# drug war (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover drug war. Page: Feed: --- ## [Razib Khan On Our Current Understanding Of Human Evolution](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/razib-khan-on-our-current-understanding.html) _2026-08-21 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Razib Khan's latest piece on human evolution in his Unsupervised Learning series takes a step back and looks at how the big picture has changed with new discoveries made in the last several decades. His main point is that archaic hominin introgression may have originally been a much higher percentage of ancestry, with most archaic hominin introgression expelled in the roughly 1,000 years after the… ## [Did Archaic Ghost Hominins Admix With Humans In Africa?](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/did-archaic-ghost-hominins-admix-with.html) _2026-08-19 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ This article supports the highly plausible theory that all humans share pre-Out of Africa admixture with "ghost" archaic hominin populations, but the methodology used is fairly new and untested. Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unadmixed… ## [Replicating MOND In A Spin-Foam Model](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/replicating-mond-in-spin-foam-model.html) _2026-08-14 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Spin-foam is a quantum gravity approach that quantizes space-time, rather than treating gravity as a separate force with a carrier boson comparable to a photon or a gluon. We argue that effects of the quantum spin-connection foam, which describes quantum gravity according to the precanonical quantization of General Relativity, may already be observed in the form of the small cosmological constant… ## [Hadronic B Decay Anomalies](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/hadronic-b-decay-anomalies.html) _2026-08-13 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ The anomaly of the day is an anomaly in a certain kind of B meson decay. I'm very skeptical and think it will go away and is probably due to poor modeling of the Standard Model prediction, but I'll note its existence in this post for further analysis. The decays B→PP, where the pseudoscalar P is a π or K, have been studied under the assumption of flavour SU(3) symmetry \[SU(3)F\]. The global fit… ## [Another Alternative To Particle Dark Matter](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-alternative-to-particle-dark.html) _2026-08-13 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A Covarying Coupling Constant theory performs similarly to, but not better than MOND. Both are much better at explaining galaxy rotation dynamics than a Cold Dark Matter theory using an NFW dark matter distribution (which is theoretically necessary for truly sterile dark matter particles). The Covarying Coupling Constants (CCC) framework , developed to account for high-redshift JWST observations,… ## [Denisovan Remains May Be Younger Than First Believed](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/denisovan-remains-may-be-younger-than.html) _2026-08-11 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Not long ago, we were finally able to find decent sized bones that proteins provided proteomic evidence (rather than DNA evidence which was not available) were able to match to Denisovans, which were found on the coast of the main island of Taiwan, finally putting a body together with the ghost population implied by DNA evidence. Two more leg bones were recently found . Earlier dating had… ## [Systemic Deviations From The Radial Acceleration Relation?](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/systemic-deviations-from-radial.html) _2026-08-11 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ There is weak evidence that the radial acceleration relation, which is implied by Milgrom's toy-model MOND theory of weak field gravity, requires a single parameter correction is correlated with the compactness of the galaxies measured, primarily in dwarf galaxies. Query if this could be due to the external field effect or due to gravitationally bound systems that are not in equilibrium? It could… ## [Is Milgrom's Constant Really Constant?](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/is-milgroms-constant-really-constant.html) _2026-08-07 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Reductionist physicists always like to derive physical constants, rather than than simply measure them. This paper proposes a way to do so for modified gravity in a MOND-like theory, expanding the theory's domain of applicability to galaxy clusters while sacrificing the universality of Milgrom's constant, a(0). It also hints, as Deur explicitly concludes, that MOND-like effects may be influenced… ## [Cloud-9](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/cloud-9.html) _2026-08-06 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A hydrogen gas cloud, called Cloud-9, that has been observed in deep space in the radio wave frequency, which cannot be seen in the visible light spectrum provides a way to distinguish between different dark matter hypotheses and while the paper below doesn't consider it, between modified gravity theories and dark matter hypotheses. Starless gas clouds provide a new way to test gravitational… ## [A Possible Glueball Resonance](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-possible-glueball-resonance.html) _2026-08-05 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A glueball is a strong force bound system without any valence quarks that binds gluons, the carrier bosons of the strong force instead of quarks. A well-established resonance seen in experiments at discovery level significance since 2011, whose internal structure is unclear, is shown in a new preprint to be consistent with a nearly pure pseudoscalar glueball state (i.e. a spin-0,… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zg1rbQl37sLv) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Sterile Neutrino Parameter Space Further Constrained](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/08/sterile-neutrino-parameter-space.html) _2026-08-04 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Observations of high energy out space sourced neutrinos from an Earth based neutrino detector further constrain the parameter space of possible sterile neutrinos in a way that the LHC, reactor experiments, and an Antarctica based cosmic ray observatory do not. While the sterile neutrino mass range probed (1-100 TeV) is vastly greater than the active neutrino mass range, this is a sterile neutrino… ## [A New Higgs Boson Mass Measurement](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-new-higgs-boson-mass-measurement.html) _2026-07-31 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Every new precision measurement of the Higgs boson mass is golden, and it is increasingly being pinned down to some precision. A measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the diphoton decay channel is performed using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data set recorded with the CMS detector between 2016 and 2018 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of… ## [LambdaCMD Still Broken](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/lambdacmd-still-broken.html) _2026-07-31 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ No matter how much you fuss with the LambdaCDM based simulations, they generically predict the wrong number and type of satellite galaxies (related study here ) producing a 2.4 sigma tension: The kinematic approach yields a larger diversity in central dark matter densities than expected from the CDM population, as inferred from the stellar-to-halo mass relation, with compact ultra-faints appearing… ## [The Linguistic Golden Age](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-linguistic-golden-age.html) _2026-07-28 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ The most notable findings of the study are that the number of languages in the world was already starting to decline five hundred years before the Columbian exchange and the Renaissance, and that small pre-agricultural populations placed an effective limit on the number of languages spoken in the pre-Holocene era. The peak number of languages was on the order of 10,000 to 35,000 according to the… ## [The Model Dependence Of Cosmological Neutrino Mass Estimates](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-model-dependence-of-cosmological.html) _2026-07-28 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Even with greatly relaxed cosmology based bounds in neutrino mass that free it from the strong model dependence it has in the deeply flawed ΛCDM model, cosmology based limits on neutrino mass have a 90% confidence level upper bound that is about five times more strict than direct measurements of neutrino mass. The relaxed less model dependent bound on neutrino mass still limits the lightest… ## [The Pre-Greek Substrate](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-pre-greek-substrate.html) _2026-07-27 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A nice Facebook reel discusses the pre-Greek substrate of the Indo-European Greek language for which we have about 1000 Greek words that don't appear to have Indo-European origins as evidence. The geographic extent of the pre-Greek substrate It notes the geographic extent of the substrate (which is similar to that of modern Greece plus the west coast of Turkey), and the subject matter of the… ## [Davidski At Eurogenes On The Indo-European Homeland](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/davidski-at-eurogenes-on-indo-european.html) _2026-07-27 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Davidski at Eurogenese has provided some thoughts on the Indo-European homeland in a teaser post with an updated large data set of ancient and modern DNA from Europe. He states: (Interactive version here ) - Yamnaya is almost certainly derived from Serednii Stih (aka Sredny Stog) . I've been talking about this for years and you can probably pick it up without too much trouble in the PCA above.… ## [New Combined Standard Model Constant Measurements](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-combined-standard-model-constant.html) _2026-07-27 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A new study tries to extract several Standard Model Constant measurements from the same data set and obtains results generally consistent with prior efforts to measure the same constants, but with greater uncertainty than the state of the art measurements of these quantities. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012-2020) ## [X17 Hypothesis Less Constrained Following Reanalysis of Data](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/x17-hypothesis-less-constrained.html) _2026-07-27 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ The conclusion of a new reanalysis of X17 relevant experimental data loosens the constraints greatly. But, I remain deeply skeptical of its existence. Also, why use units of 10^-3 GeV instead of MeV in your key chart? \[T\]he revised exclusion limits no longer extend to the X17 mass of 16.88 MeV, leaving a sizeable region of parameter space for the vector-boson interpretation of the anomaly, bounded… ## [The Pipeline](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-pipeline.html) _2026-07-26 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ I scan about 45,000 physics articles a year. I bookmark and think carefully about around 4,500 of them a year. I read the underlying article's body text for about 450 of them a year. I blog about 150 of them a year. This is post 3,001 at this blog. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012-2020) ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/R6B1b57xXNlC) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Getting Serious About Re-Arming the Force](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2026/07/getting-serious-about-re-arming-force.html) _2026-07-24 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ It's a sign when a small company gets a big contract to move quickly in producing large numbers of additively manufactured missiles to catch up with the demand signal - a sign that it's time to move. See U.S. Navy Orders Low-cost Missiles to Expand Fleet, Allied Long-Range Maritime Strike Capabilities CoAspire announced its selection for the Navy’s Coalition Heterogenous Affordable Offensive… ## [Another Gravitational Alternative To Dark Matter](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/another-gravitational-alternative-to.html) _2026-07-23 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Entropic gravity models, which imply that gravity is an emergent law of physics, rather than a fundamental force in its own right, are a very attractive possibility from a reductionist perspective. This paper looks at an entropic gravity theory that would eliminate the need for dark matter and suggests a way to observationally distinguish it from ΛCDM and MOND models. It doesn't work out the… ## [Strong Field General Relativity Fits The Data](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/strong-field-general-relativity-fits.html) _2026-07-22 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ All strong gravitational field observations are indistinguishable from general relativity. The troublesome cases are in weak gravitational fields in very large systems like galaxies that are usually modeled with simple Newtonian gravity because the math necessary to calculate their behavior in full GR is too hard and is assumed by good arguments, but without actual calculations that could capture… ## [Neutrinos Are Very Likely Very Light](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/neutrinos-are-very-likely-very-light.html) _2026-07-22 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Adopting the cosmological bounds on the sum of the neutrino masses and making some other unambitious assumptions, this paper argues that the lightest of the three neutrino masses is less than 2.3 meV and considers a possible phenomenological relations between the three neutrino masses. Direct measurements of the electron neutrino mass at the Katrin experiment bound it at less than 450 meV with… ## [Medieval DNA From Russia](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/medieval-dna-from-russia.html) _2026-07-20 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ Medieval ancient DNA from Eastern Europe is consistent with the historical and linguistic narrative of the peoples who make up the Russian state. The foundation of the first ancient Rus’ state occurred as a result of the consolidation of diverse communities inhabiting Eastern Europe during the second half of the first millennium CE. Historical sources imply that these communities mostly include… ## [The Widest Galaxy](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-widest-galaxy.html) _2026-07-20 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ The galaxy with the greatest diameter ever observed (IC1101) has a diameter of 520 kiloparsecs (1.7 million light years), and it is still growing. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy has a diameter of about 100,000 light years (about 31 kiloparsecs). Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012-2020) ## [More On Wide Binaries](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/more-on-wide-binaries.html) _2026-07-17 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A paper claims to see MOND in a reanalysis of wide-binary star data. I'm still on the fence. Wide binary stars provide natural laboratories for directly probing gravity in the low-acceleration regime, as dark matter inferred from any viable gravity has negligible effects on their internal dynamics. Various recent studies including Bayesian 3D analyses have shown that wide binaries with separations… ## [The Latest Global Electroweak Fits Of Standard Model Physical Constants](https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-latest-global-electroweak-fits.html) _2026-07-14 · andrew · Dispatches From Turtle Island_ A global electroweak fit combines experimentally measured values of Standard Model physical constants with the theoretical relationships between those constants in the electroweak sector of the Standard Model to determine where, within the range of uncertainties in the experimental measurements the true value of those physical constants is most likely to be. Basically, it uses theory to eke out a… ## [ONDCP shields Big Pharma from competition](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/07/ondcp-shields-big-pharma-from-competition/) _2026-07-11 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is enormous. A recent analysis placed its 2025 market value at roughly $520 billion, making it the world’s largest national drug market. Government protection of the industry is achieved in part through enforcement of Schedule I Continue reading ## [Under Reported: US Navy Aid to Earthquake Damaged Venezuela](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2026/07/underr-reported-us-navy-aid-to.html) _2026-07-08 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ Back to 2 July 2026, At the direction of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and the Department of War, assigned U.S. military forces are actively supporting Department of State-led disaster assistance to the people of Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes on June 24. The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) and Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oftNnIc72t75) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Dictators and corruption in drug war politics](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/06/dictators-and-corruption-in-drug-war-politics/) _2026-06-13 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ Approximately $1 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid is provided for domestic drug enforcement operations in foreign countries. The money is allocated through multiple U.S. federal agencies. An exact number for the total funding is obtained only by adding up Continue reading ## [AI explains how drug wars are lost](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/05/ai-explains-how-drug-wars-are-lost/) _2026-05-08 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ Artificial Intelligence appears at first glance to be an obvious choice for sourcing new strategies to win the war on drugs. AI might have worked in this regard if only drug wars possessed some kind of logical or realistic narrative. Continue reading ## [Calculating the odds of winning a drug war](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/03/calculating-the-odds-of-winning-a-drug-war/) _2026-03-26 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ If winning the drug war means removing all access to illegal drugs then the odds of victory are close to zero. Supply‑side enforcement in the U.S. is unreliable. It fails to reduce drug availability or overall rates of addiction. Drugs Continue reading ## [Chemophobia and taboo in drug prohibition](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/02/chemophobia-and-taboo-in-drug-prohibition/) _2026-02-21 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ Chemophobia is an irrational fear of chemicals and chemistry. Many examples exist. Some individuals believe certain synthetic chemicals are toxins whereas “natural” or derived substances are safe, even though the two substances are identical in every other respect. Similar reactions Continue reading ## [Inside the new terrorism of drug prohibition](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/02/inside-the-new-terrorism-of-drug-prohibition/) _2026-02-04 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ On February 25, 2025, the U.S. State Department under the direction of Marco Rubio accused several major drug cartels of being terrorist organizations. The accused include the Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cártel del Noreste, the Gulf Continue reading ## [Should Venezuela legalize marijuana?](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2026/01/should-venezuela-legalize-marijuana/) _2026-01-15 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ Regional political changes are a window of opportunity to fully legalize marijuana in Venezuela and other countries south of the U.S. border. Done properly it could lead to ending marijuana smuggling in the Western Hemisphere. Marijuana in Venezuela is currently Continue reading ## [Saturday (and maybe Sunday) Is Old Radio Day - Have Gun Will Travel "In an Evil Time" (1958)](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2026/01/saturday-and-maybe-sunday-is-old-radio.html) _2026-01-04 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ Hat tip: Old Time Radio Researchers for keeping these shows alive ## [Revisiting China's Sea Lines of Communication](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2026/01/revisiting-chinas-sea-lines-of.html) _2026-01-02 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ In 2007, I posted on my blog a look at Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs)( here ). Most of the links in that post are now dead or moved, but the subject is one vital to the US and other countries. One of those links contained the following from Stanley B. Weeks, a frequent SLOC commenter: "The increasing importance of SLOC security and access for states in the East Asia region will result in their… ## [Saturday (or Any Day) Is Old Radio Day: Jack Benny 1933 "Sherlock Holmes and King Kong"](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/12/saturday-or-any-day-is-old-radio-day.html) _2025-12-16 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ Hat tip: Old Time Radio Researchers without whom almost none of the great old radio programs would be availabel for us today. ## [It isn’t about the drugs.](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2025/12/it-isnt-about-the-drugs/) _2025-12-08 · Pete · Drug WarRant_ Every time you hear anyone (including news networks) defending the bombing of boats, saying that this is about terrorist drug cartels and we need this war to prevent Americans from being killed by drugs, you are being bamboozled. If you Continue reading ## [More stuff coming soon](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/12/more-stuff-coming-soon.html) _2025-12-03 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ For a variety of reasons, I've let this blog be idle for a little while. However, I have some things that I'm working on and I'll be posting more soon. Thank you for visiting and for your patience. ## [Marijuana prohibition and the origins of totalitarianism](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2025/11/marijuana-prohibition-and-the-origins-of-totalitarianism/) _2025-11-30 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ In totalitarian societies, marijuana use is a crime of the mind. Its consumption is distinguished from crimes of violence and other types of offenses in that its use symbolizes a flagrant dissent that challenges the authoritarian ideologies prohibiting it. Marijuana Continue reading ## [Saturday Is Old Radio Day: Our Miss Brooks "Taking the Rap for Mr. Boynton" (1949)](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/11/saturday-is-old-radio-day-our-miss.html) _2025-11-15 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ Thanks to Old Time Radio Researchers ## [Old Radio Day: "If Freedom Failed - A Matter of Fact"(1951)](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/11/old-radio-day-if-freedom-failed-matter.html) _2025-11-11 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ ## [MKUltra resurfaces as a new HBO series](https://www.drugwarrant.com/2025/11/mkultra-resurfaces-as-a-new-hbo-series/) _2025-11-09 · Servetus · Drug WarRant_ CIA mind control experiments that exposed willing and more often unwilling people to mind-altering chemicals are the focus of an HBO series now in early production by David Chase. Chase is best known as the creator of the Emmy-winning mob Continue reading ## [Friday Film: ASROC Weapon System (1963)](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/11/friday-film-ascroc-weapon-system.html) _2025-11-07 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_ Thanks to Friends of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD850 ## [Saturday (and sometimes another day) Is Old Radio Day: "Room Service" Old Gold Comedy Theatre (1944)](https://www.eaglespeak.us/2025/10/saturday-and-sometimes-another-day-is.html) _2025-10-27 · Mark Tempest · EagleSpeak_