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Except that paradisiacal thinking as an assumption of basic moral behavior is overwhelmingly a Christian idea to begin with. The Jews were shamelessly legalistic and the sundry polytheists proclaimed paradise for the exceptionally virtuous or accomplished, it's only the Christians who gave easy...

There were hundreds to thousands of times the people governed, far more centralized governments to be wielded against said people, vastly more effective means of killing, and society could maintain the bare essentials with a smaller portion. And again, the reasoning behind it follows from...

It's no different from most criticism of Communism, in that it's about the failure modes particular to it. The bloodbaths of the Protestant Reformation were long before rejection of Christianity, being as how they were entirely about trying to fix it, and it just so happens that Utopian thinking...

"Atheism" is a description that something is absent from a worldview. You may as well argue about all the atrocities against "heathens" and "infidels" as grounds to write off monotheism as a whole, or the sacrifice industry of the Aztecs as a definite condemnation of all polytheism. This was...

Which is why I class him as "Old Reasoning", rather than "Bad", because his theories were actually an excellent teardown of pre-industrial population trends warning of very real threats in the context of his day. It just happened that industrialized agriculture hit before the Black Death...

The most terrible thing is that there's enough "breaks" in the web for this to simply be biotech's Castle Bravo. "Big Pharma" shitting out Remdesivir and the like to grab cash from the panicking bureaucrats while slamming down on Ivermectin is business as usual for the regulatory shenanigans in...

But how often does that happen normally? Then what the fuck is the point of the mandates? So we have a point in favor of the organization being incompetent. Extremely young people in lower-stress conditions than the actual players outright collapsing from heat exhaustion alone is something of...

This is the key problem. "Credibility of the author" should mean nothing, data should be analyzed in its own right entirely irrespective of who it's from. Who happened to run a study, on its own, means absolutely nothing. Dramatic bias is identifiable by cross-referencing opposed studies and...

So automated trucks as a standard are a gigantic flaming Fuckup in waiting, as we've been describing? Because the initial point of this was in fact automated trucks.

Actually there's a very big difference as fetal cell products specifically require an ongoing supply of aborted fetuses for material, while things made using fetal cell lines have to do with cultures that can reliably replicate for an extremely long time and be rebuilt with no fetus involved...

1. Vaccine causes myocarditis to point of congestive heart failure 2. They aren't antibody testing the vaccinated 3. Requirements to report adverse reactions are being ignored 4. A nurse who wanted to claim religious exemption was pressured into taking it then ended up in intensive care *weird...

Forty fucking pounds in a month. Because of the fourth medication with weight gain as a side effect.

Oh, did the offered removal of liability get overturned? If not, you're fucked because there was, in fact, a big freakout over the fact that the companies are actually not liable for any side-effects.

Unfortunately, any virologist asked in the general sense, so as to distance from the partisan hackery, will point out that such is simply impossible. The Republican states just don't have the population density.

And again the two of us are saying that it is a different kind of bad. The TL;DR is that we have medicines that intervene several steps before the ventilators, blocking underlying symptoms that cause the pneumonia in the first place, including reducing further cell infection, and the clotting...

The mechanism for cases being bad has jack shit to do with airflow; What is happening is unrelated to anything ventilators do, outside the tertiary pneumonia that's still not the major cause of hypoxia, because it damages oxygen transfer directly, and causes cytokine storms, before pneumonia...

The catch is that there isn't nearly as much of it. China wins on sheer, mind-numbing scale.

I thought that those figures were the estimated damage over the course of the next year, not the damage that's currently present. Essentially locking down the whole country for half the year has the fact they're reporting that as expectations seem honestly hopelessly naive.

It's intended to used as a vaccine, not a cure, because of issues like that. It'll work, but cause a lot of damage as it kills off every cell that gets infected in its eight day effective lifespan, which means sizable inflammation of vital tissues. I imagine the immune system cleans up the...

Yeah, that article is great. They really did a lot of testing to be sure each part did as predicted. They modified E. Coli to produce the protein, and checked 10 times the amount of proteins extracted from regular E. Coli just in case there was some wonder-drug contaminant and DRACO wasn't...