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There's interesting criticism of Jonathan Oppenheim and Andrea Russo's https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19459 by Geoff Penington on Twitter:

"Renate Loll has seen universes that would give Doctor Strange nightmares." https://www.quantamagazine.org/renate-loll-blends-universes-to-unlock-quantum-gravity-20230525/

It's old, but possibly useful. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471595519/?tag=pfamazon01-20

https://zenodo.org/record/7754299#.ZBjpby8w30o Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control Alexander Crits-Christoph, Karthik...

Andersen and colleagues discussed in their "Proximal Origin" paper how SARS2 features like the receptor binding domain (RBD) and the furin cleavage site (polybasic cleavage site) might have arisen through selection by passage in cell culture. They believed these scenarios unlikely, but left the...

Some people criticize the Proximal Origin paper by Andersen and colleagues for prematurely dismissing the possibility of a lab leak. However, while the paper argued that genetic manipulation to introduce specific sequence changes were extremely unlikely, it left the door open to other lab leak...

It's because the membrane is both on the "bottom" (basal) and "side" (lateral) of the cell. https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Basolateral_membrane

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/department-of-energy-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-nif-livermore/672439/ "Even if NIF is able to replicate the shot, perform similar ones consistently, and eventually increase the yield by five or tenfold, the experiment is still a dead end...

I'm not sure what the problem is in China, but I suspect it's like what we had in Singapore (where in my view we opened up too early, before we had a high enough elderly vax rate), where I've heard of seniors who didn't know the importance of vaccination, for reasons that include having never...

Yes, they need to get their elderly as maximally vaccinated as possible. The problem isn't non-mRNA vaccines. The Chinese scientists have known that improving elderly vaccination is key: https://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/doi/10.46234/ccdcw2022.173. They are ramping up vaccinations now...

China's vaccines are fine. For the elderly, an extra dose is needed compared to mRNA vaccines (which could also be beneficial in younger ages), but the effectiveness is decent enough. See Table 3 of McMenamin et al, Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac...

That's great!

There's a National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, but the Tsinghua University in the OP is in the People's Republic of China. Beijing and Tsinghua are often said to be the top universities in China.

Why Temple University?

"Tsinghua students, true to form, protesting lockdowns with the Friedmann Equation: the basic reality of the universe is constant, eternal expansion, or put another way, opening up." [Moderator's note: chinese twitter link removed.]