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covid: T cells triggered by common cold also fend off Covid: Study - Times of India

covid: T cells triggered by common cold also fend off Covid: Study - Times of India "The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, provide further evidence of the protective effects of T cells, an arm of the immune system...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 14, 2022 10:58 AM

Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg | The BMJ

Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg | The BMJ Facebook is preventing circulation of a British Medical Journal peer-reviewed article based on a sloppy "fact-check" article from a Facebook contractor: "In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 22, 2021 12:09 PM

Controlling Nature with Virus Research - Tablet Magazine

Controlling Nature with Virus Research - Tablet Magazine Norman Doidge: "Perhaps the biggest problem with the military metaphor, is how it causes us to narrow our focus almost exclusively on 'eradicating the virus,' and 'cases of the infected.' This causes...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 6, 2021 1:48 PM

The War on Reality - Tablet Magazine

The War on Reality - Tablet Magazine An essay by California public school teacher Alex Gutentag: "Clearly, quarantining the healthy did exactly the opposite of what was sold to the public: It increased non-COVID-19 excess deaths while leaving elderly and...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 6, 2021 1:38 PM

COVID-19 first appeared in Chinese miners in 2012: scientists

COVID-19 first appeared in Chinese miners in 2012: scientists "The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 -- deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 17, 2020 2:58 PM