The vaccine companies were—unavoidably—doing a lot of educated guesswork with their dosing regimens. Which is why regulators ought to be relatively willing to adjust to new evidence rather than treating whatever protocols were chosen in clinical trials as the word of God.
Eric Topol @EricTopol
Right-NIMBYism: We don't want those people to live near us
Left-NIMBYism: We DO want those people to live near us, but only if they live in whatever kind of housing is currently politically impossible to build in our neighborhood
@cstross I disagree with this. Since blood is a weakly conductive moving fluid, there will be magnetohydrodynamic effects as it moves through the field. A back of the envelope calculation gives ~30T as roughly the field where the forces are similar to blood pressure from heartbeats.
This is a good piece.
More broadly, the tendency of red state democrats to become lobbyists for unpopular plutocratic causes after they lose elections has a very unfortunate distorting impact on politics.
Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait
In 2005, when the TSA started allowing short scissors and screwdrivers in airplane cabins, the Association of Flight Attendants warned that "the aisles will be running with blood."