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/sci/ Pseudoscience & Conspiracies

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>one of the boards that could prove 4chan is more than a human trash bin
>"COVID is just a cold, bro"
>"don't get vaxxed because of this obscure spanish study here"
>"climate change? See this blurry picture and my anecdotal story about snow in my home town that disproves a century of data collection"
>"Homos are XYZ my source is: I read it in Vogue"
>"Homos are the spawn of devils my source is: I saw it on Facebook"
>"How do I get booba, scientifically speaking?"
>"No seriously HOW do I get booba?"
>"Solve my algebra II homework please I need to get drunk with Chadwick"
>"STEM is a meme you won't find a job"
>"everything BUT STEM is a meme you won't find a job"
>one actually decent thread that get's shunted to p10

What's the point of this board even? It's more like a bastardized version of /pol/ or /b/ with some IFLS/Vsauce flavor on top. Just shut it down.
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How much tin is in PVC?

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>I know its used as an additive, but I can't get an answer on how much is in there by weight or volume.
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Is there a solution to Climate Change that doesn’t involve wiping out 90% of the global population?
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Vaccines that do not prevent 99.99% of transmission of a virus increase the virus's strength

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>Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. Here we show experimentally that immunization of chickens against Marek's disease virus enhances the fitness of more virulent strains, making it possible for hyperpathogenic strains to transmit. Immunity elicited by direct vaccination or by maternal vaccination prolongs host survival but does not prevent infection, viral replication or transmission, thus extending the infectious periods of strains otherwise too lethal to persist. Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts.

https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/imperfect-vaccination-can-enhance-the-transmission-of-highly-viru-2

TLDR: Strains of the virus that do survive the vaccine are the ones that continue to be transmitted and replicate. Its just Darwin's law. None of the vaccines to date have been even close to 99.99% effective
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Why isn't /sci/ worried about covid vaccine ADE?

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Is it just a /pol/ meme? Do we have any evidence it's not a risk?
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The vaccination of teenagers would significantly help contain the corona virus. We MUST give our children the jab.
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IQ and Talent

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I want to be an artist yet it seems I have no talent, could this be due to low IQ as others tell me when they insult me?
How can I find out? A test, which online one? I know they're faulty but that's my only choice.
If it resulted that I'm indeed LOW IQ, I believe myself to be average or a bit above average, certainly no genius, would that mean that I can never be an artist? Should I kill myself? Is there any sort of purpose or excuse to low IQ?

I drew during 6 months, 4 hours a day, later on I'd give up, my progress rate was slow, below average I'd say, I'd call myself talentless.
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science bros
is this epic or is it EPIC?
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What's the difference between Simulation Hypothesis and similar bullshits from theology/philosophy like "Problem of evil" or "onthological arguments for the existence of god"?
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https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-224.pdf
The JWST program has a history of significant schedule delays and project cost increases, which resulted in both the 2011 and 2018 replans. Prior to approving the project’s development, cost estimates for JWST ranged from $1 billion to $3.5 billion, with expected launch dates ranging from 2007 to 2011. Due to early technical and management challenges, contractor performance issues, and low levels of cost reserve, the JWST program experienced schedule overruns, launch delays, and cost growth. The program underwent a replan in September 2011 and then a rebaseline; further, Congress placed an $8 billion cap on the formulation and development costs for the project.
However, in June 2018, after a series of launch delay announcements due to technical and workmanship issues identified during spacecraft element integration, NASA notified Congress that it had revised the JWST program’s cost and schedule estimates again. NASA estimated that it would now require $828 million in additional resources over the program’s lifecycle and 29 more months beyond the estimates agreed to in the 2011 rebaseline to complete the project. Since the project’s costs and schedule were baselined in 2009, costs have increased by 95 percent and its launch date has been delayed by over 6.5 years.