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I stopped reading at the part where he spends a full page on semantic games around the precise meaning of the word vaccine, misspelling the name of a famous dictionary in the proce…

A quick web search suggests that it's nothing to be concerned about. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa...

It's the standard method, and I see nothing wrong with it. What you suggest (deliberate exposure) is called a challenge trial. This is normally considered ethical only when an effe…

Nothing is misleading. Half the participants got the vaccine, the rest placebo, before going about their usual lives. Now, a few months later, 95 cases have been confirmed across b…

In the Pfizer trial, all the subjects in the interim evaluation had symptomatic infection confirmed by PCR test. I'm not sure about Moderna, but it's likely to use the same or simi…

One factor speeding up the phase 3 trials is the high rate of infections. Since the evaluation is done at a set number of confirmed cases among the test subjects, this happens much…

The largest percentage increase may have been in that age group, but since the base rate is very low, it still amounts to few deaths overall.

According to the Guardian, AstraZeneca is looking at charging £3 per dose for their vaccine, assuming it gets approval. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/moderna-covid-…

This isn't the final evaluation. There will be another at ~150 cases. The numbers may seem small, but this is enough for the purpose of deciding for or against approval. Anything o…

I happened to read it here recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/02/how-goo... No, that's not a scholarly article.

Both groups have (approximately) the same size, in the tens of thousands. The first evaluation is done when 90 or so cases have been confirmed, not knowing which group they belong …

Verifying the expected immune response (antibodies) is (part of) phases 1 and 2, if I've understood things correctly.

Early polio vaccines did.

Following that method will make you a Scientologist, not an expert.

Niels Bohr, widely regarded as an expert, has said that an expert is someone who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. If you want to become an expert, yo…

The problem addressed by git or any other serious version control system is complex. Any seemingly simple solution will be severely limited, even if it does some particular things …

People who criticise git fall into two categories: - Those who have never used Clearcase, Perforce, or any other enterprise monstrosity. - Those who have and suffer from Stockholm …

> just... why? It's called "virtue signalling," I'm told.

"Hopefully some place I didn't anticipate."

They switched from a T-rex to a hat. Makes sense.

Yes, they do.

> Why do keyboards have hard-wired cables anyhow? Low-speed USB devices are not permitted by the spec to have a detachable cable. The fancier keyboards are probably full- or high-s…

Well done to all of you for cultivating these puns.

His Permutation City is also good.

What I said about inline is true of C99. C++ might be different though. It is also true that Unix linkers give an error if the final set of object files to link contain more than o…