COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

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28 M - age group 18 to 59 years!
Over 4 years!

The only appropriate way to respond to a world in which liars are routinely championed and unpunished is with an unfailing, instinctive skepticism. Lies are not random, they are told for a reason, and always at someone's expense.

Don't assume the worst... except of those who take no accountability.

This. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Psychotic.

Yet oil & gas industry has contaminated TX water sources for decades & major source of aquifer depletion.
1 reason I leftTexas was local gas wells contaminated my well water. Dropped home value by $25,000. I reported illegal dumping of “produced” water from wells into local creek. I was ignored.

Evidence backs this up.

Not a native Texan but lived there for 16 years. It was a lesson in history and human behavior.

Yes. Always has been. Big money, ppl can’t get past their frontier history, which was written by the white capitalist land & resources owners.
“Texans love their mythology.” - Larry McMurtry, novelist

Very true. Even the universities. My lab was in the “T Boone Pickens” building. Yes, that is its name .

The people banning books are never the same people who actually read books.

Absolutely agree on renovating the Supreme Court.

Squat on!!

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I would like to read this in its entirety. The short abstract makes me bristle; it seems to “marginalize” ppl, esp adults, who are (and diagnosed) on the Spectrum.
I also wonder if authors are ND. I suspect not, and if not , they lack credibility in their assessment & argument.

Wondering if this the same study group for which I participated in via long detailed questionnaire (~last fall). Was curious if analysis was published yet.

Thanks for posting this. Adult daughter is ADHD & learned she was aphantasic at 46 yo. And only bc her half-sister also aphantasic. Suggests hereditary link with their late father (Aspergers & bipolar). Also helps explain her difficulties in primary school.

This 👇🏼👇🏼

Looking forward to reading this !

Talk bird to me. 😁

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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For all three photos: 3 varieties of heirloom vining tomatoes. Fruit ranged from 1/2 dollar size to 1.75”, colors from purple-brown to dark chocolate to burgundy red. All very flavorful.

In a plant science class I became fascinated (obsessed) with trichomes. A few years ago I planted several heirloom tomatoes known for their intense #trichomes.
I need a good home microscope……

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

To change this they briefly describe 4 priorities to start with:
1.Train interdisciplinary scientists,
2. Cultivate good communication,
3. “Embrace” collaboration & open science,
4. Change the ugly publishing arena. (My words)

Authors point to one example of interdisciplinary
Science. 👇🏼
4/4

The last 1/3 of their commentary is the topic of this morning’s discussion: lack of interdisciplinary collaboration in science.
They rightly point out that “problems with culture and incentives that affect all of science”. As well as the “political reality of science”.
3/n

They discuss 2 primary hypotheses for pre-biotic origins: prebiotic soup & hydrothermal systems.

Rather than promote 1 over the other, their limitations & & advantages are put forward. And how to test predictions.
2/n

To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field.

Coincidental to today’s earlier BS exchange this am re: over-specialization & lack of academic collaboration, just read a commentary by Nick Lane & Janna Xavier (Nature, 2024). 1/n

Especially before coffee……

I bucked that trend. Was criticized for it, but don’t regret it; it served me well.
My counter argument was “Reality doesn’t work that way. Neither does science.”

Dawkins is also guilty of that.

This is, has been, a serious topic for many decades: over-specialization. A rethinking of higher education may be warranted, & which only a few (US) universities have chosen to change. Unfortunately the academic #science collective stifles change, which discourages innovation & creativity. #academia