Hi Doc: Thanks for the update on your views on Lyme Disease. I do not fear much but the strange primordial diseases borne by ticks really scare me.Many physicians seem to think that any number of symptoms are meaningless unless the patient actually s[...]

It is hard to debate your arguments based on unprovable mostly-fantastic assertions. It is not clear - to me at least - if this is an existential war for Putin. He will survive this. It may be an existential fight for the Russian military as it is pres[...]

Possibly Useful Advice but the Timing is OFF!Simply put, if I were to gamble on the end of the war in Ukraine I would peg it on late next Spring (of 2024). Why? Because the Ukrainian offensive is a grind. Because Russia is willing to sacrifice more [...]

Lens? If you can call it that. . . The self-proclaimed climate expert quoted by Pajama News has a BA degree in politics and no other education or background in any scientific or research field.[...]

How about Sodium Ion technology? Relatively low cost of production and certainly far more abundant required raw materials and also reduced environmental risk. Energy density is OK but requires improvement (which is ongoing). The current real problem wi[...]

Nicely put, Doc. A very senior Indian army officer commented to me just a few years ago when I asked about India and the BRICS: "BRICS? Brazil is far away, South Africa is irrelevant, Russia is unreliable and China is the enemy."[...]

Should have mentioned I took some PBT puts (June $20) at .40.[...]

Not sure if oil prices will leap upward from here. If demand remains flat or trends downward in a recession environment then PBT's finances may indeed prove to be an albatross around that company's neck. Russia continues to vastly bypass both Western san[...]

Don't know why that topic came up. It's about PLM Polymet.[...]

I understand that you use BRICS as a placeholder for the unfree countries in general but it still implies a monolithic nature that just does not exist. I have spent some time in every one of the BRICS. A retired Indian flag officer told me what he though[...]

Lt Kije, that's an interesting choice for a nom-de-internet! Are you a fan of Russian music? Or of Soviet literature?About China and Taiwan, the fate of Taiwan's semi-conductor industries and investment decisions made on that basis, the PRC is not [...]

Hi Wombat: Perhaps I was too ironic but you utterly misunderstood my meaning. I am in nearly complete agreement with "Doc" Gumshoe. I am, however, amazed that you somehow managed to come to some conclusions about my investment strategy on the basis of z[...]

Hi "Doc," thanks for the update, but as mentioned previously, COVID19 is so contagious that your merely including the word in an article is enough to cause degradation in cognitive and reasoning faculties among some readers.By the way, would you consi[...]

Travis and Dutta: This is an useful, and very timely, discussion of crypto. Thank you.I'm curious to know what you think of The Graph (GRT) a coin that appears to be based on ostensibly useful application. Thanks![...]

alexho: I assume you meant to write Hong Kong and not Shanghai when you wrote about absorption by China. Circumstances in HK and Taiwan are vastly different. Just to cite two examples:HKers always identified themselves as Chinese while residents of [...]

If your analysis of HII is based on their Ingalls and Newport News shipbuilding then OK. They have a huge backlog and lock on much US warship construction, refit and major maintenance. But if the "Mission Tech" portion of the business is the basis for th[...]

Hey allgood: It's "Novocure." Their product, I think it's called Optune in the U.S., looks like science-fiction but it does appear to have useful effect on solid tumors (and not on all cancers as Mark states above). In the U.S. it is approved to trea[...]

Ahamed, the report of this highly negative side-effect of the mRNA vaccines appears in a reputable journal and is well documented. Yet this terrible side effect is so rare - less than 1/1,000,000 - that it does not approach whatever level of frequency i[...]

Generally speaking, the frequency of significant negative effects of a COVID infection itself on Parkinsons sufferers (and those with other significant neurological disorders) is far, far greater than the rare incidence of such negative effects associated [...]

Oh no!! Doc, you have done it again. You posted more about COVID19 as well as comments about vaccines and treatments!!!You must realize by now that COVID19 is so contagious it can be transmitted merely by reading the word on a screen! How else can w[...]