Disease Prevention and Health Reseach

It's getting harder and harder to distinguish the news from The Onion

 

I don't think Onion articles make me angry.

 

I LOVE the Onion's satire......

Home - The Onion

 

I’m getting a measles titre because they assume I had measles due to dob, but I would like to know for sure

 

Just did myself. I fell in the period of time when they only gave kids a single MMR shot. Mumps was the only one that didn't hit the immune limit.

 

Not knowing this, I had spoken with my pharmacist about this yesterday evening about the next COVID booster. She said "Typically in the Fall" which now sounds to be late.

Oh well, I have my masks and know how to handle infectious diseases in public.

Bob Wilson

 

Isn’t the fall shot already in the bag?

FDA approves formula for fall COVID vaccines | CIDRAP

 

Perhaps you could concentrate your efforts toward preventing the supply source on your end...instead of criticizing the efforts against on our end.

 

......according to State Funded Media.

 

has the drug problem gotton better or worse in the past century?

 

This makes sense. A medicine that works against parasites is likely to have an effect on other parasites. But less effect on single cell bacteria and no effect on a virus.

Bob Wilson

 

This sounds like a conference I would love to attend: International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

8:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Author and Reviewer Use of AI
Authors Self-disclosed Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research: Submissions to 49 BMJ Group Biomedical Journals
Isamme AlFayyad, Maurice Zeegers, Lex Bouter, Helen Macdonald, Sara Schroter (Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom)

Artificial Intelligence Use and Acknowledgment in Medical Research Writing Among Chinese Scholars
Yang Zhang, Mengyuan Duan, Guoguang Zhao, Penghu Wei, Xiuyuan Hao (China)

Factors Associated With Author and Reviewer Declared Use of AI in Medical Journals
Roy Perlis, Annette Flanagin, Michael Berkwits, Jacob Kendall-Taylor, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (United States)

Quantifying and Assessing the Use of Generative AI by Authors and Reviewers in the Cancer Research Field
Daniel Evanko, Michael Di Natale (United States)
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We have seen astonishing AI videos, totally fake, generated to pitch a propaganda point of view. For example Trump and Elon dancing a night club routine or Trump arresting Obama. Going far beyond cut-and-paste image manipulation, AI can be a skilled liar but also fraud detector. Reminds me of:

Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.[1][2] Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.[3][4]

The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding U.S. politics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion.[3]
- Wiki​

The Dark Ages was marked by the absence of an empirical process to seek knowledge. They would not "look through the telescope."

Bob Wilson

 

It doesn't target the malaria parasite. "Ivermectin...has been shown to reduce malaria transmission by killing the mosquitoes that feed on treated individuals." It works like the flea and tick treatments we use on dogs and cats. To work, it requires the populace to be taking it long term.