内容摘要：Countless broken eggs show “the courage to go and challenge these very common, accepted notions,” Cohen said.

Countless broken eggs show “the courage to go and challenge these very common, accepted notions,” Cohen said.

venom as a hobby and kept dozens of snakes at his Wisconsin home.Hoping to protect himself from snake bites — and out of what he calls “simple curiosity” — he began injecting himself with small doses of snake venom and then slowly increased the amount to try to build up tolerance. He would then let snakes bite him.

“At first, it was very scary,” Friede said. “But the more you do it, the better you get at it, the more calm you become with it.”In this photo provided by Centivax, Tim Friede, center, stands in a lab in South San Francisco, Calif., in 2023, that is using his blood to prepare an antivenom to the bites of various snakes. (Centivax via AP)In this photo provided by Centivax, Tim Friede, center, stands in a lab in South San Francisco, Calif., in 2023, that is using his blood to prepare an antivenom to the bites of various snakes. (Centivax via AP)

While no doctor or emergency medical technician — or anyone, really — would ever suggest this is a remotely good idea, experts say his method tracks how the body works. When the immune system is exposed to the toxins in snake venom, it develops antibodies that can neutralize the poison. If it’s a small amount of venom the body can react before it’s overwhelmed. And if it’s venom the body has seen before, it can react more quickly and handle larger exposures.Friede has withstood snakebites and injections for nearly two decades and still has a refrigerator full of venom. In videos posted to his YouTube channel, he shows off swollen fang marks on his arms from black mamba, taipan and water cobra bites.

“I wanted to push the limits as close to death as possible to where I’m just basically teetering right there and then back off of it,” he said.

But Friede also wanted to help. He emailed every scientist he could find, asking them to study the tolerance he’d built up.La Casa Blanca ha criticado duramente a cualquiera que haya expresado preocupación por el efecto bola de nieve de la deuda en el gobierno de Trump, a pesar de que hizo precisamente eso durante su primer mandato tras los recortes de impuestos de 2017.

Karoline Leavitt, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, dijo al inicio de su sesión informativa el jueves que quería “desmentir algunas afirmaciones falsas” sobre los recortes de impuestos de Trump.Leavitt puntualizó que la “afirmación flagrantemente errónea de que el “Proyecto de Ley Único, Grande y Hermoso” aumenta el déficit se basa en la Oficina de Presupuesto del Congreso y otros analistas que utilizan suposiciones deficientes y que históricamente han sido pésimos en sus proyecciones, tanto en gobiernos demócratas como republicanos”.

Pero el propio Trump ha sugerido que la falta de recortes de gastos suficientes para compensar sus reducciones de impuestos resultó de la necesidad de mantener unida a la coalición republicana en el Congreso.“Tenemos que conseguir muchos votos”, dijo Trump la semana pasada. “No podemos estar haciendo recortes”.