Mark Hubbard

Jeffrey Epstein and the Myth of the Culture Wars - Christianity Today Some leaders of different political stripes teach us to hate each other, but they’re playing for the same team.

The Epstein files reveal many things- but one is that dark and cynical people have an interest in keeping us divided and distracted while they prey on the innocent and plunder the vulnerable.

www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/jeff...

“The sign of true, growing, gospel disciples is their gentleness”

Source: The Call to Discipleship

I’m convinced that the antivax movement will look like an absolute act of stupidity to historians. The US willingly reintroducing measles is just baffling…

Vaccine Immunity vs. Infection Out in the Wild What’s the real difference between immunity from vaccines and immunity from infection?

Vaccines offer a pathway to immunity—without the suffering. They’re carefully designed to activate your immune system in a controlled way.

Author: Aimee Pugh-Bernard, PhD

Infographic on the chemistry of pumpkins. The colour of pumpkins is due to carotenoid compounds such as beta-carotene, the same compound that gives carrots their orange colour. The vegetal aroma of pumpkins is mainly due to cis-3-hexen-1-ol, along with other six-carbon alcohols and aldehydes. Canned pumpkin is often not the same type of pumpkin as those used for carving, and consequently, the aroma compounds differ, including burnt-smelling 2-methylbutanal, coffee furanone, and furfural. Pumpkin spice flavour has little to do with pumpkin and more to do with the spices added, including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove.

It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃

Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...

#ChemSky 🧪

Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava NEMA) has invited public comments on a proposal by KALRO to commercialise genetically modified (GM) cassava.

Kenya Moves to Commercialise Genetically Modified Cassava kenyanwallstreet.com?p=156236 via @kenyanwalstreet delays in biotech adoption have cost Kenya KSh 20.3 billion (US $157 m) over the past 5 years.

We need a lot more Dr. Jessica Steiers to pull a body of evidence together like this
@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social 👏
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/how-a-gove...
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RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

Play music tonight!!

What a day! What a view! #MtRainier

I can’t believe raspberry got left off

A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

Hop crop looks pretty good this year

Vaccines save 2-3 million lives every year.
They are incredibly safe.

The risk of a serious adverse event after vaccination is ~1 in 1,000,000.

Context:
The risk of dying in a car crash: 1 in 100.
The risk of peanut allergy: 1 in 200,000.
The risk of dying from choking on food is 1 in 2500.

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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation' t’s springtime in the US, which means the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their annual Dirty Dozen list, the bane of everyone who understands

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation' geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/07/07/v...

Had to go for a sanity hike

Infographic on how the sun affects our skin. The graphic highlights the different ranges of UV light and how it can both cause skin damage and lead to the synthesis of vitamin D. It goes on to highlight how melanin absorbs and dissipates the energy from UV light and how UV light can damage DNA.

With temperatures soaring in Europe right now, here’s a look at how the sun affects our skin in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#ChemSky 🧪

Roan Mountain, NC

AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

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Ninebark down by the creek