Influenza viruses have a protective sheath that works better in cold weather and allows them to survive longer outside a host: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/flu-vir...
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> Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),1 and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife
The person you're responding to above says that the lab has been collecting samples of SARS-like viruses from wildlife for study, and conjectures that maybe one of those escaped from the lab. That possibility is not contradicted by the statement in the Lancet.
> ACRONYM’s CEO, Tara McGowan, is married to Michael Halle, a strategist for Pete Buttigieg.
At $25 to replace, it's probably worth risking bricking it to try out alternative firmware: https://github.com/openipcamera/openipc-firmware
* The number of religious "Nones" - people identifying themselves with no religion - was right around 1% through the 1950s. In the 1970s it increased from 3-7%, and stayed below 10% through the end of the century. It's now over 20%. In the 1950's, ~70% of people were Protestant Christians. Now it's half that amount.
* In the year 2000, 12% of Americans reported that religion was "not very important" in their lives. Now it's double that amount.
* In the year 2000, 13% of Americans reported that they "never" attend religious services. Now 29% never attend.
I worry we'll never know the answer to this, even if we manage to pull off such a simulation.
If you've mostly taken trains in the US on the coasts, or for long cross-country trips, you may have an overly rosy view of the situation here.
I live in a mid-sized US city, the capitol of its state, with a metropolitan area population of around one million (city A). To reach the nearest city of at least this size (city B) by car is only a two hour (<150 miles) straight drive along the interstate. Both these cities have train stations serviced by Amtrak.
The only itinerary Amtrak offers to get from A to B using their service passes through city C, which is more than 500 miles from city A or city B. It's a 30 hour trip.
How about if we compromise and just stop actively destroying it?
> But diversity is not something to be preserved.
Well, I want it to be preserved. The world becomes a much sadder and less interesting place if we all think and behave the same.
> If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so.
I don't feel I owe anything to this group, but we owe it to humanity to preserve a diversity of ways to be in and think about this world.
This makes sense. I assume they're expecting more out of this package than some stubborn climate change denialism.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ― Upton Sinclair
It seems like your frustration is mostly with the Surescripts monopoly on electronic prescribing. You say that they dictate an approved commercial vendor. This is a very different problem, and would have very different solutions, than the problem We don't have any open source drug interaction database, which is where this thread started.
And is downloadable under a CC license: https://www.drugbank.ca/releases/latest
The US National Library of Medicine provides an API to query drug interactions based on DrugBank: https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/InteractionAPIs.html#
They were going to raise their rates anyway, this is just an attempt to make it look like you're getting something more in exchange.
Opinions are not publishable. It is so damaging to propagate the idea that some guys over there have one opinion, and then some other guys have a different opinion, and there's really no way to tell which is correct, and that this is what science is about. Discussions about climate science in the public sphere are politicized, but only because of massive disinformation campaigns by those who stand to profit less if reasonable countermeasures were implemented.
> I think a valid proxy for bias is the relative lack of publications discussing possible benefits of climate change.
We might go extinct but if we don't, it might be pleasant to vacation in the arctic? Is this the sort of scientific claim you have in mind?
The percentage of Americans living in rural counties has been shrinking. Gains are mostly in the suburbs:
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...