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Map of preregistrated trials for Covid-19(covid-nma.com)
1 points by throwaway4787 6y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
I like stories about how Singaporeans are doing well because unlike with Scandinavian countries the woodwork-crawlers can't use the muddy and dark-implications heavy "homogenous population" argument.
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Can someone explain how the use case differs from simply using a well-curated hosts file? (like Steven Black's)
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Scite – see if an online scientific article has been supported or contradicted(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by throwaway4787 6y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Why don't we just ban advertising?
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Chloroquine has shown promising results but the number of cases was small and the study was flawed. Lopinavir-ritonavir has shown disappointing results but the number of cases was small and the study was flawed. If you show faith in one you
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
The antiviral treatments undergoing trial are (for the most part) very inexpensive drugs that have been known for years or even decades so they don't need additional testing once they're proven to work and can be manufactured at s
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
If that's any reassurance to you they are observing an inflection in Italy, potentially a sign that the lockdowns have their desired effects. We just need to hold on for a couple weeks before it curves back as in China. And that&#x27
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
I didn't specifically have you in mind and I'm sorry I made you feel that way
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Actually they can be actively harmful in that they lead people to do spurious reasoning with the unwarranted confidence that came from the false reassurance of it being "biology", "science" or "evolution". Peop
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
The last time I read it (admittedly more than a decade ago) it had a preface where Camus literally admitted as such.
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
I think the pandemic is really pulling the mask off in that it neatly sorts out the kind of people who worry about vulnerable people, the elderly and not overwhelming the healthcare system so that more could live on one hand, and the kind o
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
That's fair, I have to keep reminding myself that "the early aughts" are not less than 10 years ago.
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Please please please don't try to transpose behavioural models from slime molds (or any other species, really) to humans.
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
I guess that's the point. And I mean, Trump appears to have forfeited this role of his own accord, what with all his America First schtick. Also, it seems that regarding covid the best insights come from China, Korea, Italy or France,
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Idk you could google it? But as anecdotal evidence I had to take it as a kid as a prophylactic against malaria. So did literally everyone I knew back then.
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by throwaway4787 6y ago
Establishing a theoretical framework only for it to be proved with experimental evidence centuries later is actually common. As some other poster said, it still adds to the knowledge base. Our current society is way to focused on short-term
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by throwaway4787 7y ago
Can also confirm that all the usual advice people give (maintain "life hygiene", eat well, have a cold shower, stop staring at screens, don't do exercise prior to sleeping, don't think about sleeping, etc.) either don&#x
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by throwaway4787 7y ago
You just need to follow the curves in Italy and France - the US follows closely
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by throwaway4787 7y ago
The Popperian vision of science is good enough for students so that their naive mind can enter the field with idealistic perspectives but it's not how actual professionals practice it in real life. Oftentimes there are multiple theorie
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by throwaway4787 7y ago
This may be the appropriate thread to remind people that Darwin was far from the be-all and end-all of evolutionary biology and much of what he said turned out to be actually mistaken. This isn't so much of an attack on him as a celebr
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by throwaway4787 7y ago
and France