Paywalls for scientific research are evil.
http://209.20.67.195/misc/sastri-identification.pdf
(I intend to do this regularly; see bio.)
Protein that destroys HIV discovered
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Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#12Is a $225K microscope supposed to be expensive or inexpensive for achieving this? Seems weird to mention that in the introduction. Why not include that they work in a $10M research building?
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#13This isn't news, nor is it necessarily even exciting. There are thousands upon thousands of chemicals that destroy HIV (bleach is a good example), the tricky bit is working within the confines of the human body. Delivery, dosing, etc, etc, etc. As far as drug efficacy is concerned, those issues far outweigh anything else.
Unless you are a drug researcher, ignore news of this sort, when you start seeing drug trials then you can start paying attention.
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#14This isn't news, nor is it necessarily even exciting. There are thousands upon thousands of chemicals that destroy HIV (bleach is a good example), the tricky bit is working within the confines of the human body. Delivery, dosing, etc, etc, etc. As far as drug efficacy is concerned, those issues far outweigh anything else. Unless you are a drug researcher, ignore news of this sort, when you start seeing drug trials th…
I have not heard of any experiments being carried out in monkeys with bleach which showed positive results.
I do not see what your point is. Is this not something new, hence news, but something well know to the mysterious field of drug researchers?
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#15Paywalls for scientific research are evil. http://209.20.67.195/misc/sastri-identification.pdf (I intend to do this regularly; see bio.)
Good luck with that. Barriers to professions - which includes access to research - is what keeps the professionals well paid and thus perhaps allow them to fund more research.
Isn't that infringement of copyrights by the way? Do you think it is fine too if I start distributing freely an application for which you have worked for years and decided to charge for?
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#16Is a $225K microscope supposed to be expensive or inexpensive for achieving this? Seems weird to mention that in the introduction. Why not include that they work in a $10M research building?
Because we have not heard of a $225K microscope before - thus the microscope must be well good - but have heard of $10M research building and actually expect the latter.
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or for a young sub-Saharan girl raped by a man who believes that sex with a virgin will cure him.
Or late night orgies. What is so bad about that? Sex is pleasure. Everyone should be able to have the pleasure if so they please.
Ohh right cool, geeks feeling awkward when sex is compared to pleasure?
Dude, sex is pleasure, indeed it is one of the highest pleasure!
It is not just poor African orphans who get aids. In fact the reason why so much effort is put into it is because it is not just poor African orphans in a far away land. It is you and me and anyone else who could potentially get aids in a drunken night in a club, or park, or maybe even after weeks of flirting with a girl and in a fit of a moment stuff happen.
I suppose however you can not beat crying, but think of the children.
I say it again, what on earth is wrong with HN. Actually, I'll do an Ask HN.
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#18Cute, but one way of thinking of it is that "the human version doesn't kill HIV". The other way of thinking about it is, "HIV has already evolved to avoid it".
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#19Paywalls for scientific research are evil. http://209.20.67.195/misc/sastri-identification.pdf (I intend to do this regularly; see bio.)
Good luck with that. Barriers to professions - which includes access to research - is what keeps the professionals well paid and thus perhaps allow them to fund more research. Isn't that infringement of copyrights by the way? Do you think it is fine too if I start distributing freely an application for which you have worked for years and decided to charge for?
Most researchers haven't really chosen to charge for their papers. It's the only way to get published in the journals, and it's based on an old scarcity where the distribution of quality journals was a difficult task. Now a social network of scientists could handle it for almost nothing. Barriers to research do nothing but make life difficult for poor college students.
See http://arxiv.org.
Re: Protein that destroys HIV discovered
#20Paywalls for scientific research are evil. http://209.20.67.195/misc/sastri-identification.pdf (I intend to do this regularly; see bio.)
Good luck with that. Barriers to professions - which includes access to research - is what keeps the professionals well paid and thus perhaps allow them to fund more research. Isn't that infringement of copyrights by the way? Do you think it is fine too if I start distributing freely an application for which you have worked for years and decided to charge for?
> Do you think it is fine too if I start distributing freely an application for which you have worked for years and decided to charge for?
Sure, as long as I developed the application with taxpayer money I think it would be fair game to have it freely distributed. From the article:
> The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
I wish the NIH and others would require free distribution for papers originating out of publicly funded research.