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Remember, the Lancet is not a reliable source and has already gotten caught fearmongering earlier this year: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retract

Remember, the Lancet is not a reliable source and has already gotten caught fearmongering earlier this year: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-co...

DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
Lancet is one of the foremost medical journals. Peer review does not filter out 100% of bad papers. For very understandable reasons, there's a huge pressure right now to get information about CoVID-19 out to the public (and to the medical community) quickly. That means that more bad papers are going to slip through right now. But what's the alternative? Would you rather that critical results about CoVID-19 be withheld for longer, in order to more thoroughly vet results? That's reasonable, but it involves a trade-off, and the Lancet would no doubt face criticism in the opposite direction if they withheld papers for longer.
- ghthor 6y ago
  Except when the hypothesis is that COVID and millimeter wave radiation might be linked, that information is ruthlessly censoring by the publishing powers.
  - krapp 6y ago
    Because it's not a hypothesis, it's a nonsense conspiracy theory and of course medical journals will refuse to publish it. If people want that "information" its free for the taking on reddit, 4chan and facebook memes.
    - ghthor 6y ago
      If you think this is a conspiracy theory then I doubt you understand much of quantum theory and how photons interact with matter. This experiment were running with millimeter waves is dangerous, and I've yet to see the research that suggests otherwise. I just dont understand how others are not seeing this, were moving far to quickly with our usage of photon manipulation technologies and I dont see the justification for it.
      - solveit 6y ago
        Explain the spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators to me as if I'm an undergrad and then I'll take you seriously.

DiogenesKynikos 6y ago

Lancet is one of the foremost medical journals. Peer review does not filter out 100% of bad papers. For very understandable reasons, there's a huge pressure right now to get information about CoVID-19 out to the public (and to the medical community) quickly. That means that more bad papers are going to slip through right now. But what's the alternative? Would you rather that critical results about CoVID-19 be withheld for longer, in order to more thoroughly vet results? That's reasonable, but it involves a trade-off, and the Lancet would no doubt face criticism in the opposite direction if they withheld papers for longer.

ghthor 6y ago
Except when the hypothesis is that COVID and millimeter wave radiation might be linked, that information is ruthlessly censoring by the publishing powers.
- krapp 6y ago
  Because it's not a hypothesis, it's a nonsense conspiracy theory and of course medical journals will refuse to publish it. If people want that "information" its free for the taking on reddit, 4chan and facebook memes.
  - ghthor 6y ago
    If you think this is a conspiracy theory then I doubt you understand much of quantum theory and how photons interact with matter. This experiment were running with millimeter waves is dangerous, and I've yet to see the research that suggests otherwise. I just dont understand how others are not seeing this, were moving far to quickly with our usage of photon manipulation technologies and I dont see the justification for it.
    - solveit 6y ago
      Explain the spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators to me as if I'm an undergrad and then I'll take you seriously.