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I-Way_Vagabond t1_j8hlvpr wrote

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.

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SuspiciousStable9649 t1_j8hki2c wrote

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”

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TheOneAllFear t1_j8hj2yy wrote

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.

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seamustheseagull t1_j8hiood wrote

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.

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seamustheseagull t1_j8hii8g wrote

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.

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TheOneAllFear t1_j8hid8s wrote

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

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.

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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.

Sauce: https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs762551

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Gloinson t1_j8hgh5d wrote

>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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