Edman85

A good debunking of that Malone cat.

Since there is so much talk of Chicago's Mayor... I think I posted this here or on the old site, but it bears repeating.

I was going through and rounding up my monthly subscriptions today, and am considering cancelling Spotify unless they reign Joe Rogan's antivax bullshit in.

I also shudder at the thought of a majority of parents teaching math.

Yeah it has gone up. It has been 3 years.

I reattached my cord when basically Comcast made it such that in order for me to have the necessary internet speed, tv didn't cost much.

I found the history on Wikipedia. It was political horse trading in the 1880's. The Dakotas got split up after Republicans won an election and were able to get extra states.

Another breakthrough case! Chaz! Get vaccinated against his posts. Ignore! Quoting makes him show up for those of us who don't!

Psa, tis the season for detoxes and cleanses. I have a feeling the ppl around here are smart enough to avoid. But a handy link for you to pass along to any friends who try to rope others in. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/detox-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know-2/

So is the thread fully axed?

Here's a quarter. Go pay a rat to gnaw that thing off your face. That actress plays Carmela Soprano's mom.

Gene Keady got remarried after his first wife passed away. His current wife made him ditch his legendary combover before marrying him. He said that ended up saving his life as he spotted some skin cancer underneath.

If we all ignore, we will reach herd immunity. Do your part!

If EVERYBODY stops quoting him, then all of us who have him on ignore will be able to ignore. I had a breakthrough case earlier, but all you anti-axxers are exposing the rest of us. Do your part and axe the troll.

100s of other things weren't super contagious, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. If Malaria was spreading like crazy and it was known to spread asymptomatically by humans I would. If me having skin cancer put my family at risk if I was around them, I would. (For what it is worth, self assessment for skin cancer is a good lifestyle move)

I've gotten tested five times, and every one was precautionary and asymptomatic to add assurances the family I was visiting would not be put at risk.

Speaking of pseudoscience, the Cleveland Clinic is a known purveyor. Be careful... Note how no studies are cited, just a testimonial. The overall message is probably true (dehydration is a risk), but a lot of the big water myths are parroted there.

I'm probably around 100 ounces or so... especially on days with a big workout.

I'm on one of my "pushing back on pseudoscience kicks," and it has happened, believe it or not. What is interesting is this myth out there that so and so needs to drink 8 gallons of water a day, or whatever... And that just has never been proven. Just buzzwords put out by big plastic bottle that spread on social media. An interesting bit from this few-years-old 538 article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tom-brady-is-drowning-in-his-own-junk-science-advice/ " Moderation in all things, that is, except when it comes to water. “Sometimes I think I’m the most hydrated person in the world,” Brady writes after advising readers to drink at least one half of their body weight in ounces of water every day. “At 225 pounds, that means I should be drinking 112 ounces a day, minimum,” he says. If you don’t drink enough, he claims, you decrease the oxygen in your bloodstream, build up toxins in your cells and create an “unhealthy inner environment,” whatever that means. (Brady also contends that “the more hydrated I am, the less likely I am to get sunburned,” a claim disputed by scientists.) Water alone isn’t enough, though. Brady also relies on TB12™ Electrolytes, “a natural mineral concentrate that enable athletes to turn any liquid into a hydrating sports drink enriched with 72 trace minerals extracted from sea water.” (Curiously, the product packaging lists only 17 ingredients.) Who doesn’t love guzzling sea-water extract? Electrolytes, though, aren’t anything special. They’re simply salts and minerals. “They’re brilliant marketing,” exercise scientist Tamara Hew-Butler at Oakland University told me. Sodium and potassium are the major ones we need, and your body maintains stores of them that it can tap into as needed to protect your body’s normal functioning. “You have a lot of redundancy in the feedback systems to protect their levels,” she said. Unless you’re exercising continuously in excess of 18 hours or more, you normally make up for any loss through the food you eat in your next meal. Despite all the hoopla about their presence in sports drinks and fancy bottled waters, there’s no need to take them in supplements or some special formula.2 Drinking excessive amounts of water when you’re not thirsty isn’t just dumb, it’s dangerous, because it can produce a potentially fatal condition called hyponatremia, or “water intoxication.” Despite the marketing campaigns of bottled water makers and sports drink manufacturers, there’s no good science to show that athletes or anyone else needs to drink beyond thirst, which is your body’s natural way of telling you to drink, just like hunger means you need to eat. But there’s plenty of good evidence that drinking too much can kill you. Hyponatremia happens when the blood becomes dangerously diluted, which can lead to symptoms that look a lot like dehydration — such as fatigue, headache, confusion and weakness. In the most serious cases, it can provoke brain swelling, coma and even death. I have been unable to find a single case of a football player collapsing and dying from dehydration on the field,3 but at least two high school football players have died from hyponatremia. Yet Brady says that underhydration is a greater problem than overhydration."

I forgot to link the article: https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/

Follow-up instead of editing: Good article on the history of mRNA. You can go and find some of the papers cited and see Malone's name as a contributor.

Ugh, ignored posts still show up in quotes... That Malone guy was not "THE" inventor of mRNA. He was part of a team involved in its discovery in the 80's and it was tabled for a long time because there were safety issues. There was a breakthrough 15 or so years ago that did away with those safety issues. Besides, we have how many billion doses of mRNA vaccines out administered now? People would be dropping like flies by now, right?

Vaccine would have taken longer though. This isn't me praising warp speed or Trump. It's just that RCT's take longer when there is less virus.

I do think that percent positive tests is a better indication of recent spread in an area right now that case counts. There are certainly a lot of people in bluer areas who took precautionary tests before visiting family.

I'm going back in time because I ended up down a rabbithole today of pseudoscience claims of Freakonomics. Yada Yada Yada was listening to back catalogue of Levitt's podcast and he had some questionable people on that got me poking around. Dubner's association with Dr. Oz is troubling at best, discrediting of the entire enterprise at worst.