I have a dumber reason: Trump thinks scientists made him look bad during Covid. I really think that is the primary driver underneath the rest. It’s narcissism all the way down. I agree w what you’re saying but think it applies more to Vought than Trump

I also don't mean to imply that the current winners don't deserve it. If the prize can only go to three people, and more than three people deserve it, an unfair outcome is inevitable. I would also put Ed Boyden higher on the people-who-were-robbed list than Pan

I agree it's a travesty Gero wasn't included. Not to take anything away from the winners, who certainly deserved it, but Gero should have been among them

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I found this so funny because the smell of phenol/chloroform brings back such nostalgia for my own good old days

Also, if someone were using that much, they would go into withdrawal. Generally the place where you see people getting shockingly high doses of benzos or barbiturates is in treatment of benzo/barbiturate/alcohol withdrawal

number of reasons, I find the attempted medicalization of it somehow even more offensive

most places use KCl for lethal injection is that once it's in, the person cannot be resuscitated. Of course, that also has to be given IV, and some people don't have good veins. A prison presumably doesn't have a vascular access team with an ultrasound machine. I'm opposed to execution for a

I mean, it's impossible to know for sure, but that seems most likely. People can have huge tolerances for sedative/hypnotics if they're actively using large amounts, but that seems unlikely if she has been in prison for years already. I talked to an anesthesiologist once who told me that the reason

As a physician, I can promise you #3 had nothing to do with it. They aren’t attempting to give a carefully calibrated therapeutic dose, it’s a massive overdose. The most likely cause was a bad IV, so only part of the dose made it into the bloodstream

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Lol, I never thought about it that way, that matrix multiplication would be the undoing of humanity

Maybe she didn’t understand The Matrix either 🤔

Today I woke up my kids by playing the song “Wake Up,” and I learned my 12yo thought it was Rage Against the Machines with an S, as in she thought it was robots and AI. Weirdly, in today’s society, that actually makes more sense “It’s about the political system? but it’s in The Matrix soundtrack!”

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This is truly awful. We all need to fight against this

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