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Nonsense. This debunking will be debunked in due time once the party line shifts and the narrative will need to be updated. I am old enough to have witnessed these wild gyrations i…

Recent? This scare mongering is perennial. """ UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea…

That's a broad and unsubstantiated statement about coffee. Personally I love bitter coffee.

The article that I linked shows why even 100% vaccinated population will not achieve herd immunity. This is the meat of the article really, read it. There is a substitution of term…

Don't you see certain hypocrisy in this? Aren't we told that vaccines are safe? The whole reason that the liability shield exists was a reaction to the DTP vaccine debacle. Which w…

She is a trained immunologist, but besides, her article is well reasoned and provides references for every fact she cites. Compare that to the PBS article in the root comment. Atta…

https://investors.merck.com/news/press-release-details/2019/... $6.2B income in 2018.

This is some shady definition. There were outbreaks in 1999, so really what does "eliminated" mean? To me it has never been "eliminated". https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/…

Say what? The global vaccine market was over 30 Billion dollars in 2018. This is the most lucrative pharma market because you are medicating the whole population including healthy …

Herd immunity science is shaky to say the least: http://www.tetyanaobukhanych.com/herd_immunity.html

To crudely rifle a barrel you just need a press. Or you can make a machine like this: https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/04/17/watch-homemade-barrel-... . I once saw a video of a mach…

You can rifle a barrel in your garage. Search youtube, there are DIY videos. Btw, you need a rifled barrel to make accurate shots at long-ish distances. For close quarter combat a …

How about actually meeting your neighbors and making friends with them?

Ah, but "personally" is the operative word here, other people obviously disagree. > The "market participants" would only be those mining crypto, though. Not only them. All people w…

How would you value mining? What's the figure you'd assign to it? As the activity it is certainly valuable to ensure the validity of the blockchain. In my mind that's the function …

And that is totally allright. Question it all you want, that's what the market is for.

You are taking a very narrow view on the energy use here. In modern economy you can think of pretty much any thing as made of energy. You are comparing how much your new tv is pull…

Why? Doing anything of value requires expending of energy and producing heat, this is unavoidable. Saying that this activity is pointless just because you are not seeing any value …

You are contradicting yourself. More interaction leads to more noise and now you are advising people to put headphones on or leave the place entirely. How are you supposed to cultu…

The magic number for the benefits cut-off is 20 hours/week.

Why it cannot be both? I agree that me bringing in the argument that the number of "worst case" cases is low compared to the number of people that contract the virus was outside th…

The history of eradicating polio was clouded by redefinition of what was considered a polio case not once but twice. Early in the day any case of acute flaccid myelitis was conside…

Saying that the mechanisms are known is a major case of hubris. For example, it is still not known exactly how aluminum salts, used as adjuvants in vaccines, work. Many vaccines we…

Polio is transmitted fecal to mouth, so proper hygiene is absolutely going to prevent you from getting polio. As for the effectiveness, it is absolutely must be questioned, and her…

Now, once the lawsuit is filed, he gets to do discovery. And if some exec at Yahoo has ever said something over email to the effect of aggressively promoting women, and, given the …