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by phonypc 5y ago
Sorry, what? You think Chinese manufacturing businesses aren't making a profit?
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by phonypc 5y ago
> after that abstract I'm not sure I want to check out the details There's a fairly short review of why the study is kinda silly here: https://gidmk.medium.com/vitamin-d-covid-19-and-the-promise-...
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by phonypc 5y ago
Nah it's just a comically absurd proposition, even if you take the implication that low D3 is causing COVID mortality at face value. Obligatory relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/
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by phonypc 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd call that hypertension difference small, and it's by far not the largest difference. There's ~30% more diabetes in the vaccinated cohort. 2x the rate of kidney failure.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Looking at the first table, the vaccinated cohort was obviously WAY less healthy to begin with. As expected; sick people were more inclined to protect themselves. Especially with the cutoff for inclusion being May 2021, presumably before
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by phonypc 5y ago
Not a stats expert, but this just seems like a (intentional?) fundamental misconstruing of meta-analysis. My understanding is they correct for random error, not error due to flawed study design.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the price went up if it became popular at its price. Definite Veblen good vibes.
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by phonypc 5y ago
You can get very premium Vietnamese fish sauces (also just anchovies and salt) which are smoked and aged in Bourbon barrels for years... for about 1/3rd the price.
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by phonypc 5y ago
That is exorbitant for anchovies + salt + time. It could be half the price and still marketed as a premium, niche thing.
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by phonypc 5y ago
The article the author links at the end of the thread goes into this a bit. > Sally Grainger, an independent researcher and author of The Story of Garum, published last December, also praises Palacios’ effort. But she believes that what
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by phonypc 5y ago
There's no indication that low-salt garum was a thing. That would just be horribly spoiled fish juice. People probably weren't in the habit of consuming things that reliably made them sick or dead.
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by phonypc 5y ago
> disappeared completely Not really. It evolved into things like Worcestershire, ketchup and a bunch of less known sauces. Colatura di alici is probably closest in spirit to the Roman preparation.
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by phonypc 5y ago
It doesn't tell us nothing , it's just not the whole story. And why should one expect a single experiment to tell the whole story?
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by phonypc 5y ago
I'm not sure you can apply those findings regarding antioxidants. NAC isn't itself an antioxidant, but a prodrug for an amino acid that is the rate limiting factor in producing glutathione, the bodies primary endogenous antioxidan
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by phonypc 5y ago
The emperor and Irulan only make a personal appearance at the end of the book, don't they? During events the movie presumably doesn't cover at all?
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by phonypc 5y ago
Looks to be floury/soft.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Hard/soft presumably corresponds to the waxy/floury categorization Anglo countries often use. It shouldn't be hard to find which category a given variety of potato better fits into.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I very much doubt that most recipe timings actually involve a timed test cook at all. They're just guesstimates.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Little hyperbolic there. Pure fat is only about 50x as calorie dense as the subject tomatoes. It would take some very fatty meat to get to 20x.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Did you miss the part before your quote about them being a moderate source of vitamin C? The whole sentence needs a re-write anyway IMO, "no significant nutrient content" seems like too strong a statement given the table. A large
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by phonypc 5y ago
How do you imagine the carbon makes it from the sugar and into the components of new/larger cells? Magic? It has to be metabolized first. In the gut, mostly through fermentation.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Worth noting that the "in mice" qualifier might be particularly apropos here. > According to Taylor, the observations in mice make sense from an evolutionary perspective. "In mammals, especially hibernating mammals in temp
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by phonypc 5y ago
Uhh... sure. If you don't want to call it fermentation that's ok. Though I don't imagine human gut bacteria are respirating, or some other more exotic form of metabolism. Point is, the products of bacterial metabolism of suga
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by phonypc 5y ago
>fructose absorption is delayed long enough that gut bacteria get most of it Have a reference for this? Seems implausible, bacterial fermentation of any sugar in the intestines should result in distress, i.e. the same symptoms a lactose
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by phonypc 5y ago
A collection of links to studies would be harmless. The site purports to compile data from said studies in a meaningful and complete manner. It very much does not. There are also issues with some of the studies themselves, but that's
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by phonypc 5y ago
No, I'm (me, singular) close to assuming that people who link to an anonymous, mangled cherry-picking of incongruous study endpoints is a paid shill.
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by phonypc 5y ago
That website is such obvious bunk that I'm close to assuming anyone still linking it is literally a paid shill. They still have a copycat up in hcqmeta.com touting similar claims for hydroxychloroquine. And a dozen other drugs/vit
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by phonypc 5y ago
The age and sex disparity in post-vac myocarditis would seem to disqualify that hypothesis. It's not like young men have veins in their deltoids where other demographics don't. Tasting saline after an IV injection in nonsensical.
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by phonypc 5y ago
The lousy studies aren't lousy because of the constraints of an insufficient budget. They're based on fraudulent/fabricated data. As far as the "real world trial" of India, the peak of their delta wave roughly coinc
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by phonypc 5y ago
The "study" has nothing to do with the latest movie, other than using its title as a pun.

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