What caused this…is still a mystery. – Chuanmin Hu
It always seems that the best Halloween videos appear after it’s too late to feature them before Halloween! This one’s from Claudia Cristophe and the links above it are from Clarkhat (the first two), Elizabeth N. Brown, Nun Ya, and Radley Balko (in that order).
- Radio ghosts.
- Soylent green is people!
- Attack of the seaweed monster.
- Peoria has a low threshold of terror.
- Gang of thugs shoots woman while trying to abduct her grandchild.
From the Archives
- Devils, monsters, Ouija, cops, words, bullying, Gollum, “Annabel Lee”, censorship, government, horror films and two horror shorts.
- You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the Reaper.
- It’s not only cops who think that believing a woman is a whore is grounds for assaulting her.
- Woman says it’s “inappropriate” for a Halloween party to be held Halloween weekend.
- Naturally, they don’t speak up for whores or donate any money to decrim.
- These types of procedures are very common in Swedish-flavored regimes.
- Cops, puritanism, clowns, investors, Halloween & real-life horror stories.
- When will amateurs learn that the War on Whores affects them as well?
- That “1 in 5” claim rests on defining “attempted forced kissing” as rape.
- Belle Knox’s story used as basis for an episode of Law and Order: SVU.
- LA Times reporters are forbidden to call the acts of rapist cops “rape”.
- Indian whores protest another attempt to impose the Swedish model.
- This academic’s blind spot about “sex trafficking” hysteria is massive.
- Another example of the state punishing citizens for following its lead.
- More pearl-clutching about young pop-stars from old, dried-up ones.
- US military bans personnel in Korea from buying drinks for women.
- Any advice for a married man who has fallen in love with a lesbian?
- Seven Edinburgh sauna licences renewed despite police objections.
- Interviews with activists about the rescue industry and its myths.
- It was a “cleansing initiative”. You know, like “ethnic cleansing”.
- Irish politicians can always agree on control of women’s bodies.
- Media pretend bureaucrat hiring whores is somehow shocking.
- European anti-migration policies grow steadily more horrible.
- “Right. And the Invisible Fence collar…lets my dog be a dog.“
- “He had merely wanted to ‘pray for those dancers by name’.”
- Teen boys from Norway set up a fake escort service scam.
- The zombie legislation called CISPA just won’t stay dead.
- How should I act for my boyfriend who’s into cuckolding?
- Nigeria threatens to make paying for sex a capital crime.
- Zürich’s tippelzones have too much surveillance to work.
- A short biography of Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine.
- A collection of things to read and watch for Halloween.
- US Marine tried for murder of a sex worker in Hawaii.
- How cops and the media collaborate to destroy lives.
- Radio host tries to pass off sexual assault as BDSM.
- Church employee loses job for attempted bestiality.
- Please, Roman Kalinowski, become a prohibitionist.
- A powerful argument against draconian sentences.
- Theresa May moans about “modern day slavery”.
- “Trafficking” as an excuse for surveillance again.
- On the relationship between harlotry and death.
- Cops refer to teens as a criminal “sexting ring”.
- October 2010 and October 2011 in retrospect.
- His motive is obvious, but this is still freakish.
- Another excellent essay from Wendy Lyon.
- Cops plunge down a “sexting” rabbit hole.
- My two previous columns for Halloween.
- The vile mistreatment of Alicia Beltran.
- I love it when they feed on their own.
- An online “human trafficking” course.
- My most recent trip to New Orleans.
- Business as usual in a police state.
- The infamous “tiger porn” case.
- Sara Kruzan is finally paroled.
- 25,000 “victims” in Chicago?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- End demand squared.
- Messiah of Evil.
- Titcoin.
re: Soylent green is people!
Well, I’m not sure what kind of lab protocols Clear Food uses, but I’d hardly be surprised at DNA testing indicating contamination of hot dogs – even without the somewhat sinister but obvious explanation.
As I’m sure Dr Magnanti can confirm, PCR amplification of DNA is very sensitive. So sensitive that it’s difficult for even well equipped and fully accredited labs to avoid contaminating samples (much more difficult than is generally let on to juries, who typically have information about lab error rates withheld from them while being plied with astronomical match odds).
If the contamination happened before the sample even reached the lab then what you get is something like the case of The Phantom of Heilbronn.
So to detect pig DNA in one of these hot dogs it would only be necessary for it to have come into brief contact with some part of the production or distribution chain that also dealt with pork. It’s even possible that enough pig DNA could have been aerosolised and carried through a ventilation system to do so.
As for human DNA. Well, did someone touch the hot dog? Did someone even touch the business end of their tongs then pick up the hot dog with them? Did a drop of sweat or flake of dandruff go astray?
There’s a bit of a paradox involved in the increasing sensitivity of DNA testing. As it becomes more sensitive in many ways it becomes less specific. So in a sense, the more it tells you the less you know. (And don’t even get me started on the difficulty of interpreting mixed profiles).
It says they use next-generation sequencing. The principle is you get millions of short sequencing reads and then compare with known sequences. If the number of sequences is high enough you can calculate ratios with some accurary. It’s impossible to say how good their study is without more detail on what they did actually.
It’s kind of weird that some countries have nothing to eat while others spends a fortune sequencing their hot-dogs to make sure they’re not eating the wrong kind of animal.
……
‘I know this may seem a somewhat esoteric question, but what’s in the
meat pies?’
‘Meat.’
‘And what kind of meat?’
‘Ah, you want one of the gourmet meat pies, then?’
Yeah, that does sound expensive. But it’s not so much the sequencing and calculation techniques I was talking about as the protocols for collection, storage and maintaining a clean environment – as well as how many PCR cycles they use.
Two questions, for example, would be whether they keep elimination profiles of everyone involved in collection and processing to ensure that the human DNA isn’t coming from one of their own people or whether they keep and compare polymorphic pork sequences to check whether the volatile, already amplified products of previous rounds of PCR have been properly eliminated from the lab between runs.
They probably run a control sausage with each experiment…