neekleer

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by neekleer 6y ago
The free market approach requires antitrust. It's disingenuous to defer to free market rules when we have big government and big tech so deeply entrenched and largely unchecked.
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by neekleer 6y ago
Apparently, they usually bring police with them, and they are often called to the scene by police. Adding a trained counselor for deescalation sounds nice, but it may simply be an enhancement not an alternative. https://www.stree
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by neekleer 6y ago
You heard or remember the story wrong. There wasn't a bleach couple. That was a form of chloroquine as an ingredient in fish tank cleaner. In some media, it was equated to (hydroxy)choloroquine as a medicinal drug even though this phar
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by neekleer 6y ago
CFR is a tentative metric. IFR is finalized at the end of a pandemic, and it was always suspected it could be between 0.1% and 0.41%. The WHO estimated 750,000,000 have had the virus. Reexamine your numbers. You don't seem to understan
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by neekleer 7y ago
It sounds like you are sending the all clear even as science is being polluted by toxic politics and some chilling effects spread.
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by neekleer 7y ago
Of course, the parent comment to mine broached the subject. I guess that person's statement should stand, and there will be no way to address it.
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by neekleer 7y ago
One problem is that tenure and standing for established scientists no longer afford any of the expected protections. James Watson was not discredited but promptly fired and "disgraced" for stating a well-supported scientific findi
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by neekleer 7y ago
I can see why people would have a strong dislike of Molyneux, but I think cancel culture is now targeting people that are not that extreme.
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by neekleer 7y ago
In the case of the FBI claiming they needed Apple's help to retrieve encrypted data from an iPhone, it's reasonable to suspect that it was simply a ploy to pressure Apple into making concessions in the face of public pressure. A t