benpiper

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China destroyed early samples of the novel coronavirus(businessinsider.com)
10 points by benpiper 5y ago|1 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
A better headline: "Fake vaccines are everywhere"
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Telegago: A Search Engine for Telegram(cse.google.com)
1 points by benpiper 5y ago|0 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
What makes him think tech companies want "surveillance-resistant systems" (whatever that means)?
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by benpiper 5y ago
People have come to realize a few important things: - Omicron is comparable to a really bad cold for most people - The vaccines reduce the risk of death for only a very short time, then the effect wears off, and they have unknown long-term
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by benpiper 5y ago
There's always a balancing act between vaccine safety and efficacy. The smallpox vaccine mimics a natural infection, but it's extremely dangerous because people who get vaccinated can actually spread real smallpox to others for a
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by benpiper 5y ago
One-year sustained cellular and humoral immunities of COVID-19 convalescents http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab884
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When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)(history.com)
153 points by benpiper 5y ago|191 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
https://notthebee.com/article/are-we-permitted-to-point-out-...
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by benpiper 5y ago
The very term "disinformation" is problematic because people use it too loosely. Disinformation is another word for propaganda, or information intended to deceive. The author of the post seems to use it correctly. But people often
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Friedrich Engels Introduced Darwin to Karl Marx and Changed the World(answersresearchjournal.org)
2 points by benpiper 5y ago|1 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
There used to be a sort of IQ test to use the Internet. If you didn't have the technical skill and knowledge, you couldn't participate. That's all changed. Now using the Internet requires about as much skill as scribbling on
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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s the Fix(wmbriggs.com)
9 points by benpiper 5y ago|0 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
This report provides only age-adjusted numbers for vaccine effectiveness, but doesn't provide the model used to arrive at those numbers. If you look at the raw numbers, a different picture emerges: Chances of not being hospitalized
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by benpiper 5y ago
Big deal. The Great Barrington Declaration has almost 50k medical professionals and 16k scientists.
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by benpiper 5y ago
Relevant: https://nypost.com/2022/01/11/united-airlines-says-3000-empl...
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A Review of Stellar Formation Theory(answersresearchjournal.org)
2 points by benpiper 5y ago|1 comments
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More questions on the dating of Mount St Helens lava dome(creation.com)
2 points by benpiper 5y ago|1 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
Is this implying that Elon Musk is Satoshi, or that he just knows him?
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by benpiper 5y ago
As a sidenote, it seems like the YC anti-abuse system could use a second look and possibly some tuning. Apparently a handful of accounts have been serial downvoting anything that even suggests vaccine manufacturing or preparation errors hav
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Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for Covid-19 (Peer-Reviewed)(cureus.com)
52 points by benpiper 5y ago|80 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
Goog also continues to mislead about all sorts of health related topics.
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by benpiper 5y ago
This reminds me of those "scientists" who asserted—with zero evidence—that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin. Not coincidentally, they all turned out to be associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. I'm more interested in
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by benpiper 5y ago
Calling these Covid tests is disingenuous. They're PCR tests for viral fragments. We all know someone who had a positive "Covid test" and never showed any symptoms.
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by benpiper 5y ago
Ever heard of the McCarthy hearings? We went from "everyone we don't like must be a communist" to "everyone who says people cheat at elections is spreading misinformation." This pearl-clutching over "misinforma
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by benpiper 5y ago
I don't know whether it was a bioweapon. But consider that if the goal of a bioweapon is to disrupt your adversaries as much as possible, which is more effective: 1. having it kill almost everyone (including your own people) and then d
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by benpiper 5y ago
Probably. Not to mention a bad idea.
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Honeygain–Sell your residential bandwidth(honeygain.com)
8 points by benpiper 5y ago|7 comments
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by benpiper 5y ago
Only if you think drug recall notices are "antidrug propaganda."
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How Bad Is My Batch?(howbadismybatch.com)
5 points by benpiper 5y ago|9 comments

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