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by peytn 5y ago
That’s basically Wikipedia minus the most downvoted view part.
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by peytn 5y ago
It’s obviously a made-up posthumous quote. Nobody who cared about their image (as John Ehrlichman clearly did) was using “blacks” instead of Jesse Jackson’s “African Americans” while talking to journalists in 1994.
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by peytn 5y ago
Nope. Your experience mirrors mine. They should probably be broken up.
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by peytn 5y ago
You think a private $50 billion company facing regulatory pressure in several jurisdictions would just do that? Censor things for the government?
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by peytn 5y ago
No, but you need to be able to ask people who’re “in the know,” e.g. > When Roberts contacted one of the journals the editor responded that “I wouldn’t trust the data.” People already know what the bullshit results are.
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by peytn 5y ago
> Saying "deal with it" is not at all how I would communicate the issue to the average consumer Manipulating people isn’t a sustainable solution.
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by peytn 5y ago
> and such views actually start to impact the uptake I’m not sure that’s how the chain of causality works. We have 80s-style public health communication that isn’t effective today. People are looking for a reason to reject it. If not the
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by peytn 5y ago
You run, but it’s pretty obvious one reason that never happened is because you can use the phrase “best available evidence” to do whatever you want when you control the funding for evidence gathering.
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by peytn 5y ago
At some point everyone will be vegan ascetics forever apparently. Including all of our descendants, who will recognize and appreciate how enlightened we are. Curiosity and discussion about other solutions cannot be tolerated lest it jeopard
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by peytn 5y ago
The new business model for magazines like Scientific American seems to be subscription confirmation bias. I’m a former subscriber.
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by peytn 5y ago
> Not for any known negative reason though. That statement applies to most medical interventions before testing. If a public health organization thinks they’ll need to mix doses, they should have the foresight to sponsor a trial. It’s v
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by peytn 5y ago
I think a much deeper analysis would be necessary to say whether this “is a good thing.”
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by peytn 5y ago
I’d feel a lot more comfortable with this line of reasoning if somebody could put numbers on it. This rhetoric makes sense, but is it rooted in reality? What’s the expected rate of variant emergence under different scenarios? Can we get it
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by peytn 5y ago
Google is a legal construct. I can’t go have a coffee with Google. I can’t get a high five from Google. Google will do whatever our laws say it has to do in exchange for liability protections for its owners.
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by peytn 5y ago
> I spoke to Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance This guy became a little controversial [1] after a FOIA request turned up emails in which he appears to be conspiring with colleagues to manipulate public perception: > “y
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by peytn 5y ago
Ah yes, “net price.” Don’t remember my accounting class covering that. What about revenue?
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by peytn 5y ago
We have public hospitals already. People happily opt out. They’d opt out even harder if there was a tax break.
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by peytn 5y ago
I think this is more an example of what we call “bullshit.” There’s a lot of it.
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by peytn 5y ago
Also, like other non-pharmaceutical interventions, they’re currently unregulated.
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by peytn 5y ago
James Madison figured it was better to leave a few “noxious branches to their luxuriant growth” than to risk “[injuring] the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.” What makes you think now, 250 years into the most prosperous society in
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by peytn 5y ago
Come on, for a while there we had a “0% ICU capacity” despite empty beds because every COVID patient counted as two people or something [1]. That’s not science. We did some things right, but the state government really, really is not some b
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by peytn 5y ago
Absolutely do not sell your house. Get a cofounder. Nobody’s going to fund a random solo person from a third world country who sells their house instead of using OPM. Like would you fund that person?
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by peytn 5y ago
> Not helped by how many people are blatantly propagandized into objectively false positions by Fox News & similar. I dunno, I think that’s confusing cause and effect. The solutions being proposed (e.g. be vegetarian) aren’t what peo
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by peytn 5y ago
This is called being a sociopath and using mind games to control people around you. Just join a remote-first company if it’s that big a deal to you.
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by peytn 5y ago
Great. Speaking from first- and second-hand experience, the FDA is way more loosey-goosey than people think as long as you’re paying the right people.
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by peytn 5y ago
There’s always a debt to the truth. We put the COVID debt on a high-interest credit card to get people locked down and get vaccines out. The balance is due.
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by peytn 5y ago
> 100°F = 37.78°C (various mentions. This is body temperature so you can not loose heat effectively in this air temperature.) I think this isn’t quite true due to water’s large enthalpy of vaporization. In dry air the limits are gonna be
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by peytn 5y ago
Yeah actually maybe offer a little equity on top of flat fee per interview… Edit: not that it’s something I’d personally feel comfortable with ethically
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by peytn 5y ago
The few people I know who’ve moved still “live” there to avoid taking a hit on compensation at review time and just changed their mailing address to a friend’s place or something.
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by peytn 5y ago
I read the UC San Diego summary. As far as I can tell, their data is from an online poll. It’s well-known that online poll respondents are generally more interested in politics than average. It stands to reason that those considering leavin

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