Not just atheists, but related insect species such as liberals, have been the subject of my late night  deep mediations with a bottle of wine, regarding the hypothesis that such beings are genetic mutations, and deleterious ones at that. Until now, I have not revealed my deep, dark thoughts. But, then there is this paper: “The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: The Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load,” Evolutionary Psychological Science, December, 2017, at
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40806-017-0133-5
  https://www.vdare.com/articles/are-atheists-genetic-mutants-a-product-of-recent-evolution

“Industrialisation leads to relaxed selection and thus the accumulation of fitness-damaging genetic mutations. We argue that religion is a selected trait that would be highly sensitive to mutational load. We further argue that a specific form of religiousness was selected for in complex societies up until industrialisation based around the collective worship of moral gods. With the relaxation of selection, we predict the degeneration of this form of religion and diverse deviations from it. These deviations, however, would correlate with the same indicators because they would all be underpinned by mutational load. We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: atheism and paranormal belief. We examine associations between these deviations and four indicators of mutational load: (1) poor general health, (2) autism, (3) fluctuating asymmetry, and (4) left-handedness. A systematic literature review combined with primary research on handedness demonstrates that atheism and/or paranormal belief is associated with all of these indicators of high mutational load.”

     In my unprofessional opinion, the answer would be: yes:

“The number of college students labelled with depression, anxiety, and other psychological problems is increasing, leading colleges and universities to provider a greater number of special accommodations for them. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, as many as 25 percent of students enrolled in elite colleges are now classified as depressed, anxious, attention-impaired, and other labels that, under federal law, entitle them to special learning accommodations. Some students are labeled with more than one disability. A simple note from a doctor allows a student to be classified as “disabled” and requires a school to provide the accommodations that correspond to his or her “disability.”

     Famine has haunted humans for most of their history. In the days of the Pharaohs, whenever the Nile River failed to flood, Egypt starved. Joseph was called in and he organised stockpiling of grain for famine relief. Even mighty Rome suffered famines – in 436 BC thousands of starving people threw themselves into the Tiber. The cold Middle Ages in Europe were haunted by famines. In the 11th and 12th century, famines averaged one in 14 years. Even in England there were 22 recorded famines in the 13th century. In 1235, 20,000 people died in London and people ate horse flesh, bark and grass. There were great famines in India, Bengal, France, China and Russia.

     In more recent times, man-made famines were more common in the Comrade Societies – some wit once remarked that “Soviet agriculture has just suffered its 23rd consecutive year of unseasonal weather”. Some famines were deliberate policy such as Stalin’s liquidation of the Kulaks in 1918 and his starvation of Ukraine in the 1932-33, while other dictators like Mao in China and Pol Pot in Cambodia caused famine with destructive collectivist farm policies. Famines eased in Europe and North America from about 1860, partly because crops improved with warmer weather and also because of the great increases in land opened up in the Americas for farming and grazing.

     Isn’t it amazing, incredible in fact, that we are having a literal explosion of these gender identity issues now? We may believe that these are socially constructed by media attention, but while the social construction explanation is used by the Left for everything else, such as race issues, which don’t exist being social constructions, unless it can somehow be used against primarily Northern European whites, for gender identity, that is definitely real and not a social construction.
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6306769/2356-children-including-kids-age-4-are-seeking-help-for-gender-issues/

“A RECORD 2,356 children including some as young as four are seeking medical help for gender issues. The number referred by GPs last year has more than tripled from 673 in 2014/15. They were assigned to The Tavistock Centre in North London, the UK’s only facility for such issues in under-18s. Official NHS figures show most cases involve 15 and 16-year-olds. But 329 patients were under 13. Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner raised awareness after transitioning in 2015. Clinic director Dr Polly Carmichael said: “There is no single explanation for the rise. There has been significant progress towards the acceptance and recognition of transgender and gender-diverse people.”

     Here is an update on some of the goings on regarding white privilege in Britain, something which will no doubt be happening here in little old Oz some time soon:
  https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-must-do-more-to-tackle-white-privilege-trust-chief-says-11388667

“The NHS must do more to tackle “white privilege” and increase black and minority ethnic (BAME) representation among senior managers and directors, a leading hospital trust chief executive has told Sky News. Sarah-Jane Marsh, chief executive of Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Trust, says she will no longer sit on any interview board panel that does not include a BAME member, after figures for her own trust revealed ethnic minority candidates were less likely to succeed at interview. Across NHS England as a whole, 18% of the 1.2 million staff are from a BAME background, but just 5% of very senior managers are non-white, compared to 27% of the lowest paid support staff. Ms Marsh says the lack of representation at senior levels means the NHS is not as diverse as the communities it serves, and may not be getting the best possible staff. “I know that in the NHS we have got a problem with ensuring that we have the right people in leadership positions to represent the diversity of our workforce,” she said.

     Colony collapse disorder, which is threatening bee populations across the globe, continues to be an unsolved problem, but a problem that will ring in an era of hunger, if not starvation, if bee populations continue to crash. Around one third of all humanity’s food, and 80 percent of crops are pollinated by bees, so the best case scenario would be economic collapse:
  http://readynutrition.com/resources/will-the-extinction-of-bees-really-mean-the-end-of-humanity_04062018/ 
  http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/05/insect-pollinators-contribute-29b-us-farm-income

     While many internet sites like to take a quick fix approach to this problem, putting the blame on neonicotinoid chemicals alone, a search of the scientific literature reveals that there are probably a whole range of insecticides, and maybe herbicides, and perhaps industrial pollution, which are impacting upon the honey bee:
  https://fordham.bepress.com/environ_2015/57/

     The view has been advanced, even by the racial realist types at American Renaissance that Blacks have superior athletic ability to Whites. The only objection in the mainstream to this, is that it is a subtle racist claim, that Blacks do not therefore match Whites in intellectual ability, which hardly follows as a logical inference. Otherwise the system is happy to go along with this, another dig at Whites. However, here is a recent article from the Canadians, led by that great intellect Professor Ricardo Duchesne, refuting that:
  https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2018/06/whites-are-better-in-almost-all-sports-and-strongest-in-world.html

“The scientific evidence is decisive: Whites, both males and females, dominate almost all the competitive sports. Blacks are very good in some sports, the sports that American media moguls love to showcase, basketball and football. They are also dominant in some athletics, but mainly just running. They are not good in all jumping competitions, white males and females absolutely dominate the pole vault Olympic medals. The constantly repeated phrase that “white men can’t jump” is a another lie of the establishment: White athletes have dominated the high jump. Just check the male and female Olympic medalists. As far as “major sports” are concerned: Whites dominate Hockey and Soccer and Tennis and Golf, and, to a considerable degree, Baseball as well. The majority of the top 100 Soccer players in the world are white. While some blacks have been excellent at Baseball, in a very good assessment “ranking the 25 best Baseball players of all time”, Whites outnumber non-whites 20 to 5.

     I knew it, but was too nervous to put it into print here because I did not want anyone to think that I was a right wing extremist:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/steve-quayle-robots-will-have-one-prime-directive-kill-all-humans_06122018

“Artificial intelligence continues to make strides and in doing so, will not only eliminate the need for human beings but cause death, according to Steve Quayle.  Quayle says that in the very near future, robots will have simply one prime directive and that will be: kill all humans. Radio legend, filmmaker, and prolific published book author Steve Quayle says the robot/transhumanism world of the elite will become fully visible in just a few years. In an interview with USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter, Quayle contends, “When people ask me what is on the horizon beyond transhumanism, I can say to you, at this point, nothing. When they say it’s going to be in the year 2030 or 2045, in my opinion, and let’s see if it holds . . . my estimate, based on where we are now, they will start to manifest fully by 2022. These will be . . . “demon-possessed machines”. . . . Imagine a robot that is programmed, and you know what the final command that will be given to a robot will be? When they become totally autonomous and demon possessed, they will have simply one prime directive and that will be: kill all humans.”

     Could this explain why so many people today are so stupid? Could this explain why so many people do not have the capacity to “see it,” even though the internet has presented a wealth of information for viewing? Pesticides on the brain …
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-06-10-pesticides-stupid-agricultural-chemicals-lower-iq-of-children.html

“Three studies that examined children from very different backgrounds all reached the same conclusion: Prenatal exposure to these pesticides can have a significant long-term adverse effect on a child’s brain health, and it doesn’t matter if that exposure came from crops or cockroach control products. We’re not talking about a small difference, either; the exposure lowered children’s IQ by as many as seven points! In the two studies that took place in New York, inner-city children aged 6 to 9 who had been born to mothers who were exposed to chlorpyrifos noted working memory decreases of 2.8 percent and IQ drops of 1.4 percent for every increment of exposure. This means the effect is linear; those who had higher levels of exposure experienced more negative effects on cognition. It’s a drop that can cause serious problems in math and reading.

     As the mainstream media tells us, those critical of vaccinations are all tin foil hat cranks. But, really?
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-06-14-new-study-proves-the-undeniable-connection-between-vaccination-and-autism-rates.html

“How much longer can those who profit from vaccines deny the connection between autism rates and vaccination? With incriminating evidence like the latest report from the Public Health Agency of Canada, their damage control experts will certainly have their work cut out for them. The agency is about to release its first national autism-related data since 2016, and it shows a steady rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the years since 2003. The rates varied by location, with areas like Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Newfound and Labrador having the highest prevalence. The story becomes a lot more interesting, however, when you compare the data in the report, which was taken from the Canadian National Autism Spectrum Surveillance System, with the Public Health Agency’s vaccine coverage data, which is broken down by province and vaccine type. It shows that autism prevalence is the greatest where the vaccine rates happen to be the highest. Surprised?

     I only guessed that this was true following the folk wisdom of “gut feelings,” but your intestines have an intelligence all of their own, known as the enteric nervous system, and it may have evolved in animals before the central nervous system, assuming that evolution really did occur:
  https://www.livescience.com/62683-colon-brain-neuron-firing-pattern-detected.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180531-ls

“The enteric nervous system (ENS) contains millions of neurons essential for organization of behavior of the intestine,” wrote the team of researchers from Australia who observed the so-called second brain hard at work using a combination of high-precision neuronal imaging techniques. When the researchers stimulated isolated mouse colons with mild electric shocks, they saw “a novel pattern of rhythmic coordinated neuronal firing” that corresponded directly to muscle movements in nearby sections of the large intestine. These rhythmic, synchronized blasts of neuron activity likely help to stimulate specific sections of intestinal muscles at a standard rate, the researchers wrote. This ensures that colonic muscle contractions — also known as “colonic migrating motor complexes” — keep fecal matter moving in the right direction (out of the body, that is), and at a steady pace. “This revealed that activity in the ENS can temporally coordinate [muscle] activity over significant distances along the length of [the] colon,” the team wrote. According to the researchers, similar synchronized neuron routines are also common in the early stages of brain development. This could mean that the pattern they identified in the colon is a “primordial property” held over from the early stages of the enteric nervous system’s evolution.”

     DNA tests for IQ are fast approaching, but these tests may not be flattering for most people once they realize that they are not supper-geniuses but… morons:
  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-it-might-not-be-smart-to-take-one/
  https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104.epdf?referrer_access_token=efAjlFvZAKp_YTq84sPI6dRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PkVtiAvh55KM2rQWkSJWLRkkxao8puND2Er8uFF3y2mPqm98JjW8kcZqvrNYKUPYE2p_wem-nkcrZORQbyyzTPMIvm0BrEpBE_A4Q21rPMjGfrAt7-k_HYC9wqRJrHhf85lRgZhWECJ4-Kr_FKKCJkGeuCOvgywX3dpuKVcdzwSAOgPa8ZF55yiw9Qx0AwAz8e9l5isPwIm2sKn8XEQ1Of9z3xzsuQ8cL-r9-7A9rHg8Ttl-fpNVnsHqfVpusB-gw%3D&tracking_referrer=www.technologyreview.com

     Now, you tell me how intelligent it is to have a URL that long! Surely they can shorten something? Didn’t man walk on the moon, or was that a conspiracy to? Anyway, IQ genetic testing will fast reveal that IQ is now in free fall, as humanity seems set to revert back to caveman savagery, although, in despair perhaps I am exaggerating a wee bit:  
  https://www.rt.com/news/429738-study-young-iq-decline/

     Canada has been working overtime attempting to catch up with Britain and Sweden in the cuck, degeneracy stakes, but its recent legalisation of dope is certainly putting it back in the race, to be the first Western country to hit the wall of collapse:
  https://www.rt.com/news/430271-canada-cannabis-legalization-bill/

“Fulfilling a campaign pledge, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation on Thursday to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Canada. Many nations have either decriminalized marijuana, allowed it to be prescribed medically or effectively stopped enforcing laws against it. But when Mr. Trudeau’s bill passes as expected, Canada will become only the second nation, after Uruguay, to completely legalize marijuana as a consumer product. “Criminal prohibition has failed to protect our kids and our communities,” said Bill Blair, a lawmaker and former Toronto police chief whom Mr. Trudeau appointed to manage the legislation. Mr. Blair said at a news conference that the government hoped to begin allowing legal sales by the middle of 2018. While the government’s plan has been broadly shaped by a panel of experts, many issues still need to be ironed out.”

     Venezuela gives us an image of what social collapse is going to be like, only the vast multicult, multiracial empires of the West will hit the dust even harder. We have been warned many times by numerous prophets, but most people only listen to those who make the “profits”:
  http://collapse.news/2018-06-10-doctors-teachers-electricians-all-fleeing-venezuela.html

“Perhaps it would help the leftists see the light if they knew that doctors, engineers, oil workers, teachers and electricians were all fleeing the failed socialist nation of Venezuela before the entire society crumbles like a house of cards. So far, in 2018, a total of 48,000 teachers (which is a number equivalent to 12 percent of all primary and high school staff nationwide) have quit their jobs and are now seeking an escape from the long food lines and empty shelves at the grocery stores. Some of these educators include Aquiles Nazoa (who fled to Chile one year ago), Reinaldo Cordero (leaving behind his class and his $29 USD per month salary), Esperanza Longhi (who is currently in the process of fleeing to Peru), and Principal Deliana Flores.

     DNA tests for IQ are fast approaching, but these tests may not be flattering for most people once they realize that they are not supper-geniuses but… morons:
  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-it-might-not-be-smart-to-take-one/
  https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104.epdf?referrer_access_token=efAjlFvZAKp_YTq84sPI6dRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PkVtiAvh55KM2rQWkSJWLRkkxao8puND2Er8uFF3y2mPqm98JjW8kcZqvrNYKUPYE2p_wem-nkcrZORQbyyzTPMIvm0BrEpBE_A4Q21rPMjGfrAt7-k_HYC9wqRJrHhf85lRgZhWECJ4-Kr_FKKCJkGeuCOvgywX3dpuKVcdzwSAOgPa8ZF55yiw9Qx0AwAz8e9l5isPwIm2sKn8XEQ1Of9z3xzsuQ8cL-r9-7A9rHg8Ttl-fpNVnsHqfVpusB-gw%3D&tracking_referrer=www.technologyreview.com

     Now, you tell me how intelligent it is to have a URL that long! Surely they can shorten something? Didn’t man walk on the moon, or was that a conspiracy to? Anyway, IQ genetic testing will fast reveal that IQ is now in free fall, as humanity seems set to revert back to caveman savagery, although, in despair perhaps I am exaggerating a wee bit:  
  https://www.rt.com/news/429738-study-young-iq-decline/

     Hopefully not, if we somehow learn the lessons from the past and begin to restrict the free flow of people: what is good for the money elites does not make biological sense:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/disease-x-kills-hundreds-in-china-40-mortality-rate-an-unusually-dangerous-virus-for-humans_06162018 
  http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006390

“A “new” strain of deadly bird flu dubbed “Disease X” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has killed hundreds of people in China, and is just three mutations away from becoming transmissible between humans, according to experts. The strain, H7N9, circulates in poultry and has killed 623 people out of 1,625 infected in China – a mortality rate of 38.3%. While first identified in China in 2013, H7N9 has recently emerged as a serious threat seemingly overnight. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for the UK, told The Telegraph that H7N9 could cause a global outbreak. “[H7N9] is an example of another virus which has proven its ability to transmit from birds to humans,” said Van-Tam, who added “It’s possible that it could be the cause of the next pandemic.” The WHO says N7N9 is “an unusually dangerous virus for humans,” and “one of the most lethal influenza viruses that we’ve seen so far” “H7N9 viruses have several features typically associated with human influenza viruses and therefore possess pandemic potential and need to be monitored closely,” said Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researchers led by James Paulson of the Scripps Research Institute in California have been studying the mutations which could potentially occur in H7N9’s genome to allow for human-to-human infection.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/world/science-health-world/three-mutations-make-bird-flu-pandemic-illness-study-says/#.Wyb0L4huZaR

     The following link is to an excellent video by Dr Michael Greger, “How Not to Die,” running for 1 hour and about 21 minutes, but well worth your time. The focus is upon how diet, primarily by eating a vegetable-based anti-oxidant rich diet, can aid in reducing, and in many cases reversing, the diseases of civilisation such as cardiovascular disease.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=7rNY7xKyGCQ

     Dr Greer also has a book on this, that I have not read, but I am sure would be immensely interesting and important, from the section that I could read for free at Amazon.com:
  https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115

     I have been fascinated, to the limits of my understanding of biology, to learn about the gut, and how it has a “mind” of its own, literally, something I covered in other articles. Apart from the intrinsic interest in this, many of us are worried about mental deterioration, heart disease, and most of all, cancer. There is relevance here to the last of these medical horsemen of the apocalypse:
  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/06/11/gut-microbiome-game-changer.aspx

“Previous studies have shown certain gut bacteria quell inflammation, which is an underlying factor in virtually all cancers, whereas others promote it. As noted in a recent article in Nature, “bacteria have been associated with cancer initiation and progression. Some of these microbes activate inflammatory responses and disrupt the mucus layers that protect the body from outside invaders, creating an environment that supports tumor growth.” Certain cancers have also been found to have infectious underpinnings. For example, Heliobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been linked to gastric cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer actually defines this microbe as a carcinogen. Interestingly, H. pylori has also been linked to a reduced risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma, demonstrating the complexity involved and the organ-specific effects microbes can have when it comes to their impact on cancer. Similarly, hepatitis C virus has been shown to play a role in hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic Salmonella enterica infection has been linked to gallbladder cancer, and Haemophilus influenza and Candida albicans have been identified in lower respiratory tract tumors. Gut microbes have also been found to influence the effectiveness of cancer treatment.”

     No doubt, there is a  new wave of affirmative action is just around the corner for Australia, since we are but a few years behind the US, so it is wise to keep a worried eye on all that is happening over the stagnant pond:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-06-20-harvard-medical-school-white-doctors-not-welcome-here-anymore-school-to-focus-on-putting-people-of-color-in-power.html

“The thing about being a “progressive” is that sooner or later, you discover you’re never quite radical enough to keep up with the “diversity” demands that dictate Leftist policies. Harvard Medical School, for example, has just announced it is ashamed of its white graduates who become doctors, and the school is in the process of removing photos of white doctors solely because they are people with white skin. “Dr. Betsy Nabel, the hospital’s president, told The Boston Globe last week that the portraits do not reflect the diversity of students at the medical school,” reports Campus Reform. “[she] suggested that so many portraits of white males may make medical students uncomfortable.” The solution? Eliminate white doctors from the halls of the school. The new priority for Harvard Medical School, its president now admits, is “putting people of color in power.” This means, of course, granting scholarships, raises and professorships to people based solely on the color of their skin rather than the merit of their actions. In other words, Harvard Medical School is now openly admitting it’s going to start producing waves of doctors who aren’t the most qualified. But they will possess certain superficial qualities — skin color, sexual orientation, gender, etc. — that qualify as “diversity” in the minds of Harvard overlords.”

     No, no, no, there is no horrible metaphor here, no ill will, we are really talking about an invasion of rats, the size of cats. Yes, rats that big, a true indication that this is end times, and that hell is opening, or is it a measure of a world out of ecological balance?
  https://www.rt.com/news/430446-sweden-town-giant-rats/

“A Swedish city is battling a merciless enemy, rats ‘the size of cats’, prompting authorities to call on residents to keep doors and windows closed and pre-schoolchildren inside during breaks. “There aren’t the normal rats you see in the forest. They’re as big as cats,” Benny Sagmo from the planning office of Sundsvall city in northern Sweden, explained to the national TT news agency. The rats have already spread out towards a residential area, according to Sagmo. “If we don’t put a stop to it, they can get bigger and bigger…Those who live there can’t even have their front doors or balcony doors open. I’ve told pest control that we’re going all in!” he added. Residents were told to keep doors and windows closed to prevent rats from getting access to food. They were also told to avoid having food for pets outdoors. “Remember a rat can fit through a hole that is only 20 millimeters - a five-krone coin!” the warning from the city said. In the meantime, local Trädet preschool has temporarily banned children from eating or taking their naps outside. “I decided that the children should sleep inside, because we can’t risk rats jumping into the pushchairs,” headteacher Mia Löfgren told SVT Västernorrland."