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A better headline: "Fake vaccines are everywhere"

What makes him think tech companies want "surveillance-resistant systems" (whatever that means)?

People have come to realize a few important things: - Omicron is comparable to a really bad cold for most people - The vaccines reduce the risk of death for only a very short time,…

There's always a balancing act between vaccine safety and efficacy. The smallpox vaccine mimics a natural infection, but it's extremely dangerous because people who get vaccinated …

One-year sustained cellular and humoral immunities of COVID-19 convalescents http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab884

https://notthebee.com/article/are-we-permitted-to-point-out-...

The very term "disinformation" is problematic because people use it too loosely. Disinformation is another word for propaganda, or information intended to deceive. The author of th…

There used to be a sort of IQ test to use the Internet. If you didn't have the technical skill and knowledge, you couldn't participate. That's all changed. Now using the Internet r…

This report provides only age-adjusted numbers for vaccine effectiveness, but doesn't provide the model used to arrive at those numbers. If you look at the raw numbers, a different…

Big deal. The Great Barrington Declaration has almost 50k medical professionals and 16k scientists.

Relevant: https://nypost.com/2022/01/11/united-airlines-says-3000-empl...

Is this implying that Elon Musk is Satoshi, or that he just knows him?

As a sidenote, it seems like the YC anti-abuse system could use a second look and possibly some tuning. Apparently a handful of accounts have been serial downvoting anything that e…