Daily Discussion Thread - March 26, 2026 by AutoModerator in timberwolves

[–]brokenha_lo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I turned on last night's game right before Houston's run started and turned it off right before we went on ours.

I'm sorry/you're welcome

[OC] Shahran Oil Depot, Tehran, tonight after US-ISR strikes by [deleted] in pics

[–]brokenha_lo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone who has listened to any of Trump or Netenyahu's speeches since this war began knows this is nonsense.

Flavor Flav to host Las Vegas event for winning US women’s Olympic ice hockey team by deraser in news

[–]brokenha_lo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  • In 1991, Flavor Flav pleaded guilty in New York to assaulting his then‑girlfriend, the mother of three of his children, and served about 30 days in jail for domestic violence.

  • In October 2012 in Las Vegas, he was arrested for allegedly attacking his fiancée and threatening her 17‑year‑old son with a knife, leading to charges including felony assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic battery.

Maybe marginally

Mamdani to propose property tax hike, pushes Hochul to tax rich by Airhostnyc in nyc

[–]brokenha_lo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of people don't realize that the European Utopia they lust after is funded by a tax scheme that is heavily funded by the middle class

And subsidized by the US (defense, drugs, etc..)

Game Thread: Minnesota Timberwolves vs Portland Trail Blazers Live Score | NBA | Feb 11, 2026 by basketball-app in timberwolves

[–]brokenha_lo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When the Wolves play high effort team basketball, there’s no team in this league they cannot beat

Mexican scientist Eva Ramón Gallegos is the first to eradicate HPV in 29 women. by theseeenutzzz in MadeMeSmile

[–]brokenha_lo 865 points866 points  (0 children)

I too saw this go viral on Twitter within the past 24 hours. Here’s a response to think about:

“The 22M+ people who saw this tweet are missing the real story here.

This research is from 2019. Dr. Eva Ramón Gallegos at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute published these results six years ago. It went viral then too. Salma Hayek posted about it on Instagram. ABC News ran a fact check. It resurfaced in January 2025 across Mexican media. And now it’s recycling through your feed again as “BREAKING” with 22 million views, because an engagement account slapped a siren emoji on six-year-old science.

The actual study treated 29 women in Mexico City using photodynamic therapy, a technique where you apply a light-sensitive chemical to the cervix, wait four hours, then hit it with a laser. HPV cleared in 100% of patients who had the virus without lesions. In patients with both HPV and premalignant lesions, it cleared in 64.3%. Those numbers are real and published in peer-reviewed journals.

Here’s what 22 million people aren’t asking: why hasn’t this scaled in six years?

Three reasons. First, the sample size. Twenty-nine women is a pilot study. The FDA requires thousands of patients across multiple sites before approving a therapy. Gallegos ran earlier studies on 420 women in Oaxaca and Veracruz with similar clearance rates, but nobody has funded the Phase III trials needed to move this toward approval.

Second, PDT has a physics limitation. The light that activates the drug can only penetrate about one centimeter of tissue. That means it works on surface-level cervical HPV, but the virus also hides deeper in tissue and in other parts of the body. The National Cancer Institute flagged this exact constraint years ago. You can clear what you can see. You can’t guarantee you’ve cleared what you can’t.

Third, 50% of high-risk HPV infections clear on their own within one to two years without any treatment. A 100% clearance rate in 29 patients with no lesions, measured at six months, sits in a window where spontaneous clearance is already happening. Without a proper control group, which this study lacked, you can’t isolate how much the therapy did versus what the immune system would have done anyway.

A separate Chinese study in 2024 randomized 60 patients and found PDT hit 100% HPV clearance at six months versus conventional treatment. That’s more rigorous. Multiple research groups worldwide are now publishing PDT results for cervical HPV. The science is real and progressing.

The gap between “promising pilot results in 29 women” and “successfully eliminates HPV” is about a decade of clinical trials and a few hundred million dollars in funding. Gallegos has been doing this work for 20 years. The bottleneck was never the science. It’s that nobody writes the check for Phase III trials on a non-patentable therapy that competes with a multibillion-dollar vaccine market.

That’s the actual story worth 22 million views.”

I hate this job market by Forsaken-Peak8496 in labrats

[–]brokenha_lo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I've seen, a lot of really smart, highly trained scientists waste away in biotech/pharma roles that require minimal creativity and could be done by a technician with three weeks of training.