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Comment Re:Plausibly fine (Score 2) 43

Testing on mice has produced tens of thousands of results that don't fully translate to humans, things like organoids (cloned partial human organs) might be able to produce more accurate results anyway. Weird that the only section of the US government still seemingly half functional is run by the brain worm anti vax guy, shit maybe the US really should've have made him president.

Said like someone who truly has no clue about what they are talking.

  • 1. Organoids, which are definitely not "cloned partial human organs" may be useful for evaluating some of the effects of the drugs, but have little to offer in terms of evaluating safety and efficacy. For this you need to understand how a drug is absorbed throughout the organisms, how it is metabolized throughout the organisms, how it is excreted from the organism, and how toxic it is to different organs. A little thing called AdMeTox. There is no way to do that on organoids.
  • 2. we know that animal results do not fully translate to humans. After years of animal testing we also now why this is the case and how to correctly interpret the results from animal testing.
  • 3. Not sure what makes you think the results from organoids and AI models will be more accurate, comprehensive or in any way better.
  • /ul?

Comment Re:We know. (Score 1) 163

We have proof that that smoking causes lung cancer. Better than that, we know what in cigarette smoke causes cancer and how it does it. We also know that stopping smoking reduces the likelihood that a person will get lung cancer. And finally we know that as smoking rates declined so did the lung cancer cases. The fact that smoking causes lung cancer is proven as well as we can possibly do. Nutrition studies on the other hand a crap-shoot. The article speaks of this. They are very hard to execute properly as these days it is impossible to control someones diet for extended periods of time. We have done such studies in the past, but we no longer do for very good reasons. These days nutrition studies rely either on self-reporting or on gross approximations from large scale data that is not entirely reliable. This makes it very hard to discern cause from effect and separate confounding factors. How do you know that it is the food and not something else in the life style of the persons that east this food? Ultra processed foods are cheap. So people who tend to eat them are not doing particularly well financially. This also means that they have poor access to healthcare, they probably work physically demanding jobs, their jobs are more likely to be performed in adverse environments, and so on and so forth. Ironically companies like Apple and Google who have a pretty good records of our lives, including what we buy, where we work and how we relax are in the best position to carry out such studies. Do we want them to do that, and under what ethical guidelines will this data be accessible?

Comment Re:How much are the kickbacks to the FDA? (Score 3, Insightful) 20

What are you complaining about exactly???? The royalties were paid to NIH not individual scientists to license discoveries made by NIH scientists. NIH is government organization. You pay for the research that is performed there with your taxes. Are you complaining that you are getting your money back??? If that's the case I can take this burden off your shoulders.

Comment another add dispenser? (Score 1) 18

Am I correct in thinking that the function of the "lock screen platform" is to shove adds in your face using your personal device? Someone has smeared so much tech-bro mumbo-jumbo in that article that it takes a lot of effort to penetrate what actually they are selling. Otherwise I am all for a "lock screen platform" that is "surface-first innovation driven" and serves "w.r.t. innovation in AI " to "drive user engagement". Who wouldn't be?

Comment Elon said... (Score 2) 154

Elon said Tesla will have a fix for the auto-wipers on their cars in two months. This was two years ago. Elon says a lot of things. Some of them are engineering stuff that eventually may happen albeit not on his timeline. Stuff that involves living an a human society like dealing with other humans, regulations, democracy and freedom of speech is foreign to him. Anything Elon says that involves other humans should be taken with a huge grain (aka rock) of salt. On one hand we have the issue with regulation and certification that not going to resolve themselves simply because Elon said so. On the other, you have the issue with humans vandalizing and abusing the driverless robotaxis because they compete with taxis/ridesharing, because they hate Elon, or simply because they can.

Comment Re: nice to live in a dictatorship (Score 1) 282

How about not putting cherry picked data out of context? When you ask about doing somydid you actually look into the trends like in the same EPA site you quote? The mix has changed dramatically over the past years replacing coal with renewables and much cleaner gas. So yes an EV will help a lot with improving air quality, simply due to how electricity generation is changing. But the law is not about EBs. It does not care why are you drive. It only cares how much pollutants it releases. If you like nuclear you are free to drive a nuclear powered car. And let's not confuse liberty wth free far all. There is no right to harm others or to throw trash on their property. You are free however to vote for your government. In the US as in any other democracy the government is you. If you don't like it go and vote to change it.

Comment Re: Faulty machine or contaminated samples (Score 1) 45

What is this post labeled "Troll". He is asking the first question that needs to be asked in situation like that. How exactly people identify micro plastics? If the method makes sense than the next question should be about contamination. The micro plastics stories become more and more bizarre as it seems there isn't a place in the world that they cannot be found.

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