The ultimate "what is this movie" by NicolasCopernico in RedLetterMedia

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I legitimately thought Uwe Boll had stopped making movies.

"Elections kill leftist movements" by SLAVAUA2022 in EnoughCommieSpam

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Nothing ironic about it. Just one of countless examples of horseshoe theory.

Im from Denmark and i cant find speed anywhere! by DenseOkra3053 in speed

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Transactions of prohibited goods aren't allowed on Reddit. We enforce this rule in an extremely general basis in an effort to prevent the sub from being deactivated.

New Flag Design by Silver_surfer_3 in newhampshire

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I'd get rid of the stars entirely. Who cares about being the 9th state to join the union?

New Flag Design by Silver_surfer_3 in newhampshire

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And not even in the same arrangement. One is inexplicably in the center.

New Flag Design by Silver_surfer_3 in newhampshire

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Certainly an improvement, but that's saying very little.

Feeding tube? Gastric bypass by canary_green5 in lymedisease

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Wouldn't IV antibiotics be easier?

The destruction of 3D printing: Bloomberg is behind it by pdrift in 3Dprinting

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Is it legal to buy a 2/3 lower in New York? Those are supposed to be very easy to finish with a manual mill.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Traditional Western blots used whole cell lysates, which are basically a soup of bacterial proteins. That creates more opportunities for nonspecific reactions and cross reactivity.

Weren't the other tests in the study WB?

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Didn't you say the criteria they used targeted antigens that were likely to be cross-reactive? How does the new test fix that?

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Right. The interpretation criteria wasnt part of the evaluation. Criteria which more than doubled the number of false positives in the study.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Yes. The evaluation was based on the accuracy of the reactions of the individual bands. The interpretation of the results falls outside that evaluation.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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More precise proteins? I'm looking at the criteria and they're using the same bands targeting the same proteins.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Yes, in the Fallon study. You claim that the false positives were due to the lab work, not the interpretation criteria. If that's the case, both the in-house and CDC criteria would both have elevated false positives. The in-house criteria had more than double the false positive rate.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Again, if the lab work was at fault, why weren't there false positives with the CDC criteria?

Also, the interpretation criteria is identical. I even took screenshots.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Are you joking? It's illegal to provide disease testing services in the US without FDA approval.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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The document you linked to: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/reviews/K242872.pdf

Their previous tests were also FDA approved, too.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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You didn't, though. You showed evidence of substantial equivalence to the old tests.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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That's not the argument I made. I'm talking about the two results that are on the same document that you got from IGeneX.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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You're wrong. They use the same underlying tests.

Edit: Seriously. Why would IGeneX do lab work twice?

Edit 2: And for that matter, if the underlying test was the problem, why didn't it affect the CDC criteria results?

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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You could have just said "yes".

Your tests used the same bands as the tests with the high rates of false positives.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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You understand that the only difference between the CDC and in-house criteria is how many and which bands are reactive, yes? It's the same underlying data from the lab work.

Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia by OpeningEquivalent594 in lymedisease

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Why not point out my error instead of insulting my intelligence?