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1. faust (faust@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:12 JST faust

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   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   @p @Moon Dont know if this has been debooonked by the usual suspects, but didnt the us military play a role in the development of lyme disease with that swiss scientist they imported?
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:13 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/lone-star-tick-bite-meat-allergy.html
     
     :billgoops: Previously: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776 :billg:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     ...I am only half-joking. I have no reason to suspect that Bill Gates has anything to do with the Lone Star tick besides his habit of introducing bugs to new places and trying to get other people to stop eating meat.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:14 JST Moon
     a tick that makes you allergic to red meat sounds like a WEF conspiracy
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   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:20 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @ringo @Moon @faust I can sympathize with their stated goal, but their execution seems to indicate that they are reckless lunatics.
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   • ringo (ringo@talk-here.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:21 JST ringo

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     @p @faust @Moon i ran an article last year on oxi.......
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 04:10:23 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     > debooonked by the usual suspects
     
     Funny you'd mention it, because when I was looking up the name of Oxitec a minute ago, I ran into a Snopes article. "No, Bill Gates is not releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida. ...Not personally. Just a company that he is funding is doing it. Rating: Mixed."
     
     > didnt the us military play a role in the development of lyme disease with that swiss scientist they imported?
     
     This was news to me, I hadn't heard it. Apparently that is possibly true, per https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-weaponized-ticks-lyme-disease-investigation-1449737 :
     
     > authored by Stanford University science writer and former Lyme suffer Kris Newby. It features interviews with late Swiss-born scientist Willy Burgdorfer—the man credited with discovering the bacterial pathogen that causes Lyme disease—who once worked for the DoD as a bioweapons specialist.
     
     > "Those interviews combined with access to Dr. Burgdorfer's lab files suggest that he and other bioweapons specialists stuffed ticks with pathogens to cause severe disability, disease—even death—to potential enemies," Smith said during the debate on the House floor.
     
     The guy that yells "MISINFORMATION!" several times is objecting to declassifying the documents:
     
     > "I think that Rep. Chris Smith is terribly misinformed by the Lyme disease activists and by the false and misleading information," Baker told Newsweek. "He would be well advised to check the facts by consulting the experts on Lyme disease at the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] for accurate and reliable information before proposing such legislation."
     
     It seems like, if Baker's really worried people were misinformed and that there's no chance the DoD did this, then he ought to be in favor of declassifying any experiments done on ticks.
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