Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志

Evolutionary geneticist studying HPV | Singer & writer | Taiwan 🇹🇼 & Michigan 🇺🇸 | Views my own

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2026-08-03 04:17:44 UTC

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with you completely. Writing is the process by which we learn and discoveries are made and understanding reached. Let them have AI—writing can become our superpower in that world

2026-08-01 17:36:44 UTC

Doing the work is the best cure for the difficulty of doing the work. JULIA CAMERON, FINDING WATER
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2026-03-25 07:50:05 UTC

Healthcare in Taiwan is truly phenomenal. I pay US$30/month for National Health Insurance. I’ve never waited more than 10 min as a walk-in at this ENT clinic, which costs only US$8/visit, and I always leave with a clear diagnosis and treatment.
I’m from the US. This is not normal but should be.
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2026-01-08 15:03:13 UTC

It's important to watch the footage of an ICE agent shooting Renee Good. This analysis synchronizes multiple angels and shows relative positions of the officers and Good's car. There is no truth to the claim that she ran over (or even struck) an agent. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html

2025-11-08 05:39:17 UTC

Otherworldly view of 台北 Taipei 101 from Keelung Mountain in 台灣 Taiwan—sky as fire, heavens opened. First picture taken by my aunt, Amy Eckert.
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2025-05-02 09:37:00 UTC

These legal residents of the US have been targeted by the government. Some were abducted off the street by masked government thugs.
Badar Khan Suri, Rumeysa Ozturk, Yunseo Chung, Mohsen Madhawi. And many more.
Their offense was to criticize a foreign country for its mass slaughter of civilians—a slaughter accomplished with US taxpayer-funded weapons.
But legal residents are supposed to enjoy the same First Amendment rights as citizens: speech, assembly. If these rights can be violated for one, they can be violated for any.
Rosa Luxemburg put it well: “Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party—however numerous they may be—is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Freedom means “freedom for the other fellow”.
I hope we can all take a strong stand for justice for “the other fellow,” for those with whom we disagree. That’s what has set America apart. That’s what has made it great.
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2025-04-14 08:23:24 UTC

I’d like to share one simple but important observation on tariffs: they have been removed for Chinese-manufactured electronics like smartphones, but they remain in place for their components.
Thus, the tariff policy as currently implemented actually discourages US manufacturing—the opposite of its stated goal—because it’s now cheaper to import the final product than its parts.
Paul Krugman puts it this way: “we’re now putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods. This actually discourages manufacturing in the United States.”
Matt Stoller writes: “It’s hard to imagine a better strategy for moving more production offshore.”
Of course, policy could change again in mere hours. But this in itself is an enormous problem, as such policy uncertainty must be truly paralyzing for businesses who would like to make plans.

2025-03-27 19:15:13 UTC

Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?
The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.
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2025-02-24 18:12:53 UTC

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You can’t oppose money in politics only when it’s the other team. Citizens United, which lets corporations spend unlimited money in elections, must be overturned. The Democratic Party needs a radical overhaul to present a coherent and principled alternative to Trumpism. 4/4

2025-02-24 18:12:47 UTC

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Meanwhile, the near-total absence of other Democratic leaders seem to me a damning indictment of the party. How can voters trust them to fight oligarchy when they drink from the same cup, and fail to oppose it at this crucial moment? 3/4

2025-02-24 18:12:40 UTC

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One ‘Democrat’ seems to have clarity: Bernie Sanders. He’s holding massive “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies in Iowa and Nebraska this week—without super PAC money. Sanders ran on this message in 2016 and still walks the walk. 2/4

2025-02-24 18:12:31 UTC

Shawn Fain of the United Auto Workers, to thunderous applause—including mine: “Trump is president because we have candidates in this [Democratic] party who can’t decide who the fxxk they want to represent.” (Video: Sam Robinson) 1/4
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2025-02-20 05:41:23 UTC

I used to think it was the domain of leftists to hate our country.
Now it is the right who tell our federal workers—inspectors, researchers, rangers, regulators, aviators—that we’d be better off without their oversight and if we handed their jobs to corporations.
It’s hard to describe the demoralization and damage of this.

2024-10-18 04:11:12 UTC

Conspiracies seem only to entice if they’re about something awful. It’s like we want to believe the worst. But I know people who ‘conspire’ to make the world better, sometimes working against political forces, at personal cost. I wish we heard more about those ‘conspiracies’.

2024-10-16 18:23:24 UTC

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Finally, note that recent evidence suggests even one dose the HPV vaccine can provide good protection; two is better; three is like kryptonite. The WHO has updated its recommendations to 1-2 dose schedules depending on circumstances. Bottom line: even 1 dose is worth it! 6/6

2024-10-16 18:23:15 UTC

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3) HPV is a local infection ‘ingrained’ deep at a certain bodily site. But early in infection when virus is still being produced, we can ‘auto-inoculate’—infect ourselves with our own virus, but at a different spot. Vaccination will prevent these new infections too. 5/6

2024-10-16 18:23:05 UTC

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2) Natural immunity to HPV is poor because HPV is so immune evasive. Thus, even if you’ve been infected by a certain type like HPV16 (the ‘worst’ one), the vaccine will still greatly improve immunity against additional infections by that same type. 4/6

2024-10-16 18:22:56 UTC

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1) HPV is not one virus but hundreds, of which ~13 cause cancer. The vaccine prevents 9 of the most important ‘types’. So if you’ve been infected with HPV type 16, the vaccine will still protect you against the other eight, including HPV6 and 11 (genital warts) and HPV18. 3/6
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2024-10-16 18:22:38 UTC

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Many believe the HPV vaccine won’t do you any good if you already have the virus. Not so.
While it’s true that the vaccine won’t treat or clear the infection that already happened, there are at least three reasons getting vaccinated is still beneficial. 2/6

2024-10-16 18:22:15 UTC

I’m often asked whether it’s a good idea get the #HPV #vaccine if you think you’ve already been infected with the virus.
The answer is yes, but not for the reasons you might expect. 1/6

2024-10-15 07:13:09 UTC

Human papillomavirus (#HPV) causes more cancer than any other virus.
However, while nearly everyone gets HPV, cancer is a rare outcome: most infections are immune-controlled.
Our 2023 review explores what is known about HPV genetic variation and cancer. 1/3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666679023000058
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