/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10105768
>every vaccine safety study we have the IOM declared to be worthless.
dumbass, read the report you linked.
they reviewed the literature for links between DTAP vaccination and 15 different conditions, and were able to find reliable studies for 12 of them. what about the other three? the reason there are no good studies on links between DTAP and autism, ataxia, or SIDS is because those studies are done by the Geiers, a father-and-son team of notorious anti-vaxxers. and like all anti-vaxxers, their methodology is trash.

>>10105778
>the lifespan of an autistic person is about 40 years of age
a literal lie
>VAERS only reports 1% of vaccine injuries
another literal lie. multiple studies confirm this. additionally, most adverse effects reported to VAERS aren't actually caused by the vaccine.

>>8771786
NOT
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>>8621583
see this is where you demonstrate how little you really know and how limited your thinking is.
advances don't turn into day-to-day improvements overnight! when Watson, Crick, and Franklin discovered the structure of DNA, it took DECADES for it to lead to modern therapies. when electronic computers were first developed, it was still quite some time before PCs would grace our desks and cell phones became ubiquitous. and the promise of the advances I listed has not yet been fulfilled.
>CRISPR hasn't done anything as of yet in the healthcare field.
CRISPR allows for the wholesale manipulation of genes in entire wild populations. This means we could take a gene granting susceptibility to a common pesticide and, within a few years, put it into every potato bug out there. the possibilities for agriculture are TREMENDOUS.
>no practical application for iPS cells
are you fucking KIDDING ME? do you even know what the phrase means?
we now have the technology to scrape some cells off an adult and turn them into any tissue you want. this is HUGE for growing new organs, since we can get those pluripotent stem cells without destroying any embryos (and also make them antigenic matches to the transplant recipient).
>no solutions as to how to apply it on a patient
are you unable to imagine how understanding our brains' system for keeping track of our position in space might be useful?
>Now I can upload a picture of a dick and Google AI or else will draw a dog in a dick. Very useful.
If you don't appreciate the value of computers being able to recognize what's in an image, I really can't help you. Imagine what can be done with a computer that can identify things that normally require a human observer to pore over chart after chart after chart. From diagnosis to quality control to IFF to search and rescue, the possibilities are far-reaching.

>>7950637
>we can't trust publicly funded science in America
>because the government wants scientists to show that the Earth is warming
yeah, because those Republicans who control Congress are SOOOO supportive of climatology, right? that's why Rep. Lamar Smith, head of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, is currently going on a witch hunt against scientists who published studies supporting climate change theory.
so if we can't trust publicly funded research in America, who can we trust?
>Russian scientists say AGW is bunk?
Ah yes, let's take as gospel what we hear from a corrupt plutocratic oligarchy that also happens to be the largest exporter of oil AND of natural gas, which make up 70% of its exports, and whose oil and gas companies are owned by the state. surely THEY won't be biased at all in these matters?