| Brainstorm | New from This Week In Virology: TWiV 1216: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin: In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bemoan the attack on science within the US, salt water controls for vaccines, return to 1938 technology for flu vaccines, mRNA vaccines as “bioweapons”, rise in pertussis, benefits [... want %more?] → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1216/ | 06:12 |
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| Brainstorm | New from Retraction Watch: Weekend reads: Majorana manipulation allegations; Norway’s most-published researcher committed misconduct; ‘second chance’ for convicted Harvard chemist: Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 [... want %more?] → https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/10/weekend-reads-majorana-manipulation-allegations-norway-researcher-misconduct-convicted-harvard-chemist/ | 12:03 |
| Brainstorm | New from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): EMA starts review of Ixchiq (live attenuated chikungunya vaccine) → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/114482965282721217 | 12:13 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Science: science: Annual multi-cancer early detection blood tests could spot cancer early and help more people survive cancer. The blood test looks for DNA fragments shed by tumors. Annual blood testing was associated with 49% fewer late-stage cancer diagnoses and [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1kj6z5k/annual_multicancer_early_detection_blood_tests/ | 12:32 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Science: science: Moderna’s combined Covid and flu shot outperformed the existing standalone vaccines for both viruses, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1kj7emt/modernas_combined_covid_and_flu_shot_outperformed/ | 13:00 |
| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: What it’s like to have measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/10/what-it-is-like-to-have-measles-rubella-polio-pertussis-first-person-patient-stories/ | 13:10 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Scientists estimate higher rate of new-onset diabetes after COVID than in general population → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1kj8m4l/scientists_estimate_higher_rate_of_newonset/ | 15:04 |
| Brainstorm | New from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Some believed their children had been injured by vaccines. Numerous studies on hundreds of thousands of children have consistently found no link between vaccinations and autism, and vaccinated children don't have higher autism rates than non-vaccinated children. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/114483675578328037 | 15:13 |
| xx | "no link between vaccinations and autism" is an exxageration | 17:54 |
| xx | vaccinated kids live theoretically longer than unvaccinated ones, so they have a higher chance to exhibit autism | 17:55 |
| LjL | good heavens | 19:29 |
| LjL | when people call you disingenuous, they aren't kidding | 19:29 |
| Brainstorm | New from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): How do we know? Because there have been many studies in humans looking at this. Because we vaccinate, without such effects, to prevent infections that can have that effect (e.g. mumps). → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/114484769839467684 | 19:52 |
| xx | LjL: what's wrong with my statement? | 20:12 |
| xx | it's exactly the same as the use of helmets in warfare leading to lots of soldiers living with a head injury afterwards | 20:13 |
| LjL | the fact it doesn't anything important to the matter except you being a smartass about technicalities, not sure if that makes you feel smarter than other people because you can see a completely irrelevant correlation | 20:13 |
| xx | but it *isn't* irrelevant | 20:14 |
| LjL | right, you probably want people to die rather than wear helmets | 20:14 |
| xx | the antivaxxers keep claiming that there's a lot more autism now, so *this* is a way of explaining why | 20:14 |
| xx | because before, kids would just die | 20:14 |
| xx | same with helmets, before them, soldiers would just die | 20:14 |
| xx | I've even heard the argument applied for seatbelts | 20:15 |
| xx | so if you want to talk to antivaxxers, you need to generalize how protective measures lead to outcomes where you live but exhibit permanent injury (or autism), compared to the lack of protective measures leading to you just dying | 20:16 |
| LjL | it seems extremely doubtful that the reason anti-vaxxers are claiming there's more autism is merely that people live longer. if they were doing things rigorously, then they would be measuring in disability-adjusted life years, not just "hey look people live longer, and they got more autism". and if they are NOT doing things rigorously, which is much more likely, then they can pull correlations out of their asses without even getting close to this very subtle one | 20:16 |
| xx | that's my point, antivaxxers aren't claiming that "there's more autism is merely that people live longer" - that's why we need to tell them | 20:17 |
| Brainstorm | New from MedPageToday: COVID-Flu Vaccine; AI for Diagnosing Diabetic Kidney Disease: (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/podcasts/healthwatch/115517 | 20:30 |
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