#scientific data

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it, but it would ahve to be real scientific data, no mere anecdote. Better the hard truth, than a comforting fantasy." – Carl Sagan

Indeed.

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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

Me: Every day is a theoretical book burning with the Republicans. Ignorance will not bring positive change.

[gramarobin]

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[marklakshmanan]

Prominent Neuroscientist Fired Over Alleged Misconduct

Eliezer Masliah, MD, director of the neuroscience division at the National Institute on Aging, has been relieved of his duties after an inve

Misconduct was falsifying data in 2 publications. Peer review can not detect such misconduct

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I'm still kind of in a state of shock still.

One of the case studies I keep an eye on contracted covid, and there was a death.

I have what my fam refers to "Case studies". People that vlog and post videos on youtube, I monitor their VAL status and health. We track the covid spread like a weather forecast, predicting which geographic regions - states to counties within - by these individuals. I usually go with those I have firm understanding of which state they live in.

As predicted, the white demographic seemed immune or resistant to the covid spread in early 2020 and many reached the end of 2020 without reporting covid infection. A few of my case studies I anticipated and called a "covid infection", which is me declaring they have covid and then observing. I have a 65% accuracy rate, because each and every vlogger I anticipated to contract covid, came forward with a "covid story" and talked about their experience. All of these vloggers were white - but given the disproportionately effects of a covid infection between white and poc, the poc demography likely took essential precautions to insure none infection.

I've made a lot of hypotheticals and assessments based on virology and biological comprehension, through how the immune response behaves under distress or to the initial threat based on how the body behaves on studied and current viruses - rabies, HIV, meningitis, ebola - these are a sample of my reference sheet. Viruses have simple behavior patterns - infect, replicate, eat, spread. They need host cells to replicate, which destroys the host cell and makes it incapable or fulfilling its functions for the body.

Today, with the wave of delta, I am seeing so many of our current case studies contract the delta variant. And become very sick. And one of my case studies, I have an extensive list of their VALs (values, attitudes, lifestyle), insisted it was the flu. The couple was very religious, qAnon believes, their fan base was swamped with qAnon supporters and overt christian/evangelic believers. Not vaccinated.

The partner was not high risk, retired, devoted religious. The partner did not last a week.

I've had a theory, not a new one but it pertains to delta as well. That covid does not grant immunity or antibodies to some individuals, or in the least will not grant reliable antibodies. This is based on individuals immune competency. But I have a theory that those that contracted covid, may be more susceptible to the delta variant.

And on that, I've mentioned it could take months, even years to recover fully from a covid infection. This sounds extreme or a dramatic assessment, but covid is not a flu bug, it is viremia. It damages the blood tissue, and purging viral presence from the vascular tract can be extremely difficult. That is why the vaccine is so critical to those that are long-haulers or have persisting symptoms. They may have viral presence persisting.

That was really my only fear when the vaccines were available to the public. Would long-haulers or those with previous covid infection have a relapse? Or would the vaccine trigger a reaction from the immune system.

Turned out, they were fine. Better when they got the vaccine. The vaccine didn't cure them, but it benefitted their health. Likely triggered their immune response to create antibodies that could deal with the infection. Time will tell how long it takes an extent of that infection to allow them a full recovery.

And now we are receiving these reports of these conservative radio voices, anti-vaxx, contracting delta and dying. As it was pointed out, faux news anchors and staff are ALL vaxxinated. These people, the anti-vaxx, are dying for a lie.

Really, there are still people out here "i DOnT knOW wHAts iN The VaCCinE, I wOnT pUt THaT iN My BoDy"

So you'll invite this completely unstable, feral, viremia virus into your blood to melt your lungs, give you liver failure, because nicki meningitis said her sisters cousins best-friend, heard through a crack in the wall from this guy in the bakery, that someone's fiancé got swol balls from a side-effect to the vaccine?

My mom and I, she's a retired nurse btw, we were reviewing reports from medical staff and the EMTs looking after the ones that fell into covid shock from delta. Their lungs developing pulmonay fibrosis, basically the lungs rot to death and fail. She said it's like ebola.

Delta a very aggressive and replicates at a much higher rate than covid original. As such, it's incubation prior to presented symptoms is a much short elapse, a week. A week. I can identify covid in someone a month in advance, because covid original has ot a very distinct time period before someone falls into covid shock. I can primarily identify those who are 'asymptomatic' - basically, anyone who has contracted covid original WILL present some symptom, that is why I refer to the healthy carrier as a myth.

Basically, a lot of white people contracted covid original but were not aware, and either fell into covid shock (presented symptoms) or their immune response was adequate enough they didn't realize they were ever sick, IF viable antibodies produced.

Delta doesn't do this. You get sick with it, YOU GET SICK.

So what we have right now, from my case studies, is we got a lot of white people who thought that the virus wasn't real or wouldn't infect them, either because they are healthy or low risk, or they already had a covid original.

But delta, for those not primed or unvaccinated, it absolutely destroys them. So many of these healthy people have gotten sick, most have made a recovery because they were actually healthy and had a legitimate immunity response to the delta before it overwhelmed them completely.

But so many of these people believe "I'm healthy and my immune system is good." Those really are not factors here. It DOES NOT MATTER how healthy you are or your immunity history with other viruses. Delta is a different variant, it is aggressive, volatile, and very hungry.

The life cycle of a virus, by a hypothetical example, demands that a strong and successful pathogen must alter itself - evolve - at least five times every six months. Every six months, because that is when we have classes resume, companies higher fresh staff or interns from college, people move and carry variants to new areas, where they begin to mingle and spread with a new population. Of the five variants that are produced, only one or two might be viable as replicators. The others die out due to insufficient population density, where they feed and grow, and thus build momentum.

As in the case of the delta variant. It is only highly successful as a spreader, because it is intentionally spread, and has a relatively wide window of movement before it's host becomes incapacitated. Due to misconceptions that the covid is a case of flu, or individuals have immunity after contracting covid original, the severity of the delta is dismissed. Usually in the case of the white demograph case studies.

So going on with this "I dOnT NeED vaCINnes iN Me," is absolute suicide. Unless for a legitimate medical reason your doctor is cautioning you about, you need to get vaccinated. The delta is dangerous and it is going to survive, and it will use you to do so. And when it is done with you, your body can no longer replicate its children, it will kill you.

And when it runs out of one food source, it will evolve and move on to the next. Right now there can be a new variant testing the waters for its infection rate, but we won't see it, not until February of the 2022.

I don't have sympathy for these people, but in a way I pity them. To be so disconnected from the world and our society, so defiant and assured of their immortality. All these people, like hannity, fucker calrson, mayo failor gangreene, THEY ARE VACCINATED. And they are fighting against vaccine mandates, or telling people "you don't need the vaccine. The Dems are trying to control you. The vaccine is bad."

They are misleading stupid, gullible, idiots that will gargle iodine or huff oxyclean. And I don't care. They are stupid worthless people, so hellbent on their religion and god saving them, they'll kill their own children to get into the fabled paradise. And they've fallen for these con people, praise them as their prophets. It's just so pathetic. I'm so tired of these news segments - "Guess wo got covid today!"

Probably a true believer with a saune hannity shrine.

They don't have to die. I am so tired of hearing how "stupid person died because anti-vaxx". It's pitiful. All it is now, is a waiting game. We can argue about vaccines and covid all day, but in the end, delta will be laughing in your lungs.

[globalnewses]

Govt proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals, provide free access to all

Govt proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals, provide free access to all

In an ambitious move to make scientific knowledge and data available to all, the government has proposed an open data policy that will make information generated by all publicly funded research, including its results, freely accessible to everyone. More significantly, the government has also proposed to buy bulk subscriptions of all the important scientific journals across the world, and provide…

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Ok. I keep seeing posts by anti-mask people with some things that really bothers me. And since I have some actual scientific data to share I’m going to address an issue in particular: people saying that wearing masks prevents you from getting enough oxygen.

For background I work in a hospital lab, we were in the process of validating a new test on an instrument that also runs blood gases (which had already been validated) so part of this involved running twenty tests on two different instruments to make sure they are getting the same results. For this we mostly just draw each others blood and run that.

So we have a sample size of twenty (not the greatest I know) of healthy people who have been wearing masks for at least four hours who have been doing a moderate amount of physical activity who have been drawn over the course of several days.

All of us had normal oxygen levels. Some of us had slightly elevated carbon dioxide levels, but nothing that was too out of the ordinary or concerning at all.

This is a copy of my results you can see that the range of CO2 is 41-51, my result is 52, which is honestly so close to normal that I would hardly even think of it as being strange. And is probably a result of me running around because it was a busy day. The only other abnormal result, blood pH, is due to the slightly elevated CO2, and is also so close to normal that it is not the least concerning. Our bodies have an amazing buffer system too keep our pH levels stable, as long as they aren’t too far out of whack. And with a range of 35-40, by oxygen level is 39, on the high side of normal.

Obviously this is just one result, I’m not comfortable sharing any results other than my own, but not one of us had decreased oxygen levels, and none of the people saying that wearing masks decreases blood oxygen levels have cited any data to support their claims, so I’m ok with a sample size of twenty.

Wear a mask people. Stop using “sciency” sounding words to try to prove your point.