Friday the Thirteenth for real!!
After four years of having the adults back in charge of the country, the rabies-infected, mouth-foaming toddlers are back in charge and the Toddler in Chief has put unqualified sycophants with barely two brain cells to rub together to generate a spark in nearly every cabinet position.
Look no further for proof of his monumental idiocy than the first article here on the gross misinformation he spouts on chronic diseases now versus when his uncle was president. He's dead wrong in his claims, but he also seems to have no ability for critical thinking in terms of how chronic diseases were tabulated: what does this data mean?
RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S.
Kennedy says the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has gone up 20 times in six decades. That makes no sense.
He’s said it enough that the figures have started to creep into search results of AI models on chronic diseases in the 1960s. Presumably that’s because Kennedy is now a Cabinet secretary and apparently is considered a voice of authority.
But this is one of those examples of how people (and computers) need to do some critical thinking when they hear statistics like this. John F. Kennedy was elected president 65 years ago. How were numbers collected back then? What were considered chronic diseases back then? Are they comparable to today?
Of course not. Kennedy should be ashamed of spreading misinformation, and interviewers should challenge him when he spouts stuff like this.
The Facts
Kennedy’s staff at HHS did not respond to our questions on his source for chronic diseases during his uncle’s presidency. It took some digging, but we finally found the National Health Interview Survey taken between July 1962 and June 1963. For all ages, the percentage of people (civilian, noninstitutional) reporting one or more chronic diseases was 44.5 percent.
That’s almost 15 times higher than 3 percent. For people 17 and under, the figure in the survey is 20.1 percent. That’s 10 times higher than the 2 percent Kennedy claimed in his confirmation hearings.
Still, you have to be careful with data so old. Standards and definitions change over time.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today offers this definition: “Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.” While many conditions considered chronic today are similar — such as hypertension and cancer — in the 1960s, deafness and missing fingers were also considered chronic. That’s not the case now.
At the same time, this is self-reported data. Sixty years ago, people were less likely to know if they had high blood pressure or cancer. Early cancer detection has significantly improved over the decades. For instance, modern mammography methods for breast cancer did not exist in Kennedy’s presidency, and mammograms were not officially recommended by the American Cancer Society until 1976.
One study, written in 1986 by one of the leading figures in the field of hypertension, found that “in the 1960s, at least half of the individuals with hypertension were unaware of their disease, and the blood pressures of fewer than 20 percent were controlled at normotensive levels. In contrast, in the 1980s, only a small percentage, perhaps as few as 10 or 15 percent of hypertensive patients, are unaware of their disease and, in many parts of the country, more than 60 percent are being treated to [reach target] blood pressure levels.”
Doctors also have made significant progress in wiping out some deadly diseases, saving countless lives. In 1960, the death rate from tuberculosis (another chronic disease) was 6.1 per 100,000 people (down from 45.9 in 1940). Now, it’s 0.2 per 100,000 people.
That also means that people are living longer — and if you live longer, you develop more chronic diseases.
Kennedy’s statistic for today — 60 percent — appears to come from a 2017 Rand study, using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The report found that, as of 2014, 60 percent of American adults had at least one chronic condition and 42 percent had more than one. (There appears to be no reliable source for Kennedy’s claim in his confirmation hearings that 66 percent of children today have chronic conditions. The 2022 National Survey of Children's Health found 41 percent of children had one or more of 25 “current or lifelong health conditions.”)
Christine Buttorff, a Rand policy researcher and co-author of the 2017 study, said that longer life leads to more chronic diseases in many ways.
“People live longer due to public health interventions such as vaccines, clean water and environment, and other advances that lower death rates from infectious diseases,” she said in an email. “Longer lifespans thus result in a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, though public health has contributed here too through things like tobacco cessation efforts and population safety measures like seat belts and air bags. Better detection raises the incidence of a disease which is also a factor, and improved medical technology has generated cures for some diseases or for people to live longer once diagnosed.”
As for why the United States has a higher level of chronic diseases than peer countries, she attributed that to factors such as education, income, lifestyle and the lack of access to preventative or primary health care.
“As life expectancy lengthens, we will generally see more people with chronic conditions,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president at KFF, a nonprofit health-policy organization. “We unfortunately tend to collect chronic conditions as we age, so the longer we live, the more chronic conditions we’ll have.”
In other words, this is another example of Kennedy taking a success story — longer lives and better detection of chronic diseases — to argue that something is rotten. He’s long been a purveyor of the fiction that vaccines cause autism, and one of his key points of evidence is that the percentage of people with autism has increased. But the percentage of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder has gone up mainly because of expanded definitions and better detection. There is no blood test for autism, so a diagnosis is based on observations of a person’s behavior. Indeed, while autism diagnoses have increased, those of intellectual disability have decreased, indicating that previously, children may have been misdiagnosed with other conditions.
The Pinocchio Test
Contrary to Kennedy’s claim, the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has not increased 20 times over the past six decades. A survey from 1962 puts the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases at 44.5 percent, not the absurdly low number of 3 percent touted by Kennedy.
Moreover, it’s foolhardy to make such comparisons over so many decades. The definition of chronic diseases has evolved. At the same time, detection has improved, so it’s also possible the 44.5 percent figure from the early 1960s is too low. Many people in the 1960s had undiagnosed cancer or high blood pressure that eventually killed them.
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
The U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health secretary, on Monday fired all 17 members of the advisory committee on immunization to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that the move would restore the public’s trust in vaccines.
About two-thirds of the panel had been appointed in the last year of the Biden administration, Mr. Kennedy pointed out in announcing his decision in an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal.
The C.D.C.’s vaccine advisers wield enormous influence. They carefully review data on vaccines, debate the evidence and vote on who should get the shots and when. Insurance companies and government programs like Medicaid are required to cover the vaccines recommended by the panel.
The committee was supposed to meet June 25 to 27. It’s unclear when the new members will be announced, but the meeting will proceed as planned, according to a statement posted by the Department of Health and Human Services.
This is the latest in a series of moves that Mr. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has made to dismantle decades of policy standards for immunizations. An advisory panel more closely aligned with Mr. Kennedy’s views has the potential to significantly alter — or even drop — the recommendations for immunizations to Americans, including childhood vaccinations.
The decision directly contradicts a promise Mr. Kennedy made to Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, during his confirmation hearings, when he said he would not alter the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
“Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion,” Senator Cassidy wrote on X.
“I don’t think there’s any way to put this, other than saying that this is an unmitigated public health disaster,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Far from restoring trust, the move will exacerbate mistrust in vaccines, Dr. O’Leary said. “Both parents and pediatricians are really confused by the actions right now, and this is only going to make things worse.”
He said the pediatric academy would continue to provide advice and recommendations for an immunization schedule.
Dr. Richard Besser, who served as acting director of the C.D.C. in 2009, said Mr. Kennedy’s decision was shocking and unsurprising at the same time.
“Secretary Kennedy has not hidden his anti-vaccine agenda,” Dr. Besser said. “He, more than anyone in our country, has worked to undermine people’s trust and confidence in vaccines.”
“With a refigured committee of like-minded individuals to the secretary, doctors, nurses, pharmacists who provide advice are going to be in big trouble,” he added.
In the column, Mr. Kennedy said he was “retiring” the members, and repeated his frequent criticism that the panel “has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest.”
“The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies,” he said. “This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.”
He wrongly said that most members of the committee had received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies.
The idea that committee members’ decisions are based on financial conflicts is “factually incorrect, and you can look at the record to see that,” said Dr. O’Leary, who serves as a liaison to the committee from the pediatric academy.
In fact, A.C.I.P. members are screened for major conflicts of interest, and they cannot hold stocks or serve on advisory boards or bureaus affiliated with vaccine manufacturers.
“Secretary Kennedy’s allegations about the integrity of C.D.C.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices are completely unfounded and will have a significant negative impact on Americans of all ages,” Dr. Tina Tan, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said in a statement.
“Unilaterally removing an entire panel of experts is reckless, shortsighted and severely harmful,” she said.
If A.C.I.P. members do have a conflict of interest — for example, if an institution at which they work receives money from a drug manufacturer — they disclose it and recuse themselves from related votes.
In his column, Mr. Kennedy claimed that 97 percent of financial disclosure forms from A.C.I.P. members had omissions. But the statistic came from an inspector general’s report in 2009, which found that 97 percent of the forms had errors, such as missing dates or information in the wrong section, not significant financial conflicts.
“I think R.F.K. Jr. is a conspiracy theorist, and that’s what this document is about,” said Dr. Paul Offit, who serves as an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.
“It’s about the undue influence from Big Pharma,” Dr. Offit said. “This is a message that he has been putting out there for the last 20 years.”
Mr. Kennedy also claimed that the panel worked in secret. “To make matters worse, the groups that inform A.C.I.P. meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust,” he wrote in The Journal’s opinion article.
While individual work groups may meet in private, the meetings of the committee, as well as materials presented to the members, are public. Members meet over several days, reviewing safety and effectiveness data on vaccines, debating policy and listening to experts as well as members of the public.
Under Mr. Kennedy’s leadership, the F.D.A. has narrowed availability of Covid vaccines to adults 65 and older and Americans with certain underlying conditions.
Mr. Kennedy later announced that the C.D.C. would no longer recommend the vaccines for healthy children or pregnant women, a decision that normally would have come from the agency’s A.C.I.P. (The C.D.C. then changed its recommendation for healthy children, requiring consultations with providers, but dropped it for pregnant women.)
These changes have thrown future insurance coverage for the shots into confusion, with scattered reports of pregnant women being turned away from pharmacies. Some experts were hoping that the A.C.I.P. meeting scheduled for late this month would clarify eligibility.
“If this leads to vaccines not being recommended, millions of people could lose access, pay more for vaccines and for preventable illnesses, and children will be at greater risk of diseases we haven’t faced in decades,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who was the C.D.C. director under President Barack Obama, said in a statement.
As head of the Health and Human Services Department, Mr. Kennedy has cut billions of dollars to state health agencies, including funds needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization.
He also oversees the National Institutes of Health, which halted funding for researchers who study vaccine hesitancy and canceled programs intended to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics.
The department has also ended work crucial to developing an H.I.V. vaccine and a contract for a vaccine against bird flu.
The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year eliminates funding for programs that provide lifesaving vaccines around the world, including immunizations for polio.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader from New York, condemned the decision to fire experts whose mission protected all Americans from disease.
“Wiping out an entire panel of vaccine experts doesn’t build trust — it shatters it, and worse, it sends a chilling message: that ideology matters more than evidence, and politics more than public health,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy does have the authority to add or remove members of the C.D.C. panel. Now, the Trump administration does not have to wait until 2028 to appoint a majority of new members, Mr. Kennedy wrote.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/kennedys-coalition-quacks-wants-feed-america-diet-lies
Kennedy’s Coalition of Quacks Wants to Feed America a Diet of Lies
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Donald Trump’s renewed tenancy in the White House, with anti-vaxxer-in-chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr whispering in his ear, promises more than just sneezes. It heralds the return of vaccine-preventable illnesses, which do not stop at the border.
The anti-science movement is mere months away from being sworn into office in the United States. During Trump’s interregnum, a flock of medical contrarians and wellness warriors has coalesced around the figure of RFK Jr, who has now been chosen by Trump as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in his upcoming administration. While neither crystal balls nor Tarot cards can predict the scope and extent of the damage we are about to witness to public health and trust in science, an examination of RFK Jr’s budding coalition reveals a dire situation. Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) has repeatedly been called a “cult” by the media. It certainly is a cult of personality. RFK Jr and his campaign riffed on the slogan, creating Make America Healthy Again or MAHA.
Kennedy himself should inspire consternation. He has been a leading figure of the modern anti-vaccine movement since 2005, when a psychologist ascribed her son’s autism on the mercury found in vaccines and dropped a stack of papers alleging this link on Kennedy’s front porch. An environmental lawyer familiar with mercury’s effect on the environment, Kennedy believed the link was real and began his vaccine-blaming crusade, which he is now taking to Washington. He founded the Children’s Health Defense, whose “TV channel” fuels fear and mistrust of science and institutions, and his visit to Samoa in 2019 was partly responsible for an outbreak of measles, which made 5,700 people sick and killed 83 of them. Most of the deaths were in young children. New Zealand shipped children’s coffins to Samoa to help with the shortage.
Kennedy’s virulent anti-vaccine messaging is now being sanewashed in the media in an attempt to bolster his reputation, but make no mistake. He does not want “safer vaccines;” he wants no vaccines at all. Much like the bailey at the foot of a medieval castle is harder to defend, Kennedy often retreats to the safer tower on the hill—the motte—when pushed. Among anti-vaxxers, he calls mercury-containing vaccines aimed at children “a holocaust;” to NBC News, after Trump won the election, he states, “I’m not gonna take away anyone’s vaccines. I’ve never been anti-vaccine.” I’m not sure if this is still a motte-and-bailey fallacy or if he is straight up lying now.
But Kennedy is not alone, as two siblings have rapidly been promoted as the shepherds of Kennedy’s MAHA movement: sister Casey and brother Calley Means. Their book, Good Energy, got them a spot on Tucker Carlson’s show, as well as a bevy of right-wing and alternative medicine podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, and The Doctor’s Farmacy with Mark Hyman M.D. Casey then leveraged this media attention into political gold by bringing the flock together to Washington, D.C. for a live-streamed, suits-and-ties bit of pseudoscience theatre hosted by Senator Ron Johnson and entitled “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion.”
The event was a masquerade, with contrarians donning the garbs of science and pretending to be the critical thinkers in the room. Their shared grievance was the claim that Americans are being poisoned by their food supply, leading to an apocalyptic epidemic of chronic disease. Universities and regulatory agencies have fallen prey to institutional capture: corporate money has rendered their testimonies hopelessly corrupt. Only the people present at the event can be trusted to save America from itself. They want to drain the science swamp but given their alignment with convicted criminal Trump and their own misunderstanding of the scientific process, they are more likely to trap Americans in quicksand than to end corruption.
Here are a few of the falsehoods they proclaimed in the Russell Senate Office Building:
RFK Jr himself claimed that rates of autism have increased even though “there has been no change in diagnosis and no change in screening either,” which is patently false: both have famously changed. He also boldly stated that cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. This is not at all what is happening.
Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon who wrote an opinion piece in February 2021 for the Wall Street Journal titled “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” and who continued to make bad prediction after bad prediction during the pandemic, declared that “pesticides are driving our fertility rates down,” even if this claim is based on deeply flawed research routinely picked up by a media hungry for sensationalism (see here for example).
Dr. Casey Means, the glue of this group, who stepped away from her final year in residency as a head-and-neck surgeon to learn about the pseudoscience of functional medicine, stated that she never learned in her training that “medical error and medications are the third leading cause of death in the United States.” That is because it’s not, and the co-author of the analysis that originated this misconception is none other than Marty Makary himself. She also claimed that medical specialties exist because “it’s profitable to send people” to them.
Her brother, Calley, who sells dubious wellness products like dietary supplements and infrared saunas, claims the infamous Flexner Report’s underlying medical logic was later proven to be wrong. This is absolutely not true, as I have written about recently, but it is a popular argument among critics of medicine who pray for an open-door policy on make-believe remedies.
Why are they all so ill-informed about illness? The desire to become a health guru is hard to resist for some. Antiestablishmentarianism and grievance-mongering, when fed on a diet of conspiracy theories, can sprout a lucrative career in wellness, prioritizing feelings over facts. Most of the people in this room, who are poised to influence American politics in the next year, have books to sell, companies to benefit from, and sponsorship deals to negotiate for their podcasts. Look at one of the panelists, Vani Hari, better known as The Food Babe, who is experiencing a career resurrection. After her chemophobic crusade was soundly debunked by many scientists (including our own Office’s Joe Schwarcz), she is now back as part of Kennedy’s congregation. She denounces the presence of allegedly toxic food dyes in products sold in the U.S. which are apparently banned in other countries, even though many of the examples she gives are simply not true. She is, of course, selling her own line of health products called Truvani, including fluoride-free toothpaste, because demonizing fluoride is popular in her circles. As Conspirituality co-host Derek Beres often says, watch what they say, then watch what they sell. And don’t forget to snag your Make America Healthy Again crewneck fleece sweatshirt now!
America’s diagnosis, according to Casey Means, is metabolic dysfunction, her one true cause of all (chronic) diseases. According to her, our cells can’t produce good energy anymore because of chemicals and toxins. It doesn’t matter that she is not a metabolic health expert or that theories claiming to have found a single cause for all diseases never pan out; it sounds good. Mikhaila Peterson Fuller, daughter of infamous psychologist Jordan Peterson, was there to promote her own would-be panacea: steak and salt, a ludicrous regimen introduced by Senator Johnson as “a therapeutic and plant-free ketogenic diet.”
These outcasts don’t want to fix the system; they want to burn it all down and replace it with institutions made of unicorn horns. They have become consumed with mirages, obsessed with toxins and chemicals they cannot see but imagine are debasing our bodies and impairing our minds. We are witnessing the institutionalization of pseudoscience.
Pointing out the lies and falsehoods of this meeting, however, does a disservice to the reader who has not watched these people’s speeches and seen the applause (and sometimes standing ovations) they received. It misses the point that they sound credible. There are real and important problems surrounding ultra-processed food. Produce is often more expensive than packaged items that are far less nutritious. Many chronic diseases are getting more common, and the revolving door between industry and government regulation is a well-known issue. These influencers have managed to put their finger on a significant problem, but their simplistic minds keep missing the real solution. This echoes the marketing victory of integrative medicine, which denounces failings of conventional medicine and spotlights magical thinking in the form of Reiki and essential oils as a solution.
Real solutions would involve addressing socioeconomic inequalities. It would require facilitating access to doctors, nurse practitioners, dentists, and dietitians. It would necessitate the price of healthy food to go down, and for people who hold two or three jobs to somehow find the time to cook nourishing meals. To arrive at a real prescription for America’s dietary woes would have required inviting actual experts to this panel. Behind the microphones, however, there were no registered dietitians, no toxicologists, no public health experts. How could there be? The panel would view them as corrupt. Instead, we were presented with folks like Max Lugavere, a podcaster with a degree in film and psychology whose show is sponsored by a long list of dietary supplements, and Alex Clark, a Food Babe in the making with no formal background in food science who sees crank opinions about nutrition as “engagement” for her show.
Medical doctors have not been forgotten in this coalition, though, with Dr. Marty Makary bringing in a large share of those credentials. Makary is part of a vocal group of COVID minimizers, who are referred to by Dr. Jonathan Howard—who has conscientiously documented their rise—as the We Want Them Infected doctors. The name comes from an official in the first Trump administration who, in July 2020, proposed that young and healthy people should be infected by the novel coronavirus to build herd immunity. Months later, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Prof. Sunetra Gupta released the Great Barrington Declaration, another step in the direction of mass infections. It is unknown at this point how many of these contrarian doctors will be invited to contribute to Trump’s health plan. Events like Senator Johnson’s panel and Rescue the Republic, which portrayed RFK Jr and his associates as George Washington and his army crossing the Delaware, are auditions. Only some will make the cut and be given the power to make decisions in Trump’s upcoming reality TV show, until they are inevitably fired. Trump’s unpredictability and pride make it hard to foresee how many of these policy ideas will be enacted and how many will be rolled back, but there will be damage in the chaos.
The Heritage Foundation released a nearly-1,000-page document called “Project 2025” which aims to be a policy template for the next U.S. president. It demands that environmental concerns (read: climate change) be removed from dietary guidelines; it claims that gender identity is political and comes from “radical actors;” and it asserts that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is “perhaps the most incompetent and arrogant agency in the federal government.” It pushes forward an agenda that is anti-abortion-pills, anti-puberty-blockers, and anti-vaccine and anti-mask in the case of COVID-19. Meanwhile, Trump’s own Free Speech Policy Initiative speaks of the “censorship cartel,” which must be “dismantled and destroyed.” It will ban social media platforms from moderating misinformation, fire federal employees who dared push back against falsehoods, and punish universities who have “engaged in censorship activities.” This is the Orwellian warping of free speech to quell dissent, going so far as to call for the prosecution of people who have used the labels “misinformation” and “disinformation” in their work. If our Office were on American soil, our very existence would be jeopardized.
With Kennedy and his allies being allowed to weigh in on health policy at the highest level of government, we will witness the metabolic dysfunction of the entire American healthcare apparatus. Food safety will be endangered, health disparities will increase, and infectious diseases will rage on. That is not how they see the future, though. They are busy looking in the rearview mirror at a rose-tinted past: trim and fit children, happy with life. They want to recreate the circumstances that led to this, but they don’t understand science. In a viral post on X, RFK Jr confirmed he is all-in on pseudoscience. “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he wrote. “This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.” I wasn’t aware the FDA was going after yoga instructors.
During the Second World War, Japanese troops followed by Allied forces established bases in Melanesia, a group of islands northeast of Australia which includes Papua New Guinea. Many of their Indigenous peoples had never met outsiders and were awed by the planes, guns, and medicines these soldiers brought to their islands. Veneration was also helped by some soldiers pretending to be revered ancestors of Melanesians. The war ended, and the “ancestors” took their cargo with them.
Charismatic local leaders then warned of a cataclysm, followed by the return of these ancestors bringing back the wealth they had briefly displayed. All Melanesians had to do was mimic the rituals they had seen the soldiers engage in. They practiced drills with fake rifles. They carved headphones out of wood and erected control towers. They lit torches alongside makeshift runways, hoping the planes would return. This phenomenon earned a name in 1945: cargo cult.
Anthropologists now recognize that this view may have been simplistic and obscured some of the Melanesians’ anti-colonialist sentiment. But it became immortalized in scientific skepticism circles by physicist Richard Feynman, who used it to refer to pseudoscience as “cargo cult science.” Irrational means are used to pursue rational ends. People go through the motions of science without understanding its core principles and nuances.
If MAGA is a cult, then MAHA is a cargo cult.
“Let food be thy medicine” is an apocryphal quote attributed to Hippocrates, the father of medicine. In reality, Hippocratic doctors knew the difference between food and medicines. But who cares when all we’re doing is lighting torches alongside make-believe runways and praying for the return of ancient idols and their precious cargo?
Correction: an earlier version of this article linked to an irrelevant article on the topic of pesticides and fertility. This has been corrected.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2506.13 - 10:10
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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