Sounds intriguing, but paywalled.

Yes, Eclipse. 20-year-ago me would have a stroke saying that (due to it being pretty ‘heavyweight’ for the PCs back then) but it’s got support for any language you can think of with plugins and an app store for everything. But, no AI crap unless you seek it out, I presume.

Why hasn’t there been news of progress in the ‘organ skeleton’ technique where they denude a donor organ of all cells other than its collagen frame, then re-seed it with good stem cells for the same organ tissue from the same person? (I saw an article about doing this with hearts; no idea if all major organs have such a scaffolding which could be used…)

There were articles a few years ago about this promising technique – it could enable new organs without all of the issues of rejection if it could be perfected.

Imagine if everyone (not just the rich) could get healthy core organ cells taken in their youth, banked, and then used later if required to re-grow a failing organ.

How will that brain feel about its situation?

I understand the desire to avoid attack but isn’t flying a literal false flag one of the most egregious violations of intl law, or the ‘law of the seas’ or whatever?

The bagpipe ditty the door plays in the SNL “All Things Scottish” skit. Wonderfully annoying.

https://youtu.be/DCkVJk4_ddk?t=37

From “Young Frankenstein”, by the way. I couldn’t resist finding out where that came from. It’s the scene where they first arrive at the castle.

Running a study that’s unethical

You’re assuming the conclusion though – that it’s unethical. The argument here is that he tested it on himself specifically in order not to endanger others – as that would be unethical.

I’d respectfully disagree it is analagous to the “vaccines cause autism” situation. This is trying to claim a potential beneficial medical procedure, not to sow fear or distrust in a long-standing, proven medical practice. And there’s nothing in the article that says he is resisting others attempting to confirm or refute his work.

In the spirit of the scientific method, hopefully other scientists try to reproduce the results then it’ll get corroboration, or be shot down.

If the brews contain only safe test viruses, it should ethically be a safe experiment. Test for antibodies before and after ingestion to the innocuous viruses and the mechanism is proven or disproven.

Again, he’s doing exactly the same thing that scientist that experimented on himself to test if H. Pylori was responsible for peptic ulcers. If he Darwin-Awards himself, that’s very unfortunate, but so long as mild, innocuous test viruses are being used, he’s not endangering anyone else (I certainly hope he did this with ‘safe’ test virus varieties, for his own sake as well as others!).

But he did it on personal time, with personal resources, under the purview of a non-profit totally unrelated to his employer. He didn’t use their name/brand, so there’s no defamation here either is there?

I understand the fear of some rogue ‘mad scientist’ doing something stupid but this really doesn’t seem to be that situation here.

Max Headroom predicted it, as with so many things. Sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6U2B4VBqQ

I appreciate that there are ethics boards holding scientists to standards, but sometimes (not usually, I know – only in very specific cases!) it takes someone with initiative to “just do it”. And the guy isn’t some crank, he’s a virologist who’s discovered multiple viruses. Good for him, I say.

A research ethics committee at the National Institutes of Health told Buck he couldn’t experiment on himself by drinking the beer.

Buck says the committee has the right to determine what he can and can’t do at work but can’t govern what he does in his private life. So today he is Chef Gusteau, the founder and sole employee of Gusteau Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization Buck established so he could make and drink his vaccine beer as a private citizen.

This is no different IMO from the scientist who proved that H.Pylori causes a common form of stomache ulcer.

Whoohoo, look at all those downvotes! Somebody doesn’t like the reminders about the two Mikes, huh?

OMG the Brown Note is real??

Yeah. No way in hell I’d willingly set foot in China, why risk being kidnapped on fake charges and held as a political pawn for some future trade to hand them back one of their _spiesbusiness execs?

As a Canadian I’d be fine if we broke the blockade to give a huge middle-finger to this insane regime. (Yes, internet-toughguy talk – I know the blowback to Canada here would be legendary and painful if we did so… so not realistic. But one can dream right?)

The Cuban govt has not exactly been a great beacon of human rights or anything, but the people who were unlucky enough to have been born there don’t deserve this. What a cruel thing to do to them. The US administration has no heart or soul.

I am beginning to think Epstein was entirely self-aware that someday even having met him at a dinner party or fundraiser, even unrelated to sex trafficking, would be poison for anyone beguiled into attending; and that this was the greater goal, to serve to poison the wells of social, scientific and political circles of the West, undermining trust in all aspects of power structures and institutions. Genius long-game by Mossad, FSB or whomever his masters were.

Good.

Me too!

Whoa! That’s end-to-end, times two! Twice as secure! /s

OK: dispatch tech workers to cut out every microphone, network antenna etc. on the vehicles before they’re sold to Canadians. If the vehicles don’t work with said things cut, ask some VERY hard questions of China as to why they have sent us defective merchandise to our country, and make them justify why these items need those bits to work.

Similarly, any MAC address, BLE device, LTE modem, etc. in Chinese EVs could be enumerated upon entry to the border, and blacklisted by Canadian ISPs and mobile providers so their traffic cannot leave our borders. There are a myriad of data exfiltration experts who could advise the government on how to protect against such things.

We can do this with our eyes open and play hardball. We don’t have to be rubes.