There are (historical) case studies regarding pandemic protocols. I recall coming across some out there. They tend to inform (history is a great teach...
Facebook steps up fight against climate misinformation – but critics say effort falls short (Sep 16, 2021) We watched The Social Dilemma (2020) the ot...
, when you dismiss majority evidence with a handwave, then what difference do facts make to you? When you reject or ignore reasoning, then what differ...
That's pretty much what I haven't been doing. But, seeing you're impervious to facts and oblivious of faults, what does it matter? • Tuberculosis ther...
, as far as I recall, outlawing and attempting to "cure" homosexuality has mostly come from religion. Not aware of the conflict inflation fallacy I se...
, I guess ebola (a germ) would be just another day out in the woods to you? :D There is such a thing as ignorance gone dangerous and incorrigibility m...
Don't know much about it, but apparently Landauer's principle puts forth a relation between information and thermodynamics, i.e. quantification. Not s...
Evidently, meeting SARS-CoV-2 armed, i.e. vaccinated, beats meeting the virus unarmed. (y) The unarmed has a higher chance of becoming a virus replica...
I guess the good general got worried, according to the authors: Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to prot...
, , , thanks for the comments. Boghossian's stunt fallouts are unfortunate, yet, that aside, I'm guessing that some publishers/journals have been doin...
Haven't kept up with this stuff. Maybe someone around here has. My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. The more I spoke out aga...
I guess some are more so, some less so, to varying degrees, ... Either way, it's worthwhile differentiating them, what they say, what they point at, t...
We can always abstract things into irrelevance, cutting some corners/particulars here and there. We still have to deal with the current outbreak. By t...
I haven't heard of police dragging anti-vaxxers off to a facility and forcefully vaccinating them. Anyone? The likes of kindergartens, schools, hospit...
Right, fair control or all-but eradication of cholera measles meningitis smallpox ebola typhus ... Well, who cares? I might have mentioned Baffin Bay,...
(y) ("No", I mean :smile:) London transport staff warned of anti-mask posters with razor blades (Sep 9, 2021) :o People going to such lengths over mas...
Nah, it ain't. A lump of cells the size of a cherry ain't a person. My neighbor's kid is. Deciding what a person is (under the law, such a law), may b...
A couple months in, a fetus is a lump of cells about the size of a cherry, something like that, I think. Sure, yet egg + sperm isn't a person. It's no...
...tf? :brow: So there are some people here and there that could a bit of extra help, psychological in this case apparently. Numbers/reports/contexts?...
There are people having died due to their denial, and parents whose kids have died, all preventable. :death: Sometimes words might not make much diffe...
(y) It seems though, that some don't learn from history. There have been crazies all along for sure. Some forms of vaccination were used a millennium ...
Anyone been watching Shameless (the US TV series)? Dark comedic drama. Great acting. Not for sensitive viewers. Has violence, rough language, drugs (a...
Voters empower politicians, hire politicians to do a job. Pick untrustworthy people to do a politician's job, and you've shot yourself in the foot. If...
In other news ... Why we still haven't been able to find aliens (Business Insider; May 18, 2021) The aestivation hypothesis seems a bit odd to me. The...
, looks to me like explained. Maybe it's just that a temporally/spatially "limited" world goes against our intuitions — the principle of sufficient re...
From a pre-print: Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread, authors say (Sep 1, 2021) You'll occasionally see so...
Note, this from a pre-print: Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread, authors say (Sep 1, 2021) You'll occasion...
From physicists (including Krauss) we might expect ... ? The Four Different Meanings Of 'Nothing' To A Scientist (Ethan Siegel; Forbes; May 1, 2020) •...
, I guess practices vary. Around here eligibility was/is advertised, by age way back when. You then sign up online/over phone, read/get instructions (...
This just scrolled by elsewhere ... :) https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1433416836960464898 https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/143341683696046...
@"Isaac", scouring back over comments, I see you want to make a comparative argument — Harley Davidson, obesity, ... That's all fine, I suppose. Meanw...
, that was how I read it, but may have to re-read, after a cup of coffee, some other day. Says "in the same population", and 19.6M AstraZeneca + 9.5M ...
1 Pfizer vaccination, female, 17 years old, oxygen drop, blood clot, various symptoms: Welsh teen in hospital with Covid targeted online by anti-vaxxe...
Except it wasn't a response to the inquiry posed. (n) Just FYI, I'm not likely to change topics in the middle of this topic (e.g. two wrongs don't mak...
Brief update on risks ... Original paper: Risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism after covid-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 positive testing: sel...
Right, and that wasn't claimed, except there are a few influential voices operating against ... ... hence asking ... ... which you failed to respond t...
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