JMA-PSOS

mRNA vaccine history:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines
https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52424.html

Safety:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/covid-vaccine-came-out-super-quickly-heres-why-its-safe

Stage 3 trials:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine

Short COVID vaccine history in Romanian:
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/how-are-vaccines-developed-authorised-and-put-market_ro

Similarities and dissimilarities between COVID-19 virus and previous corona viruses:
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-110520-023212

mRNA vaccine technology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-021-00283-5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384963/
https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929-023-00977-5

Pharmacovigilance:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589581/
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/17/6/807
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043970/

Misinformation:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858741/

GBS and COVID vaccines:
https://www.jwatch.org/na56706/2023/11/20/covid-19-and-vaccines-risk-factors-guillain-barr-syndrome
"[...] cohort of 3,193,951 patients [...] 76 patients diagnosed with GBS [...] Adenovirus-vectored vaccines showed a 2.4 times increased risk of GBS that was about seven times higher compared with mRNA-based vaccines."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10896967
"We included 17 cohorts from 13 studies, collecting 1450 GBS cases over a total of 1,058,927,070 administered vaccine doses. The random-effects model yielded 1.25 GBS cases per million vaccine doses (95%CI 0.21; 2.83). [...] The GBS rate for adenovirus-vectored vaccines was five times higher than for mRNA vaccines."

On CBC Rado last Saturday’s Quirks and Quarks a lot of interesting topics were covered: long Covid effects on the central nervous system (as the body of the iceberg who’s visible portion we only glimpsed in the past few years), how bonobo individual aggression is mainly directed towards other males and is individual, and about the Mars-Earth 2.4M year cycle that affects Earth’s eccentricity and climate (we are in the middle of it now at its lowest effect). The last topic prompted me to look at other long cycles that affect Earth’s eccentricity: Venus-Jupiter 405ky cycle (also at its ebb now having peaked 216ky ago). There are also the Milankovitch cycles that impact climate. I wonder if all the current climate models account for all these cycles (which they probably did).

The quibble I had was with John Holt’s suggestion that an unschooled child can make contributions to quantum physics (on a Rewing 1983 episode from CBC Ideas) on which I commented as a reply to a post I made quite recently on this blog.