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Forum => Controversial => Topic started by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 10:47:17 PM

Title: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 10:47:17 PM
It made it through my last library purge for a good reason. Should be done by Monday at which time I'll be a certified Ebola expert hahaha.

http://instagram.com/p/ts9fTOpOPZ/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 10:50:56 PM
By the way I think someone is in quarantine in DC as we speak.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 03, 2014, 11:29:31 PM
Yup. Thanks for sharing. Looks like a good read. I'm doing a systematic review on extinction (chiefly ebola) after I finish my cancer one. . nearly finished. I didn't think I'd do another systematic review but after looking at my forest plots/analysis, my hypothesis proven, it's the greatest feeling. Do you want to help me with the next one? We could co-author.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 11:33:39 PM
The only ecology experience I have is analyzing the population of 3 fish in my boyfriends fish tank hahaha. Good luck but I can review the report to see if you are cooking figures. I'm better at that....
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 03, 2014, 11:41:43 PM
No thanks. I'd rather a coauthor. It's a meta-review, you can't cook figures.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 11:53:12 PM
Last bio model I worked on was a diabetes 2 modeling of glucose-insulin kinetics by applying some fluids dynamics approach to chaos theory. I learnt to respect biomed researchers and forgot to return this book to the owner hehehe!

http://instagram.com/p/ttFKNGJOLe/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 03, 2014, 11:59:38 PM
By the way I really enjoyed artificially spiking drinks in simulink/matlab. Even modeled how to kill someone by mixing certain foods tehehe.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:05:25 AM
Wow. Impressive. This would be med not biomed, biomed tends to be more science. Med is more philosophy/ethics.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:06:13 AM
By the way I really enjoyed artificially spiking drinks in simulink/matlab. Even modeled how to kill someone by mixing certain foods tehehe.

Huh? That's deadly?
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 12:11:24 AM
That was a joke although before you drink anything from a suspected foe elementary chromatography can do wonders. Feeding to the cat/dog also helps. Anyways I think Oct Nov dec will be interesting months for Ebola. The figures for Sept looked somewhat constrained to me, either it's being deliberately under reported or people are dying and not being found. I'm very impressed by Nigerians.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:18:51 AM
On the ground is most always a different story. I wouldn't follow the hype. Stick with known facts about ebola.

Chromatography? Sounds familar... I'd rather take my chances on me than risk my kids (pets).

You should coauthor with me. I take issues about ebola with a grain of salt. You make it sound exciting. I'll do everything, you could just do the reading.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 12:23:44 AM
Ebola is exciting. It's the pandemic of our time and possibly the most interesting in human history since the Black Death. This at a time when medical technology is at its highest peak. Aids has been interesting but the slow action of the HIV virus as well as infection method makes it less of a threat than something like Ebola. The interesting lead to me thus far has been the doc using HIV drugs. Every clever African on the continent knows to get those ASAP.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 12:25:59 AM
By the way I was watching the world population ticker, stay tuned. 7 billion is an interesting number in more ways than one.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:28:29 AM
ARTs aren't easy to obtain. 600/- per treatment, long lines, there's not enough HIV med supplies. Pandemic of our time? That's a lofty title. . I think technology is a pandemic.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:30:32 AM
7 billion, how so?
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 12:35:51 AM
In a sense you are right about tech when I look at the types of posters that have internet at their fingertips. And Facebook wants to add more...


Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 12:41:07 AM
Interesting looking clip.

I'm going back to sleep. I'm sick at the moment. Shivering with body aches, sweating, headache etc.

Thank you for the chat, please have a gorgeous weekend.  :*
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 12:43:24 AM
Take care gal, those are not good symptoms lol. I'm just sayin...have a fab weekend as well.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on October 04, 2014, 01:44:33 AM
I have always liked that chimp clip.

You might find this one funny too.  Modeled on Charles Taylor.


Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 02:09:41 AM
Termi

You know I'm Liberias most wanted hahaha. Don't compromise me, I'm not even viewing videos :-).
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 06:10:14 AM
Sangulo mama (monkey dance)

http://instagram.com/p/ttwUenJOL_/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 06:25:50 AM
Just got out of bed to throw up but nothing came out... so I'm sitting on the toilet seat tapping on my ipad. I read that blurb Brynn, love it, but you're making me sicker. I doubt I have ebola but I've had swine flu before in 2009. Yup. Took 9 months to recover...
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 06:29:46 AM
How do u end up sick anyways? You should nip symptoms at the first sign. I rarely get sick coz if I sneeze I'll drink a whole glass of orange juice lol.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 06:43:14 AM
This author is good!

http://instagram.com/p/tt0Q9jJOBc/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 06:54:00 AM
Malaria!
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:11:48 AM
Hint to Kenya CDC keenly following me on Twitter instead of doing research lol

Ebola survivors develop immunity. Serum from survivors can help as proven in black market.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:12:46 AM
I think I have diarrhoea. Food poisoning.

I went to get some lemons for some lemon tea and this one giant cockatoo raised its giant wings and squarked at me back the f off. It then clipped 7 fresh lemons from the lemon tree and viciously nibbled half of each. Left me nothing.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:14:14 AM
What's with the green pencil? Is that a pencil?
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:14:44 AM
http://instagram.com/p/tt36iZJOGt/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:19:07 AM
It's generalised... I don't think what you're reading is accurate. Seems like an outsider's account untrained in public health. The media may choose to ignore the problem. Govts don't ignore. Even if the condition is medically rare, there's a policy called the 'rule of rescue'. This mean they have an ethical obligation to treat for national security interests even if it costs one person millions.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:23:55 AM
All countries should have this policy provision:

Quote
Rule of Rescue
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rule of Rescue is a term coined by A.R. Jonsen in 1986 that is used in a variety of bioethics contexts:[1]

'a perceived duty to save endangered life where possible' (Bochner et al., 1994, pp901)
'the sense of immediate duty that people feel towards those who present themselves to a health service with a serious condition' (Nord et al., 1995b, pp90)
'an ethical imperative to save individual lives even when money might be more efficiently spent to prevent deaths in the larger population'(Doughety, 1993, pp1359)
'the powerful human proclivity to rescue a single identified endangered life, regardless of cost, at the expense of any nameless faces who will therefore be denied health care' (Osborne and Evans, 1994, pp779)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Rescue
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:28:13 AM
I read the author's bio.. http://www.amazon.com/David-P.-Clark/e/B001IXNQ3Q/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

Yep, someone untrained in public health, politics, epidemiology. It's blatantly obvious.

Brynn, stop reading it. It's not true.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:30:42 AM
What's with the green pencil? Is that a pencil?

Pink lol

http://instagram.com/p/tt5pIwJOI4/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:33:28 AM
Nice. What is that? Is that a rubber pencil for tablets? I must get one. My fingers get sick of tapping at times...
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:35:27 AM
Yeah they got different styluses. I actually take real hand notes on an application called bamboo when I don't feel like typing. Get them in all colours. I got blue and yellow too...
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:41:04 AM
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-1pcs-Universal-Capacitive-Touch-Screen-Phone-Tablet-pc-Pen-pens-Stylus-for-Samsung-iPhone-Kindle/2021423983.html?currencyType=AUD&af=ppc&isdl=y&src=Google&albch=Google&aff_short_key=6vYvMRFf&gclid=CIDQkcKWksECFVckvQodb58Abg

I love it! I have to have it. My real hand notes is shocking. Noone can read. I avoid reading and writing.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:43:58 AM
I think I'll get this one instead... this one has crystals I doubt swarovski though. http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-9-Pcs-Swarovski-Elements-crystal-pen-stylus-with-color-diamond-Touchscreen-Pen-for-ALL/1871232650.html

Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:46:46 AM
Wow, maybe I'll get that too lol.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:49:48 AM
Yeh I know right ! I'm sure the crystals will make a little calming sound for my fingers. That could fascinate me for hours. Plus it's functional in the sense you could use it as a pen as well. Yours looks more classy though.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 07:51:55 AM
Check this out: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/10/2925937/best-stylus-ipad-review

Love it ! I could draw on my iPad.  :o
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 07:58:30 AM
You could literally paint on your iPad though it's not as seamless as it sounds lol. It's more like crayon art instead of fine art....
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 08:03:03 AM
I see. I won't get it then. I'll just borrow yours. I'm going back to sleep. Definitely food poisoning.
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: Brynn on October 04, 2014, 08:39:38 AM
Short demo
http://instagram.com/p/tuBOzFpOCI/

Sample

http://instagram.com/p/tuBYF3JOCT/
Title: Re: Veritas: found a good reason to finally read this book
Post by: veritas on October 04, 2014, 03:37:42 PM
Love it !!!!  :D Thanks xxxx