Polio existed well before DDT .. and persists places without current DDT. It goes away in areas of high vaccination rates. DDT not connected

Polio existed before DDT

No, DDT does not cause polio. DDT cannot cause polio. Polio is caused by viruses. Vaccines stop polio, and eradicate the disease.

Hard to believe about polio? Not if you lived through the time and know polio victims. Get real history of polio; it’ll open your eyes. Get David Oshinsky’s book, “Polio, An American Story.” Real history is more interesting than hoax conspiracies. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Polio in USA crashed after 1955 vaccine introduction. DDT use rose after that and was not ended until 1972.

FUN FACT Polio existed prior to DDT. The first documented polio epidemic in the US was in Vermont in 1894. 132 total cases reported. Terrain theorists are such liars.

DDT did not exist until 1940. Pesticides used prior to DDT were not used so much in mass crop spraying. Mass crop spraying delivers only minute, de minimis doses to consumers. Polio plagued humans for 3,000 years before DDT.

So the method is simple. Take a real document, alter its title strip its context and sell the labs exist as if it proved the labs are bioweapons sites. The first claim was true. The second was rejected by almost everyone who looked at it. Don't let the map do your thinking.

Russia took this exact claim to the Biological Weapons Convention in 2022. Eighty-nine states heard it. Russia ended up supported by eight countries: Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe. The US and Ukraine were backed by more than five times as many

This isn't new and it was never secret. The Pentagon published the numbers years ago: about $200M since 2005 supporting 46 Ukrainian public health and diagnostic labs, all Ukrainian owned. The facility lists were posted publicly by the State Department and the US embassy in Kyiv

The labs themselves trace to the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, running since the 1990s. Its job is the opposite of building weapons: secure and destroy Soviet-era pathogen stocks, employ former Soviet weapons scientists in civilian work, run disease surveillance.

The slide's own text says the institute "probably houses at least some dangerous pathogens and almost certainly remains vulnerable to long-standing Russian information operations, seizure or damage." That's a risk assessment about a Russian target.

The Rybar graphic changes that title to "Russian Misinformation, Other Potential Operations." They swapped one word and invented an entire phrase. The document is about Russia targeting this lab with disinformation. They flipped it into the document endorsing that disinformation.

What's in dispute is what those facts mean. And here the propaganda gives itself away in one detail. The real ODNI slide on the Kharkiv veterinary institute is titled "Ongoing Target for Russian Disinformation."

First, the concessions, because they matter. ODNI did release a declassified slide deck on June 12, under outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard. US-funded labs in Ukraine are real. Black & Veatch did build them. Trump did sign a gain of function executive order. None of that is in dispute.

THREAD | Russian propaganda is circulating a map claiming a new US intelligence document "confirms" American bioweapons labs in Ukraine. The document is real. What it actually says is close to the opposite of the claim. Let me walk through it.

Trump is fooling only himself.

It is true that Iran used its power over the strait to assume leverage over the US and eventually compel a favorable settlement. But this obscures what may be the more significant achievement: that after 40 days of bombing, Iran never lost the ability to both keep the strait closed and threaten regional infrastructure. Its missile cities still stand, its launchers survived, its drone/missile arsenal were depleted but, thanks to careful management, remain potent. In the end, Iranian missiles and drones proved more effective at accomplishing their mission than US TLAMs, F-35s, and strategic bombers.

It is frankly embarrassing that a sitting U.S. Vice President is unaware of one of the most elementary facts of World War II. Nazi Germany did not negotiate an end to World War II. The war in Europe ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender after total military defeat and the collapse of the regime in May 1945.

Trump wants to throw out lawful votes, disenfranchise U.S. citizens and subvert the outcomes of elections entirely. Don’t let him get away with it. “Stop trying to meet him halfway,” @marceelias says. “There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.”