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China cracks down after research papers investigation finds massive peer-review fraud

Dennis Normile
Science
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:30 UTC
Retracted articles
© Emily Petersen
A massive peer-review fraud has triggered a tough response from the Chinese government. Officials last week announced that more than 400 researchers listed as authors on some 100 now-retracted papers will face disciplinary action because their misconduct has seriously damaged China's scientific reputation.

Some institutions have barred the scientists linked to the fraud from pursuing their research - at least temporarily. And they have imposed other penalties, including canceling promotions, honors, and grants. Government ministries have also announced new "zero tolerance" policies aimed at stamping out research fraud. "We should eradicate the problem from its roots," said He Defang, director of the Ministry of Science and Technology's (MOST's) regulatory division in Beijing.

Although China has previously cracked down on scientific misconduct - a chronic problem - these penalties "are the harshest ever," says Chen Bikun, an information scientist at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China who tracks trends in scientific publishing.
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With meat consumption soaring, small butcher shops in a 'renaissance' as people seek healthier meats sans antibiotics and hormones

Dylan Jackson
Miami Herald
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:25 UTC
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© C.M. GUERREROVinnie 'The Butcher' Covillo displays the fresh cut steaks from Laurenzo's Italian Market in North Miami Beach on Friday, June 22, 2018.
Even when it falls on a Wednesday, the Fourth of July is a cause for rejoicing. And in spite of the onslaught of plant-based cuisine, burgers, ribs, steaks and bratwurst are standards on nearly every grill.

In fact, meat consumption is soaring to record levels - even though 12 percent of Americans ages 18 to 49 are partially vegan or vegetarian, according to a 2016 Pew Research Poll. This year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expecting each American to consume a record amount of red meat and poultry - an average of 222 pounds per person. That's 20 pounds more meat per person, per year, than in 2014.

Another change: where Americans are buying their meat. While many still drop into the nearest Publix or Walmart to snag their burgers and hotdogs, an increasing number of conscious eaters are going old school by shopping at carnicerias and specialty butcher shops.

Miami-Dade County is home to 34 butcher shops with a total of 279 employees, according to Census data for 2016. That's down from 45 in 2013 and 47 in 2010. (By comparison, there are 39 Publix markets in Miami-Dade alone.) Nationally, 10 percent of all butcher shops have closed since 2010.
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Propaganda

SOTT Focus: Trump's Supreme Court Nominee and the 'War on Gay Rights'

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:30 UTC
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© ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a rainbow flag with “LGBTs for TRUMP” written on it at a campaign rally in Greeley, Colorado, U.S. October 30, 2016
For all the hullabaloo regarding Trump's nomination for the Supreme Court, one would be forgiven for thinking that Dems actually care about law and order

While Lisa Page dodges a House-issued subpoena to testify before Congress, US media is up in arms over Trump's -shock- Congressional Supreme Court nominee. If we're to believe CNN, Trump's pick for the Supreme Court will, if confirmed, upend life as we know it. As that failing fake news garbage reported, "Women's rights, gay rights, voting rights, the right to use contraceptives -- so much of modern life -- could be upended."

Hyperbole aside, they're right about one thing: much of what passes for 'values' and 'culture' in modern life - better termed postmodern life - is taking a good, wholesome beating. The appointment of yet one more conservative on the Supreme Court is just the latest punch in the culture wars.
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Employee with concealed carry permit pulls gun on violent patron, ends situation immediately

Timothy Meads
Townhall
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
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Another day another thug with a penchant for picking the wrong woman to mess with comes face-to-face with a loaded gun. This time it occurred in Wisconsin at a restaurant when an employee utilized her second amendment rights and deterred an attacker from continuing to hurt her co-worker.

In a video that is circulating across Twitter, a man can be seen venturing back into the kitchen of a George Webb restaurant. The woman at the grill is clearly confused, when all of a sudden the man punches the worker in the face.

That is when her co-worker whips out a gun and points it at the attacker. The man moves towards the armed woman, but she holds her ground. He then leaves. The employee has a concealed carry permit and is allowed to carry the gun at work, according to local media.
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Amnesty International urges 'war crimes' probe into 'disappearances, torture' of Yemenis by UAE-backed forces


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:10 UTC
A prisoner
© Khaled Abdullah / ReutersA prisoner
Disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment of Yemeni detainees by UAE-backed Yemeni forces should be probed as war crimes, Amnesty International has urged. US detention-related abuses should also be probed, it said.

The Amnesty report, issued on Thursday, accuses the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemeni forces operating "outside the command of their own government," of multiple violations against detainees in the war-torn country.

"Scores" have been subjected to arrest and detention without charge, violent and humiliating torture, and enforced disappearances, the report says. Families are kept in the dark on the fate of their relatives, as "their requests are met with silence or intimidation," according to Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director at Amnesty International.

Comment: See also: UAE troops believed to torture, sexually abuse Yemeni detainees says UN Rights Office

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Stormy Daniels arrested at strip club for groping undercover police officers' breasts and buttocks


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:43 UTC
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In what her attorney has labelled a 'politically-motivated' sting Stormy Daniels has been arrested at an Ohio strip club for touching undercover officers' breasts and buttocks during a performance.

The former porn star, who is known for claiming she was paid hush money to keep quiet about an affair with President Donald Trump, was performing at the Sirens Gentlemen's Club in Columbus when she was arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Daniel's crime was touching patrons during her performance, some of whom were undercover cops. Ohio has an unusual law aimed at sexually-oriented businesses which prohibits both patrons and performers from touching one another.
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Debt collectors a world-wide scourge: Russian thugs threaten to infect borrowers' kids with AIDS


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:28 UTC
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© Evgeny Yepanchintsev / Sputnik
A Russian mother of three has filed a report to the police, saying that debt collectors threatened to infect her children with AIDS over her husband's 30,000-ruble (US$480) debt.

Since early July, the collectors have been bombarding the account of the borrower's wife, Irina Mulykhina, on social media with warnings if the debt isn't settled fast, she claims.

But they clearly crossed the line with one of their messages.
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Trump spiritual adviser raises eyebrows claiming illegal immigrant could not be the Messiah


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:31 UTC
nativity scene
© Henry Romero / Reuters
A US televangelist and spiritual adviser to the US president has defended the Trump administration's immigration clampdown, arguing that baby Jesus' stay in Egypt was legal, otherwise he wouldn't have been the savior of humanity.

Pastor Paula White, a Pentecostal evangelist who has been credited with converting President Trump to Christianity, made the eyebrow-raising argument in an interview with CBN News. When asked by the host, Erik Rosales, how the immigration controversy in the US corresponded to biblical teachings, Pastor Paula came up with this argument:

"I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a refugee'. Yes, He did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah."
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Cop who wouldn't help Puerto Rican woman being harassed for 'un-American' T-shirt has quit


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:16 UTC
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© Mia Irizarry / Facebook
A Chicago police officer has resigned a month after a video of him standing by while an elderly man harassed a Puerto Rican woman for her "un-American" T-shirt went viral.

Officer Patrick Connor of the Forest Preserves of Cook County Police Department resigned late Wednesday, and the police department say they are continuing to investigate the incident.

In a video filmed last month that recently went viral, Connor can be seen standing by while an irate man harasses Mia Irizarry, who is dressed in a tank top with the Puerto Rican flag on it.
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Teen charged with attempted murder for stabbing sleeping grandmother

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:13 UTC
Brandon Foster
© Orleans County Sheriff's OfficeBrandon Foster, 17, of Albion, Orleans County
A 17-year-old from Albion was charged with attempted murder Monday in connection with a violent attack on his grandmother.

Anger over an earlier dispute with his grandmother or the desire to steal money may have motivated Brandon Foster's actions, Orleans County Undersheriff Christopher Bourke said.

"There are some mental-health issues that play into it as well," he said.

Foster allegedly forced open a rear window of Rachael Spearance's home on Oak Orchard Road in the town of Albion late Sunday night. Spearance was asleep in her bed at the time, the Orleans County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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