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Itâs Been A Banner Year For MAPS Public Benefit Corporation And The Women Leading It
One of the hottest topics of 2021 was psychedelics, and while many start-ups emerged in hopes of securing their spot in the burgeoning industry, the work of one corporation in the sector stood out from the rest.
In May, a long-awaited randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 3 clinical trial testing MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD was published in Nature Medicine. The trial was conducted by MAPS Public Benefit Corporation, a for-profit subsidiary launched by the registered non-profit in 2014, with the goal of conducting the necessary research to make MDMA a legally available medicine.
The Environmental Protection Agency stunned scientists and local officials across the country on Wednesday by releasing new health advisories for toxic "forever chemicals" known to be in thousands of U.S. drinking water systems, impacting potentially millions of people.
The new advisories cut the safe level of chemical PFOA by more than 17,000 times what the agency had previously said was protective of public health, to now just four "parts per quadrillion." The safe level of a sister chemical, PFOS, was reduced by a factor of 3,500. The chemicals are part of a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals due to their extreme resistance to disintegration. They have been linked to different types of cancer, low birthweights, thyroid disease and other health ailments.
A Delaware man who flew the Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was found guilty along with his son of the felony charge of obstruction during the storming of the building, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also found the father, Kevin Seefried, and son Hunter Seefried guilty of four misdemeanor offenses including entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.
"Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election," the Justice Department said in a statement.
McFadden acquitted Hunter Seefried of three other related charges.
The Seefrieds had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Kevin Seefried's lawyer, Eugene Ohm, did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Edson Bostic, Hunter's lawyer, was not immediately reachable for comment.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
www.dailymail.co.uk...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10921363/Tom-Hanks-seen-looking-gaunt-NYC-video-emerged-visibly-shaking-hand.html
edit on 16-6-2022 by FlyingFox because: Forgot one from yesterday...
originally posted by: Guyfriday
From: Yahoo News
The Environmental Protection Agency stunned scientists and local officials across the country on Wednesday by releasing new health advisories for toxic "forever chemicals" known to be in thousands of U.S. drinking water systems, impacting potentially millions of people.
The new advisories cut the safe level of chemical PFOA by more than 17,000 times what the agency had previously said was protective of public health, to now just four "parts per quadrillion." The safe level of a sister chemical, PFOS, was reduced by a factor of 3,500. The chemicals are part of a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals due to their extreme resistance to disintegration. They have been linked to different types of cancer, low birthweights, thyroid disease and other health ailments.
Now I can't remember if it was "KU" or one of the others that talked about drinking water not being safe, but I for one think that Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (See Dr. Strangelove) was on to something with his Vodka thing.
They claimed: "One of the female inmates in Ms Maxwell's housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep."
The investigation, based on documents from the island of Jersey, a U.K. Crown tax haven located in the English Channel, shows evidence of highly irregular trading activities in publicly listed U.S. companies, secret stock deals, and possible securities violations, while millions of dollars in payments moved through offshore companies to members of the Maxwell family. These transactions, some of which may have hurt public investors, have never before been reported.
The documents are part of a much larger trove of files from a now-defunct trust called La Hougue that was based on the island of Jersey. The massive find â 350,000 pages in all â was unearthed in 2012 in a locked, indoor squash court at St. Johnâs Manor, a sprawling 58-acre estate, by Tanya Dick-Stock and her husband, Darrin Stock. Tanyaâs father, John Dick, a Canadian lawyer who was listed in a document found in the trustâs files as La Hougueâs beneficial owner, lived in the Jersey manor where La Hougue was headquartered.
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Many of the La Hougue files have yet to be fully decoded and analyzed, as its top clients are rarely named and listed only as numbers to avoid exposing them. Ghislaine and Robert Maxwell are not directly named in the files, nor is Jeffrey Epstein, although it seems he may have had associates on the island.
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While the extent of the Maxwell familyâs byzantine financial world may never be fully exposed, when viewed alongside Ghislaineâs Maxwellâs finances in her sex-trafficking trial, the Maxwell papers show a decades-long modus operandi of financial deception.
Offshore leak exposes financial secrets of Ghislaine Maxwellâs family (paywall bypass)
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Guyfriday
I thought Russia election hacking made trusting the machines a bad choice.
Democrats need to make up their mind.
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
The Paxlovid flop.
So Paxlovid isn't effective at treating standard risk patients or as a post exposure prophylaxis, and is really only effective at treating high risk patients. It also has some very serious adverse drug interactions but then who cares. Then there's that rebound effect. shhh.
"Not every trial needs to work to be successful."
Pfizer knows the score so despite this they are expanding their Kalamazoo manufacturing facility to start mass production and everyone is excited because it will provide some jobs.
Bourla isn't worried "With up to 40-50% of people around the world estimated to be at high risk, we believe there remains a significant unmet need for treatment options."
This is a stretch that 50% of the world population is at serious risk of hospitalization and death from a mutated Covid virus. Of course Pfizer says that Paxlovid reduces Hosp/death by 89%.
The Biden administration ordered 20 million doses at $5.3 billion for a drug that has weak demand and now doesn't cover the majority of people. One would think that in the contract between Pfizer and the government there would be a provision that Pfizer would have to take back the drug and provide a refund if the drug does not work as expected.
I know. I am expecting too much but really...
www.statnews.com>2022/06/14>pfizers-paxl... Paxlovid study fails to answer questions over benefit...
www.pfizer.com>news>press-release-detail>p...
www.fiercepharma.com>manufacturing>pfize...www.fda.gov>press-announcements>coronav...
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: MetalThunder
Monkeypox = 98% gay men.
Maybe I'm just a pervert, but...
Certainly I'm not the only person wondering how at least 2 sexually-transmitted diseases (HIV and Monkeypox) managed to jump from monkey to humans, and seemingly infect mostly gay men initially.