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Das große Rätsel bei #H5N1 ist eigentlich eher, warum das alles so Krümelkackerei bleibt.
Das sieht zwar total gefährlich aus, aber das halt schon lang. Es gab über Jahre keine bessere Anpassung an den Menschen, und auch jetzt, während der krassen globalen Ausbreitung, ist die Zahl betroffener Säugetiere relativ klein.
Eine mögliche Erklärung ist, dass H5-Viren irgendeine für eine menschliche #Pandemie nötige Eigenschaft nicht haben. Und auch nicht entwickeln können.
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https://scilogs.spektrum.de/fischblog/h3n8-was-macht-eine-vogelgrippe-zur-pandemie-gefahr/
Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. Target declined to confirm which items it was removing but among the ones that garnered the most attention were “tuck friendly” adult women’s swimsuits that allow trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their private parts. Designs by Abprallen, a London-based company which designs and sells occult- and satanic-themed LGBTQ+ clothing and accessories, have also sparked a backlash.
@ct_bergstrom This is a great article that also owes a great debt to this one — that, because of the time period covered, had to do extraordinary data work:
THE TOLL OF INEQUALITY
Excess African American Deaths in the United States over the Twentieth Century
Mary R. Jackman and Kimberlee A. Shauman
(It’s cited in passing in the one you posted but deserves more acknowledgement than that, in my opinion)
The cost of being Black in America.
"The Black population had 1.63 million excess deaths, representing more than 80 million years of potential life lost over the [twenty two year] study period."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804822
$125,972 raised for the funeral of Jordan Neely, the black man who was murdered by Daniel Penny.
$2,067,641 raised for the legal defense of Daniel Penny, the white man who murdered Jordan Neely.
America in a nutshell.
And that's the worst part of it.
While I don't want to imply anything about the motivations of the authors, *their paper has racist consequences.*
Their paper implements a detector that they themselves show doesn't work, and that we have every reason to expect disproportionally flags papers from Asia and the Global South—and then concludes that these area contribute the most fake papers.
Figure 3 is a disgrace.
Lars Fischer
Parker Molloy
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Carl T. Bergstrom
Eric Topol
Andrea Junker 
Jonathan Eisen