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by vixen99 5y ago
> there is growing evidence Since you don't say what 'excessive' is, we don't know whether your comment is significant or not. Can you please avoid making statements like this without adding a link to a peer-reviewed
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by vixen99 5y ago
No it isn't primarily due to India and China. The greening of the earth is a universal phenomenon caused by the global increase in carbon dioxide. Carbon for plant growth has to come from somewhere and in general there are very limited
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by vixen99 5y ago
Bit of a mystery this. How do we explain the 'Gender equality paradox' as described in https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-gir... ? "COUNTRIES WITH GREATER gender equality see a smaller pr
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by vixen99 5y ago
I guess you could have extra fun and do this: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Removing+iodine+from+iodized+...
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by vixen99 5y ago
The definition of vaccine by some authorities changes according to evidently non-medical requirements. I'm not making a point. This is an observation. https://www.citizensjournal.us/the-cdc-suddenly-changes-the-... It&
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by vixen99 5y ago
Yes, calling them inferior or superior is merely another way of describing survival. Why are the genes inferior? Because they don't survive. Why don't they survive? Because ... Sometimes supposedly inferior genes work better in a
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by vixen99 5y ago
Yes but for whatever reason, death rates in Sweden before any measures were introduced by any Nordic country were already much higher than in the other Nordic countries. So it's not a fair comparison of measures versus measures. Any
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by vixen99 5y ago
Yes it should. And there is a lot of it linking a range of chronic disorders with nutrition. However not everyone has the time and perhaps the background to sift through and see what is significant. On the numerous diets on offer, my impres
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by vixen99 5y ago
This paper (J.Nutr.139:2365–2372,2009) 'A New Dietary Inflammatory Index Predicts Interval Changes in Serum High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein' explains what this is about & lists foods and constituents included in the inflam
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Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense(gizmodo.com)
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by vixen99 5y ago
Fair enough. We should be cautious but meanwhile almost every gene found in mice so far has been found in a closely related form in humans. Of the approximately 4,000 genes that have been studied, less than 10 are found in humans but not in
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by vixen99 5y ago
Apparently, 'This story is only available to subscribers'
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by vixen99 5y ago
And cold impacts many more people than heat. Has climate change altered this statistic? I have no idea but to date, have seen no evidence that cold-related deaths have diminished in recent years. 'Cold weather kills 20 times as many pe
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by vixen99 5y ago
No it's about one third of drugs according to a Yale study and it took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for safety concerns to be apparent.
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by vixen99 5y ago
They live predominantly in Iceland, Norway and Japan.
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by vixen99 5y ago
Best to ignore them if it upsets you. Foreigners? Poor? Rural? Ugh!
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by vixen99 5y ago
Not uniformly though. The last six months in the Antarctic were the coldest on record (1957) https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-co...
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by vixen99 5y ago
Also agree but the author makes (among others) a couple of excellent points worth emphasizing: anyone (if they're motivated) can learn to play the piano well and acquiring technique is mostly a process of brain/nerve development b
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by vixen99 5y ago
This occurred to many people some time ago and subsequently it's been shown that while this is surely a factor in some instances it is not true in the main. Biological differences probabilistically motivate preferences.
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Atmospheric CO2 accounts for 45% of net primary production (NPP)(sciencedirect.com)
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Facebook's NaN problem with planes (and boats)(philip.greenspun.com)
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by vixen99 5y ago
As an observation not an argument, irrespective of what comes to be accepted as to the efficacy of ivermectin, there seem to be an awful lot of doctors and other professionals across the world prepared to trash their personal reputations &a
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by vixen99 5y ago
Why not ask those folk who lived under various forms of socialism what they think about this and whether they want to return to their former lives?
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by vixen99 5y ago
Agreed. Difficult to claim that this is a bio-weapon given its lethality of around 1.8% (lousy weapon) and that even this figure is highly age and co-morbidity related as we are all aware. Huge numbers of people are asymptomatic. 50% accord
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by vixen99 5y ago
No, you and I kept up the demand on the fossil fuel industry without which it would not exist and all of us went along with it and now you want them to pay for your and my indulgence. How sweetly ironic! It's never our fault, is it?
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by vixen99 5y ago
For the benefit of a non-US reader can you be specific about this? What exactly are they stupid about as in, presumably, refusing to act appropriately when a fact stares them in the face. How relevant to the argument is it that the group ar
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by vixen99 5y ago
We know that this kind of mentality will never apply to music performance. Merit is all in that department. For those who interested who might not know about it, the 18th Chopin Competition is being held in Warsaw. Final result will be anno
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by vixen99 5y ago
And it's paywalled.
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Insect fatalities at wind turbines as biodiversity sinks(conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by vixen99 5y ago
capable of creating a baby universe .... ? How about something a little less ambitious like AI that can sort garbage and be readily available where it's needed.

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