https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-rise-of-archaeologists-anonymous/
The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous
Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoomiKim1/status/1599127082109263872
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This is remarkable.
"In our study,we found a statistically significant decrease in VO2max 1 week after booster vaccination with BNT162b2 mRNA. A clinically relevant decrease was found in 19% of subjects"
Effect of BNT162b2 mRNA booster vaccination on VO2max in recreational athletes: A prospective cohort study
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hsr2.929
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/brains-of-teens-who-lived-through-pandemic-are-aging-faster-study-says/ar-AA14PmlE
Brains Of Teens Who Lived Through Pandemic Are Aging Faster, Study Says
The study, which was published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science and funded by the National Institutes of Health, was led by Dr. Ian Gotlib of Stanford University. The researchers compared MRI scans of 81 Bay Area teens taken between November 2016 and November 2019 (ie: before the pandemic) with those of 82 teens taken between October 2020 and March 2022 (ie: during the pandemic but after lockdown), with participants matched for various factors like age and sex.
The team found that physical changes that occur naturally during adolescence — reduced cortical thickness, larger hippocampal and amygdala volume, and more advanced brain age — were more profound in post-lockdown subjects than in the pre-pandemic group. Researchers concluded that the pandemic appeared to have led to accelerated brain aging in teens.
“Brain age difference was about three years,” Gotlib told The Guardian. “We hadn’t expected that large an increase given that the lockdown was less than a year.”
This phenomenon has been observed prior to the pandemic, the study notes. A 2020 meta-analysis of 54 studies published in Psychological Bulletin found that early-life adversity (ELA) — including violence, neglect, and family dysfunction — is associated not only with poorer mental health, but also accelerated pubertal timing, cellular aging, and maladaptive neuro-developmental outcomes. Cortical thickness, for example, is a general indicator of brain age as it decreases over time. But, per a study published in NeuroImage, it is found to be further reduced in children with a history of ELA.
The study also found higher rates of adverse mental health challenges like anxiety and depression in “peri-Pandemic” subjects, which is perhaps not surprising given the wealth of data that supports such claims. The anatomical differences in pre- and post-pandemic teen brains, however, is less well-observed.
“We found that adolescents assessed during the pandemic have neuroanatomical features that are more typical of individuals who are older or who experienced significant adversity in childhood,” the study asserts. “The pandemic appears to have altered adolescent mental health and neurodevelopment, at least in the short term.”
The study highlights that this may be an area of particular concern for other scientists who’ve conducted longitudinal studies that were interrupted as a result of pandemic shutdowns. In other words, they may have to account for this large-scale traumatic event when considering the results of their studies that continue beyond this period of social isolation, financial anxiety, interrupted mental health and educational services, and the other adversities stemming from the pandemic. And, given the global nature of the pandemic, they will have to do this with no control group.
The authors acknowledge some of the limitations of their research. In addition to a fairly small sample size, the teens involved in the study were “relatively high socioeconomic status” and less racially and ethnically diverse than the population at large. It is also unclear whether these changes will last throughout the lives of the subjects or if, given time, brain age and actual age will find parity once more. According the Stanford News, Gotlib intends to continue following the same cohort as they mature into young adulthood to see if the physical manifestations of the pandemic on their developing brains will be with them for the long-term.
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"The furin cleavage site is a conspiracy theory"
Well, it wasn't on the 1st February was it?
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They wanted to make it appear accidental 👇👇
Increased PD-L1 surface expression on peripheral blood granulocytes and monocytes after vaccination with SARS-CoV2 mRNA or vector vaccine
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2022-0787/html
PD program cell death T cell
sauce:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AMK_PhD/status/1599062930070286337
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheJikky/status/1595213684519075840