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I'm not sure what people having disagreements with WHO is supposed to be evidence of.
Science!
Science allows for opinions to change as more knowledge is accumulated. Too many people these days just hear something said by someone and take that as a fact. A fact forever. They get very upset when their "facts" are disputed and/or updated. People need to be more flexible in their opinions - that, in my opinion, is a sign of intelligence - being prepared to update your "facts" as more information becomes available and not getting too upset about it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My point was that people having disagreements doesn't mean there's necessarily anything there. This is the Internet, and I can find someone to disagree with just about anything.
But I do understand *your* point that yes, if people want absolute certainty in their beliefs, they need look to religion, not science for that, because science is always open to revision in light of new evidence.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with you. Just clarifying my support of your point.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I wasn't entirely sure, which probably has something to do with the spasms of pain I'm getting up and down my neck this morning and interfering with my ability to focus. 
I must have slept on it wrong.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm sorry to hear that. Sounds like time for a long, hot bath.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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This paper was published on the 5th of november.
But the enrollment began on February 21, 2020, and ended on April 19, 2020.
What makes you believe WHO is so much faster that they change their policy after just a few weeks?
One problem is that there are plenty more studies around with varying results.
And that's the problem with Meta studies is that they are comparing the results of overlapping studies done with slightly different goals and implementations and therefore also varying results.
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Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I am not saying WHO is full of crap. I am simply pointing out that not everyone/study agrees with WHO's findings.
It would be ludicrous for us to blindly believe everything WHO says at face value.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: no evidence it works
That does not sound like the sort of language scientists would use.
Science tends to use the language of probability and even then that probability needs to be tied to a very specific variable.
As another example, 95% effectiveness of a vaccine does not tell us in what manner the vaccine is effective.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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All the news is about "maybe vaccines". Other than "one (questionable) instance" we haven't heard anything more about this "miracle drug" until recently (from WHO), who's biggest problem is a lack of backbone (not a "secret" agenda).
Now Pfizer is asking for "special authority" to release their gold-plated vaccine.
And Putin's "magic bullet" seems to have misfired.
There's "optimism". Then there's burying your head in the sand.
(Speaking rhetorically).
And, the WHO announcement seems to coincide with another "event". Everyone is putting their big boy pants on again.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Only 2/3 of them survived, it seems. There were 12 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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For once I thought in the DC super hero series it happened!
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The Badger was First Comics not DC.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: The Badger was First Comics not DC.
That was from word 'Flash'  and thus DC.
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Good to have flash emulator!
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Nice! 
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Who said Mac's are no use!
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So somebody finally found a use for it!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I use mine (6 years old) to run Windows VM's for development when away from my SOHO. Fine machine, better than any others I have owned. First laptop came with OS/2.
Oh, wait... it is a horrible object of the dark side. Phew, fixed it. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Better than throwing it in the trash when Apple comes out with the next PC that doesn't have the same interface.
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