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Old 23-07-2020, 03:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 23/07/2020 02:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/07/2020 22:42, Martin Brown wrote:


A sadder case was the poor unfortunate Russian scientist who found the
first self catalysing redox clock reaction that flew in the face of
normal chemical theory as it was known at the time. Unable to get it
published other than in an obscure Russian journal he eventually gave
up working as a scientist and never lived to see it become world
famous in the 1970's. He was unlucky and well ahead of his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belous...insky_reaction

Wegeners continental drift was another good idea that was ridiculed at
first but ultimately the mass of evidence overwhelmed his critics.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html

On the other foot we have Lysenkoism, phrenology, Eugenics, Racial
theory, Piltdown Man and Climate Change, all massively popular theories
because they fitted a particular social and political narrative, that
turned out to be utter bunk...


Climate change deniers are invariably working for fossil fuel companies
and using exactly the same doubt and uncertainty tactics as they did to
keep the dumb punters smoking tobacco. You only have to follow the money
to see which side is science and which is utter bunkum "supported" by
deniers for hire working for various US rightwing "think tanks".

The rest of them I agree with you are pure anti-science.

Though it is beginning to look like there is a race based genetic
component to susceptibility to novel coronavirus Covid-19. It could be
as simple as having a dark skin at high latitude or being a sickle cell
anaemia carrier but it may well be something more subtle from way back.

The recent genomic sequencing paper suggests that one risk factor comes
from our Neanderthal ancestors through a variation on gene 3.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...07.03.186296v1

Whereas pure homo sapiens directly from Africa does not have this.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...07.03.186296v1

It is the first working hypothesis that more or less correlates with the
observed death rates experienced in various countries around the globe.

The other is ABO blood group related and seems to be confirmed now that
having any A antibodies is bad for you and being blood group O is best.

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Regards,
Martin Brown