I wonder if the issue here is you don’t appreciate how stupid your own proletariat is (i.e., as stupid and vulnerable as the American populis, but not exposed to the same intense propaganda). I think humans everywhere are surprisingly gullible and illogical.

Wasn’t a horse nominated this year?

Hotelling’s law

Tldr?

Dolphin died March 2022, then the publisher received the manuscript in June 2023. Then review took until 10 April 2024.

More generally, they weren’t doing this in response to the recent outbreak, it was sort of a coincidence that the disease gained media attention at the same time of this paper’s publication. Academic researchers are expected to publish around 2 papers a year, and each paper tends to take a couple years.

tl;dr: it’s an academic study, not the dolphin CDC. blame the publishers and universities, not the researchers.

I’m guessing, but it’s probably because they are testing for bird flu on a long-dead dolphin via necropsy?

Read the article:

"We didn’t see somebody go unconscious in 30 seconds,” said Red Hood. “What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for their life.”

Looking into it more this is a fake journal. MDPI is a pay to publish publisher with little interest in peer review.

That last paragraph irks me - chicken or egg logic.

The Pope is the infallible word of God - Catholicism isn’t a democracy. And religion is all about what should be instead of what is, so there shouldn’t be any precedence for being practical. Letting gay people be murdered so the church might splinter doesn’t seem like a fair trade. He sounds like a coward for either not taking a stand for gay people, or for just doing this to get some press in more liberal outlets.

I should say I’m nowhere near unbiased - my perspective is that religious belief is a mental illness and Catholicism has enabled genocide from its inception to today.

This is such a non-news. “pope says God still hates gay marriage.” Catholics are still wrong.

Thanks! I updated my comment.

Coronaviruses have no DNA, they use RNA, but point taken.

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