Joe Ferguson forever

that takes some real talent, knowledge, time and a high risk tolerance. more power to ya. not a game for me in retirement.

you seem to have a great deal of interest in letting us know how successful this trade was for you. There was a very short window to catch a double. Bravo! The rest of your speculation is uninteresting to me.

All of that is cool. But it is far from the kind of market support this tech should see if it was viewed as a some panacea to our energy issues and global oil geopolitics, as you suggested. re the timing, the five year chart shows typical peaks and valleys including a peak years back that was higher than todays. you would have actually lost money if you bought then. Overall, a SPYDR would likely have outperformed it over 5 years.

great! so virologists' opinions are to be ignored but you stake your claim on a virologist who says the origin was PROBABLY from the lab. Do you see how stupid that is? An opinion piece in the NYT is not of equal weight of even a mention in Science. If you had bothered to even look at the study, you would have found ample details to criticize it. But both citations, yours and mine, strongly indicate that the origin of covid is not settled science. Probably🤣... I'm gonna change your name to "Dr" Gremlin.

Wondering what "Dr" Ford Pinto thinks of this https://www.science.org/content/article/virologists-and-epidemiologists-back-natural-origin-covid-19-survey-suggests

you've been crying a great deal 12 of the last 16 years. after the orange menace finishes (assuming he lives that long), it'll still be 12 of the last 20. then we'll start keeping score again

I worked in 2 graduate science departments while doing an MS and MD. Also did some independent research at another major university. As you are no doubt aware, you get to know most of the faculty and grad students within a department very well through symposia, lectures, dissertation presentations etc. My wife also is a graduate level scientist. We certainly met some strange and unusual characters. As they say, genius is often borderline insanity. But I know of only one faculty member who fudged results and no grad students. Could I just be unaware of some? Sure.

Silly, loathsome maga…

the actual science? actually? There is no consensus on the origin by the scientific community. But you maga's just know better. magical thinking sucks..morons pretending to think sucks worse.

Your opinion and $3 will buy a coffee at McDonalds (they’ll charge extra). In contrast, I was paid fairly well for my medical opinion

Yes. I fully agree.

So there's a meeting in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine present. Zelensky said this is a deal breaker. Lavrov said this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-sends-russias-top-diplomat-101104484.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall trump's promise to stop the war overnight isn't looking good with this strategy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup “In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said. Trump and Musk, the world’s richest man and Trump’s largest single donor, now face multiple rebukes from judges and legal experts to the regulatory and staff cuts they have engineered at the treasury department, the US Agency for International Development and several other agencies. Incongruously, as Trump has touted Musk’s cost-cutting work as vital to curbing spending abuses, one of Trump’s first moves in office last month was to fire 17 veteran agency watchdogs, known as inspectors general, whose jobs have long been to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in federal departments.

I've been around many scientists for most of my adult life. I can think of only one that I would consider intellectually dishonest. Conversely, i've been around magas here for a couple years and find most to be so.

this back and forth is more about you pretending to know things you do not.

well, no. I believe the CIA is loaded with many very bright people. I know they send recruiters to the best universities. But I know how magas hate elites...

and therefore the consensus coming out of the CIA was produced by mind-blowing idiots. That's what you meant right? it's good to have such a high opinion of yourself even if it's delusional...btw, I don't believe anyone, including Anthony Fauci, has completely dismissed the lab leak theory.

the road to hell is paved with good intentions. in fairness, trump can't spell either. because the CIA is the deep state. and nobody conspiracy commentators of pizzagate level are trustworthy...

Yes, no doubt I’m damned for caring for sick, dying highly infectious patients before any vaccine or treatment was available. F off. No doubt you’re an expert in virology. There are so many on this board with Cracker Jack box diplomas !

i do. i don't know that the virus was leaked from there. neither do you. but you should tell your fellow magas here how bad it was. It was not the equivalent of the flu as per a recent post here. less would have died if they all took the vax and closely followed guidelines. did you?

Finance JD Hill? Did we last time? Do we still?

musk seems to be doing all those things while accomplishing that. not my recipe for success but it works for him. not sure it works for the country.

You're a moron. just blow off the next world infection. It'll be fine. Do your own research. Live short and don't prosper.

worked for biochemists on NIH grants both in grad school and med school. Never saw any of that. We produced some great findings. Perhaps you picked a scummy research director....

The others. To be fair, I'm not particularly fond of anyone right of Ronald Reagan, but I trust the next pandemic will get many of them.