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by pcrh 3y ago
Preponderance of available evidence is irrelevant to assessing scientific claims of fact. The original claims only need to be rigorously verified once. As it currently stands the original claims are claimed to have been partially replicated
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by pcrh 3y ago
There's apparently a patent published in 2020. It surprises me that it never gained attention. edit: KR20210062550A - Mehtod of manufacturing ceramic composite with low resistance including superconductors and the composite thereof -
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by pcrh 3y ago
What are the implications of this for global warming? Would we be able to ditch most of fossil fuel usage (eventually)?
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by pcrh 3y ago
There's a lot of redundancy and "archaic" DNA in most multicellular organisms. I imagine that over 50% of wikipedia would still be present after a million years. The inserted wiki-DNA could also conceivably be constructed so
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by pcrh 3y ago
>For the five reviewed papers where Dr. Tessier-Lavigne was a principal author (sometimes referred to as the “primary papers”), the Scientific Panel has concluded that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne did not have actual knowledge of the manipulation
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by pcrh 3y ago
There are numerous cornaviruses that infect humans as well as bats and birds, and have done so for thousands of years at least. Animal-to-human transfer of novel viruses is by far the most common cause of novel epidemics. >Many human cor
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by pcrh 3y ago
They may be referring to the study below [0]. This showed that several genetic variants (lineages) of SARS-CoV2 were identified in infected people associated with the market, indicating 1) that the virus was already circulating among people
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by pcrh 3y ago
Encode wikipedia into DNA, then insert it into a horseshoe crab. In a few million years it may still be around to be decoded. >The fossil record of Xiphosura goes back over 440 million years to the Ordovician period, with the oldest repr
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by pcrh 3y ago
This kind of criticism is unfortunately not new. VCs are routinely criticized for funding enterprises on little more than hunches, and history is replete with examples of investments that made no sense, from the infamous Tulip Mania onward.
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by pcrh 3y ago
It's certainly weird seeing commentators in this thread implicitly supporting child labor. Note that the kids shown in the OP are mostly under 12 yrs old. This isn't teenagers doing a newspaper round, or bussing tables at the loca
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by pcrh 3y ago
We know SARSCoV2 is not a chimeric virus because similar viruses have been identified from other locations, and the pattern-matching (sequence alignment) shows that SARSCoV2 does not have any insertions or deletions that have a different ev
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by pcrh 3y ago
This is the study I alluded to: >Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID- 19 pandemic >Divergence dates between SARS-CoV-2 and the bat sarbecovirus reservoir were estimated as 1948 (95% hi
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by pcrh 3y ago
Agricultural viruses are dangerous to human food security. At least the ones under study usually are.
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>The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t) >More than half of the earliest Covid-19 cases were connected to the Huanan market, and epidemiologic mapping revealed that the concentration of cases was centered there.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Those viruses are slightly more related to SARSCoV2 than RaTG13, however note 1) that they were found even further away from Wuhan than was RaTG13 and 2) that they still remain too different from SARSCoV2 to be its direct ancestor. One of
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by pcrh 3y ago
I read the article, it fails to correctly summarize, and also misrepresents existing known info.
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by pcrh 3y ago
After a quick read of the article, it presents no new data, and is replete with innuendo pointing at the Wuhan lab, rather than any direct evidence. Most importantly, the general reader should know that all labs researching viruses do resea
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by pcrh 3y ago
The main justifiable complaint by junior doctors is that of being over-worked. Unfortunately the OP and the link above suggest that this is a problem partly self-inflicted by the profession itself. There isn't a great risk of emigratio
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by pcrh 3y ago
The main risk is to farmers, and is well known. Paraquat is even used to simulate Parkinson's disease in experimental mice; a quick search on Pubmed for "paraquat" and "mice" would confirm this. It seems odd that Sy
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by pcrh 3y ago
A similar phenomenon occurred in the UK, where under fears of "medical unemployment", the British Medical Association argued against increasing medical school places [0]. The attitude persists even today, where the BMA advocates t
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by pcrh 3y ago
Are there any other professions where the school refuses to enroll students unless they are guaranteed a job afterwards?
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by pcrh 3y ago
To add to others' comments, having animals increases a farm's productivity, since a lot of plant material is indigestible for humans. So they wouldn't have been vegan. Chickens and pigs are omnivourous and will eat all sorts.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Apparently PubMed Central, which has a very large repository of articles (millions), costs about US$ 3 million per year to provide free-to-user access. They only provide what publishers allow, however. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by pcrh 3y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but it appears to me that "emergent" properties are being defined as those which do not appear in a minor form below a threshold. However, many natural phenomena that are fully explainable from first
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by pcrh 3y ago
I can't speak for the other pitch decks, but to anyone with any knowledge of how medical testing works in practice, Theranos was a clear fraud from day 1. This derives from the simple observation that almost all current blood tests eve
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Nice! It looks like there's a big storm in the Atlantic right now....
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by pcrh 3y ago
I have the same attitude towards the use of the term "significant" in statistics, where it has a technical meaning that doesn't correspond to the common language use of the term to mean "important" or "large&q
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by pcrh 4y ago
I'm not a software person, but is it usual to hire stipulating that the job will be only 16 weeks long?
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Searching the web for science: how small mistakes create big problems(nature.com)
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by pcrh 4y ago
"Standard of living" would include access to education, healthcare, work-life balance, the public environment (e.g. within cities), vacation, parental leave, etc, not just material goods. While access to material goods and size of

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