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New comment by lakhim in "U.S. science is in chaos"

lakhim — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:13:35 +0000

make the argument explicitly. Here, I'll do it for you: doubling co2 levels should only lead to a 1c increase in temperature (~3w/m2 extra forcing).

That ignores all the other things that happen besides co2 forcing alone.

New comment by lakhim in "U.S. science is in chaos"

lakhim — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:08:08 +0000

dude make an argument or dont, this kind of half assed "I know something but the man won't let me talk about it" is annoying and useless.

New comment by lakhim in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

lakhim — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:13:05 +0000

enjoy https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

New comment by lakhim in "Some people can't see mental images"

lakhim — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:45:06 +0000

I rely on the feeling, the sounds, the words on the sign, or by analogy to another thing. I don't remember what it looked like in the way that in a dream I believe I physically see things

New comment by lakhim in "New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil"

lakhim — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:12:06 +0000

Sorry about my eyes glazing over - I think you are badly underselling how important the biologicals have been in recent decades, and also how there are both revolutionary but won't be used for various reasons mostly around cost (e.g. cas9 therapies) or haven't seen the full impact for yet (car-t therapies, which are wiping out the liquid cancers that the other biologicals didn't get)

New comment by lakhim in "New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil"

lakhim — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:58:56 +0000

you're missing literally every biological, most antivirals, and the statins, and that's just off the top of my head.

New comment by lakhim in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

lakhim — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:12:34 +0000

They did it by killing all the normal blood stem cells in the body. This is difficult to say the least for something that is completely systemic

New comment by lakhim in "The Gutting of America's Medical Research"

lakhim — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:15:22 +0000

Its also explicit policy of the US government to encourage use of the new research done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

New comment by lakhim in "A Small Violin Part Highlights Bigger Problems for the Global Economy"

lakhim — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:55:49 +0000

Think of it like an invasion - shooting people is probably as close to an absolute bad thing as you can get, but if you're getting shot at its pretty much time to start shooting back

New comment by lakhim in "A Small Violin Part Highlights Bigger Problems for the Global Economy"

lakhim — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:09:33 +0000

Its not a fallacy but game theory playing out - known as beggar thy neighbour policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar_thy_neighbour

New comment by lakhim in "Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands"

lakhim — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:44:33 +0000

It's worth while reading the literature on pre-insulin treatments, but for type 1 diabetics, the answer is: you might be able to live, if just, for a while (a decade or so), but lifespans are greatly shortened. Probably depends exactly on the particular characteristics of the disease for a patient.

I thought this was a neat discussion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062586/

A transcript of a speech Joslin gave https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1827782/pdf/can...

New comment by lakhim in "Tesla's 2M car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny"

lakhim — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:12:16 +0000

If you sold alcohol called "Safe Drive Juice", implied in advertisement that you can drive safe while drinking it, even made you a better driver, in tweets and press releases said that this is the future and everyone should use it, and if they did they'd be safer drivers, it doesn't matter if you put a note at the bottom that said "doesn't actually let you drive safe, please don't drink and drive"

New comment by lakhim in "Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials"

lakhim — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:21:29 +0000

Yes, that's the part here - you die without factor VIII. Its why severe hemophiliacs almost always died before factor VIII because available, and why almost 100% of them had HIV and hepC in the window between those viruses entering the blood supply and 100% testing / heat treatment (which is darkly funny because one of the trials involved was about heat treatment, seems to work for HIV but not for hepC).

From what I can tell, the issue is twofold: Informed consent, of which there was very little, but that's not exactly rare until recently, and running the trials on "marginal cases" - hemophilia comes in differing severity, and given the risks of using known contaminated factor VIII using it unless necessary probably wasn't the best idea.

New comment by lakhim in "U.S. payrolls rose 199,000 in November, unemployment rate falls to 3.7%"

lakhim — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:58:12 +0000

you act like these numbers are hard to find: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

New comment by lakhim in "Mold Course"

lakhim — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:25:01 +0000

please don't randomly dose maois because someone on the internet said so. Talk to a doctor.

Also, for whatever its worth house molds (black molds) are not the same as the fungi that infect us (like candida sp.), and if you somehow did get infected with a fungus that usually isn't part of our flora (like aspergillus does), you have a very severe underlying medical condition and need medical attention immediately.

New comment by lakhim in "Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than Covid last winter"

lakhim — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:28:12 +0000

No. Covid 2020-2022 absolutely blew seasonal influenza out of the water. Flu came back winter of 2022 but was still vastly outnumbered about three to one. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2022-2023/NCHS3...

New comment by lakhim in "America Hit Its Debt Limit, Setting Up Bitter Fiscal Fight"

lakhim — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:49:11 +0000

Need a filibuster proof majority which they didn't have.

New comment by lakhim in "Lung cancer rates by state, 2017"

lakhim — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:20:41 +0000

Map of roughly risk of radon: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-07/documents/zo...

Given that lung cancer is driven by a) smoking, then b) radon, one would expect some level of correlation here.

New comment by lakhim in "Theater of Shame – The rise of online humiliation"

lakhim — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:44:35 +0000

Generally, children don't have gender affirming surgery at all, as there really isn't any need. Mostly, you tend to have puberty blockers at best, something that's relatively benign and reversible, and from what I'm aware its not given out lightly just for shits and giggles. It's life altering, but in a good way generally.

So it took me a fair bit of time to actually read what children's boston rather than just accept what you said as true, minutes of my life I won't get back. Enjoy!

>>The center currently offers vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, chest reconstruction, breast augmentation, facial harmonization and other gender affirmation surgeries to eligible patients. We are guided by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards and other criteria to surgically treat people who are stable in their gender identity and have documentation of persistent gender dysphoria. You do not need to be a GeMS patient to have surgery at the center. All genital surgeries are only performed on patients age 18 and older.

New comment by lakhim in "The money is the message"

lakhim — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:50:14 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

If you look at a chart like this, and think: hmm, this is probably fine, you've completely lost the plot. Something is going to happen from this, and its probably not going to be fun.