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Mashup Score: 47The Deaths of Effective Altruism - 2 month(s) ago
Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.
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A doctor became infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) after attending to a patient who had been diagnosed with it.
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Mashup Score: 32Kristian G. Andersen (@kgandersen.bsky.social) - 3 month(s) ago
That feeling when you think you’re Big on Twitter, but then stumble into the real world. Meanwhile: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337 https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00991-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
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Mashup Score: 53Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2022 - 3 month(s) ago
This report describes progress towards global measles elimination.
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PostU of Saskatchewan@usaskDeer in N. America have been ravaged by a disease caused by infectious misfolded proteins. #USask’s Dr. Scott Napper is among those fighting to save them—and, in doing so, helping to protect people against a similar scourge. Read more via @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/science/archivread image descriptionALT1:40 PM · Feb 18, 20247,139 Views5 Reposts1 Quote11 Likes1…
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Don’t miss what’s happeningPeople on X are the first to know.
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Mashup Score: 84The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died - 4 month(s) ago
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.
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Experimental deletion of the furin cleavage site of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein highlights an important role for this site in infection and the need to consider this site when evaluating the neutralization activities of antibodies.
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SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2r) from Guangdong and Guangxi pangolins have been implicated in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and future pandemics. We previously reported the culture of a…
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And this isn’t a “random virus,” either. It’s a pangolin sarbecovirus with enough similarity to SARS-CoV-2 that was already identified as a spillover risk and already tested in hamsters and wild-type mice. It’s reasonable to test in a transgenic model. https://t.co/RINqW8H9e9 https://t.co/rSyIcN3uks
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Mashup Score: 122Disease X - Wikipedia - 4 month(s) ago
Not to be confused with Clade X. Disease X is a placeholder name that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2018 on their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic.[4][5] The WHO adopted the placeholder name to ensure that their planning was sufficiently flexible to adapt to an unknown…
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“Strong hyping of precise numbers based on weak evidence & lots of hedging & fudging.…These expected value pronouncements thus fit the most philosophically rigorous definition of bullshit.” The most accurate portrait of effective altruism ever painted. https://t.co/ZFGNPARzTU