taxicabjesus

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by taxicabjesus 3mo ago
What is it that motivates you to continue wearing a mask? I take note of people who are still masking, but I have compassion for their fear so I don't say anything.
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by taxicabjesus 9mo ago
https://www.taxiwars.org/ - this site is mostly composed of my diaries and stories from Kuro5hin.org (RIP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609802 ). "I posted at K5 because I wanted to be anony
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by taxicabjesus 10mo ago
One of the earliest findings of the investigations into oxygen that O2 is toxic in excess. Space-cabin Atmospheres: Oxygen toxicity (1964) (google.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883728 The Haldane Effect an
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by taxicabjesus 1y ago
The more you drive the more you notice things. After a few years in the taxi, while going through the tunnel in central Phoenix, I pointed at the cars in the far-left lanes of the freeway and said to my passenger, "you see that car rig
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by taxicabjesus 1y ago
The Egyptian pyramids are an elephant in the room. Conventional thinking is they're burial chambers built with copper tools and ramps. But other historians believe they reflect a lost technological sophistication. The pyramids are incr
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by taxicabjesus 1y ago
My favorite lie had to do with how there weren't enough ventilators. That one got memory holed relatively early, once the frontline medical workers figured out they'd been tricked into thinking ventilation would be helpful for SAR
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by taxicabjesus 1y ago
> This is a similar failure to COVID where they thought lying to the public would make for better outcomes I'm curious which lies you're referring to. "Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve" reminded me of the time I had fun
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by taxicabjesus 1y ago
There was a time when I was consuming a lot of industrial cheese. I developed a rash on my legs... One day I realized the rash was certainly being caused by my cheap cheese habit. I'm certain it was related to the "vegetarian enzy
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The story is about how medicine assumes that if a little oxygen is good, more is better. But in the real world too much oxygen destroys lungs, and we’re all deteriorated by even a little too much O2. I, for one, welcome the reconsideration
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
This is an important story. A lot of people are over-oxygenated by their health care professionals. A common way that people induce 'too much oxygen' is by hyperventilating. One effect of hyperventilating is that it shrinks the pe
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
I put a top-level post on this submission requesting more poll options. > contentious 'options' which presume malice on the part of "science" My poll attempted to ascribed malice to the powerful people who use the tra
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
What if admitting science-mistakes made the weight loss drugs unnecessary? I'm sure the causes of the obesity epidemic could be acknowledged without framing it as a mistake.
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
One of the neat features of the HN Poll is that I can add more choices. Respond to this comment with your favorite 'science mistake', and I'll consider adding it to the poll.
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
I'm just a simple former taxi-driver. I went the extra mile for some of my passengers - bailing them out of jail, etc - and made notes about people's struggles with the machine. The guy who I bailed out - a few years ago his frien
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
Not sure what you mean. I hoped to start a discussion on HN about whether the scientific enterprise has been captured by profiteers. Lots of people are angry about the COVID-19 vaccines, and are no longer getting 'boosted': https
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
> I have yet to see a single non-politician support this behavior. I think it was Scott Adams' who related to me that Mike Benz has been pointing out the corruption of USAID for a while... https://x.com/MikeBenzCybe
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Poll: How can science get its mojo back?
1 points by taxicabjesus 2y ago|11 comments
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The food pyramid
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The former use of arsenic in chicken feed to make chicken meat pink
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The recommendation of polyunsaturated fats
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The slandering of saturated fats
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The coercion of PCR tests on symptomless people
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The culling of flocks of egg layers on the basis of PCR tests
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The coercion of COVID-19 vaccines on those who were already immune
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The coercion of COVID-19 vaccines on children & healthy young adults
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The use of seasonal vaccines (for colds and flus) on children
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
WIPO [Write In Poll Option] - comment below
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
>the medical establishment has suffered a severe blow to their credibility because the government used their work in vain. It doesn't help that the medical system has been gamed to concentrate wealth. Doctoring pays well, but doctor
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The author of this Ask HN is asking because conventional cancer medicine is not good enough. I think cancer dissidents say the screening programs for early treatment makes the doctors look better by increasing the number of non-fatal cases
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
American medicine has a tendency to pay for things that are fantastically expensive, but aren’t really what the patient actually needs. I found this blog post about this phenomenon a few years ago: Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The

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