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Megan Smith was especially conscious of the threat COVID posed to her six-week-old daughter in October 2021. The now 36-year-old from Buffalo, N.Y., was “doing everything we could to protect her,” Smith says. Ultimately, though, it wasn’t COVID that sent her baby to the hospital but a more mundane virus that infects nearly everyone by their second birthday: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Smith’s daughter required hospitalization and intubation from this respiratory virus, which infects the nose, throat, lungs and…

Lankum’s fourth album goes to new extremes, and not simply by dredging more trenches of their trademark gothic intensity. Four years after 2019’s raw-skinned The Livelong Day, with its exploratory epics, False Lankum teems with similar moments of iridescent bliss. But the 12 tracks here also unfurl into each other without a break, alternately lulling the listener then casting them into storms of shuddering sounds.Recorded in Dublin’s Hellfire Studio by day, while the band spent their nights sleeping in a Martello tower on…

Shortcomings of current metagenomic analyses. Credit: Serrano-Antón et al., CC-BY 4.0Research study of simulated microbial communities shows analyses are flawed by incomplete <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>DNA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in…

DC Head James Gunn Says Henry Cavill Is Not Being Cast In The Role Of Frankenstein ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) James Gunn angered a huge fanbase after not showing the exit doors to Henry Cavill’s Superman. Cavill generated a massive fan following after portraying the role of Superman in the DCEU aka DCU. Apparently, he did not fit Gunn’s vision for what the latter had planned for his upcoming Superman projects. A few days ago, rumours started circulating that Gunn spoke to the actor about other DC roles and the name…

Image via Warner Bros. It would seem that, like a dog with a bone, fans cannot stop discussing actor Henry Cavill‘s DC career, or lack of thereof, now that James Gunn is in charge. Ever since the star was shockingly dropped from his role as Superman after making a surprise return mere weeks earlier in Black Adam, fans have wondered if he has any future in the franchise, even if that is a monstrous one. Much like an errant plastic bag gets buffeted around a dirty parking lot, baseless rumors have a way of…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Only 8% of nearly 25,000 Americans correctly identified all false political claims presented to them as part of a recent national survey. The survey also found that those who believed false vaccine statements were more than twice as likely to believe inaccurate claims about politics when compared…

Members of Rise and Resist participate in their weekly "Truth Tuesday" protest at News Corp headquarters on February 21, 2023 in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesFox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said some anchors of the company's TV networks parroted false fraud claims in the months following the 2020 election, according to new court papers out Monday. In new filings as part of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox and its networks, Murdoch said he doubted…

Rupert Murdoch said some Fox News hosts and commentators endorsed the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen, according to testimony in an ongoing defamation lawsuit.  Voting-machine company Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for defamation, over false claims made on the network’s air that its technology enabled widespread fraud in the election. The new details emerged in briefs in which the companies laid out evidence they plan to…

New court documents show that Rupert Murdoch and his top lieutenants at Fox News were aware that former president Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but agreed to give them continued coverage in an effort to keep its unhappy viewers from fleeing.The stunning revelations based on deposition testimony were in a brief filed Monday in Delaware State Court by Dominion Voting Systems, the latest salvo in the company’s’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against the conservative news network.In his…

marilyn-manson-accuser-says-her-claims-of-s*xual-abuse-against-him-are-false(Photo Credit –Instagram) Ashley Morgan Smithline, who earlier said that she had suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Marilyn Manson, stating that Manson had tied her up and r*ped her while she slept, drank her blood and carved his initials into her thigh, has backtracked on her statements. “I was brainwashed, and it makes me feel disgusting,” she said, alongside a photo in which she displayed the scar. But in a three-page declaration…