Throughput: Migrant Stats Edition
Unfortunately, it takes me a thousand words to explain a lie that can get hundreds of thousands of retweets before I’ve had breakfast.
Tagged: vaccines
Throughput: Fireball Edition
Last week, a spectacular fireball lit up the skies over Europe. Behold a few videos:
Thursday Throughput: Collapsing Bridge Edition
[ThTh1] In 1993, Amtrack’s Sunrise Unlimited train derailed at the Big Bayou Canot Bridge, killing 47 people. Investigation showed that a heavy barge had turned up the wrong branch of the Mobile River and...
Throughput: Zoozve Edition
Pseudo-moons, or more accurately quasi-satellites, are fascinating objects and we now suspect that basically every planet in the Solar System has them.
Thursday Throughput: Boeing Edition
Various grifters have rushed to blame this on “DEI” policies at Boeing. But the problems are more conventional: corporate greed, regulatory capture and a culture of cutting corners.
Vaccines Are A Billion Miracles
The triumph of vaccines is being prevented by unscrupulous grifters and liars, bolstered by the anti-vaccine rhetoric of the COVID pandemic.
Thursday Throughput: Aspartame Edition
Aspartame is one of the most studied food additives in the human food supply. FDA scientists do not have safety concerns when aspartame is used under the approved conditions.
Mini-Throughput: Debate Me, Bro Edition
In order for a scientific debate to work, it needs honest brokers, willing to admit when they’re wrong. Not “debate me, bro” gish gallopers.
Thursday Throughput: Vaccines Vs Cancer Edition
On Wednesday, the scientists reported results that defied the long odds. The vaccine provoked an immune response in half of the patients treated
The Throughput: RSV Vaccine Edition
Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, has been one of those murderous viruses we’ve just accepted as a part of life.
Mini-Throughput: Why “Natural Immunity” Isn’t All That Hot
There is a tendency in our society to favor “natural” things over artificial things.
2022: The Year in Science
Just to put it all in one place, so we can appreciate how much happened this year, here are the ten biggest science stories of the year.
No, Virginia, Natural Immunity is Not Six Times As Good As Vaccine Immunity
If you are honest, natural immunity means your chances of catching COVID are 104%, 100% for the first time, an additional 4% for the second
Thursday Throughput: Peter McCullough, Omicron, and Space Telescopes
Omicron will go through the population very fast. By the end of February, everyone will either be vaccinated or have had omicron.
You Can Ignore Anti-Vaccine Arguments
Vaccines should not be a forbidden or taboo topic for discussion. But many of these debates are ultimately circular and nonsensical.
Regeneron Versus Vaccines
This isn’t either/or. Both Regeneron and vaccines are medical miracles. But they attack the virus at different points in its life cycle
FDA Approves Boosters for Over 65
Today’s boosters news is not a “setback” for anyone. It’s a sign that the vaccines are mostly doing their job.
Kenneth Copeland’s Vaccine Prayer Set To Heavy Metal
This is from last year, when vaccines were supposed to be a good thing.
$999 Problems, But a Discount If Covid-19 Vaccination Proof Isn’t One
Leave it to a Florida concert promoter to find an end around to a Ron DeSantis executive order requiring Covid-19 vaccination proof
