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Are you affirming a disjunct? In other words, what does that have to do with lab based theories?

My God! It was the geographers all along! Putting Chinese cities in China! You could have collapsed all this down to "there was a viral research lab in Wuhan" All of this equally supports any explanation that includes the fact that China is super embarrassed by how corrupt local party...

Ding ding ding! This is why q tips are a much better idea than this tiny brass hook. Sorry, I was referring to the video, not using qtips. Disposable items are very powerful when you dispose of them immediately after exposure! Possibly useful and related: this is why you still need to...

Seems of doubtful use to me. So you contaminate a stick instead of your hand. Both will need to be disinfected. Plus you put it into your pocket, so now all that stuff is contaminated too. If anything, I would be more likely to remember to disinfect my hands than recall I have a thing in my...

Yeah, and to move around a little. This is your 'Rona reminder to keep moving. Take a walk or something.

Why were you short term trading JNJ? They're a classic blue chip.

Yeah I definitely agree with the CDC. It's a major source of type I error. Your last sentence really nails it. I don't understand how anyone can look at these things and think "ok, this is definitely what it is."

Am I the only one who thinks, when I read "has entered the transfer portal" of like the city on the edge of forever or Stargate or maybe Gandalf opening a portal?

Sorry, I don't post here every day and then I got the post button out of reflex, but I couldn't let this one pass. This is the way pseudoscience takes advantage of the rigorous controls of real science, by shifting positions rapidly as a number of real studies come out. First it's...

Most of what you're saying is basic mathematical truth. Both numbers contain type I and type II errors of multiple sources. That's a near certainty. It would be nice to be able to quantify that error and either name it or correct for it in both, but we can't. So while the error may be...

I agree with LibertyTurn's advice, although I personally doubt how much is driven by supply shock reactions (or hoarding, if you will) and the extent to which supply shocks are over. TP has a fascinatingly long supply chain, and it seems that meat may be in for a shock here soon. FWIW, I made...

I wish it were that simple. But the problem isn't just preexisting heart disease. The virus itself creates a crisis that's a big stressor on the heart and lungs both. You can't just not use it on the worst patients because CoViD tends to worsen very quickly and you have no time to stop...

Good, yes. My shameful need for chili slaw dogs can now be fulfilled again.

You should look it up. That french study was terrible. Tiny sample size, no control group, no randomization, no attempt to account for severity at presentation. I understand why some people WANT chloroquines to work. They are widely available and cheap to make. Especially in comparison to...

I'm not sure what you mean. Everyone who has been diagnosed with influenza and dies of it has it listed on their death certificate. Usually something like congestive heart failure secondary to influenza. I suppose it's possible that there's more testing of CoViD than influenza in hospitals...

I'm jealous of that sweet GT cloth. I made mine using a cut up black t shirt with bright yellow stitching. I have a deviated septum, so even 16awg sold core wire wasn't enough to get a good seal. I found that a quarter inch strip of beer can about 4 inches long then sewn in in 4 layers did...

And even if it were code word classified it seems highly unlikely that she'd be the only person with clearance at GT. And even if she were, I can't construct a scenario in which everyone at GT would simultaneously not have clearance to view a file but also have the ability to control access to it.

It seems like there's a lot of misinformation going around about statistics. How do you protect nursing homes in a country that's open? You're right about the case mortality to population mortality rate problem, but it's a bit more complicated than that. We would also be increasing the total...

I know a bit about this because I have a family member who is a hospitalist in Philly. There's five peer reviewed studies on the subject, two of which show a small positive effect and three of which fail to exclude the null hypothesis. Four studies were aborted recently because of harm to...

It's your primary place of residence. You live there the majority of the year.