2/2 we have to also acknowledge that truly religious person is by definition is not very skeptical (i.e., accepting particular point of view of the world), and thus, is fallible when it comes to research -> may not be critical enough to find issues with specific research.

A response to Nature commentary has some additional points:

Well, was the requirement to wear masks similarly biased?

I hear this all the time "Words matter". Why? They should not, really. Actions matter much more. Am I wrong on this?

The entire internet worked together to figure out what this tool was. I got it from my grandma. Do you know it?

Ok, for those folks with knee pain. Another randomized clinical study showed no evidence of krill oil for treatment. The amusing part is that reduction in perceived pain was similar in treatment vs. placebo -> again highlighting how getting a "medicine" could improve symptoms.

Human mind is a fascinating thing. Just getting a red sugary pill could make a person feel better, with no actual medicine being in the pill. Especially, if a person giving a pill would wear a white coat and look like a physician.

Is it one of those days? Feeling useless and not able to do anything. Plus, making life of people around miserable. Perhaps just being a little sick? Or is it just Monday?

In the lab meeting, we ended up with discussing what people did in the last weeks, and I asked if anybody saw the new movie "Inside out 2". One of the lab members asked - is that a horror movie? The best joke I had in a while!!!

People are weird. On the one hand they say that it should be parents doing parenting, not school or government. But then when parents do their parenting job they cannot stop at criticizing and giving advice. People are weird.

I don't care about the language - since I came to the US barely speaking English. I look at the substance. Does the person have right background to be successful in my lab, i.e. computational? If it is a request for PhD position, do I have funding? The rest is irrelevant!

Still up ..

Acquire a Buddhist perspective. That won't prevent infection - clearly even best tools cannot guarantee 100% protection - but you may view the event differently. Hopefully the disease is not severe

We finally put together a video explaining results of our recent paper on how T cells search for infection in the brain. Check it out: youtu.be/vZy2EaIEjbE

So, I was selected to get funding from the NIH but because the budget was larger than NIH expected, the grant fell through. How should I be feeling about this? I do have few answers but I wonder what Twitter/X thinks about it, :-).

In a Barnes and Noble store I was a gentleman with two books. Given the titles what is the order you would read them?

Most of it probably went to the military... Take that Elon Musk

So, the insurance will rise 36.5% next year. What? No deal. You are fired!