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you need to put up a SUBSCRIBE button … xox

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many other authors’ articles are riddled with Subscribe buttons. Isn’t it drag and drop to inset?

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You think I should litter my articles with them too?

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They don’t ’litter’ their prose with Subscribe buttons for aesthetic reasons. Their reasoning involves putting some food on a table somewhere, providing for a family in some cases. Clothes for the children, that sort of thing.

However, as a reader, they are a nuisance. Especially If you already pay, you see the ad encouraging you to upgrade. Yes, the dreaded ‘upsell’. But those ads never drive people away.

If you are in this to share your work for free, then leave the buttons off. If you’d like to be paid, put the button in your articles. And don’t put the plea in your comment section because there is no button there. If your appeal convinced someone to buy there is no button to Subscribe here.

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Thanks. Button added! I actually didn't know there was an option to insert a button like that.

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who needs to know about college age binge drinking? tell them to hmu.

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Ah but you might not be a qualified expert unless you're bisexual

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on my bucket list 😝

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Your final question is exactly what I would pose to all of those with whom you spoke: "How much of your weekly earnings would you donate to some other researcher's study? What if you didn't believe in the topic/issue that were researching? Would that make a difference to whether or not you would fund it?"

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The drug used to induce labor is pitocin which is a synthetic form of a natural hormone, oxytocin. With rising rates of autism, every avenue that could affect a baby’s neurological health should be explored. I want my tax dollars to fund that and the FDA completely overhauled to exclude private pharmaceutical companies from meddling.

A lot of space has been given to some of the ridiculous things our government has been funding and focus taken away from the serious repercussions of defunding legitimate research.

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my second child was born by way of induced labour (because of a known medical complication involving his/mine blood serum). as far as I can tell neither of us has suffered an adverse reaction. while the procedure itself was transparent and as easy-going as possible (although for me less pleasant than for the baby, I think), it has been applied for at least a century now. of course, anything that could affect a baby’s neurological health needs to be explored, but in my case this had more to do with my body than with the baby.

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They are concerned about their “pay day”. All of us are paying them, so why should government be their daddies, nobody asked us.

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Precisely the point that they don't seem to get.

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Amen!

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If so many scientists still think that Fauci is a national hero as far as the covid pandemic is concerned, there is very little hope to get on the same page any time soon.

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Dear God, that video is so hard to watch.

Thank you for taking the time to dive into that pool and chronicle the whole mess. You are a gem.

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I def want to keep paying for the trans’ing of mice, although it’s a little too late for thousands of kids to find out exactly how cross-sex hormones affect longterm health.

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Let's fund a study on why even the alt media focuses on stupid small things instead of the central issues of corruption?

This whole DOGE thing is DOG SHIT.

Notice how they're not touching the single thing that wastes trillions and hasn't passed an audit, the Pentagon.

But whatever, argue over trans or whatever stupid distraction.

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I believe Trump proposed cutting the military in half. Everyone knows the military budget is insane. We’ll see if anything happens though.

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Billions have been wasted through USAID and NIH. I agree much bigger waste and corruption is in the war machine and other parts of government, but the whole machine needs to be dismantled - including these stupid "small" things that are still wasting billions in aggregate. And it's easier to wake people up with some of these indefensible programs.

Are you doing any work or making efforts to shine a light on the more important waste and corruption elsewhere? If you're going to complain about people in the arena, get off your ass and get involved.

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No, because the idiots in charge are there to distract us from the waste they profit off of.

Elon Musk and most of Congress profit off of the military industrial complex heavily.

I don't need to get off my ass to say this. Everyone knows the Pentagon and its contracts are a huge bloated mess. Even in the 80s they talked about 500$ toilet seats and hammers.

Now I ask you, how do you think Musk and others that profit off of the military intend to cut it?

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Reformation now!

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Definitely on induced labor. The fish study - I'd need more info. Seriously, most so-called studies cannot be replicated or verified, so I wonder if we, the taxpayers, should fund any of them. But I'm clearly anti-science, as I voted for Trump and am a big fan of RFK Jr.

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College age binge drinking research ... umm 🙃

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Hysterically written. I'm sort of beginning to wonder if a lesser known side-effect of these mRNAs might be insanity. Since the rollout of these deadly shots, more and more people seem downright psychotic. Weren't Israelis heavily vaccinated?

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This has been my complaint for decades. I worked in biomedical research for 35+years. I believe the bulk of the grant money is funding important research projects, but to be honest, I don’t know where all that money goes and is it actually going to some meaningful research?

I would like to see the grant review process to perhaps has an independent on the committees, who may not be a scientific expert, but is the one person there who says, can we do this for less money? Our institutional animal care and use committees (IACUC) require someone from the local community to have input on research. When I was part of this work, the questions that arose from our local participant were usually thoughtful and required the scientist to explain in comprehensive detail, why some part of the experimentation was necessary. Could we do something like this with our grant review boards?

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Sorry, I meant to type, ‘have’ and independent on the committees...

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Isn't it interesting that the common man has been thinking why do we borrow money to fund things that are so narrow.

Then all of a sudden, we find that there is a vast sea of people who feel the same.

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What about the reproducibility crisis? Or even fraud as in the manipulated images in the Alzheimers study on which all those drugs that don't work are based?

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"Question everything and get that shot!"

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