Stupidity Watch 1

     While there is much contention about it, and there are claims of antisemitism every time anyone mentions it, historically, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe had their own country over 1,000 years ago called Khazaria in what is now Kazakhstan, Southern Russia, and Crimea, but all of the important cities in their country were in what is now Crimea. The Khazarians ruled the area from 650 AD to around 965 AD until the Kievan Rus came to ascendancy and conquered the Crimean peninsula. The Kievan Rus descended to become the Czars of Russia.      Then when the Golden Horde of Mongols arrived in the 1220s they pushed the Royal family of Khazaria out of Crimea and they moved to Italy, while most of the Ashkenazi Jews with the ability to migrate traveled west into the rest of Europe, primarily to Poland where intermarrage with local leaders formed the Schlachta Nobility, who established The Jagiellonian University about 100 years later.       Jews h...

     The United States has a unique cultural history involving African Americans and their reticence to be involved with the medical system. It has a lot to do with something that is commonly called, "The Tuskegee Experiment," run by the US Public Health Service. If you don't know about it already, at the historic black Tuskegee University in 1932 they recruited 600 black sharecroppers from Macon Alabama, 399 of which had latent syphilis, and 201 were the control group. The doctors did not actually treat them for their STD, the doctors allowed the syphilis to run unchecked, and allowed it to spread to their wives, their children, and when their children grew up, they allowed the disease to spread to their husbands and wives, and to their children as well.      The doctors claimed that they were providing free medical care and free burials for the black sharecroppers and their families, but only placebos were ever offered, even when penicillin came out an...