• x00z@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Allowing people to work for 11 hours is an infectious disease by itself.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.

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      14 days ago

      It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

      Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

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        13 days ago

        There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.

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    15 days ago

    There should be an infectious ease lab, develop some ease that spreads like plague

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    You can’t fight them without making them. It’s a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you’re researching tuberculosis these things don’t live very long so you always need to create more.