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DNA breakthrough unmasks Jack the Ripper

Published 14 October 2024
– By Editorial Staff
The mystery of Jack the Ripper may be coming to a close.
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After 136 years of speculation, author and researcher Russell Edwards believes he has identified notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper as Polish-Jewish immigrant Aaron Kosminski.

New DNA analysis has linked Kosminski to one of the murder scenes, which could be the decisive piece of evidence in the more than 100-year-old unsolved serial killer case.

Russell Edwards, who has studied the Ripper case for nearly 30 years, uses DNA evidence from a shawl belonging to one of the victims, Catherine Eddowes, in his latest book Naming Jack The Ripper: The Definitive Reveal.

The shawl, which was recovered at the time of the murder, was reportedly covered in blood and semen stains. By comparing these with DNA from surviving relatives of both the victim and Kosminski, Edwards has found matching results.

Edwards says the new findings are definitive proof that Aaron Kosminski was identical to Jack the Ripper, emphasizing that previous attempts to solve the mystery lacked this kind of scientific evidence.

Aaron Kosminski, who was also one of the prime suspects at the time of the 1888 Whitechapel murders, was a Polish immigrant who moved to east London to escape Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe.

Kosminski, who was considered to have a “strong dislike of women and especially prostitutes”, was identified as a possible perpetrator in the so-called Macnaghten Memorandum of 1894.

However, the absence of tangible proof and the prevailing sentiment of avoiding any implication of anti-Semitism meant that the authorities were unable to make an arrest.

Kosminski an early suspect

The DNA analysis performed on the shawl showed a positive match with an unknown descendant of Eddowes. In addition, a match was confirmed between DNA from the semen stains and a surviving relative of Kosminski’s sister.

The shawl was purchased by Edwards at an auction in Bury St Edmunds in 2007. It had been passed down through several generations in a family linked to a police officer who worked at the murder scene.

The officer, Amos Simpson, reportedly took the shawl as a “macabre gift” to his wife after Eddowe’s body was taken to the morgue.

In his book, Mr. Edwards notes that he was surprised to find such an ornate silk scarf, decorated with flowers, among the belongings of Ms. Eddowes, given her poverty and alcohol addiction. The design and dyes used appeared to be similar to those produced in St. Petersburg at the time. This led Mr. Edwards to consider the possibility that it might have belonged to Ripper suspect Kosminski, who hailed from the Russian empire.

To create an even more detailed picture of the killer, Edwards also used advanced facial reconstruction techniques based on old family photos from Kosminski’s relatives. The result shows a young man with short hair, pronounced cheekbones and an intense gaze.

It is, according to Edwards, the most accurate image yet of Jack the Ripper.

The Masonic connection

Russel Edwards also suspects that Kosminski’s brother’s Masonic connections were probably what prevented his arrest and that the political and ethnic intention that London’s Jewish diaspora needed to be protected from anti-Semitism.

More damagingly for Kosminski, the killer left another clue at Eddowes’ murder scene. Nearby was scrawled in chalk the mysterious phrase “The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing” – with the word “Juwes”, as opposed to “Jews”, spelled in Masonic fashion.

Kosminski was never arrested and in 1890, after suffering a suspected schizophrenic breakdown in which he threatened his sister with a knife, he was admitted to Colney Hatch insane asylum in north London.

He died 28 years later at Leavesden Asylum in Hertfordshire.

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The Jack the Ripper case

  • Crime period: August-November 1888
  • Location: Whitechapel, east London
  • Victims: At least five women, all prostitutes, were brutally murdered in what are known as the Canonical Murders. The victims were: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.

Characteristics of the murders

All of the victims had their throats cut and some had internal organs removed, giving rise to theories that the killer had anatomical or surgical knowledge. Three of the women - Chapman, Eddowes and Kelly - also had body parts removed.

Police investigated a total of 11 murders of women in Whitechapel between April 1888 and February 1891, but it is generally agreed that only five of them were definitely carried out by Jack the Ripper.

Jack the Ripper has remained unidentified for over a century. Many theories have been put forward, but none have yet been proven.

The Aaron Kosminski theory

Aaron Kosminski, a Polish-Jewish immigrant and early suspect, has been identified as the killer through DNA evidence from one of the victims' shawls in a new book. Kosminski was never brought to justice and died in a mental hospital in 1919.

The Jack the Ripper case remains one of the world's most famous unsolved crimes, with extensive research and speculation for over 130 years.

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Painkillers linked to increased risk propensity

Published 19 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
If large groups have an impaired perception of risk, this can have significant societal consequences.
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Paracetamol can affect how we perceive risk, according to a US study. Students given painkillers before experiments were found to take greater risks than those given a placebo – something the researchers say may also have societal implications.

Paracetamol is an over-the-counter medication commonly taken for pain and fever and is available in the form of several different brands such as Alvedon, Orifarm and Apofri.

In the study, which was published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience in 2020, participants were asked to perform various experiments and then assessed based on their risk-taking. Over 500 university students took part in the experiments, with half of the group receiving a single dose of 1000 milligrams of acetaminophen before the experiments, and the rest receiving a placebo.

In one of the experiments, participants had to inflate balloons via a computer game, with each individual pump providing pretend money. The point was not to blow up the balloon with too much air as all the money earned would be lost. The results showed that the students taking paracetamol engaged in significantly more risk-taking during the exercise, compared to the more cautious placebo group.

Overall, those taking paracetamol inflated, and burst, their balloons more than the control group.

“Less negative emotions”

Researcher Baldwin Way from Ohio State University, who is behind the study, believes that this may have to do with the fact that paracetamol has a certain anxiolytic effect.

– If you’re risk-averse, you may pump a few times and then decide to cash out because you don’t want the balloon to burst and lose your money, Way says, adding:

– But for those who are on acetaminophen, as the balloon gets bigger, we believe they have less anxiety and less negative emotion about how big the balloon is getting and the possibility of it bursting.

The balloon experiment was repeated twice, with similar results. Furthermore, during the experiments, participants were asked to complete questionnaires in which they had to assess risk levels around hypothetical scenarios. For example, betting a day’s income on a sporting event, bungee jumping off a high bridge or driving a car without a seatbelt.

“Significant effects on society”

Those who had taken paracetamol were clearly more comfortable with, for example, the idea of driving without a seatbelt compared to the placebo group.

Way says the study suggests that the substance “seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities”, which he says could have implications for society.

– With nearly 25 per cent of the population in the US taking acetaminophen each week, reduced risk perceptions and increased risk-taking could have important effects on society, he says.

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https://nordictimes.com/science/an-entire-world-was-injected-but-the-silence-about-the-long-term-side-effects-is-total/

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Comment: An entire world was injected – but the silence about the long-term side effects is total

The criticized covid vaccinations

Jenny Piper

Early warnings about the long-term risks of experimental mRNA vaccines were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and quacks. In hindsight, most evidence suggests that their fears were justified and new findings indicate that the vaccines can cause long-term changes in the genetic structure of the body.

Published 18 April 2025
– By Jenny Piper
A German study shows that the COVID-19 vaccine can affect the genetic structure of the body, triggering inflammatory reactions, autoimmune conditions and in some cases cancer.
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Even at the beginning of the mass vaccination hysteria, I often wrote about the risks of taking the mRNA vaccine shots because the long-term side effects of this fast-acting so-called vaccine are unknown and will only become apparent in a few years.

Whistleblowers from within the pharmaceutical industry had also flagged this very aspect early on – that it is designed to seek out possible weaknesses in people’s immune systems, where it accelerates the development of cancer, autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular diseases. This was of course dismissed as quackery and conspiracy theories, which is why the vast majority of the population rolled up their sleeves at least twice.

Now, a new peer-reviewed study from Germany on mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines shows that they can cause long-term changes in the body’s genetic structure – changes that in turn can trigger inflammatory reactions, autoimmune conditions and, in some cases, cancer.

19 researchers at leading German institutions conducted the study, which was published in Molecular Systems Biology at the end of March. It shows a possible link between mRNA vaccines and epigenetic changes in immune cells, specifically linked to a protein called histone 3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac), a protein that has been associated with leukemia and brain tumors.

Histones act as “coils” around which the DNA strand is wound, helping to give DNA its three-dimensional structure. Changes in these proteins affect how genes are expressed. The looser the histones are, the more actively the DNA is transcribed, which in some cases can stimulate tumor growth.

The researchers analyzed how the chromosomes of macrophages (a type of white blood cell) are affected by mRNA vaccination. The results showed persistent epigenetic changes in these cells, which could explain some post-vaccination inflammatory diseases.

Histone modifications – where the structure of DNA is altered without changing the DNA code itself – can play an important role in how genes are expressed. In this case, the researchers found a change in H3K27ac that persisted for months after vaccination, raising concerns about possible long-term effects on the immune system.

According to the researchers, changes in H3K27ac can be linked to several cancers, including gliomas (brain tumors) and leukemia. Other studies, including those from China and Poland, have also linked this particular type of histone modification to cancer.

Several scientists and experts have commented on the study.

Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, says the results show how mRNA vaccines can affect chromosomes in a way that is associated with brain tumors and leukemia.

Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist, says the study adds to a growing body of evidence that mRNA vaccines can disrupt the balance of the immune system and lead to chronic inflammatory conditions.

Jessica Rose, Ph.D., immunologist and biochemist, points out that it is already known that repeated injections cause immunological changes and that these changes can reach stem cells and affect the long-term functioning of the immune system.

Other studies have shown that the levels of synthetic DNA in some vaccine doses (from Pfizer and Moderna) have been well above permissible limits – in some cases up to 470 times higher than regulatory guidelines allow.

The fact that so-called turbo cancer has risen sharply in recent years is hardly a coincidence. Unfortunately, I think we have only seen the beginning of this – and the Swedish establishment has put a lid on the whole thing.

 

Jenny Piper

All Jenny Piper's articles can be found on her blog.

https://nordictimes.com/science/researchers-create-unique-brain-map-using-mouse-and-movie-clips/

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Researchers create unique brain map using mouse and movie clips

Published 15 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The researchers believe that the technology developed could be useful for identifying disorders in the brain.
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Using a mouse to watch various movie clips, including The Matrix, scientists have created the largest ever functional 3D map of part of a mammalian brain. The high-resolution map contains more than 200 000 brain cells.

Thoughts, emotions, speech and movements are controlled by neurons in the brain that send signals via axons, dendrites and synapses. But how networks of neurons interact – and how disruptions in these connections can contribute to diseases such as Alzheimer’s or autism – is not yet fully understood.

– You can make a thousand hypotheses about how brain cells might do their job, but you can’t test those hypotheses unless you know perhaps the most fundamental thing – how are those cells wired together, Clay Reid, a researcher at the Allen Institute, tells CBC.

A new project, presented in a total of eight studies by a global team of more than 150 scientists, aims to take brain research a step further by mapping parts of a mouse brain. For two hours, the mouse was shown various clips from movies, including The Matrix, and then researchers were able to map cells in one cubic millimeter of the mouse’s brain tissue, creating a high-resolution 3D map. It contains over 200 000 brain cells, of which about 82 000 are neurons.

The previous most detailed map of a human brain contains 16 000 neurons.

Like looking at the “stars at night”

The new map also captures the activity of tens of thousands of neurons that fire signals and interact with each other to process visual information. The results “are really stunningly beautiful”, says Forrest Collman, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute, who co-authored the study.

– Looking at it really gives you an awe about the sense of complexity in the brain that is very much akin to looking up at the stars at night, he tells Nature.

The researchers call the project a new fundamental step in brain research and believe that the technique developed could be useful for identifying disorders in the brain. The next step is to map an entire mouse brain.

– The technologies developed by this project will give us our first chance to really identify some kind of abnormal pattern of connectivity that gives rise to a disorder, says Sebastian Seung, a Princeton neuroscientist and computer scientist, one of the study’s lead researchers.

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https://nordictimes.com/science/study-deaths-after-covid-vaccine-were-in-most-cases-due-to-the-shot/

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Study: Deaths after covid vaccine were in most cases due to the shot

The criticized covid vaccinations

Published 12 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Cardiologist Peter McCullough is one of the researchers behind the study.
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In a new study, doctors infer covid vaccine as a direct or contributing cause in three out of four cases of 325 autopsies reviewed where individuals took the injections before death.

The researchers reviewed a total of 44 scientific articles with a total of 325 autopsy cases found of people who died after being injected with COVID-19 vaccine. To find the articles, search terms such as “COVID-19 Vaccine”, “SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine”, “COVID Vaccination”, “Post-mortem” and “Autopsy” were used.

In each case, three independent doctors reviewed the autopsy results to assess whether the COVID vaccine could be the direct cause or a contributing cause of death.

Among others, former cardiologist Peter McCullough is one of the researchers behind the study. McCullough has been a very strong critic of the covid policy including the mass vaccination campaign, and strongly urged, among other things, that people under the age of 50 and those who had the infection did not need to inject themselves with the covid vaccines.

Myocarditis and sudden cardiac death

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Health Policy and the Law, shows that in 74% of cases, at least two out of three physicians considered the COVID-19 vaccination to be a direct or contributing cause of death.

The most common causes of death were sudden cardiac death, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, VITT (vaccine-induced thrombosis), myocarditis, inflammatory syndrome and cerebral hemorrhage. Most deaths studied occurred within a week of vaccination.

Commenting on the study, Swedish physician Nils Littorin says the results are striking.

 

Translation of above tweet: “This is BIG! New medical study of autopsied deaths after COVID-19 vaccine shows that 74% of 326 cases were caused by the vaccine.
The heart and vascular system were the most common organ systems to be injured, followed by hematological and respiratory.” 

Call for in-depth studies

According to the authors, the patterns revealed by the study suggest a causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and increased mortality, while calling for much more extensive and in-depth studies in this area.

“Further urgent investigation is required for the purpose of clarifying our findings”, the researchers write.

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