Interesting Links for 24-07-2022
Jul. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- 1. Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives
- (tags:fraud research alzheimers OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Want to vote for the UK's next Prime Minister? Not a UK citizen (or resident)? No problem!
- (tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Tiktok fastest growing UK news source
- (tags:news UK Doom )
- 4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters to people investigating his tax affairs
- (tags:UK politics tax libel OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- 5. 54 cases of Monkeypox in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland disease )
- 6. The methods that fraudulent Chinese sellers use to game Amazon rankings
- (tags:fraud Amazon China )
- 7. Massive queues at Dover: a story in 5 parts
- (tags:migration UK Europe trade Doom )
- 8. The Sandman Trailer looks pretty awesome
- (tags:Sandman TV trailer video )
- 9. The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
- (tags:globalwarming lies propaganda )
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Date: 2022-07-24 12:51 pm (UTC)2. What the Hell?
(Leaves me wondering about Canadian Conservative Party rules, seeing as they're now also in the process of selecting their next leader!)
4. Disturbing. Deeply so.
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Date: 2022-07-24 02:34 pm (UTC)https://mobile.twitter.com/HickeyWriter/status/1550844617154756608
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Date: 2022-07-24 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-24 02:53 pm (UTC)But watching that trailer does not make me want to watch the series.
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Date: 2022-07-24 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-27 05:58 pm (UTC)Definitely not happy with the way this research thread's turned out, though.
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Date: 2022-07-25 02:13 am (UTC)have you ever read: "Science Fiction: How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth"
the book is a bit disturbing, but having spent decades working/studying with scientists from several fields (and being forced to look the other way, OFTEN) i am glad that someone wrote this book. <3 bs"d
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Date: 2022-07-25 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-27 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-01 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-25 02:22 pm (UTC)Minimum time to become a citizen here is 8 years.(other EU countries have longer). Joint citizenship not allowed. You must never have taken any state support of any sort in that 8 years. Some exams to pass, but thankfully it's not the extreme expense it is in the UK.
I am not sure I can vote in the UK at all either. But I'm still a UK subject (I believe we still aren't actually citizens? )
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Date: 2022-07-25 02:28 pm (UTC)And you became a citizen in 1983 :-)
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Date: 2022-07-26 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-25 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-25 10:21 am (UTC)1. Placebo effect - good for something like 40% effectiveness. Just the fact that someone seems to be trying to help as well as that. Oh and THEY sincerely believe this medicine really helps.
2. Same levels != same effect. People be different. See ... oh ... just about any hormone at all. Trivially, it's not the level of the testosterone byproduct that makes you go bald, but your own personal sensitivity to it.
I agree with you - empirically it seems to work. Even if not how we thought. We need to investigate how it DOES work.
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Date: 2022-07-25 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
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