If you look at the number of people who get sick who are vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, you'll see the efficacy rates are actually very close to the trial efficacy rates.

https://www.reuters.com/busine...
https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

I like ArsTechnica, but on this issue their reporting is crap.

79% https://www.who.int/news-room/...

The Chinese are the only ones making inactivated whole virus vaccines, so if they're "knocking off" anyone, it'd be Jonas Salk.

The fact that the "hypocrite commit" graduate student are Chinese is not relevant. This is clearly not a foreign intelligence operation to sabotage the Linux kernel. If it was, they wouldn't have written a paper about it. Note also that the other graduate student is Indian.

The relevant question is whether this research has value and whether it is ethical. The fact that we're all talking about it seems to indicate that it does have value. Whether it's ethical or not is harder to say. Clearly Greg thinks it's highly unethical, but it's not clear how this research can be done in another more ethical way.

American companies make a lot of money licensing patents in foreign countries.

The US government has worked very hard to make patent protection global. It's not perfect. There are still a lot of costs associated with filing patents in different countries around the world, but it works in general pretty well, which is why Qualcomm is able to not only collect royalties in the US, but also in Europe, China (yes, that China), South Korea, and many other countries, and why drug companies are able to fend off generics for a decade in most locations, except for a couple like India.

All that hard work goes out the window if we start discriminating against foreign owners of patents. And believe me, a lot of countries would love an excuse to not have to pay the US for its inventions.

If you want to understand more about the interactions between the Epoch Times, Shen Yun, and Falun Gong, I highly recommend this blog entry from a former member: https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurl...

His articles have been mostly purged from the main Epoch Times website, but you'll find copies all over the web.

Just a few more for shits and giggles:

The fourth person, Andy Moody, is... you guessed it, a Falun Gong member giving an interview to another Falun Gong media outlet: https://www.tasteoflifemag.com...

The fifth person, Victoria Ledwidge, is a Falun Gong member who appears on multiple Falun Gong outlets, including their "official" one: http://en.minghui.org/html/art...

And to bring it back full circle, the sixth person, David Tompkins, writes for none other than the Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/...

The whole thing is organized by this nice sounding, NGO-sounding group called the "International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse": https://endtransplantabuse.org...

Let's go down that list shall we?

The executive director Susie Hughes, works as a photographer for the Epoch Times, a Falun Gong Newspaper: https://www.theepochtimes.com/...

The second person on that list Margo MacVicar, surprise surprise, also works for the Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/...

The third person on that list, Rebecca James, does not, as far as I can tell, work for the Epoch Times. She does, however, organize a lot of events pushing this organ harvesting narrative. Here is one of them, where she is listed under the name Becky James: https://appgfreedomofreligiono... Becky James, just so happens to be an organizer for... drumroll please... Falun Dafa UK: https://www.falundafa.org.uk/o...

I didn't bother to go through the rest of the list, but you see the pattern here I'm sure.

This "independent tribunal" was organized by a number of Falun Gong members. That doesn't mean that they are wrong in their conclusions, but it's not actually as independent as they make it out to be.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#The_blue_and_white_LED

The guy who made the first blue LED won a 1.3 million dollar prize. I'm assuming the reason BU is able to collect royalties is that their method is the one that's being used commercially. Look at the description in wikipedia: Does p-doping Indium Galium Nitride seem like a trivial process?

Making the LEDs blue is actually a non-trivial bit of engineering. The patent isn't about LEDs being blue, it's the engineering behind making them blue. This is a totally valid thing to patent, just like the hybrid engine patents Toyota has.

This is the way the patent system is supposed to work. The university creates a useful product based on a real technology advance, patents the idea, and then when it becomes ubiquitous the university is able to calculate the worth of the technology and gets large firms to license appropriately. This is completely different from software patents where it's mostly "I did it first, haha."

There's a RFC about one group's experience with using IPv6 and NAT64 exclusively (not dual stack): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6586 It looks like the biggest stumbling blocks are chat clients and games. The result is not too surprising, because most P2P networking arrangements involve some kind of passing of IP addresses around, and it's doubtful that most programmers would have put in IPv6 support already.