This week in notes

Experimental post format: Let’s see if compiling substack notes output makes for Subscriber Value™

A look at what I got up to on notes the past week (Substack doesn’t seem to provide a standalone user “profile page” focused on the new notes platform, but this weird, bloated URL is what maybe links to my notes feed so that intermittent users can see what they have missed):

Argument from authority (“X is true because experts believe it”) did not suddenly become valid one day just because “science”:

Like all addicts, scientists cannot help but lie when the subject turns to vaccines

An in-depth look at the role of early immune response in shutting down infection with SARS-CoV-2 (which means, however, that no memory immune response is gained):

Berenson tries out for ONS Ball, but doesn’t mess up (unlike others):

Spotlight on the furin cleavage site — this will be revisited in a later post

Jesse Bloom delicately dunks on the zoonati’s raccoon dog “bombshell”:

Myth-busting the role of “stealing” Franklin’s X-Ray insights in Watson and Crick’s solve of DNA’s structure:

Mental health disorders in the lockdown year, California (cheating because is 8 days old)

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