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Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
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Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
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Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
I did have a good discussion with Ian Brown and a few other sequencers affiliated with the H5 Regional sites, and I did get a chance to meet NAMRU-3 people in person (Ken Earhart, Marshall Monteville, Jeff Tjaden, Magdi Saad, among others), but science at the meeting was in very short supply.
One of the more entertaining moments came when an audience member noted that calling various constellations of genes "genotypes", as in the "Z genotype", was incorrect, since gentoype refer to changes in gene sequences, and reassortment merely shuffles whole genes.
The heavy dependence on reassortment and "random mutations" was quite remarkable, even when phylogenetic trees of a single gene were being compared.
The influenza field has really created a fantasy world, which supports the scientifically unsupportable, by members supporting each other.
I did have a good discussion with Ian Brown and a few other sequencers affiliated with the H5 Regional sites, and I did get a chance to meet NAMRU-3 people in person (Ken Earhart, Marshall Monteville, Jeff Tjaden, Magdi Saad, among others), but science at the meeting was in very short supply.
One of the more entertaining moments came when an audience member noted that calling various constellations of genes "genotypes", as in the "Z genotype", was incorrect, since gentoype refer to changes in gene sequences, and reassortment merely shuffles whole genes.
The heavy dependence on reassortment and "random mutations" was quite remarkable, even when phylogenetic trees of a single gene were being compared.
The influenza field has really created a fantasy world, which supports the scientifically unsupportable, by members supporting each other.
Farmer
Senior Moderator
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
Paradigm shifts - slow process, and frustrating, thankless work.
Paradigm shifts - slow process, and frustrating, thankless work.
AlaskaDenise
In Memoriam
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
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True of so many fields.
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deadandalive
Well-known member
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
WHY? because THATS WERE THE MONEY ISTrue of so many fields.
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Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
I suspect it is inertia and professional reputations. In all fields challenges to any form of 'accepted model' is perceived as an indirect attack on those who spent their career building that model. The flat earths are never going to be keen on some upstart trying to argue the world is a sphere, what a ridiculous idea, we would all fall off! It is a shame as it just slows down progress.
I suspect it is inertia and professional reputations. In all fields challenges to any form of 'accepted model' is perceived as an indirect attack on those who spent their career building that model. The flat earths are never going to be keen on some upstart trying to argue the world is a sphere, what a ridiculous idea, we would all fall off! It is a shame as it just slows down progress.
AlaskaDenise
In Memoriam
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
My reference was to this type of situation.
It's amazing that scientists can utilize the same "popularity factor" that politicians use to convince voters.
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My reference was to this type of situation.
It's amazing that scientists can utilize the same "popularity factor" that politicians use to convince voters.
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deadandalive
Well-known member
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
Still think its money (greed)and power,all institutions including politics and religion are currupted this way.
Re: Deadly flu virus mutating rapidly: WHO
The two are not unrelated. If you are after funding, an academic post, getting your papers into a prestigious journal etc. etc. then it is better to be the bright guy who is associated with the current model not the guy who developed the model that was in favour and is now thought to have been flawed or incomplete.
The two are not unrelated. If you are after funding, an academic post, getting your papers into a prestigious journal etc. etc. then it is better to be the bright guy who is associated with the current model not the guy who developed the model that was in favour and is now thought to have been flawed or incomplete.