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lucd··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
The worst about the SpaceX IPO is Nasdaq changing their inclusion rules for the Nasdaq 100. The index fast-tracked SpaceX stock for inclusion 15 days after the IPO, instead of the normal three-month seasoning period. They also changed its 10% minimum float rule to a 3x weighting boost for low-float stockss. So many people will unwillingly and prematurely invest into SpaceX, before it has any chance to discover its real price. IE: The floating, 5% at launch, could attain 30% end august, if Nasdaq didn't change their rules it would have included SpaceX after this..

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nasdaq-che...

lucd··on New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
Kind of ironic reading this and then finding https://github.com/customer-stories/nytimes, huh?

Wonder how GitHub wasn't able to detect a single token downloading the entire organization's worth of repositories, especially if it's over 6 thousand of them. Surely that's not something that's done regularly? Seems like a pretty massive oversight if anyone can just grab a token and get themselves a full copy of the organization.

lucd··on Moderna Covid vaccine no longer available in Australia
"Persons who received the BA.5-containing bivalent booster had better neutralizing activity against all Omicron subvariants (especially against BA.2.75.2, BQ.1.1 and XBB) than those who received 1 or 2 monovalent [original] boosters" https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2214293
lucd··on Moderna Covid vaccine no longer available in Australia
I'm not sure I understand you.. Do you deplore that Sinovac and Sputnik aren't available in Australia? Really?
lucd··on Don't Pay UK
Only purpose of this kind of initiative is to cause trouble.. Marketed by the same trolls who spread medical disinfo, climate negationism, Russian propaganda..
lucd··on Absurd Trolley Problems
What eliminates social cohesion and trust is * the disease itself * the people instrumentalizing the disease and/or the sanitary measures to partisan ends..
lucd··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
If there was such obvious nefarious and severe effects, pharmacovigilance would have seen it. Malone is one of the worst disinformer https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...
lucd··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
The vaccine antigen is only a small part of the virus. Furthermore is was modified and is inert. https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behi... Because of international pharmacovigilance we know that ARNm vaccine induce some myocarditis and pericarditis, at a much lower rate than the virus and less severe.
lucd··on Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize original strain and Delta
Not peer reviewed, not published, anonymous authors.

This is a fake meta-analysis.

The most important study that weighted in IVM favor was bogus and was retracted some days ago.

lucd··on Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize original strain and Delta
Nowhere in the paper I read that ADE was detected in the vaccined. Vaccine-induced ADE is only evocated as a possibility.

That's a letter to the editor.. That's an expert opinion and sits at the bottom of the hierachy of scientific evidence.

Furthermore authors seem to be connected to Raoult..

lucd··on Large Ivermectin Study Retracted
Tess Lawrie co-wrote a meta-analysis that was crowd-funded, on the premises that ivermectin is working against covid.. That doesn't bode well for its neutrality, does it ?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-lifesaving-drug-appro...

lucd··on Large Ivermectin Study Retracted
Tess Lawrie ? The same Tess Lawrie who wrote a fraudulent pharmacovigilance analysis claiming that covid vaccines are unsafe, based on the arbitrary claim that anything bad happening to vaccinated people can only be caused by the vaccine. An old anti-vaccine trick.
lucd··on Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century
Insufficient scientific data, no rationale After chloroquine, same kind of fallacies are used to push ivermectine..

"Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures. However, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in vitro would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans." https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...

lucd··on Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine
Here is some chart showing vaccination effect on hospitalization for severe forms. Very telling.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/israel-severe-hospitaliza...

lucd··on Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine
The 94% effectiveness isonly reached one week after the second shot. Only 27% got the two shots. Also Israël recently got the UK strain which is far more transmissible.
lucd··on The Best of NeXT Collection
*NeXT computer
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Where was Simone Gold fired from? If you look at her LinkedIn profile she is working as a concierge physician for 9 years, she worked as a congressional fellow.. never worked as an emergency physician. Claiming to have been fired is part of her whistle-blower narrative.. https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-gold-md-jd-4636a87

Only a fool or someone just looking for confirmation would take an anonymous sham of meta-analysis seriously.

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Healthier as less comorbidites..
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
At least five peer-reviewed RCTs were published, more are on their way..Each of them negative. Science was done.
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
"scientists express doubts about coronavirus treatment touted as breakthough by Trump " What is the problem with this Washington Post headlines? Didn't scientists express doubts about this treatment? Didn't Trump didn't tout is as breakthrough?

Also see.. FDA Walks Back Claim of Dramatic Benefit From Covid Therapy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/fda-trump...

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Both-sidism: in evidence-based medecine, a treatment is ineffective until it is proven effective.

Now that some monthes have passed, at least five peer-reviewed RCTs were conducted. In each of them hydroxychloroquine is ineffective.

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Please tell me who are the authors of the website you mentioned and tell me what is the methodology they used for selecting the studies and rating them.
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
A subgroup analysis by self-reported zinc usage was done in the post-exposure prophylaxis RCT . No effect.

https://twitter.com/methodsmanmd/status/1293350242310590464

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Yes mean difference −4.5 days,with a low certainty.. They also say: Hydroxychloroquine might increase the risk of adverse events compared with the other interventions And no evidence for reduction in death, except for glucocorticoids.. I would expect an effective treatment to reduce mortality..
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Medical misinformation : Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus. For Lupus or RA hydroxychloroquine helps through its anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties.
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda.. Are you kidding? Why should we waste time with this propaganda piece while there are real scientific papers available? No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda.. Are you kidding?

Some smart French guy debunked this site https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284493669895041024.html And c19trials, another disinformation piece from the same authors.. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291126570392924160.html

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
You personal experience, despite being very important to you, isn't significative as scientific proof. The site you mentioned is anonymous, a collection of links with arbitrary ratings. This isn't a scientific paper, this is marketing. Here is a real meta-analysis for the different covid-19 treatments: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2980 In 100% of randomized controlled trials, the most significant kind of scientific evidence, hydroxychloroquine is ineffective. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291068395497062400.html
lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
Group treated with HCQ much younger and healthier..Study published in a paper were the editor-in-chief works for Raoult Institute..more of less self-publishing..

This is an obversational retrospective study.. Hydroxychloroquine is ineffective 100% of peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials,which is much more significative evidence..

lucd··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
This is a collection of links with arbitrary ratings from anonymous authors. A propaganda piece. Here is a real meta-analysis.. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2980
lucd··on Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800
What's next? A fruit name?
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