..., @Wokechoke

    His wife…..? She looks like Robert Mugabe.

  45. Ex-men… speaking of which, I see that “The Wing”, a feminist co-working office space business, has gone belly up, mostly due to pandemic work style changes, but also had a lot of criticism from trannies and blacks. $100 million of investment funding had been raised. Great to see a woke org crash.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Mike_from_SGV


    Ex-men… speaking of which, I see that “The Wing”, a feminist co-working office space business, has gone belly up, mostly due to pandemic work style changes, but also had a lot of criticism from trannies and blacks.
     
    What was the criticism?
  46. It’s “Mayo Clinic”. No “the”. The the, (or a the, whatever) flags you as out-of-the-loop.

    Okay, that’s enough articling for now…

    • Replies: @Polistra
    @Reg Cæsar

    When it comes to medical clinics, the ones who are "out of the loop" are the lucky ones.

  47. @Muggles
    @FPD72

    I for one don't get iSteve's essay title.

    Though I am familiar with Heinlein (decades ago) I don't get it.

    This person used to be a man? Did Heinlein write about xenotransplantation?

    This "woman" or woman seems highly successful regardless.

    I'm not sure you need to drag Heinlein into this. "Starship Troopers" was bad enough...

    There are a few M-to-F trans folks who seem to be highly successful in their careers. Weird and crazy perhaps, but successful. I don't think the trans part has anything to do with being successful.

    Replies: @MEH 0910, @Brutusale

  48. @Mike_from_SGV
    Ex-men... speaking of which, I see that "The Wing", a feminist co-working office space business, has gone belly up, mostly due to pandemic work style changes, but also had a lot of criticism from trannies and blacks. $100 million of investment funding had been raised. Great to see a woke org crash.

    Replies: @Anon

    Ex-men… speaking of which, I see that “The Wing”, a feminist co-working office space business, has gone belly up, mostly due to pandemic work style changes, but also had a lot of criticism from trannies and blacks.

    What was the criticism?

  49. anon[499] • Disclaimer says:

    All Rothblatt’s efforts amount to typical Jewish thumbing the scales and theft of ideas, including the borrowed drugs of marginal extra benefit to PH. As Steve has pointed out, it’s much easier to win the race in the Tranny category than the Man category. Just to join the former is to stamp ‘Loser’ on one’s forehead.

    Rothblatt is ultimately just another warped and perverted Jew, and that will eventually be history’s judgement of him.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @anon

    The guy's child was dying of an incurable disease, so he read up on medicine for the first time in his life (as far as I know) and then ... he invented the cure.

    Have you done that?

  50. As ex-men go this one seems to have produced more positive contributions than most.

  51. @Reg Cæsar
    It's "Mayo Clinic". No "the". The the, (or a the, whatever) flags you as out-of-the-loop.

    Okay, that's enough articling for now...

    Replies: @Polistra

    When it comes to medical clinics, the ones who are “out of the loop” are the lucky ones.


  52. https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/xenotransplantation-pigs-heart-kidney-donor-virus.html
    https://archive.ph/FmAZa

    […]
    But Bennett, the Baltimore patient who briefly lived with a pig heart, still got pCMV. His pig was screened four separate times before transplantation via nasal swab and PCR, testing negative for the virus every single time. What Bennett’s surgeon Bartley Griffith thinks may have happened is that the pig had a dormant pCMV infection that “hitched a ride” via the donor heart and reactivated in Bennett’s immunosuppressed body. Griffith’s team successfully treated the infection, but it was too late—the virus had likely already done too much damage to Bennett’s heart. “We won the battle, lost the war,” Griffith said.

    However, losing this war signals trouble for the pig-organ dream. Every xenotransplantation expert I spoke to was surprised that Bennett was infected with a pig virus. For twenty years, it’s been known that you need to get rid of pCMV to make pig-heart transplants possible, and the protocol for raising pigs has the express purpose of ensuring a clean donor. So, Bennett’s infection by pCMV is not only baffling but also alarming, to say the least. When speaking to The New York Times, Griffith nonetheless predicted, “Knowing it was there, we’ll probably be able to avoid it in future.”

    Still, the difficulty of ensuring a clean pig reveals how the road ahead may still be winding and uncertain. We don’t know what pig we should be using. We don’t know whether pig hearts can sustain humans long-term. We don’t know what we don’t know.

    After all, if the patient got infected with pCMV of all things, despite the precautions, then, Curtis asked, “what else could possibly happen?”

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @MEH 0910

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/04/1051725/xenotransplant-patient-died-received-heart-infected-with-pig-virus/

    https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/june-2022/study-sheds-light-on-death-of-pig-heart-transplant-patient.php

  53. @MEH 0910
    https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1564550425965215744
    https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/xenotransplantation-pigs-heart-kidney-donor-virus.html
    https://archive.ph/FmAZa

    [...]
    But Bennett, the Baltimore patient who briefly lived with a pig heart, still got pCMV. His pig was screened four separate times before transplantation via nasal swab and PCR, testing negative for the virus every single time. What Bennett’s surgeon Bartley Griffith thinks may have happened is that the pig had a dormant pCMV infection that “hitched a ride” via the donor heart and reactivated in Bennett’s immunosuppressed body. Griffith’s team successfully treated the infection, but it was too late—the virus had likely already done too much damage to Bennett’s heart. “We won the battle, lost the war,” Griffith said.

    However, losing this war signals trouble for the pig-organ dream. Every xenotransplantation expert I spoke to was surprised that Bennett was infected with a pig virus. For twenty years, it’s been known that you need to get rid of pCMV to make pig-heart transplants possible, and the protocol for raising pigs has the express purpose of ensuring a clean donor. So, Bennett’s infection by pCMV is not only baffling but also alarming, to say the least. When speaking to The New York Times, Griffith nonetheless predicted, “Knowing it was there, we’ll probably be able to avoid it in future.”

    Still, the difficulty of ensuring a clean pig reveals how the road ahead may still be winding and uncertain. We don’t know what pig we should be using. We don’t know whether pig hearts can sustain humans long-term. We don’t know what we don’t know.

    After all, if the patient got infected with pCMV of all things, despite the precautions, then, Curtis asked, “what else could possibly happen?”
     

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  54. @ic1000
    @clifford brown

    If it's okay with you, I'll file that creepy Bloomberg segment on the AI-infused animatronic head of Martine Rothblatt's wife under "Uncanny Valley."

    In between her softball questions to Dr. Rothblatt, perky blonde reporter Olivia Sterns Walton gives her plenty of doe-eyed looks. Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult.

    I guess adulation aligns nicely with Current Year journalistic practices, so long as the right people (married into that Walton family) are offering it to the right people.

    Replies: @bomag, @BB753

    “Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult.”

    Not so fast! :
    “She [ Martine Rothblatt] founded a religion, the Terasem Movement, which puts together her cultural Judaism (she puts on a mean seder), Zen-like yoga and a deep belief in technology. One of the four founding beliefs: “Death is optional.””

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/martine-rothblatt-she-founded-siriusxm-a-religion-and-a-biotech-for-starters/2014/12/11/5a8a4866-71ab-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

    • Thanks: MEH 0910
    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @BB753

    https://twitter.com/gabeisgreat/status/1083386891012059136

    https://terasemmovementfoundation.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement#Terasem_Movement_Foundation,_Inc.


    World Against Racism Museum - an online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism, and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.
     

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  55. @BB753
    @ic1000

    "Luckily, the billionaire is the head of a company, not a cult."

    Not so fast! :
    "She [ Martine Rothblatt] founded a religion, the Terasem Movement, which puts together her cultural Judaism (she puts on a mean seder), Zen-like yoga and a deep belief in technology. One of the four founding beliefs: “Death is optional.”"

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/martine-rothblatt-she-founded-siriusxm-a-religion-and-a-biotech-for-starters/2014/12/11/5a8a4866-71ab-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    https://terasemmovementfoundation.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement

    [MORE]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement#Terasem_Movement_Foundation,_Inc.

    World Against Racism Museum – an online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism, and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @MEH 0910

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement#Terasem_Movement_Foundation,_Inc


    World Against Racism Museum - an online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism, and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.
     
    https://www.endracism.org/

    View our current exhibits below…
    Forms of Racism
    Genism
    Global Racism Acts
    Questions on Racism
    Maze of Lost Souls
    Pseudo-Science
    Towards a Brighter Tomorrow
    Walls of Racism
    Fleshism
    History of Racism
     
    https://www.endracism.org/about

    The World Against Racism Museum will educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race,the ignorance behind racism and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.

    The Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF) is a 501(c) non-profit organization working for a world that values diversity and is sponsoring a memorial museum to honor the memory of those millions of persons whose lives were stolen or irrevocably scarred by racism.

    In this way, the TMF hopes to help lead the way to a brighter tomorrow.
     
    https://www.endracism.org/blog
  56. Transhumanist types are the scum of the earth! And these freaks want to live forever, lol! Now, some people people might like theur motto: “Death is optional.” as a replacement for their “keep out, private property! ” signs.

  57. @MEH 0910
    @BB753

    https://twitter.com/gabeisgreat/status/1083386891012059136

    https://terasemmovementfoundation.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement#Terasem_Movement_Foundation,_Inc.


    World Against Racism Museum - an online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism, and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.
     

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement#Terasem_Movement_Foundation,_Inc

    World Against Racism Museum – an online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism, and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.

    https://www.endracism.org/

    View our current exhibits below…
    Forms of Racism
    Genism
    Global Racism Acts
    Questions on Racism
    Maze of Lost Souls
    Pseudo-Science
    Towards a Brighter Tomorrow
    Walls of Racism
    Fleshism
    History of Racism

    https://www.endracism.org/about

    The World Against Racism Museum will educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race,the ignorance behind racism and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories.

    The Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF) is a 501(c) non-profit organization working for a world that values diversity and is sponsoring a memorial museum to honor the memory of those millions of persons whose lives were stolen or irrevocably scarred by racism.

    In this way, the TMF hopes to help lead the way to a brighter tomorrow.

    https://www.endracism.org/blog

  58. @anon
    All Rothblatt's efforts amount to typical Jewish thumbing the scales and theft of ideas, including the borrowed drugs of marginal extra benefit to PH. As Steve has pointed out, it's much easier to win the race in the Tranny category than the Man category. Just to join the former is to stamp 'Loser' on one's forehead.

    Rothblatt is ultimately just another warped and perverted Jew, and that will eventually be history's judgement of him.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    The guy’s child was dying of an incurable disease, so he read up on medicine for the first time in his life (as far as I know) and then … he invented the cure.

    Have you done that?

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