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by pcrh 3y ago
.... even the smallest dots are huge...
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by pcrh 3y ago
I've yet to see any evidence that microplastics are toxic. Plastics are generally inert, and by the time they have broken down into microscopic pieces, most plasticizers have already been leached from the particles. Microplastics are a
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by pcrh 3y ago
That's fairly impressive to be honest. Correctly interpreting "uncleft" as "atom", for example.
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by pcrh 3y ago
One thing that is interesting about this is how one may not need to travel to some far and remote place to experience low light pollution. In the map of the UK, for example, low light pollution can be experienced within a 2 hr train ride fr
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by pcrh 3y ago
I read it as flâneur.
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by pcrh 3y ago
That's an intensely bizarre discussion. These "moons", or whatever, don't seem to have any connection with real world economic activity, and so are intrinsically worthless beyond the value that those involved in trading
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A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft(nature.com)
1 points by pcrh 3y ago|1 comments
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by pcrh 3y ago
Discussed here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03230-z
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by pcrh 3y ago
Ireland would be excluded because GDP estimations for Ireland vastly over-estimate wealth due to many corporations being resident in Ireland for tax purposes. Otherwise, I have long suspected that using the US/US dollar as a baseline r
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by pcrh 3y ago
That exists in some sectors, e.g. the City of London. Also, UK doctors are compensated at internationally competitive rates when compared to average national income, especially so if they work in private practice in London with internationa
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by pcrh 3y ago
Currently, this problem is already mostly addressed by animal trials. Granted that that the pharmacokinetics of a given drug in mice, or even monkeys, won't be identical to that in humans, it's more predictive than using isolated
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by pcrh 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with that list. On the other hand, when it comes to legislation, MPs and committees consider only the legislation under question. Nothing on that list suggests that privacy should be deprecated.
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by pcrh 3y ago
The Rotherham case is an example of selective focus. There is no notable difference between how abuse cases were handled in Rotherham versus other towns and cities in England.
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by pcrh 3y ago
It reads like it was automatically translated from another language. The grammar is all over the place.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Any form of harassment is illegal. See the pics I posted in an edit above; the protestors make their opinions clear to visitors to the clinic, even while being silent.
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by pcrh 3y ago
She would have been guilty of harassment even if she were not praying. Edit, these pictures show that "silently praying" is not an unobtrusive as it sounds: https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/articl
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by pcrh 3y ago
Could you expand on that?
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by pcrh 3y ago
OECD numbers show that UK medical pay is internationally competitive when compared to average national income. Summary: https://i.imgur.com/DGT0d0d.png From: https://www.oecd.org/health/recent-trends-in
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by pcrh 3y ago
To be honest, that "factcheck" demonstrates the value of performing well-constructed systematic reviews, i.e. a clear and unbiased assessment of what the pertinent studies do and do not support.
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by pcrh 3y ago
It's a bit more important than that number suggests. For one, 7% of global systematic reviews is not a trivial proportion. But more importantly Cochrane allows for the pre-registration of such reviews, i.e. where the methodology and go
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Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures(nature.com)
113 points by pcrh 3y ago|65 comments
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by pcrh 3y ago
The classic Prisoner's Dilemma demonstrates "cooperation is good". Perhaps this is an extension of that.
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by pcrh 3y ago
It isn't the fact that there are two mutations that defines two lineages. One lineage is different from the other at two positions. The mutations defining these two lineages could have occurred in either animals or humans. What it does
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by pcrh 3y ago
The key part is "scientifically supported". There's no science supporting the lab leak theory, i.e. actual scientific data linking the lab with SARS-CoV2.
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by pcrh 3y ago
There's nothing difficult about the two lineages at the market. What it indicates is that SARS-CoV2 had been circulating for some time before the pandemic took off. We now know that it can spread asymptomatically. The differences bet
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by pcrh 3y ago
Many in this thread have remarked on there being two version of "lab leak", 1) that it was manipulated in a lab, then escaped, or 2) that it was a natural virus that escaped from the lab. The evidence is that it is a natural virus
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by pcrh 3y ago
From other comments in this thread, it seems this risk has passed, but was known three days ago? Was any action taken at all? A 3% risk isn't small.
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Solid-body trajectoids shaped to roll along desired pathways(nature.com)
8 points by pcrh 3y ago|0 comments
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by pcrh 3y ago
Nobody is trying to prove a negative here. The initial claim is of a RT superconductor. The claim only needs to be rigorously verified once. If it can't be verified, it remains an unverified claim, not necessarily a falsehood.
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by pcrh 3y ago
To be honest, that interview process is not unusual in either it's length or details. In the UK (where this appears to be), recruitment for most public sector, academic, and even entry-level graduate corporate jobs, takes at least as l

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