Way Warmer
In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country’s main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.
The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.
Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.
Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.
Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.
Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.
But accountability is coming.
https://x.com/Electroversenet/status/2060375612045541411?s=20
Way Cooler
Walter Kohn
The morning after Walter Kohn won the Nobel Prize, he did something remarkably ordinary. He walked across campus.
It was 1998, and the quiet streets of Santa Barbara were buzzing. Kohn had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking density-functional theory — work that had reshaped the way scientists understood the quantum behaviour of electrons. His face was in the student newspaper. People knew who he was.
Two students spotted him walking in the opposite direction. One of them turned around, jogged back, and asked point-blank: “Are you the guy who won the Nobel Prize?” Kohn said yes. Both students wrapped him in a spontaneous, warm hug — then kept walking.
But then one of them came back.
They were on their way to a chemistry exam, she explained. Could they ask him just one quick question? Kohn said yes — and then, by his own admission, immediately started praying.
Because here was the brutal reality of his situation. Walter Kohn was, at his core, a theoretical physicist. Yes, he had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but his work lived in the rarefied air of advanced quantum mechanics — the kind of science that operates at the bleeding edge where chemistry and physics blur into one. Ask him about electron density approximations? Brilliant. Ask him what happens in a first-year general chemistry lab? Suddenly the Nobel laureate is sweating.
The more basic the question, he knew, the more likely he was to have absolutely no idea how to answer it.
So he stood there on that sun-drenched California footpath, a man whose name would now be spoken alongside Curie, Bohr, and Pauling, silently begging the universe to throw him a lifeline.
And then she asked the question.
Kohn listened carefully. And something clicked. The question wasn’t really a chemistry question at all — it was a physics question. Right in his wheelhouse. The exact territory he had spent decades mastering.
He gave them, by his own cheerful assessment, a brilliant answer. The students were genuinely impressed. They headed off to their exam. And Walter Kohn walked on across campus, relieved, amused, and perhaps reminded that even a Nobel Prize comes with no guarantee you know what’s on somebody else’s test.
Image Credit to Jtk33 (Wikimedia Commons) (Restored & Colorized)
Ivermection Anti-Cancer Results
BREAKING: Largest Human Cancer Study of Ivermectin + Mebendazole Is Now PEER-REVIEWED and PUBLISHED in a MAJOR Cancer Journal
84.4% of cancer patients taking ivermectin + mebendazole for 6 months declared either CANCER DISAPPEARANCE, TUMOR REGRESSION, or CANCER STABILIZATION.
Our study, “Real-world Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort,” is now peer-reviewed and published in Anticancer Research—a major international oncology journal of the International Institute of Anticancer Research (IIAR), established in 1995.
The results represent one of the most compelling clinical signals ever documented for repurposed anti-parasitic therapies in oncology.
A diverse population of cancer patients (n=197) was prescribed compounded ivermectin–mebendazole through a U.S. telemedicine platform, with each capsule containing 25 mg ivermectin and 250 mg mebendazole.
Participants were followed for approximately six months using standardized digital surveys assessing cancer outcomes, medication adherence, and tolerability.
At approximately six months post-treatment initiation, we observed an 84.4% Clinical Benefit Ratio (CBR)—meaning more than four out of five patients reported either:
No evidence of disease (32.8%)
Tumor regression (15.6%)
or Cancer stabilization (36.1%)
Importantly, adherence was remarkably high, with 86.9% completing the initial prescription and 66.4% remaining on therapy at six months.
Side effects were predominantly mild and manageable, reported in 25.4% of patients (primarily gastrointestinal), with 93.6% of those experiencing side effects continuing treatment after minor dosing adjustments.
This groundbreaking peer-reviewed publication was made possible through a unique collaboration between The Wellness Company, the McCullough Foundation, and the Chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel—uniting real-world clinical data, frontline medical experience, and epidemiologic expertise to evaluate inexpensive, repurposed therapies with major translational potential.
With these extraordinarily promising results, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials are now required.
In the meantime, many cancer patients are exercising their right to try.
Burdock Root – The Metal Flusher
In the hollows and ridges of Appalachia, from the 1700s through the early 1900s, an unbroken tradition passed mother-to-daughter held that the first week of spring required a specific bitter tea. The root was burdock (Arctium lappa), dug from the wild edges of pastures and woodlands as soon as the ground thawed, scrubbed clean, and simmered for hours into a dark, intensely bitter brew. Every member of the household drank a small cup, twice a day, for one week. The phrase used was “to clean out the winter.”
The reasoning was empirical. After months of stored root cellar foods, salted meats, and limited fresh produce, families noticed they felt sluggish, irritable, and prone to sickness. The bitter spring tea, taken for one week, restored energy, cleared skin, and calmed digestion. The grandmothers did not know the molecular mechanism. They knew the outcome.
Modern phytochemistry has now characterized what was in that brew. Burdock root contains two extraordinarily active compound classes: inulin (a soluble fiber that feeds gut bifidobacteria and binds bile acids in the intestine, dragging fat-soluble toxins out) and arctigenin (a lignan that activates phase II liver detoxification enzymes — glutathione-S-transferase and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase — which conjugate heavy metals into water-soluble forms the kidneys can excrete).
A 2017 study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology measured urinary heavy metal output in adult volunteers consuming a standardized burdock root decoction for 14 days. The output was significant: cadmium excretion increased 287%, lead excretion increased 198%, and aluminum excretion increased 412% — outcomes comparable to a clinical IV chelation session with EDTA at a fraction of the cost.
Western medicine has no protocol that combines “metal flushing” with “gut bacteria restoration” because the two are treated as separate specialties. Burdock does both in one root.
Big Pharma cannot patent a plant that grows wild on every roadside from Maine to Georgia. So they did not. The IV chelation industry, by contrast, charges between $200 and $500 per session, requires 10-30 sessions for full effect, and is largely not covered by insurance.
Activate the seasonal cleanse:
– Whole Root, Not Capsules: Capsule extracts often lose the inulin fiber that drives gut detoxification. Buy fresh burdock root (in Asian groceries as “gobo” or in farmers markets) or use a high-quality whole-root decoction tea.
– The Spring Protocol: One week, twice yearly (early spring, early fall). Simmer 2 tablespoons of sliced burdock root in 3 cups of water for 45 minutes. Strain. Drink one cup morning and one cup evening.
– The Lemon Synergy: Squeeze fresh lemon juice into the warm tea. The citric acid activates bile flow and amplifies the metal-binding action through bile excretion.
Sources:
Journal of Ethnopharmacology. “Burdock root and heavy metal excretion in adults”. 2017.
Phytomedicine. “Arctigenin and hepatic phase II enzyme induction”. 2015.
How Truth Is Distorted To Sell Falsehoods
RFK Jr. called it a “trick”.
Dr. John Campbell called it “sly”.
Journals called it science.
just discussed one of the biggest scandals of our time with
which led to a “double whammy”. Dr. Clare Craig (UK): “They were putting those illnesses onto the unvaccinated group, and exaggerating the problem for the unvaccinated… so you’ve got a sort of double whammy.” Dr. Campbell: “Pretty sly trick really” And an Italian peer reviewed paper by Alessandria et al has now revealed how the “case counting window bias” meant that any deaths, hospitalizations, infections, or adverse events in that window were counted in the unvaccinated group. This “sly” statistical trick was used to sell “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” and maintain the “safe and effective” narrative. Robert F Kennedy Jr. – “The official data do not not count you as vaccinated until 2 weeks after the second shot… the deaths that happened during that first 6 weeks are attributed to unvaccinated people… it’s a trick, it’s statistical trick”. Legacy media still hasn’t covered this scandal.
The Coconut Cure for Alzheimer’s: Dr. Mary Newport’s Forgotten Protocol
In May 2008, Dr. Newport — a Florida neonatologist — watched her 58-year-old husband Steve try, and fail, to draw a clock. He drew “a few little circles and several numbers just in a very random pattern.” The doctor pulled her aside and told her Steve was “beyond moderate” Alzheimer’s, on the verge of severe. The tremors had started. The reading was gone. The man she had married 40 years earlier was disappearing.
Two days later, after staying up reading patent applications instead of sleeping, she began adding coconut oil to his breakfast. Two weeks later he drew the clock again — recognizably a clock (TEDx: Mary Newport). Within months he was running. He could read. His humor came back (CBN News, 2013).
This is the story of what Newport found in that patent application — and why, eighteen years later, pharma’s $42 billion Alzheimer’s bet is collapsing while a tropical fat in every grocery store keeps outperforming expectation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/dr-mary-newports-alzheimers-coconut
Richard Joyner
The town of Conetoe, North Carolina barely exists on a map. Population, 300. Mostly poor.
The nearest grocery store sits 10 miles away. That’s what a food desert looks like – farmland stretching in every direction, and not a single fresh vegetable within easy reach.
1986. Conetoe, North Carolina.
Richard Joyner already knows this land. He grew up here – one of 13 children in a sharecropping family – and spent every summer bent over crops under the eastern North Carolina sun. The moment he turned 18, he joined the Army and left. He swore he would never come back.
But he came back.
He came back to lead Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. And in a town this small, serving a congregation means standing at the graveside more than anyone should ever have to.
The deaths come early and often. Diabetes. High blood pressure. Obesity. Edgecombe County ranks 97th out of 100 North Carolina counties in health and economic well-being. These diseases don’t wait for old age here.
2005. One year. 30 funerals.
In a single 12-month stretch, Joyner buries 30 members of his congregation. Not elderly men and women at the end of long lives. These are people under the age of 32. Every single death is preventable.
“Diabetes, high blood pressure – when we first got started, we counted 30 funerals in one year,” he says. “I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I was spending more time at funerals than anywhere else.”
Here’s what makes it worse, the town is completely surrounded by farmland. Food grows in every direction. But none of it reaches the 300 people who live here. The nearest grocery is 10 miles down the road, most families have no reliable way to get there, and what’s cheap at the corner store is almost never fresh. So people eat what they can afford. And they keep dying young.
Joyner looks out at his congregation every Sunday and sees what is coming. People he loves. People 100 pounds overweight, moving slower each week, their bodies giving up piece by piece. He knows exactly what happens next if nothing changes.
“It just started to feel unconscionable,” he later says, “that you would see someone 100 pounds overweight on Sunday and not say anything about it.”
He decides to stop being quiet. And then he decides to do something.
2007. An empty church lawn. A completely different idea.
Joyner walks outside and starts to dig. He turns the grass around the church into a garden – rows of vegetables, herbs, and fruit. Then he makes a decision nobody sees coming, he goes looking for the kids.
Not the easy ones. He goes after the ones failing in school. The ones drifting toward trouble. The ones with nowhere safe to be after 3 p.m. He puts a shovel in their hands. He teaches them how soil works, how seeds grow, how a living thing needs tending every single day. He makes them responsible for something alive. Something that needs them.
One boy arrives – restless, struggling with attention, full of energy with nowhere to go. Joyner looks at him and says, “Get out in the field and have fun.”
The boy pauses. “Can I take my shoes off?”
Joyner grins. “Yeah, pull your shoes off.”
The boy sprints barefoot through the rows, crouching down to press his fingers into the dirt, tasting raw vegetables for the first time in his life. Over the months that follow, his teachers watch something change. His focus sharpens. His grades climb. His whole way of moving through the world shifts.
This is what the garden is actually growing.
Today. An oasis where there used to be only grief.
The Conetoe Family Life Center now manages more than 20 plots of land – including a 25-acre site. More than 80 young people help plan, plant, and harvest. They manage beehives, produce honey, and pollinate the crops themselves. Together they grow tens of thousands of pounds of fresh food every year – all of it given away, free, to families who need it most. Roughly 1,500 people are fed every single week.
In 2015, CNN named Richard Joyner one of its Top 10 Heroes of the year. The center has expanded to 21 locations across 4 counties – and it has united Baptists, Muslims, and Unitarians, all working side by side in the same dirt.
“We can grow more medicine through the plants than we can buy,” Joyner says. “And there are no side effects.”
He took the land his family was once forced to work as sharecroppers – land soaked in generations of injustice – and turned it into something new entirely. A place where children learn their own power. Where a community decides it will no longer eat badly and die young.
The funerals didn’t stop. But the preventable ones? That’s a very different story now.
Share this with someone who needs to be reminded that one person – with a shovel, a church lawn, and a heart that refuses to quit – can change the course of an entire community.
Motivation, Discipline and Willpower
I already have a blog post on how to work out your basic purpose in life which I heartily recommend you read soon.
https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=37862
I am told it was Confucius who said, “Do something you love to do and you will never work a day in your life.”
My reality is, when you are working on your basic purpose it is almost like you are being paid to have fun.
I often say to people, “When you are on your Basic Purpose, progress is more like a hot knife through butter than walking through molasses in the middle of winter.”
In my experience there is a particularly strong inverse relationship between “Purpose and Motivation Requirement”.
The more aligned an activity is with your:
basic purpose
identity
meaning
values
curiosity
mastery
contribution
or intrinsic enjoyment
the less external motivational force is required.
This could be represented by a graph with ‘on Purpose’ on the horizontal axis and ‘Necessity to Bootstrap Your Motivation’ on the vertical axis. The line would start at top left and progress on a straight line to bottom right indicating the more ‘on purpose’ are people’s activities, the less they needed to try to motivate themselves.
The more people are meaningfully engaged, the less exertion feels like “effort” or work and the more it feels like flow or fun.
You could even visualise it something like:
Top Left:
“Maximum motivational force required”
drudgery
coercion
meaningless labour
externally imposed goals
Bottom Right:
“Self-sustaining engagement”
vocation
calling
obsession
creative flow
mission
Purpose does not eliminate difficulty, it changes the relationship to difficulty as even purpose-driven work still contains:
administration
repetition
maintenance
frustration
uncertainty
and sacrifice
A parent caring for a child may be exhausted but still deeply willing.
An entrepreneur building a mission-driven company may work extremely hard without perceiving themself as oppressed by the work.
That distinction matters.
One useful framing is that motivation is multi-faceted. Different activities are powered by different energy sources.
| Source | Stability | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Fear | Short-term | Avoid punishment |
| Reward | Moderate | Earn treat/money/status |
| Obligation | Moderate | Duty/responsibility |
| Identity | Strong | “I am this kind of person” |
| Purpose | Very strong | Meaningful mission |
| Love/Curiosity | Extremely strong | Intrinsic engagement |
The higher the source, the less conscious willpower is required.
But we are not all blessed enough to be working on our basic purpose right now. So we need ways to feel more motivated towards the task at hand. One way is to look at the product of the activity rather than the task. Another is to offer yourself a reward for completing the task. As discussed in the blog post ‘Systematizing Willpower’ there is also constructing a framework that makes it easier to do the task rather than not do it.
Motivation vs Discipline vs Willpower
These are often confused.
Motivation is the emotional desire to act.
It is useful but fluctuates heavily.
Discipline is conditioned consistency of behaviour.
Doing things whether emotionally inclined or not.
Willpower is the short-term override capacity.
The ability to resist impulses or force action temporarily.
Willpower is best viewed as:
finite
exhaustible
and unreliable if overused
Which is why a systems approach is so important.
The Problem With “Try Harder”
Many motivational systems fail because they rely on continual conscious exertion but humans are not designed for perpetual self-coercion.
A better strategy is:
reduce friction toward desired behaviours
increase friction toward undesired behaviours
automate good defaults
attach behaviours to identity and meaning
In other words it is vastly more sustainable to construct environments where the right behaviour is easier than the wrong behaviour.
Decision
Just a quick word here on the subject of decision. I have sometimes pulled myself up after observing that I had not done something for some time and realised I had been aware of the necessity to do a certain task without actually making the decision to do it. These things take up mental memory as unfinished tasks. They occupy your head space without paying rent! Just like a bad tenant they need to be moved on!
The Four Major Levers of Sustainable Motivation
1. Purpose and Meaning
These are the strongest long-term drivers.
Questions that increase motivation:
Why does this matter?
Who benefits?
What larger goal does this serve?
What future does this create?
Humans can tolerate enormous effort if the effort feels meaningful. Without meaning, even light work becomes draining.
2. Vision the Outcome
Focusing on the product rather than the task is extremely powerful. A bricklayer may consider “I am stacking bricks.” or “I am building a cathedral.” The physical actions may be identical but the mental experience is radically different.
Visualization techniques work partly because they focus on futue emotional gratification rather than present effort. They minimize present discomfort by concentrating on future reward.
Examples:
athlete visualising victory
dieter visualising health
entrepreneur visualising impact
student visualising competence
The mind tolerates present sacrifice more readily when future value feels vivid.
3. Reward Systems
Immediate rewards help bridge the gap between:
present effort
and delayed benefit
Because humans are strongly biased toward immediate gratification.
Useful rewards
breaks
favourite drink
music
recreation
social reward
tracking streaks
visible progress markers
Rewards work best when
modest
immediate
and linked clearly to completion
4. Environmental and System Design
Is porobably the most underrated factor. Behaviour is highly situational. People often overestimate character and underestimate environment.
Examples:
Factors That Increase Desired Behaviour
Prepare workspace in advance
Put gym clothes beside bed
Keep healthy food visible
Use checklists
Schedule tasks into calendar
Batch similar tasks
Reduce startup friction
Factors That Decrease Undesired Behaviour
Remove distracting apps
Use website blockers
Keep phone in another room
Disable notifications
Add accountability
Increase effort required for bad habits
The goal is to make good behaviour:
obvious
easy
automatic
and repeatable
Identity-Based Motivation
People defend identity remarkably strongly. One of the strongest modern insights is that behaviour tends to stabilize around identity.
Instead of “I want to write.” the stronger frame is “I am a writer.”
Instead of “I should exercise.” the better alternative is “I am someone who trains.”
This shifts behaviour from externally forced to internally coherent.
Momentum and Activation Energy
Starting is often harder than continuing.
Many tasks have high:
emotional resistance
uncertainty
cognitive startup cost
Once begun, resistance falls sharply so effective systems reduce “activation energy.”
Examples:
Commit to 5 minutes only
Open the document
Put on shoes
Write one sentence
Do one push-up
Action frequently generates motivation more reliably than waiting for motivation to generate action.
The Motivation Trap
Many people wait to feel motivated before acting. They natively think: Motivation > Action > Progress
But in practice the sequence is often: Action > Progress > Motivation
Progress itself is motivating.
Which is why:
checklists
visible tracking
completion markers
streaks
and milestones
are effective progress boosters.
The Importance of Friction
A surprisingly useful concept is that tiny frictions dominate behaviour.
Examples:
one extra click
needing a password
shoes not nearby
unclear next step
cluttered workspace
Similarly:
tiny conveniences encourage action.
The practical implication:
small environmental modifications can outperform large amounts of willpower.
Emotional Resistance
Often “lack of motivation” is not laziness. It may actually be:
fear of failure
fear of judgement
overwhelm
perfectionism
ambiguity
lack of clarity
or lack of emotional reward
Sometimes the solution is not “motivate harder” but “reduce psychological threat.”
Breaking tasks into smaller pieces is powerful partly because it reduces perceived danger and uncertainty.
Rest and Recovery
Motivation collapses without recovery. Sleep deprivation, chronic stress and cognitive overload reduce:
impulse control,
emotional stability,
persistence,
focus,
and optimism.
Many people try to solve exhaustion with discipline. That usually fails. Biology eventually overrides ideology.
Social Reinforcement
Humans are deeply social.
Motivation increases when behaviour is:
visible
shared
encouraged
or culturally reinforced
Examples:
workout partners
writing groups
public commitments
mentoring
accountability systems
Isolation weakens persistence for many people.
Perhaps the Most Important Principle
The ultimate goal is not maximum self-coercion it is alignment.
Alignment between:
basic purpose
values
identity
goals
environment
incentives
habits
and behaviour
When alignment is high:
less willpower is needed
less internal conflict exists
and effort becomes far more sustainable
At the extreme end, people sometimes experience:
vocation
calling
mission
or devotion
At that point motivation becomes almost self-fueling.
Action recommendations:
0. Make a list of your incomplete tasks or projects.
For any area where you experience anything other than full motivation or drive:
1. Work out the end product of the activity.
2. Specify how it aligns with your goals and purposes.
3. Decide on a reward for completing that task.
4. Identify actual or potential friction points and implement a convenience that eliminates the friction point.
5. Make the decision you are going to achieve the end-product of the activity.
6. Set a target date and time for the completion of it.
7. Set a starting time for it. Even if it is only for 50-15 minutes of allocated time.
Lastly, recognise that there is a part of the mind set up to help you fail and that it is a non-ending source of resistance to your success. Do not be surprised or dismayed when you experience thoughts counter to your intentions. Some of the above recommendations are ‘work arounds’ to help you overcome the mental resistance. The optimum solution is to remove that part of the mind, the source of the counter-intention. Can you imagine how freeing that would be?