A few new papers just got submitted to the pre-print server. Holy fuck.  

 
As a young man I had two key interests in electronics and psychology. And what amazed me then and still does today, is that on a fundamental level, both things operate using the same principles. It amazed me that you could evacuate the air from a glass bottle, fill it with electrons which have negative charge, put a positive charge on the other side of the bottle, block those electrons with a negative charge fence of sorts (opposites attract, like repeals) and vary that negative charge to adjust the flow of electrons. I’m describing a triode.  

 
The shocking thing I learned from psychology is that out own nerve cells function the same way, just using negatively and positively charged sodium and potassium ions. You move your arm and electrical impulses made by these ions travel through nerves cells at around 100mph to make that happen. Channels in your nerve cells open and close rapidly to form negative and positive charges to send the signal through. There’s around 80 billion neurons in your brain doing this precise thing to produce your thoughts. But it’s not just nerve cells. It’s all kinds of cells. Muscle fibers contract and release with these charges.

 
As the saying goes, “welcome to complex systems”. Many scientists were in an uproar over the notion that people should get vaccinated over and over and over again. When a virus invades your body your immune system amounts a defense against it. Once that virus is gone, antibodies go down like they’re SUPPOSED to. If the virus invades again, antibodies build back up. They’re not supposed to stay sky high with nothing to fight. Because that’s how autoimmune disorders happen.  

 
One of the most baffling things about Covid and Covid vaccines were the incredible NUMBER of seemingly unrelated side effects. People reported migraines and vision problems. Reproductive disorders. Myocarditis. Blood clots. Sinus issues. Lethargy. Eating disorders. All kinds of weird shit. Why?

 
Well, what if one of the things that were happening were that our immune systems were attacking our own body’s ability to regulate the flow of our own electrolytes? That the doorways in our cells that make them function through electrical charges built by sodium and potassium ions were themselves getting attacked by our own immune system. Then wouldn’t that cause all kinds of weird symptoms that were seemingly unrelated?

 
This pre-print hasn’t been published yet. Will post a link to it when its up.

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That's not a guarantee of accuracy, but ...

And will you post critical reviews, if and when they become available?

So the pre-print isn’t even out yet.

Fine, but re these reports peer-reviewed OR scheduled for peer review?

That's a basic fact of life for scientific and biomedical research, so ...

…then you wouldn’t be asking this question.

How did YOU get access to papers that haven't even been uploaded yet?  
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I'm looking forward to your explanation of "negatively and positively charged sodium and potassium ions." That could get a Nobel Prize. Or a noble razz.

bitchslap anymore here, but wow. If it walks like a bitchslap and talks like a bitchslap, it’s probably a bitchslap.

...when you take an interest in a scientist's work. Scientists tend to GLEEFULLY tell people about their work if you can an interest in it. By the way, if you didn't know this about sodium and potassium, you can find it usually in Chapter 1 or 2 of your intro college Psyche textbook. Go to a used bookstore sometime and see what you can find. You might be amazed by the info that's available for a very low price.  

Below is a link that shows how this works. I've known about it for around 20 years. The paper is proposing that this is what is getting dysregulated.

"negatively and positively charged sodium and potassium ions" - they are BOTH positively charged ions. For relevant charge (and potential) balance see negatively charged ions such as chloride, bicarbonate, and phosphate ions.  
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"By the way, if you didn't know this about sodium and potassium, you can find it usually in" a high school science class.

Suppose you have one end of a wire at 0 volts and the other suddenly gets connected to +20 volts. You measure current flowing. Which direction is the current flowing? Remember electrons are negatively charged.  

 
Suppose you have 12 volts AC with ground set to 0 volts. Suppose you apply 50 volts DC to ground. Is the AC voltage still 12 volts? Or 62?  

 
In electronics you can think of things as having a particular value. You can also think of it as having a value in relation to something else. Take a comparator. One of two inputs will trigger in reference to another selected voltage in the power supply.  

 
Another way to think about this. You can create a rectified voltage of +250 volts DC. You can also create a rectified voltage of negative -250v DC. Which one is more dangerous? The answer is they’re both equally dangerous.  

 
Polarity is a state of mind.

Proving he's an Idiot Savant.

Are you in that position, or just bloviating?

Wanker is one, to be sure. He loves to present himself as The World's Foremost Authority on many subjects. But it always turns out he's not. Then there's ChicKenShit, our self-proclaimed "most reasonable and intelligent poster." I also can't fail to mention CDL, who is mainly a prankster trying to get a rise out of the masses by making outrageous statements before admitting he was "just kidding"
Still, they are far better than our two Board Ignoramuses, The SPOAT and Looooooser.
Last of all comes the utterly vile SwallowMeat, whose bloviations are bathed in bile and is so angry it's amazing he doesn't simply spontaneously combust.
He's also simply horrible to look at....

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But "Sooth" is an ancient word for "Truth."
Conan assumes you meant Soothe.

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Then, every once in a Blue Moon, US Grant swings by to level Ickus with a suitcase Nuke or two when he does stop by. Even funnier to watch.

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Works for me, though and HOLY FUCK ! ! !  WHY are we playing GOD with things this dangerous? Between gain of function and AI research, we are going to destroy the human race.  

Worked for me…