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by shlant 5y ago
A quote from a Slate Star Codex[1] post that I love: "If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be
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by shlant 5y ago
yea it's frustrating how many people I've engaged with who lead with the "well who funded the study?" question before even looking at anything. It screams confirmation bias to me (the question is almost never applied equ
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by shlant 5y ago
so good. thank you for reminding me this exists
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by shlant 5y ago
> That is patently false. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116914/ are you serious? your evidence is an article from 1999 written by an anti-vaxxer[1] that references a study he funded? Just r
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by shlant 5y ago
> "Whether there's any link is an open question." The link has to be shown to be causal and we have a lot of data (more than any other vaccines in history) that is showing the vaccines to be very safe. If all you have is n
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by shlant 5y ago
from one parroted talking point to another... not surprising considering your use of the word "propaganda". No vaccine has ever had adverse reactions that don't show up for over a year. There isn't even a mechanism throu
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by shlant 5y ago
nothing about the trials were "rushed" in a way that compromised quality. Please stop parroting that talking point. https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/were-the-covid-19-vaccines...
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by shlant 5y ago
I don't think it's accurate to say that the OP or your sources are just "reporting on an "unexpected 40% increase in ‘all cause deaths’ in 2021" from an actual government dataset". All the links are clearly com
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by shlant 5y ago
so they are making very strong statements that they can't even back up? Seems like something that should be avoided by news outlets.
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by shlant 5y ago
could it be because drawing conclusions from low quality, raw data like VAERS and the DoD database is not good journalism? Assuming correlations is not something quality news outlets should be doing
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by shlant 5y ago
wow some really low quality and biased sources to back up a low quality and biased source... This is literally just a rehashing of VAERS fear-mongering https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaxxers-misuse-the-defe...
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by shlant 5y ago
(not original commenter) according to all the best data we have on the safety profiles of the vaccines, and the data we have on covid, it would make much more sense for it to be covid. This is on the front page right now: https:/&#x2F
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by shlant 5y ago
one of the few reasons I can think of is allergic reactions to the ingredients, but that is very rare and fairly avoidable.
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by shlant 5y ago
why is this low quality article with no sources from a news station with a VERY clear slant being considered? At least post the actual report they are referring to.
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by shlant 5y ago
a company shoehorning in NFT's is not a "long term" plan, it's a dying brand capitalizing on the latest craze that will almost certainly die out alongside it.
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by shlant 5y ago
wow I had no idea how much time has been dumped into propping up this conspiracy theory. People have a lot of time on their hands (but I guess rationalizing ones own investments is good motivation)
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by shlant 5y ago
yep. "time will tell" meaning GME ideologues will continue to move the goalpost for when the MOASS will happen in perpetuity.
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by shlant 5y ago
I've had the same reaction from sharing a story about bad experiences with mushrooms. It wasn't in the context of evidence either, but still got people saying it sounded like anti-drug propaganda. I think it's just the result
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by shlant 5y ago
that Earthship in Canada is owned by my best friends parents! It still get's pretty cold in the winter (Lethbridge winters are incredibly cold and windy) so it took some acclimatizing when they first moved in. I think they have improve
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by shlant 5y ago
the response is not super surprising. Fasting dogma is pretty prevalent on HN from my experience
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by shlant 5y ago
> Travel restrictions bought Taiwan and South Korea lots of time in the beginning They are islands and from what I understand travel restrictions are more relevant earlier in a pandemic > There seem to be no real papers linked to the
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by shlant 5y ago
from what I understand travel restrictions are more effective earlier in the pandemic (as you pointed out from the Science paper) and less effective as the virus becomes ubiquitous.
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by shlant 5y ago
> Omicron is indeed very infectious, as the data has certainly shown so far. What data are you referring to? The WHO[1] and most experts I've seen say we don't have enough information to know that yet > we don't know i
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by shlant 5y ago
not sure why you are bringing up Portugal as if it's some sort of gotcha. It's doing very well in terms of deaths, similar to the UK, Canada etc. who also have high vaccination rates.
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by shlant 5y ago
prove you wrong about what? I don't even know what point you are trying to make
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by shlant 5y ago
from what I understand, based on current evidence, travel restrictions will not do much at this point: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/1...
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by shlant 5y ago
good twitter thread that provides a level-headed perspective based on what we actually currently know: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/146422268073182004...
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by shlant 5y ago
Good video on how 3D printed housing is mostly just overblown hype similar to using shipping containers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1LM9kwRLY
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by shlant 5y ago
Title: Billionaire defends windowless dorm rooms for California students Content: Quotes from billionaire defending his windowless dorm design How is that clickbait?
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by shlant 5y ago
any nutrition advice that makes sweeping statements about entire macronutrients (protein/fat/carbohydrates) should be ignored and is mostly used to sell fad diets. "Carbohydrates" could be HFCS or leafy greens. "Fat

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