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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Could you expand more on why that is? I have tried to read it but found it dry and stopped. Are there themes in it that you feel have created problems, what are they?
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Thanks. Who knows, maybe this article will be cited by others in the future, and it will be one more piece of misinformation. The fight never stops.
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
A little pedantic but I want to fix something. I noticed in the first sentence that he states Von Nuemann died of bone cancer. This is incorrect. His cancer was first found in his collarbone, and it was a metastatic lesion. They biopsied
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
In Washington state, a percent of positive tests are sent to the dept of health for variant sequencing. You can see the published results by week. Delta has outcompeted every other variant for several months. All covid is essentially delta
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
For a non paywall summary with many of the manipulated western blots and other images: https://forbetterscience.com/2021/06/15/how-to-cure-all-dise...
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
I would point out that this article is from August 2021, which is not that long ago, but in the realm of COVID news, is actually significant.
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Peter Watts has a good biology background so his books are pretty accurate when it comes to sci-fi advances with biology. Definitely better than most authors who usually focus more on physics/engineering. I liked “Blindsight” and “The
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
We have been, it’s just not published as much in the newspapers because it is niche medicine effective in the hospital setting. There are a few proven treatments that can be given early (antibody therapy) and a large host of treatments bein
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
I think they were referring to pd-1 inhibitors. I’m not an oncologist but that generally fits with what I’ve seen as a hospitalist. FWIW I personally know someone who has survived > 5 years who received it right when it cane out. Here’s
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
I mean it in good faith, and I am just trying to challenge how throwing out the dna paradigm explains things better. I agree that metabolism plays an important role in cancer, and we don’t fully understand it. But, I take issue with your or
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Those subtitles on the youtube trailer video are not good. The movie itself had good subtitles.
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
This is a great article and if people are interested there is, in my opinion, an awesome Russian movie adoption. It came out in 2017 so isn’t mentioned in the article. I saw it on amazon prime video a couple years ago and it looks like it i
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
There is a cancer called CML, it used to be fatal, now there are targeted chemotherapies that work by inhibiting a tyrosine kinase. The test for the cancer is detecting the fusion gene Bcr-Abl. People with CML take a pill daily that targets
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
So if the gene, which is DNA, is expressing something that changes the metabolism, doesn’t that mean a change in DNA is ultimately responsible? Edit: also if you could introduce a change in the cells that only changed the metabolism and did
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
How about cell cultures that are induced with viral vectors to become cancerous by the introduction of an oncogene? Do you think there is a difference in metabolism in the cells that become tumorigenic after transfection? If so why does it
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
How would that theory explain the association of radiation exposure with cancer, or sun exposure are cancer? Do those things alter your metabolism?
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
What’s the DNA theory of cancer that isn’t actually right?
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
That was a nice read, thank you. I was interested in how the author describes his father’s philosophy of wanting to let his children make up their own mind, then later seems to take no interest in the interest/life work of his child ou
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
If you have children or nephews and nieces I’m sure they will benefit from the effort you are putting in, as well as the benefit you receive. I remember being very impressed when reading a biography somewhere online of Alexander Grothendeic
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Has anybody read Martin Amis’s: The War Against Cliche ? It’s been several years but the book is great and the title summarizes the work of a literary critic, at their best, in my opinion.
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Thank you for posting this. By reading this I learned of Condorcet and I'm hoping to get some inspiration from his "Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind".
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Also, during the influenza of 1918 there wasn’t widespread availability of oxygen. If we were still at that level of technology there would be significantly higher mortality. You can see a bit of this play out in India where people are dyin
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
Ideally that would be best but I wasted my time reading the entire paper because I took the initial upvotes it got as a signal that it was worth reading. I gave two examples above where the authors’ claims are very weak and explained by som
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by Herodotus38 5y ago
I read the paper, I think that this is pseudoscience garbage, in my non-expert opinion. I think the sphericles can be explained geologically, the "growth" of the pebbles is explained, as others have pointed out, by the sand aroun
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
I'm not an expert in CRISPR but I don't believe it is being used regularly outside of some very initial studies to human beings. Assuming you could use CRISPR to edit out a bad gene or change to a good gene, then I think yes it w
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
Unfortunately, there are some types of cervical cancer that are not caused by HPV, but rather by underlying bad luck with genetics. But you are right we could eradicate the vast majority with HPV. Edit: also there is a hormone called DES t
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
I have wondered about one of the premises of that book, the lack of animals that could be domesticated in the Americas, it may have been that the opportunity to domesticate them was lost after a certain amount of time passed and they went e
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
I read the preprint and the supplementary data and it is interesting, but what I can't find, and I don't know why they don't include it, is a breakdown of events in the primary outcomes. In this study, primary outcome was a c
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
OK I have some time, I hope you are able to see this: Great piece on the reality of living in Las Vegas: https://believermag.com/the-people-of-las-vegas/ An interview with Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python) from one of th
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by Herodotus38 6y ago
I used to have a paper subscription to it 16 years ago, so most of my memories are from then. See if you can find links to the audio-visual cds/dvds too. I am working a lot for the next 2 days but I’ll try and reply, check back in 3-4

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