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It looks like this is already in the plans: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/doctors-recruitment-1.7480911

You're welcome! :) I'm glad that you have someone to help. It's always useful to have a second set of eyes review papers.

I see, I misunderstood then. From your first post that I replied to, I assumed that you were using Microsoft Office. Sorry for the confusion. You're welcome! I've never used it myself, but I get the impression that it works well.

I think I understand. I don't know how Grammarly compares to Microsoft Office in terms of privacy though.

True, that could also happen, but I wonder how transferable this type of research project is. Does the research lead actually own it and can take it with him or her to a new place, or does Scripps own it? I don't know the answer.

It sounds like this new vaccine would be 50% effective (including adults?), according to the ProPublica article. The old vaccine, BCG, appears to only be 37% effective on children, not adults (based on a web search - edit: on a second look, different articles are claiming wildly different effectiveness rates for BCG). The disease kills 1.6 million people annually. In other words, it sounds like this new vaccine would save tons of lives compared to the old one.

How about a dedicated third-party service like Grammarly?

Now consider that Scripps Research, who is developing this, is US-based and receives a lot of federal government funding, and that Trump/Musk/DOGE have been slashing and burning all kinds of federal science staffing and funding. Also consider that their main federal funding comes from HHS, which RFK Jr., notorious vaccine hater, heads.

Then weep. Progress on this may be stalled for a long time.

Well, consider all the money that pharmaceutical companies make every year on over the counter medicines for cold symptoms. I'm sure it's not a perfect example of malfeasance like "hey, we have this perfect cure for the cold in our pockets but we make more profits from our over the counter cold medicines so let's just bury the cure", but through a complicated process they often end up at a similar result.

Recent example: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-pharma-company-stalled-tuberculosis-vaccine-to-pursue-bigger-profits

I'm pretty much on your camp. I was fascinated by every episode. I won't say I enjoyed each episode equally though! :D

I'm pretty sure they were going to kill Gemma? Remember that Drummond said they were killing the goat to bury it with (a great woman) so that it could guide her back to Kier? I'm pretty sure he was referring to Gemma there.

I think she became the face and advocate of the severance process after the almost run-over incident happened. The big event in episode 109 was probably the big public reveal that she had become severed. At least that's my thinking. I have no trouble accepting that she may not have been that well-known before then, especially considering that she seems to have lived an incredibly sheltered life.