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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
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Automatic-Salad-931 t1_j8hnwrk wrote
Reply to comment by 2manyfelines in Chinese researchers have reported what they claim is the world’s youngest person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which may overturn the conventional perception that cognitive impairment rarely occurs in young people. by Wagamaga
ICU and long term care are two different things. There is no ICU in long term care facilities
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WeirdAndGilly t1_j8hna9m wrote
Reply to comment by ORIGINALBLACKPLAGUE in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
It takes practically no time in his commenting history to see that he doesn't do that, particularly incessantly.
You've got a burr under your saddle around people pointing this out ever don't you?
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
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I-Way_Vagabond t1_j8hlvpr wrote
Reply to comment by sw33tr3l33s in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga
I think you’ve hit the nail right on the head with you comment.
The inability of public health leaders to explain these things in simple English has resulted in an information vacuum. As a result, people with their own agendas, often self-serving or even nefarious, have moved in to fill it.
The end result is confusion among the public and in many cases distrust and outright hostility towards public health authorities.
SuspiciousStable9649 t1_j8hki2c wrote
Reply to comment by FlametopFred in The Radial Variation of the Solar Wind Turbulence Spectra near the Kinetic Break Scale from Parker Solar Probe Measurements by CESRA_highlights
I think it’s kind of the kinetic to magnetic influence ratio on solar flux at variable distance from the sun. But I’m not sure.
“break frequency is estimated by finding the frequency where the average dissipation and inertial range fits to the log-spaced magnetic field power spectral density cross each other”
New-Oil6131 t1_j8hjs8s wrote
Reply to Upon hearing recordings of wolf howls, older family dogs from more ancient breeds respond with longer howls — suggesting that genetic similarity with wolves affects dogs’ repertoire by marketrent
Mine prefers alarms to howl, so don't know what evolution did there
TheOneAllFear t1_j8hj2yy wrote
Reply to comment by fucayama in Investigators assessed the risk of dementia using changes in alcohol consumption in nearly four million people in Korea and found that after about 7 years, dementia was 21% less likely in mild drinkers and 17% less likely in moderate drinkers. by Wagamaga
I think the reason low consumption of alcohol is good is because it increases social interaction which in turn decrease the stress hormone (cortisol?), a hormone which impairs the body to regenerate efficiently.
Also too much...it turns to damage, which is logical.
aldhibain t1_j8hivjo wrote
Reply to comment by feral_philosopher in High coffee consumption may triple kidney disease risk in some people by LordNPython
Personally I'm very fond of good ol' water.
Scrungy t1_j8hioox wrote
Reply to comment by chrisdh79 in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
Interesting consideration.
seamustheseagull t1_j8hiood wrote
Reply to comment by crowngryphon17 in A study found that CBD "exerted anti-cancer activity by reducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition and causing cell cycle arrest." by OregonTripleBeam
Also how the whole Ivermectin nonsense started for the most part. Some tests on Covid samples in vitro showed early promise for Ivermectin, but came to nothing when tested in vivo.
Yet 3 years later, some people still don't get the difference.
seamustheseagull t1_j8hii8g wrote
Reply to comment by Palpitating_Rattus in A study found that CBD "exerted anti-cancer activity by reducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition and causing cell cycle arrest." by OregonTripleBeam
I mean, I recall having this exact conversation in class with our science teacher at 14. In theory, if you could extract all of someone's blood and subject it to bleach/alcohol/UV/etc then in theory some diseases could be cured.
But extracting all of someone's blood is not a thing. Not if you want them alive anyway.
klaaptrap t1_j8hii2x wrote
Reply to comment by unclekarl in Upon hearing recordings of wolf howls, older family dogs from more ancient breeds respond with longer howls — suggesting that genetic similarity with wolves affects dogs’ repertoire by marketrent
I looked up what you said, apparently hyenas are considered cat like mammals, closer to cats than dogs. I think the guy above may have been confused.
TheOneAllFear t1_j8hid8s wrote
Reply to comment by SomewhereOutside9832 in A study found that CBD "exerted anti-cancer activity by reducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition and causing cell cycle arrest." by OregonTripleBeam
Wow, amazing! Congratulations.
The subject of various cancers is not talked enough. If you can and have time, can you tell us a bit about your journey? How you discovered it, did you notice it because you were in pain or random screening? You had cancer because of the lifestyle/work/exposure to chemicals? At what stage and what were the steps from there? Also any changes after to prevent it (lifestyle/environment)? Not a lot of details but what we should know and what you learned from your experience. Thanks, congrats and many many years without cancer
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sw33tr3l33s t1_j8hi7bd wrote
Reply to comment by Helldozer5000 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga
Maybe before becoming a scientists, they should focus on learning how to write proper sentences so people won't have to decipher them and wonder which of 5 possible meanings is the correct one. If one sentence requires 5 additional explanatory sentences to be understood, maybe we should focus on learning how to write that first sentence so that people don't require additional text to understand it. I swear these people are trying to figure out how to save the world but probably can't do their own laundry.
Cash907 t1_j8hh8iv wrote
Reply to A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga
Ooof that F’ing headline. Anyone else have to ready that a few times to figure out what they were trying to say?
AshenAmarantos t1_j8hh6nc wrote
Annoyingly, this article does not say what alleles of rs762551 increase the metabolization of caffeine, so I had to look it up. C/A and C/C are the slower variants; there's apparently little difference between C/A and C/C metabolization according to SNPedia. A/A is ultrarapid metabolization. The article implies only A/A is good to go.
Useful if you had a DNA test and want to look up what you are--which I have and did immediately after reading this. Thankfully, I was A/A.
ORIGINALBLACKPLAGUE t1_j8hgx92 wrote
Reply to comment by atchijov in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
That you spend your days on the internet incessantly making this argument like it matters, or will change someone's mind, or that the imaginary points that some random strangers will give you for regurgitating it validate you paints an interesting picture
Gloinson t1_j8hgh5d wrote
Reply to comment by chrisdh79 in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
>most people stated that they wanted to avoid finding out that one of their colleagues or family members was a Stasi informant and that viewing those files would impact their ability to trust others
Anecdotally: it didn't work, though, as the former denunciants knew who they informed on and either came out (didn't hear that from my parents) or acted different and thereby dropped hints.
IMO the water on that is seriously muddled, as
- files and viewing opportunity have been available for 20-30 years, mixing now nostalgia and real reasons back when the decision had been made
- files were given out incremental, making experience worse: files aren't even complete yet (a lot of paper had been shredded manually and money wasn't made available to recover the files)
(Anecdote again: my father abstained from asking for _further_ files later.)
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Gloinson t1_j8hg30l wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79
Nope. That decision was post-GDR.
Runecian t1_j8hfepk wrote
I am resigned to my caffeinated oblivion, thank you very much.
GiovanniResta t1_j8hp7tv wrote
Reply to comment by TikkiTakiTomtom in Extracts from two common wildflowers, tall goldenrod and eagle fern blocked SARS_CoV_2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, from entering human cells. The findings could provide a new avenue to develop pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19. by MistWeaver80
They analyzed 1867 extracs to find 2 that have (possibly) some effect.