Nate Silver@NateSilver538
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
Interesting to read @Pfizer's chief scientific officer addressing dose selection of their vaccine, push for boosters, and comparison with Moderna data
@FT https://t.co/EqLZU8WQY6 by @nikasgari https://t.co/0QzawKUkbc
1:09 PM · Sep 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
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
8:34 AM · Sep 9, 2021
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Richard K@RKemb
@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.
12:11 PM · Sep 9, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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
Notes on Heitkamp https://t.co/Ww1sfDpNMv
1:10 PM · Sep 9, 2021
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Jacob Sullum@jacobsullum
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."
reason.com
Why Don’t More Countries Enforce the Airport Security Rules That the TSA Says Are Essential?
2:47 PM · Sep 9, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Many people are saying there should be one billion Americans https://t.co/8eksZPHzQA
The New Liberals @NewLiberalsPod
I wish there were some “Feel-good Patriotism” options out there that weren’t explicitly rightwing.
7:27 PM · Sep 9, 2021
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Elizabeth Drew@ElizabethDrewOH
The press has a lot to account for in its repetitive, misleading airing of scenes of panicked Afghans clinging to C-17 cargo planes after this was no longer happening instead of the smooth take-offs that followed during the next 17 days.
7:14 PM · Sep 9, 2021
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