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ny questions, you couldn't do a deep dive, but you knew the name and somebody else had told you the claim. You didn't even hear from the person. Is that credible? No, no, that's zero credibility. Is there a reason that we do clinical trials instead of watching what three people said as reported by another person? No, no, there's a reason we do the clinical trials because that has no evidentiary va…

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was stage four and they added these other drugs and then they got cured. So we're saying it's the other drugs they added. To which I say but they were on all the treatments that we know are cures. So here's what I need. I need an incurable cancer, one that doesn't have any treatment as far as anybody knows. And even if they combined it with these drugs, which is the claim that maybe the drugs aren't working exactly alone, but there are also claims that they would work alone. And show me the doctor, show me the patient, and show me that it was incurable except for this intervention. Then I'm going to get serious. I'm still going to say I need a clinical trial, but at least you went from anonymous people being talked about by other people to well these look like real people and their doctor says and I'm looking at their chart. Maybe yes.

So I'd say we'll see.

New York Judge Merchan discharges Trump without imprisonment, fine or probation in the Stormy Daniels case, wishes him well in

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his second term. Everything's different. All right. That was a little side conversation there. Apparently there was a fake alert that went out to everybody's phone in LA County saying that they needed to get ready to evacuate. This turned out to be just a mistake. The alert told people to gather loved ones, pets and supplies and get out of town. And it happened when people were the most frightene…

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