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lakhim
·27 hari yang lalu·discuss
make the argument explicitly. Here, I'll do it for you: doubling co2 levels should only lead to a 1c increase in temperature (~3w/m2 extra forcing).

That ignores all the other things that happen besides co2 forcing alone.
lakhim
·27 hari yang lalu·discuss
dude make an argument or dont, this kind of half assed "I know something but the man won't let me talk about it" is annoying and useless.
lakhim
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
enjoy https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
lakhim
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I rely on the feeling, the sounds, the words on the sign, or by analogy to another thing. I don't remember what it looked like in the way that in a dream I believe I physically see things
lakhim
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Sorry about my eyes glazing over - I think you are badly underselling how important the biologicals have been in recent decades, and also how there are both revolutionary but won't be used for various reasons mostly around cost (e.g. cas9 therapies) or haven't seen the full impact for yet (car-t therapies, which are wiping out the liquid cancers that the other biologicals didn't get)
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·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
you're missing literally every biological, most antivirals, and the statins, and that's just off the top of my head.
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·12 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They did it by killing all the normal blood stem cells in the body. This is difficult to say the least for something that is completely systemic
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·tahun lalu·discuss
Its also explicit policy of the US government to encourage use of the new research done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
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·tahun lalu·discuss
Think of it like an invasion - shooting people is probably as close to an absolute bad thing as you can get, but if you're getting shot at its pretty much time to start shooting back
lakhim
·tahun lalu·discuss
Its not a fallacy but game theory playing out - known as beggar thy neighbour policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar_thy_neighbour
lakhim
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's worth while reading the literature on pre-insulin treatments, but for type 1 diabetics, the answer is: you might be able to live, if just, for a while (a decade or so), but lifespans are greatly shortened. Probably depends exactly on the particular characteristics of the disease for a patient.

I thought this was a neat discussion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062586/

A transcript of a speech Joslin gave https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1827782/pdf/can...
lakhim
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If you sold alcohol called "Safe Drive Juice", implied in advertisement that you can drive safe while drinking it, even made you a better driver, in tweets and press releases said that this is the future and everyone should use it, and if they did they'd be safer drivers, it doesn't matter if you put a note at the bottom that said "doesn't actually let you drive safe, please don't drink and drive"
lakhim
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Yes, that's the part here - you die without factor VIII. Its why severe hemophiliacs almost always died before factor VIII because available, and why almost 100% of them had HIV and hepC in the window between those viruses entering the blood supply and 100% testing / heat treatment (which is darkly funny because one of the trials involved was about heat treatment, seems to work for HIV but not for hepC).

From what I can tell, the issue is twofold: Informed consent, of which there was very little, but that's not exactly rare until recently, and running the trials on "marginal cases" - hemophilia comes in differing severity, and given the risks of using known contaminated factor VIII using it unless necessary probably wasn't the best idea.
lakhim
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
you act like these numbers are hard to find: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
lakhim
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
please don't randomly dose maois because someone on the internet said so. Talk to a doctor.

Also, for whatever its worth house molds (black molds) are not the same as the fungi that infect us (like candida sp.), and if you somehow did get infected with a fungus that usually isn't part of our flora (like aspergillus does), you have a very severe underlying medical condition and need medical attention immediately.
lakhim
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
No. Covid 2020-2022 absolutely blew seasonal influenza out of the water. Flu came back winter of 2022 but was still vastly outnumbered about three to one. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2022-2023/NCHS3...