Tom

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Tom

Tom

@synaptic_firing

Scientist and skeptic. Consumer and critic of culture. Opinions are my own.

San Diego, CA Katılım Ekim 2011
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@HabsChronicle Why the drastic change in opinion from what you saw after end of 1st ?
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Habs Chronicle@HabsChronicle·
#Habs came from a series of tight, methodical and physical hockey to run and gun offence and they're getting burned. Game plan is going to have to change quickly if they want to make this a series.
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@Aella_Girl Hmmm… here I am thinking it should always have been “Do you believe in an imaginary sky friend who is all powerful and all knowing, but still needs to feel worshiped on a daily basis due to low self esteem’?
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
like in order to vote u gotta pass a basic class where you personally have to run a simulated small business, or can answer "no" to the question "are rent prices different in different areas because some landlords are greedier vs more generous in different areas?"
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
it's a real high bar to rescind someone's right to vote but i sorta think people who don't understand supply and demand or economic incentives should be barred from having their voice heard
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Solon@SolonsAccounts·
@synaptic_firing @IAmTechNomad @MichaelAlbertMD get boosted buddy regularly we need you "science"TM flag bearers around boost up 💉💉💉 for the dreaded Covid 19 help save grandma too its basically the only way the human race can exist immunologically speaking unfathomable some question vaccines safety/efficacy
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@IAmTechNomad @MichaelAlbertMD Ignorant post from someone who is clearly unaccustomed to reading and interpreting scientific data. Feel free to share the empirical evidence that backs up your claim.
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Tim@IAmTechNomad·
@synaptic_firing @MichaelAlbertMD Where have you been for the last 5 years? Covid mRNA vaccines are killing people. Why does someone who claims to be a scientist have so little critical thinking ability? Is it because your paycheck depends on it?
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@IAmTechNomad @MichaelAlbertMD Another throwaway comment by a medically ill-informed poster. Essentially making Dr. Albert’s point for him.
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Tim@IAmTechNomad·
@MichaelAlbertMD Not sure if you’re including covid vaccines in your recommendation. But if you are, at this point it’s akin to medical murder.
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@amuse @JoaquinCastrotx @grok Last thing we need are immigrants treating our sick, injured, and infirm. How dare they.
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@amuse@amuse·
She was here illegally. She overstayed her visa and applied for asylum after she was unlawfully present. @grok confirm she entered on a visitor/tourist visa and overstayed it before later applying for asylum. Confirm a work permit allows legal employment while an application is pending, but does not erase prior unlawful presence or grant permanent lawful status.
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Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro@JoaquinCastrotx·
Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios was completing her residency in South Texas when ICE locked her away. Her colleagues call her Ruby. They say that as an emergency and trauma doctor, she serves every patient with empathy and dedication. Being bilingual, she makes people feel seen and heard. In the middle of a healthcare provider shortage in the Rio Grande Valley, it is unthinkable that ICE would keep Ruby locked away. Her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband need her home. Her patients need her too. ICE should release Dr. Barrios immediately and allow her to continue her work helping people.
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@DrNeilStone He’s got as much chance of being offered a position in the biopharmaceutical industry as Trump has of becoming an astronaut.
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@ZaharakisAlex @JeromeAdamsMD It’s amazing that people without any real training or subject matter expertise in a field somehow think they’re mature than all those that do. It’s even worse when they’re frauds, con artists, and snake oil salesmen. And yeah, I’m talking about you, Alex.
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Jerome Adams
Jerome Adams@JeromeAdamsMD·
I really wish we would stop framing everything wrong in our health system as corruption and fraud and malfeasance by scientists and doctors and public health workers. It destroys trust in the system, destroys the morale of the people actually out there on the front lines, and truly does nothing to actually make us healthier.
Bitcoin Teddy@Bitcoin_Teddy

RFK Jr.: "We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. We don’t have it PURELY because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly."

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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@rmayer2361 @williamdube_ So, even if there was enough contact at that point, it’s clearly embellishment on James’ part as he is goading the refs into a call by reacting 5 seconds later.
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rmayer@rmayer2361·
@williamdube_ What is this, “60 Minutes”? Watch the whole play and don’t clip it to sell your narrative. The penalty was at the top of circles.
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William Dubé@williamdube_·
Horrible call.
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@aakashgupta @bp22 This is a flimsy take on an incredibly complex disease. You could have written this up as ‘yet another theory on the etiology of Alzheimer’s fades away’ but instead seem to be passing it off as ‘revolutionary science being ignored’.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Spouses of Alzheimer's patients are 6 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's themselves. They share daily saliva exchange for decades. Their oral bacteria converges to the same strains. In 2019 Cortexyme published a paper in Science Advances showing Porphyromonas gingivalis, the bacterium behind gum disease, was present in over 90% of postmortem Alzheimer's brains. They also found its DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid of living Alzheimer's patients. P. gingivalis is the keystone pathogen of periodontitis. The CDC says 47% of American adults over 30 have periodontitis right now. The mechanism is specific. P. gingivalis produces enzymes called gingipains. Two types: one cuts proteins at lysine residues, the other at arginine. Tau, the protein that holds your neuronal scaffolding together, is loaded with both amino acids. In cell culture, gingipains shred soluble tau within one hour of infection. The fragments seed the paired helical filaments that become tangles. Tangles are Alzheimer's. Mice fed P. gingivalis through the mouth grew amyloid plaques in their brains. Hippocampal neurons died. The bacteria crossed the blood-brain barrier and started chewing through the same proteins that fail in human Alzheimer's patients. Cortexyme built a drug called atuzaginstat to block gingipains. Phase 1 was clean. They ran a 643-patient Phase 2/3 trial called GAIN. The FDA hit it with a partial clinical hold for liver toxicity. The drug missed both primary endpoints. In August 2022 Cortexyme shut the program down, renamed itself Quince, and pivoted to bone disease. The subgroup with the highest baseline P. gingivalis loads still showed cognitive improvement on secondary endpoints. The bacteria itself kept showing up in postmortem brains across independent studies after the trial closed. Periodontal disease shows up 10 to 20 years before cognitive symptoms in people who later develop Alzheimer's. By the time someone forgets a name, the bacteria has been working for two decades. The intervention point is upstream of your skull.
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@holisticgrenade If you want to understand vaccines then you first need some basic knowledge of immunology. Which I’m quite sure you are lacking. And which medical doctors receive comprehensive training in at various times throughout their education.
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Riley Check@holisticgrenade·
I’m convinced that the average anti-vaxxer mom who gets all of her information from her phone while sitting on the toilet knows more about vaccines than the average medical doctor. This is because all vaccine education that medical doctors get is actually just sales training.
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Chris G@ChrisHabs360·
Video evidence that the minor on #Habs Oliver Kapanen was not really a penalty #GoHabsGo #NHL #Hockey
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@NicHulscher Dude, your impression of a scientist is a laughable. You’re a joke, a fraudster, and a conman.
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@johntleafs @BizNasty2point0 Bored Leafs fan who doesn’t golf and realizes that playoff caliber hockey is in break for 5-10 years in Toronto.
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TJ@johntleafs·
@BizNasty2point0 Just complete domination by Tampa this Habs team is dog shit I have no idea why everyone keeps hyping them up
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@JackSensFan96 If you actually watched the games or bothered to look at any of the analytics you’d realize that Montreal has dominated Tampa when it comes to 5 vs 5 high danger chances. The Lighting are quite fortunate to have had 3 games go to OT.
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Seth Abramson
Seth Abramson@SethAbramson·
I am not at all religious, but a surprisingly good case could be made for "demonic" (and "diabolical" is a no-brainer)
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@poshfart @DrNeilStone Keep doubting the actual experts then. But something tells me you’ll change your mind fast enough if you ever get diagnosed with a disease that modern medicine treats effectively.
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@poshfart @DrNeilStone Just like all those engineers worshipping science to build their bridges, the NATO folks worshipping science to send rockets to the moon, and the biomedical researchers who ‘worship science’ while essentially curing Hep C. Crazy huh?
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HARD BLACK OVERBELLY
HARD BLACK OVERBELLY@poshfart·
@DrNeilStone All you fucking doctors are in a cult, and you worship science, funded by blood sucking corporations. The fact that you all can’t see it bewilders me. Wake the fuck up, like yesterday.
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Tom@synaptic_firing·
@oldhockeycards Maybe Dryden…. Plante… But it just points to the incredibly high standard the Canadiens organization holds its retired numbers to. There’ll be no ‘Stan Smyls’ or ‘Ken Daneykos’ hanging from the Bell Center rafters. No offense to either of those very good players.
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Old Hockey Cards@oldhockeycards·
Fun fact: Here’s a list of Habs retired numbers, with the length of time after player retirement it took before retiring the number.. any surprises..?
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Old Hockey Cards@oldhockeycards

Fun Fact: Ken Dryden’s #29 wasn’t retired until 2007. It was worn by 4 goalies before him (starting with Rogie Vachon), and 16 goalies/skaters after him.

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