I literally posted a giant response just under this. Yes, it's a bad research paper. The rest of the sources have not reproduced it at all, the article writers straight up DO NOT UNDERSTAND how allergies work. "Peanut allergy" is literally an umbrella term for, technically, 12ish related allergies. Most 'allergies' are blanket terms.
Experts do say it's a thing, there are just unfortunately bad articles drawing conclusions from a single bad research paper, and being misinterpreted from other papers because the article writers don't understand what ara 2 means.
There's a lot of misinformation from dipshit allergists that don't understand that 'less risk' for 'the average peanut-allergic person' does not mean 'no risk' for 'all peanut allergic people.'
That article is incredibly bad, and it's citing research that is either bad or misinterpreted.
Simonte, as I said, was a dogshit study with a minuscule sample size of only 29 people, it is in no way a 'landmark' study, it's directly fucking killed people. To put into perspective how goddamn bad the study was, they claimed 'highly allergic' subjects were tested, and those subjects additionally had peanut butter smeared on their arms. Most did not react, meaning they very much were not very allergic in the first place and would have never reacted to the airborne allergens in the first place. Several did react (minimally) to skin contact with the allergen.
Simonte's conclusion DESPITE SEEING REACTIONS was that 'casual contact cannot cause allergic reactions' which is ABSOLUTE FUCKING NONSENSE. Contact-based reactions are VERY well established. His entire study is completely worthless. He tested an incredibly small sample of minimally allergic, and even non-allergic, people to specific aras of allegen that don't go airborne well. I will give some credit- we didn't know at the time that those specific aras didn't go airborne well. To his discredit, we DID know there are more aras.
Perry's test was useful research re: cleaning, but the airborne section wasn't particularly useful because it only focused on testing for ara 1, 2, and 3, which are the heaviest aras. They fall from the air quickly, this is known. You can be allergic to aras 1-9 (and some cross reactivity stuff I won't go into). A lot of allergist researchers ONLY focus on ara 1 and 2, and occasionally 3, because 'most' people with allergies are allergic to those. You want to know how many peanut allergic adults can be identified solely through those? Only a third. (Kansen et al, 2020) And yet you still see stupid shit like Hemming's dumbass research that saying that ara 2 is the only thing you need to check.
Case in point, they immediately quote Jin et al, 2016, which ONLY LOOKS AT ARA 2. Meaning it's useful for fuck all in regards to actual allergic reactions from 70% of the population that's allergic.
tl;dr: You typically end up exposed to less of an allergen in a airborne situation. This is true. You end up exposed to less types of allergen in an airborne situation, this is also true. This does NOT mean that you cannot have a reaction to airborne allergens, or that peanut allergens cannot get airborne. It just means that it is RARER. And indeed, there are documented cases of people reacting to airborne allergens (even ones that they are not aware of, since you can indeed make yourself have the symptoms of an allergic reaction to nothing if you think you SHOULD be having a reaction).
EDIT: I should note- if you actually look at the underlying studies that the article is quoting, most of them are reasonably legit and say up front what they are/are not testing, e.g. Perry's. I'm not saying the research is bad (except for Simonte's PoS), it's the article that's taking VERY SPECIFIC research and generalizing it across all allergens, which just simply not how allergies work.
EDIT2: I just realized the article literally cites Sicherer et al, and claims it says the opposite of what it does. What the fuck?
Don't spread dangerous misinformation that is going to get someone killed.
Airborne allergens are a thing and always have been, and specifically peanut allergy challenges and studies have held up that smelling peanuts can indeed cause an allergic reaction.
Simonte's research is dogshit (who the fuck considers 30 a sample size?) Later research has indeed shown that airborne can cause reactions, the only difference is intensity, which comes down to HOW allergic you are, which has no upper limit.
Fun fact! Sony wanted to screw over Nintendo not because they were screwed over by Nintendo, but because they were humiliated by Nintendo.
Sony was trying to screw Nintendo over in the first place, Nintendo realized it, pulled out, and Sony threw a hissy fit.
The tl;dr: is that Sony basically wanted distribution rights for IPs that were published on CDs. Nintendo initially thought Sony meant as in 'we want to be able to distribute stuff published on CDs' which makes sense... but Nintendo's lawyers realized at the last second that Sony meant 'Anything that is published on CD, we now own that IP's distribution rights entirely'
As in, if a Zelda game was ever published on CD, Nintendo literally could not ever publish a Zelda game without Sony's approval. Defacto ownership of the Zelda IP, though not actual ownership.
Considering Nintendo was literally currently dealing with Sony extorting them over the dev kits for the Sony sound chip in the SNES, Nintendo very wisely walked away from that, and pivoted to Philips. (Sony and Philips jointly created the CD standard.)
While the CD-I was obviously a failure, this whole thing was a MASSIVE embarrassment to Sony, because they had already been doing the industry equivalent of bragging about the deal (which they shouldn't have been, because it wasn't finalized yet). Them yapping about it is also how Nintendo's lawyers realized that Sony was basically trying to do a hostile takeover of all of Nintendo's IPs. Needless to say, Nintendo was (rightly, imo) pissed.
And then Sony had the gall to complain about Nintendo like THEY were the bad guys, setting a narrative for years.
Well, there's his literal original post on X, praising republicans as the party of privacy against big tech: https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
When people lost their shit, he went on reddit and posted an 'official proton response', doubling down: https://archive.ph/quYyb (archive link because proton PR eventually came in start deleting things and creating a new narrative)
When that was deleted, proton claimed it 'wasn't actually an official response' despite being on the official proton account and literally saying 'proton's official response is', and a shitload of now-deleted doubling down in the thread that I don't currently have time to find, but you can probably see them in the thread by looking for the outraged responses to deleted posts (or finding whatever the current deleted-reddit-mirror is, I don't know the most up-to-date one atm). They then claimed they were 'politically neutral' despite that literally being impossible by dint of being pro-privacy, which isn't politically neutral at all. https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i29k9t/proton_shouldnt_use_their_official_socials_to/m7csaky/
I don't have time to really dig in and find all the deleted reddit/mastodon posts for you, but they're still around because the internet is eternal, and deleting something only hides it from shmuchks who don't know better, so I'm sure you can find em.
You're probably downvoted and insulted because you made up a narrative. He straight up said Republicans were the party of privacy, and were shilling them. The backtracking 'Oh I was just supporting the pick' was Proton's PR company coming later, after nuking a significant number of reddit posts from andy yen doubling down, as well as iirc the entire mastodon thread where he was doing the same. It was wild as fuck to watch in real time, we were literally joking in discord that some poor intern was probably trying to physically wrestle the keyboard away from Yen while screaming for someone to call their PR company.
That whole fiasco is literally why Proton no longer uses mastodon, because no one there let them forget the whole thing despite attempts at nuking the posts from existence.
This isn't the first time proton, and andy yen specifically, has shown a troubling tendency towards supporting fascism. Vibe coding their apps is also a big warning flag just from a security point of view as well.
I've still been hesitantly recommending proton VPN to my friends, because a questionable VPN is better than no VPN, and most people aren't willing to shill out money for... well, mullvad used to be what I recommended if they were willing to pay for it, but I guess I'll have to rethink that now. But yeah, it was, to my knowledge, the best free VPN, though that's a low bar.
In many states it's illegal to not connect your solar panels to the grid, because fuck you, they own the politicians and will ensure they take your money one way or another.
It absolutely did not, by such wide margin you're just straight up trying to start shit. If we count all the votes trump got as legit (which is increasingly looking like complete bullshit), even then he barely got 33% of the eligible vote.
He lost the popular vote, even with absolutely COLOSSAL amounts of voter disenfranchisement preventing Democratic voters from even voting in the first place, and a shitload of their votes being invalidated or even just outright thrown away, and we still don't know how much damage Musk did with his control over the polling machines.
There's shitloads of protests going on over the matter, actually, but much like the protests against all the rest of Trump's bullshit and especially ICE, you wouldn't catch the media covering any of them, despite them being nigh-constant.
Oh no, everyone else in the republican party got off scott-free, including the current sitting governor, and the laws and funding that were bribed into existence are still around as a result, and the taxpayer money (over 1 billion of it) won't be repaid.
I think the only exceptions to them getting off scott-free is Larry Householder, who I mentioned is in jail, and Sam Randazzo, the former PUCO chair who committed suicide. And I supposed technically the ex GOP chair Matt Borges, who was convicted, but released almost immediately.
FirstEnergy themselves are being investigated, the sitting US Senator just testified iirc last week on the matter, but the politicians that facilitated everything have otherwise not been charged with anything and there's no intent to, and the judge seems fairly intent on ensuring no one at FirstEnergy goes to jail as well. She's been overreaching by trying to squash any journalistic coverage of the court case, to the point of where multiple newspapers/news companies are suing her. She also just straight up dismissed money laundering charges, claiming that the prosecution hadn't proven that the defendants knew that they payments they made were illegal.... despite the prosecution providing the defendants' own text messages celebrating it, and documents and fucking testimony from FirstEnergy's own attorney advising them against the payment. On top of that, she dismissed the charges despite the fact that the case is still ongoing and evidence is still being entered into the record!
So yeah, it's fucked, and it's likely to resolve with them getting away with it. $60 million in various bribes for over $1 billion in Ohio taxpayer money, propping up power plants that don't even serve Ohio.
Considering how horribly corrupt PUCO is- part of quite literally the largest modern bribery scandal (possibly the largest in the history) of the US, lets maybe not use Ohio as an example here.
For context for everyone else, this was so bad republicans literally threw a senior republican politician (sitting state representative, former speaker of the house) in jail for a 20 year sentence.
sounds good, thanks for being willing to look!
I literally posted a giant response just under this. Yes, it's a bad research paper. The rest of the sources have not reproduced it at all, the article writers straight up DO NOT UNDERSTAND how allergies work. "Peanut allergy" is literally an umbrella term for, technically, 12ish related allergies. Most 'allergies' are blanket terms.
Stop posting this, please. it's not true. Airborne reactions can and do happen.
Experts do say it's a thing, there are just unfortunately bad articles drawing conclusions from a single bad research paper, and being misinterpreted from other papers because the article writers don't understand what ara 2 means.
There's a lot of misinformation from dipshit allergists that don't understand that 'less risk' for 'the average peanut-allergic person' does not mean 'no risk' for 'all peanut allergic people.'
That article is incredibly bad, and it's citing research that is either bad or misinterpreted.
Simonte, as I said, was a dogshit study with a minuscule sample size of only 29 people, it is in no way a 'landmark' study, it's directly fucking killed people. To put into perspective how goddamn bad the study was, they claimed 'highly allergic' subjects were tested, and those subjects additionally had peanut butter smeared on their arms. Most did not react, meaning they very much were not very allergic in the first place and would have never reacted to the airborne allergens in the first place. Several did react (minimally) to skin contact with the allergen.
Simonte's conclusion DESPITE SEEING REACTIONS was that 'casual contact cannot cause allergic reactions' which is ABSOLUTE FUCKING NONSENSE. Contact-based reactions are VERY well established. His entire study is completely worthless. He tested an incredibly small sample of minimally allergic, and even non-allergic, people to specific aras of allegen that don't go airborne well. I will give some credit- we didn't know at the time that those specific aras didn't go airborne well. To his discredit, we DID know there are more aras.
Perry's test was useful research re: cleaning, but the airborne section wasn't particularly useful because it only focused on testing for ara 1, 2, and 3, which are the heaviest aras. They fall from the air quickly, this is known. You can be allergic to aras 1-9 (and some cross reactivity stuff I won't go into). A lot of allergist researchers ONLY focus on ara 1 and 2, and occasionally 3, because 'most' people with allergies are allergic to those. You want to know how many peanut allergic adults can be identified solely through those? Only a third. (Kansen et al, 2020) And yet you still see stupid shit like Hemming's dumbass research that saying that ara 2 is the only thing you need to check.
Case in point, they immediately quote Jin et al, 2016, which ONLY LOOKS AT ARA 2. Meaning it's useful for fuck all in regards to actual allergic reactions from 70% of the population that's allergic.
tl;dr: You typically end up exposed to less of an allergen in a airborne situation. This is true. You end up exposed to less types of allergen in an airborne situation, this is also true. This does NOT mean that you cannot have a reaction to airborne allergens, or that peanut allergens cannot get airborne. It just means that it is RARER. And indeed, there are documented cases of people reacting to airborne allergens (even ones that they are not aware of, since you can indeed make yourself have the symptoms of an allergic reaction to nothing if you think you SHOULD be having a reaction).
EDIT: I should note- if you actually look at the underlying studies that the article is quoting, most of them are reasonably legit and say up front what they are/are not testing, e.g. Perry's. I'm not saying the research is bad (except for Simonte's PoS), it's the article that's taking VERY SPECIFIC research and generalizing it across all allergens, which just simply not how allergies work.
EDIT2: I just realized the article literally cites Sicherer et al, and claims it says the opposite of what it does. What the fuck?
Don't spread dangerous misinformation that is going to get someone killed.
Airborne allergens are a thing and always have been, and specifically peanut allergy challenges and studies have held up that smelling peanuts can indeed cause an allergic reaction.
Simonte's research is dogshit (who the fuck considers 30 a sample size?) Later research has indeed shown that airborne can cause reactions, the only difference is intensity, which comes down to HOW allergic you are, which has no upper limit.
Fun fact! Sony wanted to screw over Nintendo not because they were screwed over by Nintendo, but because they were humiliated by Nintendo.
Sony was trying to screw Nintendo over in the first place, Nintendo realized it, pulled out, and Sony threw a hissy fit.
The tl;dr: is that Sony basically wanted distribution rights for IPs that were published on CDs. Nintendo initially thought Sony meant as in 'we want to be able to distribute stuff published on CDs' which makes sense... but Nintendo's lawyers realized at the last second that Sony meant 'Anything that is published on CD, we now own that IP's distribution rights entirely'
As in, if a Zelda game was ever published on CD, Nintendo literally could not ever publish a Zelda game without Sony's approval. Defacto ownership of the Zelda IP, though not actual ownership.
Considering Nintendo was literally currently dealing with Sony extorting them over the dev kits for the Sony sound chip in the SNES, Nintendo very wisely walked away from that, and pivoted to Philips. (Sony and Philips jointly created the CD standard.)
While the CD-I was obviously a failure, this whole thing was a MASSIVE embarrassment to Sony, because they had already been doing the industry equivalent of bragging about the deal (which they shouldn't have been, because it wasn't finalized yet). Them yapping about it is also how Nintendo's lawyers realized that Sony was basically trying to do a hostile takeover of all of Nintendo's IPs. Needless to say, Nintendo was (rightly, imo) pissed.
And then Sony had the gall to complain about Nintendo like THEY were the bad guys, setting a narrative for years.
I'm going to be honest, this sounds like an astroturf campaign trying to reduce SKG into absurdity to harm it's credibility.
Well, there's his literal original post on X, praising republicans as the party of privacy against big tech: https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660 When people lost their shit, he went on reddit and posted an 'official proton response', doubling down: https://archive.ph/quYyb (archive link because proton PR eventually came in start deleting things and creating a new narrative)
When that was deleted, proton claimed it 'wasn't actually an official response' despite being on the official proton account and literally saying 'proton's official response is', and a shitload of now-deleted doubling down in the thread that I don't currently have time to find, but you can probably see them in the thread by looking for the outraged responses to deleted posts (or finding whatever the current deleted-reddit-mirror is, I don't know the most up-to-date one atm). They then claimed they were 'politically neutral' despite that literally being impossible by dint of being pro-privacy, which isn't politically neutral at all. https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i29k9t/proton_shouldnt_use_their_official_socials_to/m7csaky/
I don't have time to really dig in and find all the deleted reddit/mastodon posts for you, but they're still around because the internet is eternal, and deleting something only hides it from shmuchks who don't know better, so I'm sure you can find em.
You're probably downvoted and insulted because you made up a narrative. He straight up said Republicans were the party of privacy, and were shilling them. The backtracking 'Oh I was just supporting the pick' was Proton's PR company coming later, after nuking a significant number of reddit posts from andy yen doubling down, as well as iirc the entire mastodon thread where he was doing the same. It was wild as fuck to watch in real time, we were literally joking in discord that some poor intern was probably trying to physically wrestle the keyboard away from Yen while screaming for someone to call their PR company.
That whole fiasco is literally why Proton no longer uses mastodon, because no one there let them forget the whole thing despite attempts at nuking the posts from existence.
This isn't the first time proton, and andy yen specifically, has shown a troubling tendency towards supporting fascism. Vibe coding their apps is also a big warning flag just from a security point of view as well.
I've still been hesitantly recommending proton VPN to my friends, because a questionable VPN is better than no VPN, and most people aren't willing to shill out money for... well, mullvad used to be what I recommended if they were willing to pay for it, but I guess I'll have to rethink that now. But yeah, it was, to my knowledge, the best free VPN, though that's a low bar.
In many states it's illegal to not connect your solar panels to the grid, because fuck you, they own the politicians and will ensure they take your money one way or another.
That's pretty rich coming from pocket pair. "We don't use the art and design stealing machine, we steal the art and designs ourselves!"
electricity companies will just start raising prices for connecting to the grid just to make sure they aren't losing any money from you.
Dude, this is weird as fuck. Go touch grass.
What are you, a fed? Fuck off.
It absolutely did not, by such wide margin you're just straight up trying to start shit. If we count all the votes trump got as legit (which is increasingly looking like complete bullshit), even then he barely got 33% of the eligible vote.
He lost the popular vote, even with absolutely COLOSSAL amounts of voter disenfranchisement preventing Democratic voters from even voting in the first place, and a shitload of their votes being invalidated or even just outright thrown away, and we still don't know how much damage Musk did with his control over the polling machines.
There's shitloads of protests going on over the matter, actually, but much like the protests against all the rest of Trump's bullshit and especially ICE, you wouldn't catch the media covering any of them, despite them being nigh-constant.
Fuck off with that. Yes we are.
Oh no, everyone else in the republican party got off scott-free, including the current sitting governor, and the laws and funding that were bribed into existence are still around as a result, and the taxpayer money (over 1 billion of it) won't be repaid.
I think the only exceptions to them getting off scott-free is Larry Householder, who I mentioned is in jail, and Sam Randazzo, the former PUCO chair who committed suicide. And I supposed technically the ex GOP chair Matt Borges, who was convicted, but released almost immediately.
FirstEnergy themselves are being investigated, the sitting US Senator just testified iirc last week on the matter, but the politicians that facilitated everything have otherwise not been charged with anything and there's no intent to, and the judge seems fairly intent on ensuring no one at FirstEnergy goes to jail as well. She's been overreaching by trying to squash any journalistic coverage of the court case, to the point of where multiple newspapers/news companies are suing her. She also just straight up dismissed money laundering charges, claiming that the prosecution hadn't proven that the defendants knew that they payments they made were illegal.... despite the prosecution providing the defendants' own text messages celebrating it, and documents and fucking testimony from FirstEnergy's own attorney advising them against the payment. On top of that, she dismissed the charges despite the fact that the case is still ongoing and evidence is still being entered into the record!
So yeah, it's fucked, and it's likely to resolve with them getting away with it. $60 million in various bribes for over $1 billion in Ohio taxpayer money, propping up power plants that don't even serve Ohio.
Considering how horribly corrupt PUCO is- part of quite literally the largest modern bribery scandal (possibly the largest in the history) of the US, lets maybe not use Ohio as an example here.
For context for everyone else, this was so bad republicans literally threw a senior republican politician (sitting state representative, former speaker of the house) in jail for a 20 year sentence.