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From another perspective – she wants to restore democracy in her country and wishes it again to become a prosperous society with growing economy. And perhaps your attitude is why i…

If m-dashes becomes a turn off, GPT users will simply replace them with hyphens and using m-dashes will become a sign of real professionalism or alternatively a sing of completely …

It is actually stupid to adjust to writing without m-dashes because one can easily replace all m-dashes to hyphens in chatGPT generated text. I predict that obsession with detectin…

The RTCs didn't find significant difference between N95 and surgical masks in hospital settings. How can a request for evidence be absurd?

That applies only to lab conditions. No RCTs have found much effectiveness so far in real life.

We now know that masks were barely effective or not effective at all. They could even be net negative by causing people to take more risks. Isolating was the only way. A lot of eld…

I was actually commenting for Herman Cain. Sorry, for this mistake. Yes, they made announcements without clearly thinking how they will be perceived. I agree that it was unnecessar…

The problem with this is that he had been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 2006. It is rare for a person with stage IV cancer to survive for another 14 years. He received tr…

It's actually quite clever from the part of the scientist. The incentive would be money, maybe the pay for doing this test was not good enough. Or maybe the scientist was motivated…

sic transit gloria mundis https://archive.is/VZDDN I cannot believe they wrote this in 2022 when it was all clear that covid doesn't matter for children and had already become ende…

Santa Cruz where most of the local population lives gets half of its water from desalination plant. Desalination is already cost-effective and can provide water for tourists if nee…

I find him more relatable than most musicians, journalists and actors.

What do you mean by high bar? Cochrane group are specialists who do exactly that and provide gold standard of evidence. Sometimes the evidence goes against accepted wisdom. That's …

>> That's one paper out of dozens, feel free to pick another. It is not. It is the review of all available evidence (studies).

>> If the claim masks don't work didn't come from the same people who said isolating didn't work, I might take them seriously. It didn't. The claim came from Cochrane group. So, ar…

If we already have strong evidence that the current vaccine is effective, then I agree, we don't need to to do another placebo controlled studies. But very often in medicine we don…

I agree, they are not politicians. However, they are deciding policy and that means their job is political.

Actually we could. Maybe we won't do such studies because they are irrelevant because avoiding spitting into the surgical opening is a reason good enough. But then we cannot claim …

That's not accurate. Obviously there are many different studies with different conclusions. But by “evidence” we usually mean the total conclusion from all of them. In medicine it …

I understand how public can misunderstand this phrase but scientifically it is clear and justified. Sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven't found compelling evidence yet. Som…

I understand how public can misunderstand this phrase but scientifically it is clear and justified. I looking at that page and sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven't found t…

The important conclusion here is that Russia tried to influence the Baltic States by political destabilization (they had plans for Russia as a second official language, reducing im…

Ukraine and Baltic countries are not the same. This comparison is false. No wonder the whole world went mad and demanded vaccine mandates for vaccine that does not even prevent the…

Is it? Everybody is an expert online. My trust in those experts is 0.

Russia had no military strength to take over Kyiv and yet it tried to do that. Intelligence tried to warn about that and most European governments ignored that. The theory is that …