On the final Friday of every month I curate a number of the observations and insights that had been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.
RETRACTED: Security Analysis and Danger Evaluation of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Energetic Ingredient, Glyphosate, for People
by way of @Jan Wildeboer
The article’s conclusions concerning the carcinogenicity of glyphosate are solely based mostly on unpublished research from Monsanto, which have did not display tumorigenic potential. The dealing with (co) Editor-in-Chief additionally grew to become conscious that by the point of writing of this text within the journal, the authors didn’t embrace a number of different long-term persistent toxicity and carcinogenicity research, that had been already finished on the time of writing their assessment in 1999. —Science Direct [undated retraction but assumed to be recent, after 25 years since original publication]
“All the pieces will be taken from a person however one factor: the final of the human freedoms — to decide on one’s perspective in any given set of circumstances, to decide on one’s personal approach.” —Viktor Frankl
It’s costly to be poor. It’s ironic however true. You get fees and costs for the whole lot. Larger rates of interest. Overdraft charges. Late charges. Having solely sufficient to purchase what you want proper now as a substitute of shopping for in bulk. Shedding your job as a result of you may’t afford to get your automotive fastened. Shedding your automotive since you don’t have a job. Even your psychological schools are drained, as you’re compelled to repeatedly eat low-nutrition meals, “sleep” in depressing circumstances, and be uncovered to toxins and lack of medical therapy. The shortage of liquidity wipes you out. Life actually does kick you whilst you’re down.
You may’t inform somebody trapped in that vicious cycle to “simply” get a job or “simply” make accountable selections. Generally, no quantity of fine decision-making can cease the vortex sucking them down. So the following time you’re tempted to position ethical judgment on somebody who lives in poverty, suppose twice.
Signed, somebody who has been each a Have and a Have-Not. —@Aaron
“Extended publicity [to airborne viruses] in shared, poorly ventilated areas, which doubtlessly consists of a number of infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission greater than shut contact.”—Nature 2025-11-27
We discover that the emissions from the investments, personal jets and superyachts of fifty of the world’s richest folks is greater than the consumption emissions of the poorest 2% (155 million) of individuals mixed. In simply over an hour and a half, by means of their investments, superyachts and personal jets, a billionaire will emit greater than the typical individual will emit of their lifetime. Our analysis indicators that local weather breakdown can’t be prevented with out lowering extreme wealth focus amongst an elite few. —Oxfam: Carbon Inequality Kills
