Scientists are working on "everything vaccines"

Post by gignico » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #60

gignico wrote: post #59

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The problem is implying that “if evolution did not do it there must be a reason”, because 1) it makes evolution look like an engineer evaluating trade offs, which is not and 2) it considers the current state of affairs the final “product”, which is not. For example, flowers did not exist in the Cretaceous, so somebody looking at what evolution did until then would say “if evolution did not invent flowers, then we’d b…

pressure to evolve further features is quite low I'm really sorry, but you're really misunderstanding how evolution works. Worth reading something like the Selfish Gene if you want to understand it a bit better. There are always reproductive pressures and there are always genetic variations. Modern civilization and medicine has simply changed what the pressures are. As an example if a genetic variation occured tomorr…

Post by IAmBroom » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

zaknil wrote: post #6

> put the lungs into a constant state of readiness, allowing fast responses to almost any invading germ Succeeding at this would prove that our bodies have the capacity to do that but evolution "tuned" the system differently. A corollary would be that this vaccination is probably a net negative for public health, even if nobody'd really know why.

Post by qsera » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 3:30 AM UTC

senordevnyc wrote: post #62

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Maybe, but that does not mean that it is possible to work around evolution to change ourselves to fit better with the new constraints.

There's no reason to believe that's true, that there some inherent reason we can't change our selves to better fit our new environment. Arguably that's exactly what humans have been doing now for tens of thousands of years.