Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
benefits of getting the Shingles vaccine

Ditto for higher dose flu vaccine.

A podcast about that from Microbe.TV, This Week In Virology (TWIV) Episode #1313: Audio; Video.

I’ve listened to most TWIV audio episodes since Covid hit in 2020. Most of it goes deep and is over my head, so I listen to help me fall asleep…[Read more]

The developing world would have a lot less child mortality if we could stop reverse-developing nations from recruiting and kidnapping children for combat. Maybe FEMA’s Gregg Phillips could teleport Iran’s children safely away from the IRGC:

Iran accused of war crime for recruiting children; FEMA official claims he was teleported by…[Read more]

There is a new study done on benefits of getting the Shingles vaccine. I will get it soon as I had chicken pox when I was young.

Highly recommended. I got my two shots a few years ago, since I had Chicken Pox as a kid. The Shingles vaccine comes in a pair of shots spaced out over 2-6 months and you get to have fun saying the…[Read more]

I get the connection you’re making, but really, is there more than just the name to discredit good science in a different discipline?

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

I should be more clear: I am all for vaccines as a life-saving technology. I think they should be available over-the-counter in Epi-Pens, eve…[Read more]

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

Musk is out of his depth on vaccines (and probably on rocketry too, judging from how he like to blow shit up on his laugh pads)…

But just gotta say, Germany isn’t helping it’s case by naming it’s vaccine regulator the Paul Ehrlich Institute, if this is the same one who wrote The Population Bomb which held that we humans reached…[Read more]

That should be Thank Gregor Mendel, Norman Borlaug, and Genentech for GMOs. Gaia née Earth just unconsciously provided the raw materials.

And the most important reason for thanks is The Green Revolution that saved a billion humans from starvation. This helps people cope with reality without psychotropic drugs.

https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

Source link in science.org:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034?ref=404media.co

It looks like the disease took its toll. One hopes she will bloom back into a full recovery in coming months.

It would be kinda hard for Japanese tourists to carry a Super-Kamiokande while visiting Disney. 😉😁

Seriously, that was a ton of new learning in 8 minutes. They never taught in public school that light has different speeds going through different media. Not to mention that public schools teach little about subatomic particles other…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

I realized this while watching this awesome episode on bacteria phages, which are viruses that prey only on bacteria. I start the hour long episode more than halfway in, and it’s not important to watch any further than their discussion on gain of function:

Wait…Don’t watch all of a video about a medical regimen that has to be c…[Read more]

Antibiotic over-prescriptions are already proven to be a dangerous way to cause pathogenic bacteria to evolve resistance to treatments. Some doctors still prescribe them for “just in case” scenarios, and patients…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Your initial belief (before evidence) + new evidence = updated belief.

That sounds very reasonable.

Unseen wrote:
It is not single axioms that strike me as obvious, it is a system in which consequences and premises give one another mutual support.” — Wittgenstein, On Certainty, sec. 141-42

That’s good too.  If ther…[Read more]

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Bayes in action!!

I guess I should allow for the word “belief” and not just “understanding” as I think we all know the I don’t mean religious belief, i.e. belief that is not open to revision.

Another example:

Think of Bayes’ T…[Read more]

Just a few practical addendum for teaching these skills in learning and reasoning:

* Put the lessons in any and all possible media, electronic and hard copy.
* Insist that anyone who teaches the lessons equally be able to exercise the lessons and they must not have any guarantee of tenure or sinecure.
*. Don’t make the lessons compulsory;…[Read more]

How humans learn and properly reason is a matter of fact. So it’s not that Gradgrind was wrong, It just that how to learn and reason should be the first fact he teaches

Christopher Columbus did not actually discover America because he maintained until his death that he had reached some portion of Asia. Doubts were emerging but it was Amerigo Vespucci who fully realized that the Americas were truly something else, calling them a “new world.”

The point: You can only claim…[Read more]

Bayesian reasoning, logic, and fallacy recognition would do more…[Read more]

10 minutes long, followed by 1-1/2 minutes of credits: