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by baja_blast 3y ago
> reputable newspaper who write about it But as for the case of the Fauci emails from FOIA requests no "reputable" newspaper reported on it. So people still to this day dismiss it since it did not come from a "reputable&qu
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by baja_blast 3y ago
r/skeptic on reddit fits this perfectly. No one there is actually a skeptic just dogmatic and no evidence or counter points will sway them. If it was the time of Copernicus the sub would 100% side with the Church that the sun revolves
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by baja_blast 3y ago
AI may not make the content much worse, but the engagement artificial. AI bots to astroturf comment sections and twitter to manufacture consent and sentiment to whoever pays for it. I mean we already have that now, but it will be much harde
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> Pretty sure this is how the human brain works How we thought it works in the 1960's yes.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> then a twitter thread from a virologist debunking everything with a thread about how the lab leak theory is ridiculous As someone who has followed this closely one thing I noticed is the disingenuousness of many of these virologists in
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The WIV has BSL-4, BSL-3 and BSL-2 labs. But the research involving insertion of human specific furin cleavage sites into coronaviruses sampled in the wild was done in BSL2 which just means a thin medical mask and gloves. https:/&#x2F
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But it's not, the head of the WIV even stated how unexpected it was for a SARS outbreak to happen in Wuhan and area not endemic to SARS like coronaviruses. If they wanted to be near the source they should have built it in Yunnan or eve
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by baja_blast 3y ago
We could stop this research in it's tracks if the US government forced journals to not only refuse to publish dangerous research but also report the researchers to the authorities. Once you remove this incentive the whole demand and mo
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Here is a thread explaining the flaws in Worobey's paper https://twitter.com/danwalker9999/status/1595653898572042240
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> 40,000 wet markets in China as of 2019 And yet it happened to spillover in a wet market in a city with the premier coronavirus research labs in the country. It also happened to happen far away from where these types of viruses originat
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by baja_blast 3y ago
If we knew it was from a lab much of the confusion over H2H transmission, Airborne transmission, asymptomatic infections would have been known much earlier. We would have take the correct measure earlier and saved lives.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I heard from a friend from Taiwan that there were rumors of some kinda of virus spreading around by mid 2019 in China. The thing is if there were blood samples showing a much earlier date of covid spreading in China there is zero chance we
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The palm civet found infected in the market was infected with a virus 99.9% similar but unique to palm civets. The issue here is they have found animals infected with an ancestral strain at a market that's a 29-nucleotide difference. S
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The difference between previous spillovers like SARS1 and MERS was these viruses rapidly mutated as they adapted towards humans allowing for the identification of the intermediate species within months. SARS2 on the other hand was already p
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by baja_blast 3y ago
A classically trained pianist's profession does not carry the risk of killing millions of people! There is zero proof outside of circumstantial conjecture that SARS2 has a natural origin. Up to 20 million people have died due to an ani
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Yes, covid was in the US months before we bothered to check and count cases. There were rumors of a virus spreading months before it was officially acknowledged
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> You can explain one of the many reasons why gain of function research is necessary: anticipating next year’s version of the flu, designing drugs and vaccines such that resistance mutations reduce evolutionary fitness A few problems wit
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> Correct me if I am wrong but we are only able to do science around the other stars in the Milky way (e.g. exoplanet observations) Oh yeah and on top of that the way we detect planets around stars creates a extreme bias on dwarf stars s
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Jupiter directs more rocks towards earth than deflects. But life on earth appeared immediately after it cooled suggesting that the process to start life is relatively straight forward. And life by default adapts and evolves based on it&#x27
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Yep radio waves degradation is due to the inverse square law. The strength of the signal is determined by the inverse of the distance squared. So the drop off is pretty extreme.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Yes, but Isaac Newton would be able to see an F-35 and iPhone and would be able to understand how these things work once explained.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
React popularized and brought one way data flow, and Redux introduced centralized state which was a massive improvement over AngularJS.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
And this will lead to the a stagnation of science if the best and brightest disincentivized from participating.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But vaccine development can only be done with existing viruses circulating in humans. The mutations to the existing virus to test immunity escape are minimal and less risky. But mutating unknown animal/bat viruses to be transmissible t
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I bet Eli would only listen to Boeing executives and engineers directly tied to the Boeing 737 MAX' opinions on what caused the crash and how safe the systems are. Everyone else that disagrees is not and expert, only trust Boeing execu
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The idea that the mutations that happen in a lab setting whether direct editing or serial passaging would ever resemble anything that would happen in the wild is as likely as expecting a store bought banana evolving in the wild.
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Raccoon dogs in Wuhan 'did not spread Covid to humans'(telegraph.co.uk)
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Quantum Decoherence in Microtubules(arxiv.org)
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by baja_blast 3y ago
If the separation did not fail it probably would have made it to orbit.
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The technological developments in the 60s/70s in aerospace never cease to amaze me. The SR-71, X-15, Saturn 5 rocket all developed when computers were less powerful than the NES yet they achieved things that no one else has been able t

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