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James Lord's avatar

NIAID's Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe attempted to smuggle in pox viruses recently. Face a maximum federal imprisonment of 5 years.

Guy steals Smokey the Bear signs to sell on Facebook. Faces 10. Weird.

James Lord's avatar

Re: Harvard Professor Charles Lieber, from Wikipedia:

"In December 2021, Lieber was convicted of six felonies, including two counts of making false statements to the FBI and investigators from the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health regarding his participation in the Chinese government's Thousand Talents Program,as well as four counts of filing false tax returns. The US government began its investigation of Lieber as part of the China Initiative, a program established by the Department of Justice in 2018 to investigate academic espionage at American universities."

"Following a week-long trial, on December 21, 2021, Lieber was found guilty on all charges: two counts of making false statements to the U.S. government, two counts of filing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to report foreign bank accounts. He was fined and sentenced to two days in prison, followed by two years of supervised release with six months of house arrest on April 26, 2023."

Joy Metcalf's avatar

Someone who doesn't have any income or political clout would have gone to jail for a year or more. We do have a two-tier justice system, sometimes called "the best legal justice money can buy."

Chris Coles FRSA's avatar

the word should be; "injustice". The very best legal injustice money can buy.

Dave Slough's avatar

Everything is rigged

James Lord's avatar

Grotesquely distorted priorities, everywhere I look.

Don Reed's avatar

07/07/26: The Judge: "I hereby hand to you the Michael Milken sentence..."

MarKe's avatar

I saw that, too. I would have expected that either they be exonerated or face a heavy sentence. 5 years makes no sense at all.

Randall Stoehr's avatar

If you never have seen some of the early Smokie the Bear large signs along a forested country road, you have missed a wonderful campaign to save lives and wildlife.

Beautiful wood and paint colors.

Yes controlled burning offers great rejuvenations in most cases but not always.

I have stopped many times long ago just to put my hands and eyes on such details.

Shoulda gave the thieving bastard 20!

Don Reed's avatar

07/07/26: Strange. Very strange. No one is stealing the Fauci portraits hanging in the Louvre (Paris). I wonder why...

scott carl's avatar

I do think most people should supplement with Lithium Orotate.

Nancy Benedict's avatar

Are we being serious here? What is the benefit or is this a joke?

Dr. Robert W. Malone's avatar

For those interested

We take 5 mg - "Lithium Orotate 5 mg - Brain Support Supplement - with N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) for Memory & Brain Behavior"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AOCY4A?th=1

Why?

"lithium (roughly 1-10 mg elemental lithium/day) has emerged as one of the more intriguing areas of healthy aging research. Several observational studies have found that populations with naturally higher lithium levels in drinking water tend to have lower rates of dementia and suicide, although these studies cannot prove cause and effect. Laboratory research suggests lithium inhibits glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), promotes autophagy, increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), reduces neuroinflammation, and may help limit amyloid and tau pathology.

Interest accelerated after a 2025 study showed that lithium levels are selectively depleted in brains affected by early Alzheimer's disease, and that restoring low-dose lithium reversed memory deficits and Alzheimer's-like pathology in mice.

Human evidence is encouraging but not yet definitive. Small clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment have suggested slower cognitive decline with long-term low-dose lithium, but a larger 2026 pilot trial found only modest trends rather than statistically significant benefit, while confirming that low-dose lithium was generally well tolerated and warrants larger studies.

In short, the biological rationale is strong, the preclinical evidence is impressive, and the early human data are promising—but it is still too early to conclude that microdose lithium prevents dementia. Larger randomized clinical trials are now underway to answer that question."

Nancy Benedict's avatar

Thank you, Dr. Malone!!

Don Reed's avatar

07/07/26: I wasn't able to read the above until I took some and then calmed down. Fine stuff, it is...

MarKe's avatar

Thanks a lot, Dr. Malone.

MarKe's avatar

What is the dose and reason, please?

Dr. Robert W. Malone's avatar

For those interested

We take 5 mg - "Lithium Orotate 5 mg - Brain Support Supplement - with N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) for Memory & Brain Behavior"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AOCY4A?th=1

Why?

"lithium (roughly 1-10 mg elemental lithium/day) has emerged as one of the more intriguing areas of healthy aging research. Several observational studies have found that populations with naturally higher lithium levels in drinking water tend to have lower rates of dementia and suicide, although these studies cannot prove cause and effect. Laboratory research suggests lithium inhibits glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), promotes autophagy, increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), reduces neuroinflammation, and may help limit amyloid and tau pathology.

Interest accelerated after a 2025 study showed that lithium levels are selectively depleted in brains affected by early Alzheimer's disease, and that restoring low-dose lithium reversed memory deficits and Alzheimer's-like pathology in mice.

Human evidence is encouraging but not yet definitive. Small clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment have suggested slower cognitive decline with long-term low-dose lithium, but a larger 2026 pilot trial found only modest trends rather than statistically significant benefit, while confirming that low-dose lithium was generally well tolerated and warrants larger studies.

In short, the biological rationale is strong, the preclinical evidence is impressive, and the early human data are promising—but it is still too early to conclude that microdose lithium prevents dementia. Larger randomized clinical trials are now underway to answer that question."

MarKe's avatar

Thank you, very much.

Debra Nolasco's avatar

The first time that I heard of lithium orotate being taken prophylactically was from Michael Nehls, MD, PhD, in an interview. He himself takes it on a regular basis. He also discusses it in his book, "The Indoctrinated Brain". I no longer remember who was interviewing him, but am thinking it may have been either Joe Rogan or Jan Jekielek. It was at least a year ago.

Debra Nolasco's avatar

Dr. Nehls also appeared on The Highwire, with Del Bigtree, earlier this year (air date: 2/26/2026). He discusses the use of lithium orotate in this interview too. I do not have a link but the interview would be easy to find by going to The Highwire site.

LoverOfHills's avatar

He just did another Tucker chat. A few days ago.

Starts off with the benefits of kissing your dogs. Cool chat.

https://youtu.be/y9R8VEbCf3M?si=62NLI1W9wsGdCv7p

Debra Nolasco's avatar

Good to know. Thanks for the link!

Don Reed's avatar

07/07/26: No wonder Joe Biden married Jill...

JanC1955's avatar

Is the 5 mg what you consider a microdose, or do you microdose the 5 mg, please and thank you. :)

Dr. Robert W. Malone's avatar

For those interested

We take 5 mg - "Lithium Orotate 5 mg - Brain Support Supplement - with N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) for Memory & Brain Behavior"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AOCY4A?th=1

Why?

"lithium (roughly 1-10 mg elemental lithium/day) has emerged as one of the more intriguing areas of healthy aging research. Several observational studies have found that populations with naturally higher lithium levels in drinking water tend to have lower rates of dementia and suicide, although these studies cannot prove cause and effect. Laboratory research suggests lithium inhibits glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), promotes autophagy, increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), reduces neuroinflammation, and may help limit amyloid and tau pathology.

Interest accelerated after a 2025 study showed that lithium levels are selectively depleted in brains affected by early Alzheimer's disease, and that restoring low-dose lithium reversed memory deficits and Alzheimer's-like pathology in mice.

Human evidence is encouraging but not yet definitive. Small clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment have suggested slower cognitive decline with long-term low-dose lithium, but a larger 2026 pilot trial found only modest trends rather than statistically significant benefit, while confirming that low-dose lithium was generally well tolerated and warrants larger studies.

In short, the biological rationale is strong, the preclinical evidence is impressive, and the early human data are promising—but it is still too early to conclude that microdose lithium prevents dementia. Larger randomized clinical trials are now underway to answer that question."

Bruce Hartnett's avatar

Amazon is pretty high dollar stuff! I asked at both pharmacies I use, because I couldn't find any on the shelves, was told it was probably prescription only, because it has Lithium in it!

However, just now in a brief search, I found it considerably more affordable at https://www.iherb.com/c/lithium?avids=10000245&gad_campaignid=21058864987&gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyqWztpi_lQMVlXBHAR0OOB_8EAAYASAAEgL3UvD_BwE

Is there any reason one shouldn't use one of these?

Debra Nolasco's avatar

Two additional books (which I have not yet read) by Dr. Nehls are, "The Conspiracy Against Lithium" & "The Exhausted Brain".

D D's avatar

Debra, I just listened to High Wire with Dr. Nehls, WOW. Thank you. My lithium is on the way.

Debra Nolasco's avatar

Yes, it does sound as if low dose lithium orotate can help stave off dementia. So far, from what I have read & heard, it seems very promising. I hope they conduct more studies. My concern is that because lithium is a mineral, Big Pharm will never conduct any studies. We have already seen this with their unwillingness to conduct studies for off-patent drugs, such as Ivermectin for cancer. Anything that is either naturally occurring, such as lithium, or off-patent, will be either denigrated by Big Pharma or ignored.

Michael Williams's avatar

Well ain’t that something; Dr Malone always amazes me with his wealth of knowledge and apparently, all he has described past and present, he has tried or uses. His energy and knowledge tends to show effectiveness 🤔

Bruce Miller's avatar

The moronic Aussie PM reminded me of the satyr-like Willie Jeff Clinton guffawing and answering the idiotic "boxers or briefs" question> Can you imagine if our gentlemanly President Reagan had been asked such an idiotic query and his icy refusal to engage. What fools we now have as pols that engage is such stupidity.

Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

And then there is Hunter's laptop

James Schwartz's avatar

It’s why everyone should realize anything coming out of Davos is a calculated endeavor for them to have more power over us “peasants”. If I had to guess a reasonable person has to believe Bill Gates is behind it somewhere. Considering he’s the global leader in trying to get the world vaccinated with any vaccine that can be dreamt for. He’s heavily invested in plenty of big Pharma and small bio- Pharma companies. The guy is pure evil. Worse than Soros if you can believe that. Stock yourself with ivermectin and other medications that are proven against most of the diseases and viruses that can make you sick is my plan of attack should the next pandemic come. I’m also going to be on my land growing and raising my own food so I can stay away from the

population when the next one hits. I think that’s the best plan going forward.

Nicholas Edward Bednarski, MD's avatar

I’ve lost track of all the categories you two cover—let’s see, there’s medical therapeutics, psops by govt, industry, and media, homesteading, food safety, Friday/Sunday funnies, and now weird news! What a cornucopia! Have you two discovered a healthy way to forgo sleep?

Ginny Murtaugh's avatar

You two are informative but also so entertaining. Thank you!

mike's avatar

Isn't it sad that a head of state is made, promoted, agrees to look a buffoon? I suppose if elder abuse as US president why not buffoonery, eh?

mike's avatar

Why not devolve leadership into comedy I guess? Such a lame goal of controllers in my mind.

mike's avatar

I thoroughly enjoy, Dr., the writing style in these essays, humorous and insightful. "It is not generally considered a useful exercise in international diplomacy." I love it.

The Great Santini's avatar

I used to think that it was wise to remember that everything is a business. I am beginning to think that it is all a grift.

Kreg Kinney's avatar

Several years ago the forestry station up the road from us, in Florida, had a badly degraded Smokey Bear figure up front. I emailed the state forestry officials and requested that they “freshen up” poor Smokey. Within a week he was removed. 5 years later he is still MIA. Appears Florida’s forestry folks would rather remove Smokey themselves rather than have some semi-entrepreneurial citizen remove him.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

They need a cure for mental derangement and not a drug that dulls an already dysfunctional brain.

Nancy Benedict's avatar

During my senior year of nursing school in 1976, I spent a day in a "mental hospital" as part of my psychiatric nursing rotation. I remember that many of the patients were on lithium and how numbed and detached they were.

Margaret Allison's avatar

Nancy, a day? Oops! We spent 8 weeks in 1968! At Tuscaloosa Bryce (sp) psychiatric hospital! I forget for sure how long we did TB nursing in the same town! 4 weeks TB.

Laura's avatar

Worked as maid in private home of very, very wealthy person with relative on lithium around that time. The relative was the nicest one of the bunch but had issues with drooling. Bear in mind that the amounts given to these folks back then were significantly higher than the lithium doses discussed here.

Nancy Benedict's avatar

Thanks Laura. Yes, I don’t recall the dosages but in those institutions, drugging people strongly was the method of choice.

Joy Metcalf's avatar

Ah! Maybe that's why the guy stole the signs! Maybe he's on "pharmaceutical assistance." And maybe the PM ought to be.

Michael Williams's avatar

It’s called a lobotomy 🙈

Joy Metcalf's avatar

I didn't even know that Smokey the Bear signs still existed! The whole premise of stopping forest fires ended up causing some of the worst fires in history as the undergrowth grew, dried plant matter collected, and nature's way of cleaning the forests with small, contained fires was destroyed.

Still, the guy who stole the signs and then tried to sell them has got to be among the most addle-brained would-be entreprenaurs ever.

SR Miller's avatar

Ahh, ain’t been to Montana, ‘ave ya?

Mind ya, it’s been a few years since I’ve been out to the trailhead(s) - legs {sigh}, but when my replacement parts come in and they get installed, I’ll reconfirm my memories. In the meantime, SmokyBear PSAs are on the radio

Joy Metcalf's avatar

i just did some research. I had thought Smokey was gone, but it appears that in 2001 the U.S. Forest Service changed the campaign to address the ecological damage that suppressing all fires caused. It changed the slogan to "Only YOU can prevent *wildfires*" and it's now allowing natural fires and putting its energy into stopping human-caused fires.

Native Americans used to do burns of forests to keep the underbrush down, so they still haven't gotten it totally right, but its definitely a change. I wonder how they determine that a fire is definitely caused by humans? Never mind. At least they finally responded to the damage done.

The Law of Unintended Consequences struck again!

SR Miller's avatar

Sounds about right - the issue of letting natural (lightning) caused fires burn is a hot button issue round my parts. I’m on the side of letting/controlling natural fires burn in that it helps minimize damage from the next fire. The problem is that we’ve got, what?, a 100 years or so or more of suppressing forest fires such that in some places the understory of burn able material creates raging treetop2treetop infernos.

On the other side of that are the controlled burns that go wild or a fire that’s totally accidental. Couple-three years ago in the middle of Montana, winter I think, a big blow came thru and a fire began in the prairie and most of/a good portion of a town went up in flames. Not the only prairies fire of late.

Black mountain, east of Missoula burned 15’ish years ago - it was raining ashes in town for days.

Elliot Penna's avatar

Ah! But how could you know the Smokey signs still existed. The guy stole them all! (Or as many as he could find.)

Sonia Nordenson's avatar

But only in Florida.

Margaret Allison's avatar

Dr. Malone! I had to chuckle at the end of this posts! Good job!

Barbara Williamson's avatar

Sick to death of the WHO and their wet blanket fear-mongering…setting us up for the next disease they want us to dash to the doctor and be vaxed against. Fine! There will always be a “Disease X” looming in our future as long as people like that troll, Fauci, and organizations like the WHO, continue to muck with increasing the deadliness of current “bugs” you have in your labs. Stop trying to create the “ultimate bioweapon” and the rest of the world will be just fine! It truly is “that simple.” (And anyone trying to create such killers should be given life in prison!)

Andrew Bamji's avatar

Not philosophy.

A scientist is a man in a dark room looking for something.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for something.

A metaphysician is a blind man in a dark room looking for something that isn't there.

Disease X requires the last of these, as it isn't there. My own aphorism is - don't cross a bridge until you come to it and don't even think about crossing a bridge until you know there is one.

Chris Coles FRSA's avatar

No! A philosopher is either sex, cursed with a thinking brain that, when discovering something to think about, enters a sometimes lifetime of exhaustion by trying to find out the answer to the question; why?

Laura's avatar

Love it. There is physics and everything else is metaphysics.