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ut facts than the average person were completely bamboozled by the belief that they could see a white supremacist right in front of them. Now UFOs, some people believe exist because so many people saw it with their own eyes. With their own eyes they saw it. They saw the UFOs so therefore they must exist, right? Well several million people saw this poor Jeopardy contestant look like a white suprem…

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but it's certainly possible.

All right, here's some fake news alert. So you may have seen some video clips of the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky. And she mentioned there that we now have, and this was mentioned in a tweet on This Week ABC News said, let's see, she's quoted as saying we now have science that has really just evolved in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe, they are effective. What? What? What did I just say? Are you telling me that the head of the CDC only found out in the last two weeks that the vaccines are safe and effective? That's what the tweet says.

And it's a tweet from This Week ABC. That wouldn't be fake news, right? I mean they wouldn't just blatantly tweet out a complete falsehood, would they? But it looks like they're saying that the CDC just figured out that vaccines are safe. That's what the quote says. I'm reading it with my own eyes. It's got to be true because I'm looking at it, right? If you see it with your own eyes it's true, isn't that what we've all learned? No I hope not. No, you see it with your own eyes it doesn't mean anything. Doesn't mean it's true at all.

In fact the tweet is completely misleading compared to the situation. So I listened to the full clip and the tweet is just misleading. Of course they've known that the vaccinations had passed all the testing. Of course they knew the vaccines were safe. There was more to the statement. This is a report where she got the statement kind of cut off so that it looked like she was just talking about the safety of the vaccines as if they had just discovered it this week or last week. No. The specific thing she said is that we just discovered like in the last few days that if you're vaccinated but you also get the coronavirus, which can happen, you basically can't spread it. That's a big deal. That's a gigantic big deal that you can't spread it even if you have it as long as you're vaccinated. That changes everything.

And that was the main context of the rest of her point. She said we know the vaccines are safe and effective and recently we found out they're even better than we thought. That's all it was. She literally said nothing except things you'd want her to say, which is we thought it was safe, now we know it's extra safe. And on top of that we know that vaccinated people who have it can't give it. That's gigantic. Totally. But the way it was taken out of context I think you're going to see some fake news that acts like they didn't know it was safe or something. Nothing like that is true. Not that anybody could know for sure anything's safe.

There's big news in the nuclear energy business. So apparently there's this consortium led by Rolls-Royce that is building these smaller nuclear reactors and they call them the

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small modular reactors, SMRs. And they're going to build all these mini reactors and they found some new technology to increase their output and make them even better. So now these factory-built reactors, did you hear that? Factory-built reactors. They're going to build a nuclear power plant in a factory and then ship it to the location. Do you know how big a deal that is? That's everything. That…

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