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2026-05-12 Science & Technology

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Posted by NN2N1 2026-05-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1811 views ] Top

1 NYP - DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad

Posted by Besoeker 2026-05-12 00:54|| 2026-05-12 00:54|| Front Page Top

2 Cruise outbreak sparks coast-to-coast scramble to track hantavirus risk

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 05:08|| 2026-05-12 05:08|| Front Page Top

3 Why must we be burdened with Big Pharma financial outcomes and government subterfuge? Why can't we have more stories about extra-terrestrial life and alien encounters ?

Posted by Besoeker 2026-05-12 05:56|| 2026-05-12 05:56|| Front Page Top

4 It certainly seems that the Democrats are trying to re-create the conditions of the 2020 elections to affect the midterms.

They really do have a very limited playbook.

Posted by no mo uro 2026-05-12 06:17|| 2026-05-12 06:17|| Front Page Top

5 Tedros is a funny character. Tried to grab control too early. He doesn’t understand his cues. They needed more media build up.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-05-12 06:22|| 2026-05-12 06:22|| Front Page Top

6 Hantavirus and, literally, the Black Plague are endemic to the four corner area, CO, NM, AZ and UT (the Navajo reservation is in that region). Here's an old idea. Keep your cities clean and free of rodents (aka basic civilization).

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-05-12 06:54|| 2026-05-12 06:54|| Front Page Top

7 I'll worry about this as much as COVID, none. I don't sleep around rat shit. But I never saw a crack head die from COVID. Everyone wants all this healthcare, but it seems the more pills they shove down ppls throats the more things that are wrong with them.

Posted by chris 2026-05-12 07:30|| 2026-05-12 07:30|| Front Page Top

8 My understanding is that Patient Zero was a birdwatcher who visited a big-ass landfill in Argentina where he contracted the Andes hantavirus strain. So bioweapon, no.

Are the usual Big Pharma grifters and friends trying to get in the game? Of course.

Posted by SteveS 2026-05-12 07:52|| 2026-05-12 07:52|| Front Page Top

9

Remember we were told (the initial cover story) that the COVID-19, was caused by and OPEN AIR Chinese Food Market not a Bio-Lab.

So was it a landfill or the Bio-Lab next to it again? 🤔 🤫

Posted by NN2N1 2026-05-12 09:55|| 2026-05-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

10 Anything is a bioweapon if you use like one.

Posted by ed in texas 2026-05-12 10:30|| 2026-05-12 10:30|| Front Page Top

11 It certainly seems that the Democrats are trying to re-create the conditions of the 2020 elections to affect the midterms.

Cover for "mail in ballots".

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-05-12 10:48|| 2026-05-12 10:48|| Front Page Top

12 Why must we be burdened with Big Pharma financial outcomes and government subterfuge?

Alzheimer’s drugs slammed as ‘ineffective’ in major review, but critics push back

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 10:49|| 2026-05-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

13 Top WHO official warns cruise passengers are ‘high-risk contacts’ as Americans return from hantavirus ship

But little on Monkey Pox.
Odd.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 10:51|| 2026-05-12 10:51|| Front Page Top

14 Glen Beck show raised a good question. Given exterme rarety of this bug ... why did a curise have a testing kit?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-05-12 11:20|| 2026-05-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

15 Plague is a bacterial disease. Hantavirus is a virus, the name should give a clue.
What's next, Rocky Mountain Spotted fever was a bio-weapon too? And Trump is about to unveil the secret lizardmen who have been running the world and Lord Rothschild really is one and then he flys off in his UFO which makes 90 degree turns at high speed?
Alex Jones and the KKK have better conspiracy theories.

Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-12 11:49|| 2026-05-12 11:49|| Front Page Top

16
Hell, even The X Files had better conspiracy theories!"
Mulder addressed Hantavirus specifically. The 1990s called, they want their old TV shows back.

Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-12 12:23|| 2026-05-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

17 Plague is a bacterial disease. Hantavirus is a virus,

And in both cases, rodents are a significant vector in distribution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-05-12 12:26|| 2026-05-12 12:26|| Front Page Top

18 Gain-of-function research? What name have I heard associated with this term? What's Dr. Fauci been doing these days?

Posted by JohnQC 2026-05-12 15:53|| 2026-05-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

19 rodents are a significant vector in distribution

As are trolls.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 16:33|| 2026-05-12 16:33|| Front Page Top

20 Hey JQC! Thanks so much for turning me onto this site this many yrs ago is SW KS.

Posted by Everyday a Wildcat(KSU) 2026-05-12 19:08|| 2026-05-12 19:08|| Front Page Top

21 And in both cases, rodents are a significant vector in distribution.

Just so we are clear, when we say "rodents", we mean members of the Order Rodentia, not members of the Democratic Party.

Posted by SteveS 2026-05-12 20:35|| 2026-05-12 20:35|| Front Page Top

22 Hey JQC! Thanks so much for turning me onto this site

<3 And we’re so glad you followed up, Everyday a Wildcat.

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