TigerDoc

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comes across like you're hoping for the worst.

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I don't think it's the just hoping for the best/worst. It's the oracular dot-connecting vs.not.

At least the Millerites were so good as to predict the exact date of Christ's return, so the "Great Disappointment" could birth adventism, but alas, we may not ever get a proper religion out of these baws.

It wasn't an accident. :lol:

(there are more products than just this that were recalled, btw)

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FDA

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by quadrant

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speaking of quadrants, bottom right is a wasteland. No irreligious conservative majors at all.

She could be right about any particular issue and OP's point would still stand. The question is whether her method leaves any possible outcome that counts against her.

It was recently brought up again, but it was all the same stuff back in summer '21. Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein, Ian Smith, among others all hyped it. Here's a fact-check from July of that year:

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And here's Bret Weinstein 3 days ago reminding us of his conversation with Steve Kirsch about it in June 2021:

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If only there were ways to actually reasonably infer the cause and effect relationships of pathogens and preventative public health interventions.

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I have a toddler and he's only had a handful of vaccinations. Where are y'all getting this 65 number?

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I think the number is 13 by age 2. 65 is an exaggeration and the real number includes 18 annual flu shots, which obviously lots of people don't get.

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I'm pretty sure the flu shot is almost always ineffective.

"Whoops, turns out we really boofed those virus strains this year."

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The nice thing about the platform is that it can tighten the feedback loop between what strains are observed to be circulating and what antigens actually go into people's arms (at least in the ideal case - manufacturing is only part of the pipeline and this doesn't improve other parts like logistics, purchasing, & insurance and other things that also take time to get a vaccine to clinic.

I think Wildcat and you are pointing toward the real problem with that statement in OP: “gain of function” can describe a very broad group of biological manipulations, while the thing people are actually worried about is a much narrower type involving dangerous enhancement of pathogens.

If RFK means “no good has ever come from research that risks creating more dangerous potential pandemic pathogens”, that's at least a proposition you can evaluate. But “no good thing has ever come from gain-of-function research” is a much bigger claim. It seems worth figuring out exactly what he wants to ban.

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things like that could cause a spontaneous mutation in a virus.

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that doesn't cause spontaneous mutation, but more proximity to animals that are reservoirs for flu can increase the chance of spillover should a mutation occur.