Reading archive 2021-09-13

How wellness influencers are fueling the anti-vaccine movement: For years, the wellness world has been entangled with vaccine hesitancy. Amid covid-19, the consequences are starker than ever.

Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs, family says

Does the supplement Prevagen improve memory? A court case is asking that question.

Opinion: Chris Wallace’s grilling of a GOP governor exposes a much bigger scam

Two Florida middle-schoolers charged with plotting mass shooting after ‘extensively studying’ Columbine

California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3 weeks old.

Space for dissent opened in Afghanistan after the Taliban was ousted 20 years ago. Now the militants are trying to slam it shut. - "'The United States should have just dropped a nuclear bomb on Afghanistan when it left, instead of letting us die slowly,' yelled one of the women, Rashmeen, her hands shaking. She spoke on the condition that she be identified only by her first name, for fear of reprisals."

Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court: Judges must be "hyper vigilant" to keep personal biases out of their decisions, said Barrett, who would not comment on the court's vote not to block Texas' abortion ban.

Texas wanted to be the tech haven of the U.S. Its new abortion bill and other measures are causing workers to rethink their move.: Tech workers are marking Texas off the list of places they’d consider working after the state passed the nation’s most restrictive abortion law

Fencing to be reinstalled ahead of ‘Justice for J6’ rally defending those arrested in Capitol riot

Afghan American woman’s escape highlights secretive CIA role in Kabul rescues

After COVID almost killed him, a Colorado fitness coach wishes he listened to his mom's advice [ed. note: COVID January 2020, thought was immune, caught again June 2021]

California’s disappearing salmon: The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state’s wild Chinook population at grave risk.

Native Thicket Conservation Project

THE MYTH OF THE THICKET-LESS PRAIRIE

Trump takes aim at George W. Bush, saying he shouldn’t ‘lecture’ about threat of domestic terrorism