Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

DDP Newsletter November 2025, Vol. XLI, No. 6

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement notes that Americans have a high incidence of chronic disease. Some claim that we are being poisoned by toxins in our food, as by additives that are banned elsewhere. Indeed, many such “chemicals,” including natural ones, will produce cancers in one or more species of animals if given in high enough doses. Many are “linked” to various adverse effects in epidemiologic studies of dubious validity, discussed by Dr. Warren Kindzierski at the   2024 DDP meeting (tinyurl.com/9w39kjas and video at https://tinyurl.com/yf5p2hbw).

 Instead of focusing on the submicroscopic, let us take the macro view. It seems well accepted by now that the FDA Food Pyramid was an error. And after years of doctors recommending low-fat diets, obesity only worsened.

What can we learn from history about diet?

The armies of Genghis Khan conquered vast territory. Their diet centered around dairy (yogurt, cheese, fermented mare’s milk/kumis) in summer and meat (mutton, horse) in winter. The herds served as walking refrigerators. No need to transport heavy grains. They used the crops of conquered peoples to feed their animals.

The ultimate survival and endurance food is pemmican. “Pemmican worked flawlessly for 10,000 years across every indigenous culture on two continents,” writes Sama Hoole (https://tinyurl.com/8ve8exjt). The U.S. military used it for 80 years. It was essential for Arctic and Antarctic exploration.

The recipe perfected by the Plains Indians: 50% dried lean buffalo meat, pounded into fine powder, 50% rendered buffalo fat, mixed thoroughly while hot. Beef or other meat works fine. “The result: 3,000 calories per pound. Never spoils. Lasts literally decades without refrigeration. Provides complete nutrition. Weighs almost nothing. Requires zero preparation” (ibid.). Unlike British sailors, those relying on pemmican were not dying of scurvy, although some preparations now incorporate dried berries or lime juice. Drying at a relatively low temperature, so meat is not cooked, preserves nutrients (ibid.).

Despite its historically significant role, there is a surprising paucity of scientific literature, which is reviewed in Meat Science, August 2021 (tinyurl.com/2p6v9cbs).

The fat is essential. The Inuit said: “Fat is life. Lean meat is death. The white food is poison” (https://tinyurl.com/2tm5pcam). On the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805-1806, men were dying on a diet of 8–9 lbs of lean venison or elk daily. They complained of hunger immediately after meals and were losing strength. Fortunately, they made it to the Pacific coast and started eating fatty seal meat: 2 lbs/day, no more hunger, strength returning. The Shoshone guides had offered them pemmican, but they had refused (https://tinyurl.com/mr3tyk57). They did not know that the liver can only process so much protein without producing toxic ammonia.

The most potent weapon used to destroy native Americans was to kill the buffalo, their prime source of food, clothing, and much else. Vast herds of 60 million were reduced to near extinction by the 1890s. The Indians were herded onto reservations, where they had to adopt a “civilized diet.” While a Comanche warrior could ride 50 miles before breakfast and fight all day, today’s native Americans have a high incidence of obesity, diabetes, and other health problems (https://tinyurl.com/h59zyb9t).

Another dietary “experiment of nature” was described by Canadian dentist Weston A. Price, who travelled globally in the 1930s to study nutrition and dental health. He climbed to an isolated Swiss village, expecting to find malnourished peasants. He found they all had perfect teeth—no crowding, no caries. There was no chronic illness, tuberculosis, cancer, or heart disease. They obtained 80% of calories from full-fat dairy: raw milk, aged cheese, rye bread swimming in butter. Walking two hours down to a modernized village with road access, he found a population with the same genetics had narrow faces, crooked teeth, weak bones, tuberculosis, dental decay, and chronic illness. The village had white flour, sugar, vegetable oils, and canned foods. The doctor said the change had taken only 20 years (https://tinyurl.com/mr33cxv5).

In medieval England, a “plant-based” diet was for peasants. Only nobles were permitted to hunt, and violators might be executed. So, while peasants had dark bread, vegetables, and minimal meat, nobles had daily roasted meat–venison, wild boar, and game birds—and dairy. Nobles were taller, stronger, and healthier, and lived 20–30 years longer. “The diet of the weak and the downtrodden [in 1350] has become the ‘healthy’ diet [in 2015]” (https://tinyurl.com/2u2ekyde).

 Today, globalists advocate a “sustainable” diet—with insects for animal protein (https://tinyurl.com/2wdrr5j2), and “climate” policies threaten farmers and ranchers.

Vegetarians can have an adequate diet, but it requires careful attention to include all needed vitamins and essential amino acids and fats.

In 1955, the American diet reached a turning point. President Eisenhower had a heart attack. His personal physician, Dr. Paul Dudley White, appeared on TV with the message that the President ate too much fat [in a fairly typical diet], and Americans need to reduce animal fat consumption. To the tobacco industry’s relief, he failed to mention that Eisenhower smoked 80 cigarettes per day (and quit abruptly).

In 1955, Ancel Keys was actively promoting his “fat hypothesis” (https://tinyurl.com/2bwnza2p). Some now criticize it for cherry-picking data that agreed with his hypothesis. The American Heart Association, funded by Procter & Gamble (makers of Crisco), enthusiastically agreed with the low-fat diet. Saturated fat became the enemy. Seed oils became the solution (https://tinyurl.com/3ff8e67u).

A proper randomized controlled study was done in 1968-1973, the Minnesota Coronary Experiment. The vegetable oil group had LOWER cholesterol, as predicted. But they had HIGHER death rates. For every 30-point reduction in cholesterol, there was a 22% increase in mortality risk. The study was not published for 43 years. Eventually the data was located in a researcher’s attic and published in BMJ in 2016.There was a 22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL (0.78 mmol/L) reduction in serum cholesterol. “Findings from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment add to growing evidence that incomplete publication has contributed to overestimation of the benefits of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid” (https://tinyurl.com/mr3pp99m).

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Sugar Research Foundation sponsored studies that singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor. A 1967 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, which shaped 50 years of dietary advice, did not disclose the role of the sugar industry (https://tinyurl.com/hctnt674). Author Dr. D.M. Hegsted led the USDA team that created the 1977 Dietary Guidelines (https://tinyurl.com/mst4u8nr).

As Hippocrates purportedly said, “Let food be thy medicine.” But what food? It is imperative to restore integrity and accountability and true evidence-based medicine.

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DDP Newsletter Vol. XLI, No. 3

ICBM warheads modified to deliver the “poor man’s atomic bomb”—chem/bio warfare—have reportedly been developed. But would the agents survive reentry into the atmosphere or dispersal to the intended target? And why bother when poor man’s delivery methods are readily available: e.g. U.S. mail, human couriers, contaminated crops.

Recently, Chinese nationals associated with the University of Michigan have been accused of smuggling pathological biological materials into the U.S. (https://tinyurl.com/mrnxs863). A science and technology university in Wuhan, China, may be involved.

While attention has focused on China, there was direct evidence in 2022 that the U.S. was funding biological research laboratories in Ukraine. Early in the Ukraine conflict, bombing and destruction by air of those laboratories was attributed to Russian air force action by U.S. corporate media, but was performed by the U.S. Air Force, according to Dr. Robert Malone (https://tinyurl.com/yc7u6wjf).

DDP Newsletter Vol. XLI, No. 1

It is an article of faith that viral diseases generally cannot be treated other than with supportive care. Therefore, the only answer is vaccination to eradicate the disease.

The antibiotic stewardship campaign and the Choosing Wisely™ initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) besiege doctors with the message that antibiotics do not help with viral diseases, and overprescribing promotes bacterial resistance. (Indeed, antimicrobial resistance is a major threat.) This “guidance” may be enforced by quality-assurance programs that reduce errant doctors’ pay.

But what if this dogma is wrong? The COVID-19 pandemic showed the disastrous results of denying treatment until the patient was hypoxic and then allowing only measures on the hospital protocol, regardless of patient response. Will we see a replay with bird flu or the next “new” virus? Will society be crippled while awaiting a new vaccine, perhaps now hastened by “miraculous” mRNA technology?

We now have fearmongering over a measles outbreak (300 cases as of Mar 14), with two deaths in patients “with” a positive test for measles who had not gotten their MMR shots. The CDC suggests (https://tinyurl.com/mtzdjm25) a 2-day course of high-dose vitamin A in patients with measles, and physicians note that cod liver oil is high in vitamins A and D, and carrot juice in beta-carotene that’s converted to  vitamin A. Medical officials warned that vitamin A does not prevent or cure measles and that it is possible to get hypervitaminosis A (https://tinyurl.com/stpakedu). Do they mean “don’t bother”?

It is possible that zealous antibiotic stewardship contributed to the death of a young measles victim, who was reportedly treated too late for Mycoplasma pneumonia with a macrolide antibiotic routinely used for out-patient pneumonia. A large proportion of deaths from the 1918 influenza might have been from bacterial pneumonia in pre-antibiotic days.

The standard  answer for an outbreak of a “vaccine-preventable” disease is to hunt down the unvaccinated and inject them, and to promote boosters for people whose immunity might have waned. But many doctors apparently forget that vaccination is for preventing disease, not for treating someone who is already sick. And what about the huge number of diseases or variants for which we have no vaccines? The responsible pathogen cannot be identified in more than half the cases of “influenza-like illness.”

In 2024, more than 127,350 measles cases were reported in the European Region, and 38 deaths. Vaccination levels are less than 80% in some areas of Europe and have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Some 359,521 cases of measles have been reported for 2024 worldwide. The disease is clearly not gone (https://tinyurl.com/5crfxbjp)–nor is it causing mass casualties. 

In the days of genomics, “precision medicine” is touted as a way to fit treatment or prevention to groups of people based on information about their genes, environment, and lifestyle. It may be called “personalized medicine,” but it is not the same because of its emphasis on the group. It would be wonderful to have a drug or vaccine precisely fitted to an individual patient or disease, and immediately available sophisticated diagnostic technology, but we must remember that pathogens, being living things, adapt. Thus, what we need are ways to minimize exposure and bolster natural immunity—along with broad-spectrum antimicrobials for those who become ill.

BROAD-SPECTRUM (NON-PRECISION) METHODS

Mentioning remedies like cod liver oil may trigger condemnation by medical officialdom because they might lead to vaccine hesitancy. Of course, they are not 100% effective. It is dangerously wrong to assume, however, that Americans are not vitamin deficient. How many children eat all their fruits and vegetables? (Do you?) Have we done any large studies checking levels? Are our “minimum daily requirements” adequate? Continuing medical education presentations by Tucson medical residents, in the course of a year or two, included near-fatal cases of scurvy and beriberi (thiamine, B1 deficiency), diagnosed after a battery of costly tests failed to find the diagnosis. Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., who adds a vitamin D level whenever she draws blood, reports that 75% of her patients have low levels (https://tinyurl.com/bddumnnm).

Much of the information in the “COVID Medical Kit” in our January 2022 newsletter (https://tinyurl.com/5yc26fmm) could apply to measles, the new “disease X” (avian flu?), or other emerging or re-emerging viral illness.

Dispatches on measles from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons are here (tinyurl.com/2jsub8wj) and here (tinyurl.com/muny4n2f). (If you wish to receive future dispatches, send a request to jane@aapsonline.org.)

Many members of the “medical freedom movement,” who came to prominence fighting the official COVID narrative, now offer a variety of supplements and kits that include some prescription drugs, based on clinicians’ opinions—which are not to be construed as medical advice. DDP cannot evaluate the claims, but a pertinent observation by “a Midwestern Doctor” is: “Over the years, we’ve tried more supplements than I can count for colds and cases of flu, and I am not sure if most of them help.” He has the most favorable opinion of olive leaf extract, elderberry extract, and vitamin C (https://tinyurl.com/5s7destj), based on personal experience.

Instead of povidone-iodine or other nasal applications, Dr. Harvey Risch prefers  intranasal Neosporin (https://tinyurl.com/3rfs45sd) before and after likely respiratory virus exposures and has found it very effective. The dose is one-fourth inch on a Q-tip inserted three-fourths inch into each nostril and rotated.

The “Midwestern Doctor” (op. cit.) writes that “in many cases, I…have found the most effective approach (the moment you start feeling a bit of congestion in the head) is simply to lie on each side and put hydrogen peroxide in each ear for about 10 minutes (until it stops bubbling) then turn over and do the same with the other side (while the first ear drains out).” Early on, this may abort the illness, whereas when done later on it simply makes you feel better.

Open-air hospitals with fresh air and sunlight had substantially reduced death rates from 1918 influenza (https://tinyurl.com/ytb3z327).

Traditional or folk medicine offers many suggested remedies, such as teas, plants, and herbs, but most have not been evaluated scientifically. One exception is garlic, used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine for respiratory and digestive disorders. Recently it has been shown that allicin, the compound responsible for garlic’s odor, can deactivate viruses, including influenza B, herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2, and rhinovirus (https://tinyurl.com/29w8d7rj).

Repurposed drugs and other defenses will be covered later in Civil Defense Perspectives.

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 4

In the guise of promoting health and safety, the federal government has issued 200,000 pages of regulations and has 288,000 full-time federal employees engaged in regulatory activities. Every regulator destroys 138 private-sector jobs, according to an Auburn University study, and each dollar in a regulator’s salary destroys $112 of economic output. Regulatory costs devour $5 trillion, or one-fifth of our entire economy. Additionally, regulation fuels the totalitarian administrative state, strangles start-ups, and drives industry offshore. The worst offender is probably the Environmental Protection Agency (https://tinyurl.com/3zcv2n3m).

The regulations are based on published research and often claim to save thousands or millions of lives. But much of the research claims display the “Bunnies in the Sky” phenomenon: If you look long and hard enough at the clouds, you will see something. Warren Kindzierski, Ph.D., discussed the crisis of irreproducibility (falseness) of research claims in science at our 42^nd annual meeting (https://youtu.be/78sTkKrJ0bA).

Bad (irreproducible) science has crowded out good (reproducible) science in the literature, permitting governments to develop policies with no reliable evidence of public benefit or even with actual harm. In the National Association of Scholars Shifting Sands Project, Kindzierski and S. Stanley Young, Ph.D., showed how false but “statistically significant” results get established.

Observational studies have many potential sources of bias. Researchers have enormous flexibility to manipulate their data selection and analysis to get results they want. Examples include selective design, selective use of data, selective analyses, and selective reporting of results. Multiple testing multiple modeling (MTMM) bias involves using data sets with a computer to test multiple outcomes, multiple predictors, different population subgroups, or multiple statistical cause-effect models without statistical correction. This increases the likelihood of making a type I (false positive) error. Observational studies routinely perform MTMM statistical tests on a data set. One in twenty results (5%) could be “significant” (a false positive) even when the null hypothesis is true. Other terms for this type of bias in published literature are data dredging, fishing expeditions, multiplicity, or multiple comparisons.

Randomized studies reduce, but do not eliminate all sources of bias.

An analysis of MTMM determines the SearchSpace, the number of possible hypothesis tests. One study of links between various foods and diseases had 20,000 possible hypothesis tests, of which 1,000 could have been “significant” false positive tests with P < .05. This provides ample opportunities to fish for spurious correlations.

A P-value plot—which graphs P-values from studies included in a meta-analysis vs. their rank order—can distinguish a null or uncertain effect from a true positive. This method in petroleum refinery workers showed a null effect for chronic myeloid leukemia risk but a positive one for mesothelioma risk.

By this method, EPA’s claims of deleterious effects of small particulates (PM_2.5) on all-cause mortality, heart attacks, or asthma attacks cannot be substantiated, as James Enstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H., has previously shown (https://tinyurl.com/58e2c75d).

P-value plots of studies of health outcomes of eating red and processed meat showed a null association with cardiovascular mortality, breast cancer incidence, and colorectal cancer incidence, and claims concerning all-cause and all-cancer mortality are shown to be uncertain and unproven.

Concerning COVID response measures, Young and Kindzierski found null effects of public masking on respiratory illness, or of lockdowns on mortality. However, an association between lockdowns and domestic violence was validated.

Claims of “implicit gender and racial bias” are extremely challenging to evaluate. A computer-based speed-response test referred to as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) developed by researchers at Harvard is extremely important as it forms the scientific framework of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). P-value plot testing showed no association between the IAT and real-world microbehaviors.

Young and Kindzierski’s method shows that extremely costly and intrusive regulations are largely based on false results, even if promoted as “evidence-based” and “data-driven.”

‘POST-TRUTH SCIENCE’

We are constantly being exhorted to “trust the science.”

As William Briggs, Ph.D., points out, “Academics Blame Lower Trust in Scientists on Everything but Bad Scientists” (https://tinyurl.com/mnjmf3u8). “Science is the understanding of the nature of world. Controlling the world via this understanding is not science, but something else. Confusing the two leads to scientism.”

The science that the public is allowed to see is limited by “fact-checkers,” such as Science Feedback and other members of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), who allegedly generate and disseminate misinformation. Meta, owner of Facebook (3 billion worldwide users), explicitly relies on IFCN-approved organizations (https://tinyurl.com/47pdxek4).

“Trusted” publications such as Scientific American are rife with fraud such as “citation sorcery.” That is, the cited sources do not support the claims that are made. For example, references backing the claim that mask protection has been “validated over decades” have nothing to do with viruses. Or an oft-cited “study” turns out to be an opinion piece or a brief letter (https://tinyurl.com/5u79jbdm).

On important questions such as “Where did COVID come from?” Science magazine has played the Three Wise Monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) and has attacked and defamed scientists who pointed out scientific fraud and misconduct (https://tinyurl.com/42ehbh6u).

One method of introducing bias, “P-hacking,” occurs when researchers collect or select data or statistical analyses until nonsignificant results become significant. A method that uses text-mining demonstrates that p-hacking is widespread throughout science. Authors Megan Head et al. nevertheless conclude that “its effect seems to be weak relative to the real effect sizes being measured,” and that “p-hacking probably does not drastically alter scientific consensuses drawn from meta-analyses” (https://tinyurl.com/mybzvscv). Their study does not consider the SearchSpace.

Consensus results, however, in the hands of regulators have multibillion-dollar and life-and-death consequences. The consequence of safety-first, no pollution is not weighed against the consequence of not being able to make steel or antibiotics.            

Or the fact that there is no “post-truth” science.

DDP Newsletter November 2024, Vol. XL, No. 6

When political and/or economic collapse is threatening, an age-old method for a regime to maintain its grip on power is to start a war.

While the incoming Trump regime is unpredictable, President-Elect Trump said his priority was to stop the killing in Ukraine. However, without a crushing military defeat, Russia is not going to give up its proclaimed objectives. And it is Ukraine that is being crushed. Russians are advancing relentlessly on the ground in Ukraine, a succession of U.S. and NATO Wunderwaffen having failed to change the game (tinyurl.com/5n92u8yp).

A loss in Ukraine would be a disaster, according to Western reigning authorities (https://tinyurl.com/mr64ydh5). Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley said, “What’s at stake is the global international security order that was put in place in 1945” (https://tinyurl.com/5n8968n4). Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated, “Failure in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West” (tinyurl.com/mru2cv95). Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Ukraine’s defeat would be the end of the West’s postwar hegemony (tinyurl.com/2sz783b8).

The Biden regime authorized striking into Russian territory with long-range missiles—which can only be operated by U.S. personnel. Both U.S. ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles have attacked Russian targets. It is not clear how many were destroyed by Russian air defenses or how much damage was done, but it was likely unspectacular (https://tinyurl.com/y9t372rd).

Former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has declared that NATO and the U.S. are now at “full war” with Russia (https://tinyurl.com/3b23s7aj). On Nov 19, after the U.S. had authorized what Russia views as a major escalation, Putin signed a decree updating Russia’s nuclear doctrine. This stares that a nuclear strike could be justified in case of “aggression against Russia and its allies by any non-nuclear state…with the support of a nuclear state.” This would be “considered a joint attack by both countries on Russia.” Putin added that “a ‘critical threat to sovereignty’ posed by conventional non-nuclear weapons would also be seen as valid grounds for a nuclear response and that Russia reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against close ally Belarus” (https://tinyurl.com/2xnds3hd).

In retaliation for the NATO attack, Russia struck the Dnipro Yuzhmash aerospace manufacturing facility with a newly developed hypersonic Oreshnik (“Hazelnut tree”) intermediate range ballistic missile. Some accounts say the underground working part of the facility was turned into dust. This suggests that the Oreshnik submunitions crashed at hypersonic speed into the workshops and simply pulverized them. There was no particular need for high explosives to do the job (https://tinyurl.com/ssmzb593).

Putin claims that NATO has no means to stop such a missile and that the military is picking targets in Ukraine from a list of decision-making centers, industrial production sites, and military facilities. NATO has no analogues, and none will appear soon, he states. Russia has several more such missiles available now, and serial manufacturing has begun (https://tinyurl.com/3b9cnmsb).

The Oreshnik attack is not featured on news.google.com, and Western experts downplay its significance, according to a report on Reuters (tinyurl.com/e6swthsz). This said that the missile was no big deal, could be intercepted, and was possibly being used more for psychological effect. As Will Schryver states, “Reuters wants everyone to know…Putin is just talking tough to sow unfounded fear of Russian military might” (https://tinyurl.com/27pm72ue).

Despite the Oreshnik attack, the U.S. and its Ukrainian “orderlies” launched 13 more ATACMS missiles into Russia. The Russians claim to have shot down 10 of them and acknowledge the loss of an S-400 radar unit and its crew. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported today that five ATACMS launch vehicles were destroyed by a volley of Iskander missiles, and that additional Iskander strikes, directed against apparently known concentrations of US/NATO personnel in Ukraine, “neutralized” about 40 Americans and nine French personnel (https://tinyurl.com/4y58as9t).

Europe is taking the war threat far more seriously. An estimated 5.2 million copies of a crisis preparedness pamphlet are set to be delivered to Swedish households in the next two weeks, with the text available in multiple languages online. Citizens are advised to be ready with a stockpile of food and emergency supplies, including baby food, medicine, and hygiene products. There are diagrams of expedient shelters. Finland has also published its own online crisis preparedness brochure, warning that as of the last government survey in September, only 58% of Finns have adequate emergency supplies at home to ride out a crisis. Norway published its own printed pamphlets earlier this year on how citizens could manage by themselves for a week in the event of a national crisis, including war (https://tinyurl.com/5h7vrtm7). Germany is preparing to convert metro stations, offices, and public buildings into bomb shelters. The Federal Office for Civil Protection is identifying suitable structures and developing an app to guide the public to nearby shelters (https://tinyurl.com/n99a5y2s).

MIDDLE EAST FRONT

Shortly after Israel and Hezbollah announced a temporary ceasefire, Turkish-backed rebels launched a shock offensive against Syria that reached past the gates of Aleppo. Many factors may have contributed to re-bleeding in the “frozen” Syrian civil war (https://tinyurl.com/y6432u4u). According to Simplicius, Israel, having failed to defeat Hezbollah, has gone to Plan B, which is to eliminate Iran’s ability to resupply Hezbollah via Syria. To do that, Assad must fall. Showing Israel’s handprint on the attack, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was hit with a major “exploding beeper and radio” attack, wounding many SAA servicemen—a perfect replay of the same attack on Hamas earlier. Russia has evidently sent reinforcements to Syria, weakening its efforts in Ukraine.

The incursion followed weeks of Israeli strikes into Syria itself, likely the preparatory forewarning in anticipation of this offensive.

Ukraine’s calling cards were also visible, Simplicius states, with the Syrian terrorists’ usage of FPV (first-person view) drones in the attacks, and their choice of yellow and blue head and arm bands. Ukrainian field commanders have been spotted among the militants. Ukraine, with the U.S., has been training members of the Hayat Tahir al-Sham  (HTS) terrorist group, and actively recruiting them to fight in Ukraine.

“It’s clear that the conflict is taking on a global proportion of interconnectivity, a true ‘world war’” (https://tinyurl.com/m3m9rtsy).

Is World War III already here?

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 3

A current invisible scary threat, impossible for people to verify for themselves, is endocrine disruptors (EDs) lurking in the water. This topic first appeared in the National Library of Medicine PubMed data base in 1995, reached a maximum of 1,088 citations in 2019, and still occurs almost 1,000 times/y, dozens of times in association with plastics.

The term was coined at the 1991 Wingspread conference, a rebranding of the more benign term “endocrine modulators,” explains Steve Milloy (tinyurl.com/4ssdrfjj).

On Aug 23, 1994, the endocrine-disruptor scare was reported in the New York Times in an article titled “Pesticides May Leave Legacy of Hormonal Chaos.” Referring to some wildlife populations, Theo Colborn, the activist who convened the Wingspread conference, stated: “I’d say we are on a fast track to extinction…. You would expect the same thing to happen to human populations.” Colburn, a pharmacist, earned a Ph.D. in zoology at age 58 (ibid.).