From RS, re the China Spy Balloon: 

“I was excited to see my thoughts published in your ‘Readers Write’ section on Feb. 10, but dismayed to be dismissed as a conspiratorial loon. My hunch could certainly be wrong, but the truth behind these types of intel events can take years to come out (if ever). Let’s see where the data leads. I will investigate your original question about satellite vs. balloon surveillance.”

My Response: My dear RS, I didn’t dismiss you. You told me your theory. I told you mine. Still, I promise, I won’t mention it again.

Unless, of course, my theory turns out to be correct. In that case, I’ll not stop telling you I told you so!

More on Statins. GM sent in this excerpt from an article titled “The Medical Mafia MUST Be Destroyed” posted on The Market Ticker: 

“How about statins? That entire class of drugs and the billions extracted from people scared of having a heart attack, never mind all the scolding by physicians rests on the cholesterol hypothesis, which appears to have been disproved more than a decade ago. The hypothesis in fact dates to 1913 (!!) and a single study of rabbits. Problem: It didn’t generalize when it was repeated in other mammals. Then Ancel Keys put forward an observation that higher serum cholesterol correlated with heart disease but he cherry-picked the nations in which he observed the correlation – six out of twenty-two. If you instead looked at the data from all of the nations there was no correlation. His study was clearly an intentional fraud. We next had the infamous Framingham study, which found somewhat-elevated cholesterol in men who had a heart attack. Aha, you say. Except – 30 years later the follow-up on that study was ignored – it found that in men 50+ there was no correlation between high cholesterol and death and in women none whatsoever irrespective of age. Worse, the follow-up found an inverse all-cause mortality increase with DECREASING cholesterol! That’s right – the follow-up, which is always of course superior since time is the best judge, found that higher serum cholesterol was either protective or the drug(s) used to lower cholesterol were poisons.

“How many people know this, even today? Few. You still hear this mantra, ‘medical advice’ and the prescription pads and pharmacy counters dispense statins by the truckload even though the underlying hypothesis was conclusively debunked more than a decade ago. How many billions of dollars were and are extracted from people on what appears, from all the evidence, to be a worthless intervention that, as with all drugs, carries risk of adverse effects and which was trivially proved to be predicated on an intentional falsehood by Keys – all you had to do was look at all twenty-two nations from which he originally collected the data.”

Click here to read the entire article.