This is all kind of irrelevant to controlling the pandemic. There are 70 thousand PhDs in America and 70 million Trump supporters.
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Really makes no damn sense.
5 million survey responses? How does that even work? Iâm guessing it is confirmation bias? People more likely to answer the poll are more likely to be vaccine hesitant.
Meh, a lot of PhDs are people good at one thing and idiots at many other things. Theyâre also trained skeptics. Theyâre also instinctively anti-employer like labour unions are - they will reactively oppose any effort by administration to get them vaccinated like unions oppose vaccination mandates. There are numerous explanatory factors here.
The WSOP stuff is wild. Do these people realize that they also charge you thousands of dollars to play? That seems a bit more restrictive than getting a free shot ime. I assume you must also sign a waiver allowing them you use your image and play for the ITV shows for no compensation. Thatâs getting pretty close to actual slavery!
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Not as surprising for anyone that read the previous four posts.
Have said it before and will say it again, as a BS scientist that was fortunate to advance to a PhD level job wo the degree, I know tons of them.
They encompass both the smartest and dumbest people I know. Some are brilliant in their field and âoddâ otherwise, often counter-thinkers which could lead them down some interesting thought paths.
There are a significant fraction that got the PhDs more by perseverance that talent. These tend to be the dumb ones. They drastically overestimate themselves and or given positions beyond their capabilities. Those are dangerous.
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Not exactly compelling evidence.
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In the computer programming world, a PhD is usually a bad sign of someone who stayed in school because they couldnât cut it in the real world.
That âarticleâ about PhD vax hesitancy is based on another stupid preprint and the data is from January through May.
Oh, and it was an online survey.
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Yes but we got a chance to take shots at Phuddies.
Must be all those CS PhDs at FAANGs making $300k a year just couldnât hack it.
Blows my mind that people would just take that at face value when it makes zero sense
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CS PhD is like a PhD in art or writing. A few more pointless years of jerking off before you actually have to produce something.
Impossible to know how much of this is bullshit, but we can dream:
https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1431674764347813891?s=21
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I would guess thatâs a little too high for an iv injection, guessing he missed based on those pictures.
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The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Friday, is an analysis of more than 40,000 coronavirus infections in England. It adds to evidence suggesting that Delta may cause more severe illness than other variants do.
Fewer than 2 percent of the infections occurred in fully vaccinated people, and there was not enough data to draw firm conclusions about hospitalization risks in that group specifically, the researchers said.
âThe main takeaway is that if you have an unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated population, then an outbreak of Delta can lead to a higher burden on hospitals, on health care, than an Alpha outbreak would,â said Anne Presanis, a senior statistician at the University of Cambridge and one of the studyâs lead authors.
The Delta variant, which was first detected in India, is roughly twice as infectious as the original virus and as much as 60 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant, which was first identified in Britain.
Lol anecdotal data, but I know 100+ PhDs and AFAIK they are all proudly vaxxed and regularly talking shit about anti-vaxxers.
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