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Even if it is, no one suggested that local hunters sleep every night in the forest. If they happen to sleep under the tree once in a year, it won't increase their risk of death significantly. There could be another reason why sleeping
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13% is really not that much. Somehow they mention but then gloss over the most important factor: >> When it comes to deaths caused by infections, no single variable explains everything, or even all that much, with the exception of age
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Dehumanizing is what people feel about them for whatever reasons. Trying to analyse it deeper by science misses the whole point about feelings.
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In fact, the UK health authorities argued that flu vaccine mandates make more sense for hospital workers than covid vaccine mandates with omicron.
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It all depends on what are the numbers. In any case before deciding on vaccine mandates, certain conditions have to be satisfied: 1. Will the mandate increase vaccine uptake? 2. Will the mandate prevent overloading hospitals and clinics? 3.
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This is now wrong. GoFundMe announced that they will automatically refund all donations. https://medium.com/gofundme-stories/update-gofundme-statemen...
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Vitamin D supplementation is very effective in case of rickets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets ). It is very rare now in developed countries because nutrition has considerably improved. Some countries even fortif
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The controversy about vitamin D is becoming like ivermectin. There is no doubt that vitamin D is essential for bone health and is important in many other processes in the body. The correlation between low vitamin D levels and general health
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Have you done it?
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Maybe that is something about European psyche that worships bureaucracy as the highest human achievement. I am more into the camp which likes hiking for the sake of it instead of recognition by some regulatory body. Camino de Santiago has a
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You can accuse antivax by putting too much meaning into the word “experimental” but you shouldn't fall for their attempts to redefine the meaning of this word and argue from that position. Experimental can be just something that is use
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Scott Locklin. The truth in this case is better approached by Bayesian statistics. I didn't see much evidence in favour of sonic or EMP weapons here. If experts familiar with the field see it unlikely and there is no strong evidence on
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Actually we still don't know many things. The studies are still ongoing and while we don't expect radical discoveries, the long-term benefit of vaccines meaning how long the protection lasts, what are effects on new variants etc.
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This article is an pure speculation. The CIA report already said with great confidence that it is not caused by foreign country. The fact that didn't excluded it 100% is just that negative things are very hard to prove. And the reasons
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Many people, maybe even majority, buy used cars which cost less. They are probably more reliable than new cars in 1919. I was probably biased because I recently bought a used car without getting a loan which cost me about 3 months of income
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That's also true in many big cities (Singapore, New York). This article fails to consider this point of view that she really didn't need the car similarly to many people living in those places today. The fact that she could afford
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Indeed, this seemed to indicate that the rent has increased disproportionately. The article mentions that the rent would cost $500 in today's dollars. That's very cheap for 4 bedroom apartment everywhere in western world, especial
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I have a different conclusion. The article mentions that the car would have cost her 3 months of income. That doesn't sound too much and is roughly about the same what people pay for cars today, maybe even more. The reason she thought
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The biggest risk I think is falling a victim of the scam. I usually get emails purportedly from my hosting provider (sometimes from my bank etc.) that I need to verify payment or something like that. Obviously they are fake but I can unders
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It can be done but it is not guaranteed. Smaller companies have more geeky staff who would be more suspicious and wouldn't let that easily to be had. They have more accountability. I hear that many accounts of celebrities get hacked an
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I stopped using gmail. I pay for my own domain (approx $10 per year and subscribe a hosting service that costs about $4/month). The total cost is not much different from a paid google email which is about $50/year. If I happened t
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The link is duplicated and does not work.
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Which is so funny because in Latvian the recent trend is to avoid using older person because it sounds ageist and disrespectful and replace it with senior citizens which sounds more dignified.
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They didn't recommend anything against the vaccine. It is just overzealous fact-checkers who (similarly to antivax) couldn't admit that they were confused about the article and mislabelled it as false.
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It has nothing to do with the author of the article. It just baseless accusations.
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In any case, the point of the article to raise a concern, not prove something. FDA is responsible for overseeing this. So far, it appears that were some irregularities with Ventavia and now they might be resolved. The article never said tha
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Nothing prevents to peer review an investigative article. Clinical trials are complicated and reviewers were probably professionals who have at least some experience in clinical trials. Clinical trials are all about science. Everything is i
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It states that Thacker has been double vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine. Anti-vax conspiracy theorist? That is clearly nonsense.
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As it was expected and predicted by many smart people.
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It was clear to me. We cannot say first and second infection because those were of different variants. Someone got previous infection (probably alpha variant), was better protected against delta than someone with vaccination only. It does n

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