A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
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If you read ONE THING this weekend, let it be this maybe:
This comprehensive report involves an Schutzstaffel Founded political group neutralizing a counterintelligence agency tasked with monitoring Far Right & Russian threats and should be getting way more attention in the west.
So many points of weakness here reflected back across the west, from the influence of capitalists corrupting the process to Putin's global kleptocratic reach & the ease of exploiting ambitious white men.
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Scientists say they can make zero-emission cement https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-emission-cement.html
The big question is, will electric recycling of Portland cement at scale be adopted?
Original research paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07338-8
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""This is why right-wing #billionaires sue people reporting on them," continued Collins, who previously worked as a reporter for #NBC News covering, among other thing, right-wing disinformation. "They know they can't win these lawsuits. But they also know legal fees will cripple the little guy reporting on their lies & crimes. This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires.
"This is the latest example of billionaires & pandering politicians abusing the legal system to retaliate against their critics & harm the public's right to know,""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-media-matters-suit
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Experts agree, it can be difficult to distinguish between seasonal allergy symptoms, early signs of COVID-19, or just a cold. Best way to get an answer is to take a COVID test. So, why have many governments stopped free tests? @WHO
Gift article @nytimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/well/live/allergies-cold-covid-symptoms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u00.KEi8.AgPZSbyCnEft&smid=tw-share
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A scientist aims to save habitats that rely on groundwater
they found only about 9% of groundwater-dependent ecosystems are adequately protected, while the remaining 91% are vulnerable.
When they looked at the entire state, they determined only 1% of the ecosystems are sufficiently protected under measures adopted to date
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-26/groundwater-ecosystems-scientist
#California #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Every person saying something is a lottery ticket, agreed.
Normally I'd tell you to find it yourself, especially because we've discussed this, but I typo'd that. "14%" is what I was referencing and it's well cited Ipsos study that looked at people who claimed to understand and believe in climate science, but only 1 in 7 would actually do things like stop flying to help. This is because what people "understand" about climate change is that if they have some solar panels, recycle and maybe buy an EV eventually that everything will be fine. When told "Actually, you need to do more than that" very few people are on board.
If you want to blame this on scientists for not controlling the narrative then you've lost the narrative. That's all. There's plenty of scientists who are damn near suicidal that no one's listened for decades.
If I do a study, on, say, PFAs in water and the people who fund it decide to bury it, that's out of my control.
If I do a study that shows a certain polluter is wrecking waterway, and it gets published, a PR piece goes out, and the local newspaper puts it on the front page, sure, more people read it, but we're still talking thousands in a country of 330 million.
Scale matters. To your original point why would that 70% of people who are concerned do anything more than they've been told is enough? That's where the disconnect is.
In terms of how people are even aware of anything, in general, people do research and their organization puts out a press release. Those are covered by whatever press feels like picking it up, or no one. I know you know this.
The reason that about 4% of people understand what actually needs to be done is precisely because scientists don't control the narrative, what I say doesn't matter, and why maybe 1% of people in the US could identify Michael Mann. We're all talking in a small bubble hoping that what we find important makes it to a larger bubble controlled by other people. This isn't my opinion, this is just the actual numbers of people vs. organizations reach.
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I'm deeply in love with my partner, so I'm not on the dating market anymore (sorry ladies and all you incredibly beautiful androgynous folk)...
But if I was single I'd be very excited that this covid safe dating website is out!
https://www.covid-chemistry.org/
Can't begin to imagine being covid cautious and trying to date these days.
Hopefully this helps bring more love to the world.
❤️🌎
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'Closed my door and cried': Justice Sotomayor admits rulings have brought her to tears
https://www.rawstory.com/sotomayor-2668374166/
#US Scotus #Sotomayor
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Compared to short flights without masking, medium & long flights without masking were associated with a 4.6x increase and a 26x increase in #SarsCoV2 transmission.
Long flights with enforced masking had no transmission reported. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/6/654
#COVID #Airplane #press
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Jack Smith Invites Aileen Cannon to Protect the Country Rather than Just Donald Trump
I have to admit that I thought I'd done a pretty thorough review of relevant papers, but this 1953 one referenced in the article was not on my list.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1791522/?page=1
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bird-flu-in-u-s-cows-caught-scientists-by-surprise-canadian-research-has-seen-it-coming-since-1953-1.7212587
Bird flu in U.S. cows caught scientists by surprise. Canadian research has seen it coming since 1953
Older lab studies showed flu viruses like H5N1 can spread through unusual routes, but may have been overlooked
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The anti-reality industry pushes lies about abortion, climate, COVID, gender-affirming care, race, sex, evolution, education & more, and it's all connected https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-face-down-the-expanding-anti-reality-industry/ @SeattleBryn traces the intersectional awfulness on Scientific American
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/deny-denounce-delay-the-battle-over-the-risk-of-ultra-processed-foods/
“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods
Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances.
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"Just 10 "superspreader" users on #Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.
This amounted to more than 815,000 tweets." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/twitter-misinformation-x-report/103878248
Also, I just don't know about UHT in this scenario. They didn't test any higher temperatures in this test, and from what I understand it's only for ~2 seconds. It would be interesting to find out, though.
If, and this is still an if to me, high temperature short time pasteurization really is the standard, then what I found was the procedure there is "heat the milk to between 72°C to 74°C for 15 to 20 seconds."
If that's what's being done currently, then this seems to show that it brings the amount of detectable virus below detection limits, but, there is enough live virus to replicate when inoculated into chicken eggs.
From there, it does still go down further when refrigerated over time, but also does not go away.
Between the two, is that enough to make certain that it's not enough to make people sick? I don't know, and I don't know if there's a known infectious dose that we could go off of to do that calculation.
Moved full time to my other account @BE soon as this instance is still having issues.
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