Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
Is principia-scientific.com a trusted site I can link to without people saying my source is wrong?
They're a library basically, the source is who produced the info - the authors of the article and the articles/research/texts they used as references. So just because something in published in a journal it doesn't mean the research itself is good. As for Principa_Scientific they're mostly junk and not to be considered a trustworthy place to get info from.
Posted by: syncro
I would love to see the flowchart Dr. Henry used to make these decisions.
I obviously consulted with her on them.
Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
b) you dont trust that site and the professionals contributing to it? c) why dont you peer review it?
Something that has not been peer reviewed is something that might have a number of different errors in it. There could be author bias, there could be flaws in the methods used or the design of the study, there could be flaws/mistakes in the data and the could be conflicts of interest with the people who sponsored the study or who the study was done for. In higher quality journals you get higher quality research because of the stringent peer review methods. In lower quality journals/websites you often don't get any peer review or poor quality peer review, so articles that have flaws and mistakes in them are more like to get published.
Posted by: bux-bux
Fun Read
I read it, and it was for sure interesting ... but...I do not have enough background knowledge to be able to discern if the statements and comments made are trustworthy. To understand stuff like that a mere basic understanding of biology is not enough.
Checked out the book Viral by Ridley and Chan that he mentions, and guess I am going to buy this one in the future.
Posted by: Mic
Posted by: bux-bux
Fun Read
I read it, and it was for sure interesting ... but...I do not have enough background knowledge to be able to discern if the statements and comments made are trustworthy. To understand stuff like that a mere basic understanding of biology is not enough.
Checked out the book Viral by Ridley and Chan that he mentions, and guess I am going to buy this one in the future.
Yes outside my wheelhouse also but interesting take.
Posted by: Mic
Posted by: bux-bux
Fun Read
I read it, and it was for sure interesting ... but...I do not have enough background knowledge to be able to discern if the statements and comments made are trustworthy. To understand stuff like that a mere basic understanding of biology is not enough.
Checked out the book Viral by Ridley and Chan that he mentions, and guess I am going to buy this one in the future.
A bunch of the biology mentioned by the experts he cites seems to jive with my memory from undergrad genetics classes. His explanation of silent mutations is a vast oversimplification aimed at the layman but the meat is the s/na ratio. I don’t remember enough to know if his assertion that these ratios are out of wack actually matters, I seem to remember ratios varying wildly under natural selection pressures so I’d ask some serious questions around th assertion that this indicates a lab escape.
Seems to add a fair amount of editorializing and goes quickly to sensationalistic/exciting explanations so I suggest looking seriously at his cited articles to see if his representations are accurate. GoF research is risky as fuck and requires at the very least tighter controls. I don’t personally believe it’s worth the risk; it certainly violates the precautionary principal, but this is pretty much true of any weaponized virus research.
The thing with weaponized viruses is that they can't be contained. Unless your team has the vaccine and the other team doesn't....
“Omicron shows that COVID evolves to be less severe”
Are we sure about that?
Also some Interesting commentary at the end about how future variants may be just as or more severe, but experienced more mildly if you’ve been exposed through vaccination or infection, leading to the perception that the virus has become less severe once the population has been vaccinated or infected.
Posted by: bux-bux
The thing with weaponized viruses is that they can't be contained. Unless your team has the vaccine and the other team doesn't....
Right? Classic human hubris to believe that we could create, control, and contain an intentionally strengthened virus.
Posted by: tashi
Posted by: bux-bux
The thing with weaponized viruses is that they can't be contained. Unless your team has the vaccine and the other team doesn't....
Right? Classic human hubris to believe that we could create, control, and contain an intentionally strengthened virus.
Maybe the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century will once be known as The Age of Hybris.
The older I get the more I shake my head.
so all those vax shots were unnecessary & a waste if time ?
this hasn't played out completely yet & nothing is for sure
Posted by: tashi
“Omicron shows that COVID evolves to be less severe”
Are we sure about that?
Also some Interesting commentary at the end about how future variants may be just as or more severe, but experienced more mildly if you’ve been exposed through vaccination or infection, leading to the perception that the virus has become less severe once the population has been vaccinated or infected.
Kinda semantics at the end of the day though eh? I mean if it's only more severe due to the characteristics it has under a microscope, but the real world societal impact is less severe, for whatever reason, then does it matter?
I mean it's interesting academically but I dunno if it matters much...
It matters to the unvaccinated if the virus is stronger.
It matters to those who get breakthrough infections if the vaccine is stronger.
It matters to those who develop vaccines and treatments if they aren’t as effective on more serious strains.
It matters to those who die from infection on the way to heard immunity.
Posted by: XXX_er
so all those vax shots were unnecessary & a waste if time ?
this hasn't played out completely yet & nothing is for sure
No. Vaccination is the safer way we get the population immune to whatever strain is out there.
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