[FRIAM] Political tangents

[Marcus Daniels]

If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, then perhaps the demographics that tend to have big families will be afraid to have children due to Zika as they won't be able to afford the vaccine?   And in turn their voting base will collapse?   Exciting biology research funding opportunities by left-leaning Washington think tanks?   You've heard of the Oxitec mosquitoes, but did you know they have a _whole range_ of configurations?   Follow the money!  Hey, fake news is fun!

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ?
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 10:42 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Political tangents

It's still politics... but _way_ more interesting:

  Let Them Drink Blood
  https://tni-back-soon.github.io/essays/let-them-drink-blood/index.html

> Alexander Bogdanov, a cofounder of the Bolshevik party and Lenin's one-time rival, was a particularly Thielian figure in the group. In 1905, Bogdanov wrote the science fiction novel Red Star, depicting a communist society on Mars where parabiosis was practiced as a form of mutual aid. Two decades after writing Red Star, Bogdanov founded the State Institute for Haematology and Blood Transfusions. He subjected himself to these transfusions, and died from a botched trial--a fitting metaphor for a revolutionary killed by his own "fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous power of their social sciences." 


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☣ glen

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