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In the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists realized
- ColinWright 6y agoI'm finding that I can't scroll the page at all. I've had to use wget to retrieve the text, then lynx to render it. Anyone else having this problem? Am I doing something wrong? How am I supposed to scroll? (Using Firefox on Ubuntu on a laptop) Edit: I have now read the content via the process I mention above, but I was curious as to how one was supposed to read it ... the comments below explain it ... thank you.
- nexuist 6y agoI'm guessing you hit a paywall and you have some kind of extension that deleted the paywall div but not the overlay div that disables scrolling. Try this instead: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...
- ColinWright 6y agoOK, thanks for that.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoCould it be a paywall script failing halfway through?
- loopz 6y agoI got the same problem on Firefox 66 with no extensions. Reader mode works though, thankfully.
- joveian 6y agoFirefox reader mode works great as it often does for this type of thing.
- ColinWright 6y agoSuper ... thanks. I always forget to try that.
- nexuist 6y agoScientifically speaking, what is the most probable estimate of how this emerged? From the news (and I know it's hyper sensationalized, so YMMV) it feels like this virus attacks the body in bizarre ways we have never seen from the coronavirus family before. Were those earlier theories that it was made / escaped from a lab thoroughly debunked, or has there been more evidence since then? I know that WIV released a genome very close to SARS-CoV-2 (RatG-13) that supposedly came from the SARS-CoV-1 bat cave, is it highly likely that cave was the origin for SARS-CoV-2 as well?
- revicon 6y agoIt’s not really that this virus is strange, it’s more that we’ve never really dug into the subtler effects of a lot of viruses that humans suffer infections from. Herpes is another virus that when’re just now finding far removed links to, alzheimer's disease being one.
- weaksauce 6y agoWhy haven't we dug into them more deeply?
- exmadscientist 6y agoBecause research prioritization and funding is comically, hilariously, pathetically, tragically broken? The research proposals which get funded are never the best ones given our current knowledge, much less the right ones for advancing our current knowledge. (Source: see username. I've seen inside a few of the US academic funding sausage factories, and it's not pretty.)
- perl4ever 6y agoI set out to read most if not all of the annual reports of small public companies, an awful lot of which are drug/biotech startups, and the odd thing I've noticed is that many of them, if not a majority, seem to be focusing on rare diseases, and not only that, but there's more overlap than you'd think (you'd think there would be a huge number of different rare diseases by definition). I have a vague sense of the rationalizations of that, there's less competition, more chance of discovering something revolutionary, but... I couldn't help thinking, where are the companies trying to change the world with moonshots that address common diseases? My kneejerk reaction is that incentives must be screwed up at some level of regulation.
- instaheat 6y agoGot called a sheep for posting this article to Facebook. :(
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThis is sensational. It's a virus. They're all sinister. Look into the absolute nightmare that the filovirus that destroys your blood vessels. Or retrovirus that integrate into the hosts genome. Any disease with a pathology can be considered sinister. Sinister then loses its meaning. Sensational.