That is NOT how science works: there is just one way in which science works, it is a fragile tool, there are no special rules for special times. Those "scientists" throw out flawed studies as fast as possible because that is the way to monetize the situation. They are exactly like the charlatans of old ages.

Nope, Covid is an influenza, influenza is a seasonal illness: such differences are expected in Covid in different seasons. Just wait for the winter to say something. That IS how science works.

But they recognized the virtues of feelings, the most important aspect of life and death and everything nowadays:

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me.

Louise Gluck

The Nobel prize is a monetary prize ($935k/€849k/£716k total), they both got more than 400.000 euros/dollars each. A Nobel would make you happy, even if you are desperately poor.

The problem here is not that someone else could have developed the same technology, the problem here is that others actually developed the same technology (Siksnys) or even a better version of it (Zhang) around the same time. Those two did not come first by any significant metrics, not by time (Siksnys), nor by quality (Zhang). On top of that, there is a number of problems with this prize: ongoing litigations on the invention of this technique, the problem of science versus technology (this prize went all to the technological side of the CRISPR), the problem of peer review (Siksnys, who works in a little university, tried to publish his research first, but it took months and multiple submissions, while Charpentier and Doudna, who are employed by far bigger institutions, had their work reviewed and accepted in just two weeks by Science) and a few others.

Not really. The matter here is not that a lot of people contributed to it, but that those contributions were pretty equal in importance (in my opinion the real groundbreaking discoveries were those by Francisco Mojica). For example, Roger Penrose (Nobel prize for Physics 2020) is really someone who stands out in his field, these two chemists not so much.

He is referring to the fact that the patent battle on CRISPR-Cas9 (the technology that awarded these two women with the Nobel) is currently favouring Zhang's Broad Institute: "Almost every outcome is stacked in Broad’s favor[...]. If CVC wins[...] it will have the patent for the single molecule guide, but Broad will not lose its eukaryotic patent and, at worst, will have to share it. If CVC loses, they’re toast, they come away empty".

Not to mention that CRISPR-Cas9 is just an incremental step in DNA editing and it is far from perfect.

As an engineer I write a lot of letters, emails, reports and I have to read a lot of emails, reports.

Very few people actually use it, even when they should. They should use it before retweeting silly, illogical news about saving millions adopting some stupid, trendy policy, they don't, their fault and the fault of their school.

It is an anti-stress activity for kids and they actually learn some useful skill (e.g. paying attention to details). Moreover, learning how difficult it is to achieve good results is a good way to better appreciate artists' work. A lot of "modern" art is made by con-artists, instead of artists, kids should learn to see the difference.

It may be useful, but there is nothing in basic computer science that good mathematical problems cannot teach you. All the skills you listed (breaking down problems into very small steps, combined with problem solving, abstract thinking, logic and so on) are better developed by good mathematical/geometry problems. To understand computing, you have to understand how computers are built and their internal logic, something that many grown-up programmers do not know. Schools right now are lacking on basic teachings (math, read/write, history, geography), they should start with that basics.

So nothing changed.

He is not blaming Malaysian Airlines, but American impersonators, you know (and you obviously know).

Completely false. A military target impersonating a civilian target is a serious international crime.

You'll see in a couple of months, when the flu season kicks in and a vaccine will not be there.

Where there is cancel culture, there is not free speech. More on topic, you still have the same messy health system, that was ravaged by the coronavirus months ago.