Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy

On May 27, 2026 at 8:47:33 AM MST, "zendejo" wrote
<[email protected]>:

> On 5/26/26 5:16 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>> On May 26, 2026 at 3:33:55 PM MST, "zendejo" wrote
>> <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> On 5/26/26 4:06 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>> Twisted science and scientists have been know to lie.
>>>> You reject science. Thanks for admitting my point.
>>> 
>>> He rejects junk or pay to play science, you otoh revel in it.
>> 
>> I looked to science... peer reviewed.

You ignored this.

>> 
> You misspelled "grant-herded" pay for play.
> 
> https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/follow-the-climate-change-money
> 
> he first iron rule of American politics is: Follow the money. This
> explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
> 
> Shortly after the latest Chicken Little climate change report was
> published last month, I noted on CNN that one reason so many hundreds of
> scientists are persuaded that the sky is falling is that they are paid
> handsomely to do so.
> 
> I noted that “In America and around the globe governments have created a
> multi-billion dollar Climate Change Industrial Complex.” And then I
> added: “A lot of people are getting really, really rich off of the
> climate change industry.” According to a recent report by the U.S.
> Government Accountability Office, “Federal funding for climate change
> research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation has
> increased from $2.4 billion in 1993 to $11.6 billion in 2014, with an
> additional $26.1 billion for climate change programs and activities
> provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009.”
> 
> This doesn’t mean that the planet isn’t warming. But the tidal wave of
> funding does reveal a powerful financial motive for scientists to
> conclude that the apocalypse is upon us. No one hires a fireman if there
> are no fires. No one hires a climate scientist (there are thousands of
> them now) if there is no catastrophic change in the weather. Why doesn’t
> anyone in the media ever mention this?
> 
> But when I lifted this hood, it incited more hate mail than from
> anything I’ve said on TV or written. Could it be that this rhetorical
> missile hit way too close to home?
> 
> How dare I impugn the integrity of scientists and left-wing think-tanks
> by suggesting that their research findings are perverted by hundreds of
> billions of dollars of taxpayer handouts. The irony of this indignation
> is that any academic whose research dares question the “settled science”
> of the climate change complex is instantly accused of being a shill for
> the oil and gas industry or the Koch brothers.
> 
> Apparently, if you take money from the private sector to fund research,
> your work is inherently biased, but if you get multimillion-dollar
> grants from Uncle Sam, you are as pure as the freshly fallen snow.
> 
> How big is the Climate Change Industrial Complex today? Surprisingly, no
> one seems to be keeping track of all the channels of funding. A few
> years ago Forbes magazine went through the federal budget and estimated
> about $150 billion in spending on climate change and green energy
> subsidies during President Obama’s first term.
> 
> That didn’t include the tax subsidies that provide a 30 percent tax
> credit for wind and solar power — so add to those numbers about $8
> billion to $10 billion a year. Then add billions more in costs
> attributable to the 29 states with renewable energy mandates that
> require utilities to buy expensive “green” energy.
> 
> 
> Worldwide the numbers are gargantuan. Five years ago, a leftist group
> called the Climate Policy Initiative issued a study which found that
> “Global investment in climate change” reached $359 billion that year.
> Then to give you a sense of how money-hungry these planet-saviors are,
> the CPI moaned that this spending “falls far short of what’s needed” a
> number estimated at $5 trillion.
> 
> For $5 trillion we could feed everyone on the planet, end malaria, and
> provide clean water and reliable electricity to every remote village in
> Africa. And we would probably have enough money left over to find a cure
> for cancer and Alzheimers.
> 
> The entire Apollo project to put a man on the moon cost less than $200
> billion. We are spending twice that much every year on climate change.
> 
> This tsunami of government money distorts science in hidden ways that
> even the scientists who are corrupted often don’t appreciate. If you are
> a young eager-beaver researcher who decides to devote your life to the
> study of global warming, you’re probably not going to do your career any
> good or get famous by publishing research that the crisis isn’t happening.
> 
> But if you’ve built bogus models that predict the crisis is getting
> worse by the day, then step right up and get a multimillion dollar grant.
> 
> Now here’s the real scandal of the near trillion dollars that
> governments have stolen from taxpayers to fund climate change hysteria
> and research. By the industry’s own admission there has been almost no
> progress worldwide in actually combatting climate change. The latest
> reports by the U.S. government and the United Nations say the problem is
> getting worse not better and we have not delayed the apocalypse by a
> single day.
> 
> Has there ever been such a massive government expenditure that has had
> such miniscule returns on investment? After three decades of “research”
> the only “solution” is for the world to stop using fossil fuels, which
> is like saying that we should stop growing food.
> 
> Really? The greatest minds of the world entrusted with hundreds of
> billions of dollars can only come up with a solution that would entail
> the largest government power grab in world history, shutting down
> industrial production (just look at the catastrophe in Germany when they
> went all in for green energy), and throwing perhaps billions of human
> beings into poverty? If that’s the remedy, I will take my chances on a
> warming planet.


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