Doctors in Australia's outsourced immigration prisons say they are designed to damage (even kill) the imprisoned refugees, and to cover it up.

Acupuncture is equivalent, for treating symptoms of menopause, to fake needles that only press the skin.

This does not conclusively prove there is absolutely no validity in acupuncture. Conceivably mere pressure has some unknown effect. Or it could be the well-known placebo effect.

US citizens: call on the USDA to stop burying Jonathan Lundgren's research on dangers of neonics.

US citizens: call on the Senate to reject immigration policies that target people by race or religion.

US citizens: call on Obama to drop the Hyde amendment from his proposed budget.

The Hyde amendment forbids use of US government funds to pay for "abortion as a method of family planning" — for instance, avoiding having a baby because you know that would be a very bad idea.

SCROTUS may insist on putting it back, but Obama need not propose it.

(SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.)