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The highest-resolution image of atoms so far has been captured, breaking a record set in 2018.     (files.catbox.moe)
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CDC "releases" study on myocarditis, every page redacted     (twitter.com)
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russian scientists proposes new way to look at the human brain      (www.nature.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 6 days ago (+0/-0)
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AI Assists with Fact-Checking: HSE Scientists Streamline Information Verification (russia     (www.hse.ru)
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MIT scientists use a new type of metal-organic nanoparticles trying to make vaccines more powerful     (news.mit.edu)
submitted by Conspirologist to science 1 week ago (+2/-3)
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trust teh science: Cannibalism to save the world? New Scientist opens that door…     (joannenova.com.au)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 1 week ago (+8/-0)
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https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/cannibalism-to-save-the-world-new-scientist-opens-that-door/

Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry?

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Nearly HALF of UK University scientists refuse to say Sex is binary (that there are two genders alone)     (endtimeheadlines.org)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 2 weeks ago (+8/-0)
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Elon Musk is suing open AI with a jury trial which will mean artificial general intelligence secrets and 80 billion dollars of net worth of Microsoft's for-profit investment in what started as a non-profit will be exposed in a public trial     (youtu.be)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 2 weeks ago (+18/-0)
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Scientists 3D print functional human brain tissue     (nextshark.com)
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How Henri Moissan isolated Fluorine in 1886     (www.youtube.com)
submitted by happytoes to science 1 week ago (+0/-0)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XldZ49tuEfI

In just 4'52" this video explains why isolating Fluorine is a hopeless quest, and gives technical details of the brilliant innovations that let Henri Moissan succeed.
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Sociopaths sound like jews!     (youtu.be)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 1 week ago (+1/-0)
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Melinda Gates vaccine (no it wasn't just bill. she was there right with him the whole time) causes an outbreak of polio in Africa     (slaynews.com)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 2 weeks ago (+4/-0)
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Study finds fully vaxed lose 25 years that is 25 years of life expectancy. A fully vaxed person 30 years old can expect to live only to 55 years old!     (slaynews.com)
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Interview with author of the bell curve     (youtu.be)
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Elevation and other detailed map views of the usa     (apps.nationalmap.gov)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 2 weeks ago (+3/-0)
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An interesting story about a radioactive finding that was billions of years old that either was a strange quirk of nature that caused a natural fission reaction to form in rocks or is evidence of a prior civilization.     (youtube.com)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 2 weeks ago (+13/-0)
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Oops! NASA accidentally brings possible alien contamination to Earth in the open atmosphere because the samples weren't just caught inside the capsule but many were outside in the open air on the outside of the capsule. Just lucky it presumably there was nothing contagious.     (youtube.com)
submitted by Crackinjokes to science 2 weeks ago (+1/-0)
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Men and women's brains do work differently     (www.telegraph.co.uk)
submitted by Conspirologist to science 3 weeks ago (+7/-4)
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Batman     (files.catbox.moe)
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We FINALLY Understand Why Bats Live So Long

Bats are immune to a cytokine storm and can resist almost every viral pathogen including ebola.

Antiviral Immune Responses of Bats: A Review

Although bats have a long history of association with rabies, the emergence and re‐emergence of a number of viruses from bats that impact human and animal health has resulted in a resurgence of interest in bat immunology.

Although bats may be persistently infected with many viruses, evidence from experimental and naturally infected bats has demonstrated that they rarely display clinical symptoms

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Scientists Try Risky Air and Water Experiments Hoping to Stop Climate Change 🤪     (mishtalk.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 1 month ago (+12/-0)
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https://mishtalk.com/economics/scientists-try-risky-air-and-water-experiments-hoping-to-reverse-climate-change/

Scientists desperate to stop or reverse climate change are dumping chemicals in the ocean and spraying saltwater in the air. What can go wrong? I discuss the short and long term.
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Paleontological analysis shows renowned fossil thought to show soft tissue preservation is in fact just paint     (phys.org)
submitted by Spaceman84 to science 1 month ago (+6/-0)
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Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin     (www.counterpunch.org)
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/17/scientific-misconduct-and-fraud-the-final-nail-in-psychiatrys-antidepressant-coffin/

This story caught my eye for a different reason from the scientific fraud narrative.

What do we mean when we say that drug A is better than drug B ? Using "drug A" and "drug B" as names clashes with English grammar. In the interests of euphony, I've used a name generator and will call them Aproxin and Benzolax. Here are three different things that we might mean when we say that Aproxin is better than Benzolax because Aproxin works for 40% of patients, but Benzolax only works for 30%.

First meaning: Independent. Some lucky folk respond well to both 0.4 x 0.3 = 12%. Some patients (0.4 x 0.7 = 28%) only respond to Aproxin. Others (0.6 x 0.3 = 18%) only respond to Benzolax. Many (0.6 x 0.7 = 42%) benefit from neither.

Second meaning: Dominant. Hope that you are one of the 40% who respond to Aproxin. That forty percent splits into three quarters who also respond to Benzolax, and one quarter who don't respond to Benzolax. Notice the cunning with which I have contrived the numbers in my made up example. That is all of the 30% who respond to Benzolax accounted for. No-one responds to Benzolax and not to Aproxin. 60% of patients are out of luck. Obviously you try Aproxin first. If it doesn't help, give up. Benzolax has found itself in a context in which it is entirely useless.

Third meaning: Sequential. Weirdly, no-one responds to both drugs. You try Aproxin first. If it doesn't work, you move on to Benzolax. Notice how this messes with the numbers. If 40% respond to Aproxin, that leaves 60% moving on to Benzolax. Half of those who try Benzolax (under this treatment protocol) benefit. That is 50%, up from the 30% who benefited in the old days before Aproxin was discovered.

Notice how the discovery of Aproxin affects the sales of Benzolax. In the Dominant case, Benzolax becomes obsolete. In the Sequential case, a superficial reading/misunderstanding of the numbers makes it look as though the discovery of Aproxin makes Benzolax work better.

So how do you compare drugs? I've noticed that trials generally do a naive random assignment. You get numbers for the effectiveness of each drug as though the other drugs didn't exist. But how do the medicines relate? Independent? Dominant? Sequential? Not one of the extreme cases? The trials don't say. But it does matter for treatment.

At the heart of the article is STAR*D, Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/ajp.2006.163.11.1905 Some-one has actually gone ahead and tried to measure what happens when you try drugs in sequence. They cheat which is the usual money grubbing of modern science. On the other hand, that are looking at the medically important comparison, which is progress.
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Peer Reviewed Science     (www.youtube.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 1 month ago (+2/-1)
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Harvard teaching hospital to retract papers by top researchers following data falsification probe     (nypost.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 1 month ago (+4/-0)
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clear, simple, and wrong     (www.youtube.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to science 2 months ago (+2/-0)
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