bet you regret not supporting israel now

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    This is bullshit.

    I asked someone I know, who has literally spent the last few years on the conference circuit talking about their cancer early signifier breakthrough, when I first saw an article on this over a week ago. Obviously I didn’t mention the Iran missle part. They didn’t know of anything particularly impressive or news worthy that had come out of Israel or really in general for over a year.

    Posting this made me want to confirm that after dismissing it before, so I checked. There are dozens of articles, often featuring near identical wording, all pushed on the same day June 27th. There are no other even vaguely relevant news (including medical news) even discussing the possibility of an actual breakthrough compared to what’s commonly available before that. In fact you have to go back years to get any even vaguely keyword relevent articles.

    This is fucking desperate. Maybe it’ll work on a couple of pop-sci Reddit libs who are already pretty pro-Israel, but no one else is going to buy this. Most people will simply go “yeah, right!”. And anyone in an even vaguely scientific field will know it’s bullshit for the same reason my friend did (and he did it without the Iran missile context).

    If anything, blasting across media that you totally had a super secret miracle breakthrough but can’t prove any aspect of it is only going to make the international scientific and academic community extra wary of anything you claim in the future. Isreal is fucking it’s own reputation her with the people that actually matter in this space. It’s pathetic and desperate.

    • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      If anything, blasting across media that you totally had a super secret miracle breakthrough but can’t prove any aspect of it is

      it was all on one usb. and the methodology was so complicated they can’t replicate it ever again

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s interesting to watch how western propaganda has kind of slipped more and more in recent years. I think the Ukraine war stuff was far more successful than they had ever dreamed it could be, and so they’ve just kind of decided that they don’t need to improve or up their game after that, just do more “greatest hits” type stuff. If they end up in an actual “boots on the ground” conflict with Iran, there’ll be a “ghost of Tel-Aviv” and stories about old ladies destroying Iranian drones with pickle jars.

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        Propaganda strategy now increasing works on a ‘flood the zone’ mentality. There’s too much information with the internet not just allowing but incentivising alternate media, the content economy, engagement farming etc to try and carefully control information.

        So instead the strategy is the open all the taps on every pipe and spew as much sewage into the sphere as possible, while using the media-political establishment to relentlessly harras, smear, and victimise anyone on the other side of your issue.

        It’s a strategy the British state-media establishment basically perfected 35-45 years ago and the internet just supercharged the amount of bandwidth you have to fill, but also the ease of doing it.

        There are of course highly specific and more insidious propaganda projects and psychological operations directed at high value groups or individuals of course, but for the most part it’s a wall of noise, repeatition, and relentlessly attacking individuals to create a chilling effect.

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          And at the same time, deliberately ensuring their working class citizens don’t have access to proper understandings of materialism and critical thinking skills ensures they have no way to accurately gauge the flood of information, so they just choose whatever answers feel good or familiar, which just so happen to be the ones most supporting the status quo. Some people don’t fall for that of course, but most of those people will fumble blindly in the flood of information and are just as likely to find something toxic and dangerous (like far right ideologies).

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      biden-forgor also forgot what I was looking for and how to replicate it where it couldn’t be replicated elsewhere because the lab was somehow unique and highly specific…oh! and that there are already tests that exist.

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        And the breakthrough was so cutting edge I hadn’t published anything about it before nor do I remember what research inspired my search so it’s truly back to pinning the tail on the donkey

        Not to mention I forgot which suppliers I worked with so there’s no hint from the receipts from the supplies I ordered and I never needed anything custom or weird in my equipment or reagents. Nor did anyone keep and record of my SOPs. I just wish an accreditation agency required me to have back ups of data

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      Most important research is already backed up. Medical research of such importance, if it existed, would have multiple copies, with at least one somewhere far away (most likely a cloud backup).

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    This reads like those stories of BLM protestors blocking ambulances and causing the patient to die.

    In other words, I call this BS.

    More likely they were developing the next model of Israel’s vaunted Kid-Killing-Kannons.

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        Yeah, it seems really unlikely that a team of scientists capable enough to accomplish this would be so incompetent they wouldn’t have like a cloud save or a physical backup at another site, especially weeks into the war with Iran, not because they’d be super tech savvy but because this is just operational common sense, which is sort of important for doing effective research.

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      stories of BLM protestors blocking ambulances and causing the patient to die.

      Especially that this particular story come from people shooting at ambulances and killing patients and medics and everyone around.

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    An Israeli prodigy fetus invented the cure to cancer exactly 6 seconds before being ripped out of its incubator by KKKKHHamas.

    This is why you need to cnodemn Khmass

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    unlike china curing diabetes, this is the first “but at WHAT COST??!?” that is 100% accurate

    the cost was too much. sorry. don’t care what the genocidal state invents

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Oh look it already exists.

    Laboratory tests, and specifically blood tests, are among the most important diagnostic tools for leukemia. For some types of leukemia, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, blood tests may be the only test needed to confirm the diagnosis (but other tests may be used to find out more about the cancer).

    To officially diagnose other types, such as acute lymphocytic leukemia, blood tests are typically followed by bone marrow tests. Most of the time, blood tests, and specifically a test called a complete blood count, are the first step in the diagnostic process.

    Complete blood count (CBC): This blood test measures the amount of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the blood.

    Differential: A differential, or diff, analyzes how many of each type of white blood cell is found in the patient’s blood.

    Peripheral blood smear: This blood test requires just one drop of blood, which is smeared or spread out across a surface and then analyzed under a microscope. The laboratory technician looks at the appearance of the blood cells, as certain changes in the look of these cells may point toward leukemia.

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    Israel has had a thirst trap bioengineering program going on and they were about to come out with catgirls. Now that will never happen, because Iran.

    I am cursed to be a lonely catgirl for the rest of my existence. catgirl-cry

    Because Iran