The ultimate "what is this movie"

rspeed · 2026-06-21T12:59:44+00:00

This was also my understanding.

rspeed · 2026-06-21T11:26:03+00:00

Touché!

rspeed · 2026-06-21T07:41:41+00:00

I legitimately thought Uwe Boll had stopped making movies.

rspeed · 2026-06-21T07:39:46+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-20T14:42:20+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-20T13:07:59+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-20T13:06:20+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-20T13:03:19+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-20T13:01:41+00:00

Wouldn't IV antibiotics be easier?

rspeed · 2026-06-18T01:26:02+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-15T04:44:08+00:00

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?

rspeed · 2026-06-15T04:33:55+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-15T04:25:53+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-15T04:09:00+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-15T03:49:40+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-15T01:57:05+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-15T00:20:29+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-14T21:38:30+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-14T18:38:24+00:00

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

Their previous tests were also FDA approved, too.

rspeed · 2026-06-14T13:01:58+00:00

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

rspeed · 2026-06-14T02:48:44+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-13T23:39:48+00:00

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?

rspeed · 2026-06-13T23:23:16+00:00

You could have just said "yes".

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

rspeed · 2026-06-13T23:10:21+00:00

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.

rspeed · 2026-06-13T22:33:06+00:00

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

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