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Comment Epstein-Barr virus and long covid. (Score 2) 51

We found that 66.7% (20/30) of long COVID subjects versus 10% (2/20) of control subjects in our primary study group were positive for EBV reactivation based on positive titers for EBV early antigen-diffuse (EA-D) IgG or EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) IgM.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233978/

Epstein-Barr a.k.a. 'mono" sounds like a nasty little shit and a prime target for vaccine research. Here's two more recent studies:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/01/epstein-barr-virus-multiple-sclerosis.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22693505/

Comment Re:Hackers Beg Red Cross (Score 1) 71

Probably. It is high time that those responsible (that would be CEO and CISO at the very least) face serious personal penalties when something like this happens. But the criminals who obtained this information shouldn't be penalized? If I forget to lock my door and a criminal comes in and steals something, they shouldn't be held accountable is what you're saying.

Of course the perpetrators should be heavily punished, but there's the small detail that you have to catch the fuckers first! Then we find out the systems were breached via unpatched systems, weak or reused passwords, single factor authentication or other security atrocities.So there are a lot of opportunities to allocate blame.

Comment Re:Sometimes you have to love Social Media. (Score 1) 424

Yeah. I highly recommend people read Philip Zimbardo's book The Lucifer effect: understanding how good people turn evil [wikipedia.org].

I think Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment has been fairly conclusively revealed as a fraud.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication

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