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TheGeneGeena t1_j7foqpk wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected. From insects like bees and butterflies, to organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use. by Wagamaga

I know they have their places environmentally, but damn it's hard to work up a lot of sympathy for jerks like wasps and mosquitoes.

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Zoesan t1_j7fo8q2 wrote

Reply to comment by silent519 in A systematic review and meta-analysis has concluded that increased consumption of dietary carbohydrate intake is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality. by Meatrition

Depends on "when" in the past. In terms of evolutionary time the longest period (IE before agriculture) two thirds or more of our calories came from animals.

TL;DR No, this is pretty wrong.

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Agitated_Narwhal_92 t1_j7fnwa4 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Puss_Slayer in Sound Waves Trigger Anti-Cancer Immune Responses in Mice by dissolutewastrel

Are you serious, there have been multiple human trials woth CRISPR. WHAT. We keep hearing a fucktonn of cancer cure researches. Someone checked the algae that grows on a sloth's body because of mack of movement and found anti cancer properties in the algae. What are we, gunna harvest sloth algae now? What I meant is the money that is spent on cancer research is finite and such resource should be allocated to something that can give verifiable result in a reasonable time frame. Which CRISPR does. Sound waves, algae, Indian and Chinese mushrooms and herbs, might contain a lot of good properties that may help orevebt cancer to certain extent, doesn't mean we treat it the same way we treat CRISPR.

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cygnoids t1_j7fndcc wrote

Reply to comment by ThrowAway1638497 in Sound Waves Trigger Anti-Cancer Immune Responses in Mice by dissolutewastrel

The do this currently with gold nanoparticles and directed light. Unfortunately, the light can only penetrate a few millimeters into the tissue so it’s not effective for most cancers. It’s called photothermal therapy.

New chemistries for PTT have been developed that can penetrate further into the tissue but still wouldn’t work for most cancers

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KamahlYrgybly t1_j7fn4qx wrote

Reply to A systematic review and meta-analysis has concluded that increased consumption of dietary carbohydrate intake is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality. by Meatrition

Some of those 95% confidence intervals contain 1,0, yet the conclusion states that there is an effect. Eg. all-cause mortality (0,92-1,14).

I'm a bit rusty with statistics, but doesn't that mean that the effect is not statistically relevant?

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ChronicContrition t1_j7fml8j wrote

Reply to comment by youshouldbethelawyer in A systematic review and meta-analysis has concluded that increased consumption of dietary carbohydrate intake is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality. by Meatrition

Scientific knowledge is a progression. For the most part these agencies do the best they can with what they have. Without their guidelines most people would just ignorantly eat what tastes good in the moment.

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Khaimon t1_j7fmgwu wrote

Reply to Vitamin D supplements linked to reduced risk of suicide, study of veterans finds by thebelsnickle1991

Imagine a room where a few people are kept against their will. Their horrific captors torture them day and night. So much so that they all want out. Thing is, they are forced to ingest a ton of vitamin D supplements.

Oh, the human mind. So cruel yet so inventive; For they cannot act that way, as the big D (that’s what they call the vitamin) prevents them for doing so.

Also we could invent a holiday where everyone is required to eat loads of vitamins. « Vitamin Day »

Put them inside coffins as they act as S repellent: watch the unfortunate souls walk out as a second chance at living a full life arise for them.

True good can be done here. But will they listen no.

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OfLittleToNoValue t1_j7fm3fy wrote

Reply to comment by lugdunum_burdigala in A systematic review and meta-analysis has concluded that increased consumption of dietary carbohydrate intake is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality. by Meatrition

A big part of it is cumulative insulin response and the glycation of LDL and framing it for heart disease while it's actually repairing the damage from sugar ablating the endothelium.

Fructose has the same impact on the body as alcohol.

It's not simply refined sugars because even ancient Egyptians knew wheat and bread lead to diabetes and obesity.

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[deleted] t1_j7flxd9 wrote

Reply to comment by crimeo in New review finds that rocket emissions in the upper atmosphere can affect the ozone layer but are not regulated — Global annual launches grew from 90 to 190 in the past 5 years, and an upsurge in rocket launches may potentially undo decades of work to save the ozone layer by marketrent

They would have to be incredibly lucky and against almost all common sense that massive rooms of rock could get exhausted you know don't have a negative impact.

Typically when you mind chemicals on Earth and then Mass release them in almost any form it has a negative consequence.

Kind of like Earth is a big ball of unregulated chemical reaction and when you throw yet more non-naturally occurring chemicals into that biosphere of chemicals generally bad s*** happens.

Pattern has repeated so many times throughout human history that it's almost like you have to be in denial of science to come to that conclusion even without significant study.

The very least it's some massive wishful thinking to think that the rocket pollution is harmless enough just like humans thought CO2 was harmless enough or let it gasoline was harmless enough and looking back at it those were very dumb assumptions.

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