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Rubbish. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102134129.h...

But peroxide is not just some random thing like bleach. It's generated internally from superoxide dismutase in the normal process of scavenging radicals and is also an immune signa…

Peroxide is directly virucidal through oxidation of the lipid envelope and RNA degradation. Whether lymphocytes would be activated in lung tissue in vivo is entirely speculative.

The dose makes the poison.

There are also those proponents of nebulizing (dilute) peroxide. While I wouldn't try this myself, peroxide modulates lymphocytes and would surely result in a decrease in viral loa…

The deafening silence regarding the fudged OPCW reports is an indictment on most outlets (WP is mentioned explicitly): https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-a.…

Bloomberg is unique in being somewhat independent of the AP-AFP-Reuters stranglehold that is described with appropriate skepticism here: https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier…

It's undoubtedly aimed at musical audio generation and signal processing. A quick search will reveal the number of gotchas in implementing even a simple alias-free (bandlimited int…

I am becoming tired of the word "curated" unless it is being used in a context implying a qualified curator. This could be someone's random list of browser links for all I know. Wh…

The wispy, near transparent spectacles in some of them are a bit of a give away...

I wonder how many of those who run for public office would willingly present results of such a scan... I would bet money that that particular demographic would show an interesting …

The correct way to counter disinformation is with information. This does assume a sufficiently aware populace able to process its own confirmation bias (which is actually a learnab…

I have taken several CDs (mainly my Dad's, not my own) from unusably scratched to relatively pristine. The really bad cases need fine grit sandpaper (wet!) followed by plastic poli…

Assange himself and the rape charges have been politicized to such an extent that I find it essentially meaningless to pontificate about what may or may not have happened in Sweden…

The cynical answer is that sleep medications (and I mean the more highly scheduled varieties) are among the biggest pharmacological money spinners. Melatonin is cheap and unpatenta…

The way I heard it is that the U.S. could not domestically provide an off the shelf end-to-end 5G solution. In addition, Huawei had at some point declined to install NSA backdoors.…

I remember the hysteria regarding aluminum cookware when higher levels of aluminum were discovered in the brains of those who had had Alzheimer's disease. Then it turned out that t…

At the same time, this pales in comparison to what took place under the Spartan agoge system (at least to modern minds): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoge

For me, the question of consciousness is more than a question of pure mechanism. The mystery for me is the particularity/locality of experience. It's one thing to say that we have …

I find Bellingcat about as credible as Crowdstrike... a lot of solid, interesting evidence, and then a tail end of questionable conclusions that seem out of character.

This is why the "STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming" (a.k.a. 20k Lines of Code) Project was important. It was spearheaded by computing luminary Alan Kay with help from som…

I wonder if they're aware of Ian Piumarta's Maru and Cola ( http://www.piumarta.com/software/ ) - which are also tiny and self-compiling (although use C and IA32 as a basis, not JS…

You ought to watch "Zero Theorem" for some comic reflection... That aside, I think work has been debased because the values of currencies have been debased by central banks. The 1%…

Err, the Parallel Computing Toolbox for MATLAB is specifically designed for cluster computing, multicore processing, GPUs, etc. As much as I detest the MATLAB licensing reaming (an…

I am as tired of hearing "curated" as I am of "artisanal". Both are effectively becoming meaningless and set my pretentiousness detector on high alert.