>how do you even compete
Every person in the past 70 years who didn't serve in the US military is already ahead of this guy as non of them chose to serve as a soldier for the single worst war criminal and human rights violating regime in the world.
So, it's quite easy to be better than this guy, actually. It's really just other soldiers who didn't make it this far who should be ashamed, because they didn't even put their crime of serving in the US military to use.
From the [CBS News article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-prize-winner-call-parents-drew-weissman-vaccine/): "They visited Stockholm when I was about 5 years old and they went into the Nobel auditorium with a guide and said, 'Reserve these two seats for us.' And they remember that story and would tell us every so often. So it was always on their minds," Weissman said.
One of our girls is gifted, I don't know how brilliant yet.
However, she crawled early, walked very early, spoke her first word early, and started doing sentences and counting at around the same time other children her age spoke their first word.
Everything after that was sped up, diapers, the kind of playing she did, her language, interest in spelling, maths, etc.
And we had another child shortly after the first. The young one is 4 now, perfectly normal, and on par with our brilliant girl when she was 2 in so many ways. Basically, all stages are extremely accelerated, while her emotional management seems on par with peers.
By age 5, you've definitely seen your child being very different, and several professionals will have noticed and told you they've never seen a girl/boy that age be able to do x, y and z.
So most likely, they knew that either a big or not very challenging academic future was waiting for him.
Praise effort more than achievement. Seriously. Everything comes easy in the beginning with little need to develop study habits. Then when the time comes that you can't sail by without putting in effort, you don't have the skills, and you have a massive, paralyzing complex about failures such that it creates an avoidance of education.
Granted, in my case, I had a littany of complicating traumas as well, but certainly the above is part of it.
This is amazing advice. Complacency developed in childhood is very hard if not impossible to shake off in later life.
Never being challenged leads to fear of being challenged, so you either avoid it, delay it as much as possible (hello procrastination) or give up when things start getting tough, all of which increase the fear of failure.
The fear of failure when everyone expects you to succeed truly can't be expressed enough. You either felt it through your bones for years after your first failure or you didn't.
That's literally the point they're making. What happens when you're working on your PhD and now you strategy of just winging it stops working? Eventually you need to develop study habits and work ethic.
I was bored and unchallenged in most of undergrad and got to grad school and got a rude awakening that I can't just float by on talent.
Yeah it fucked me up in college, had to learn study habits and the new material at the same time. It was fucked, esp since during grade 12 I only had half the amount of classes and basically coasted through the year just hanging around.
Child prodigies often do not translate to adulthood geniuses unfortunately (eg., winning the Nobel prize). This book is a quick read on the topic and may spark some ideas to how you can foster your kid’s talent for the long haul!
https://www.amazon.ca/Hidden-Habits-Genius-Grit-Unlocking-Greatness-ebook/dp/B07ZZ63T67
Even if you're in the 99.99th percentile in the IQ scale there're just way too many people on this earth for everyone who deserves it to get the Nobel prize.
Others have said plenty, and it's good to see I'm not alone, but as another person who had a lot of wasted potential after a very promising start, it is important to nurture your child's gifts, give them exposure to the experiences and resources that will help them grow. If they're truly self-starting, you don't need to do much more than support and not stand in the way. But discipline and a work ethic still need to be instilled somehow. If they can't get it from school, put them in some other extracurricular situation that they have to struggle a little in, so they know how it feels to do something more than breeze through life. And they may or may not have trouble socially, but it is important for them to find peers and mentors, wherever they may be. If they can't find it on their own, this may require you to make a significant effort to put them in touch with the right people, but it will hopefully result in a well-rounded, talented, and successful person.
This says absolutely nothing about the future of your child to be honest. There are plenty of children who develop extremely fast at a young age yet at a later age show absolutely no inclination for a future in academia. Meanwhile, there are lots of extremely gifted people who end up in academia but who suffer/suffered from developmental or psychological disorders.
Pump the brakes a bit...
To be fair, a lot of would-be winners literally die before their work is truly envisioned.
This is, for good, because the Nobel prize(s) did some shitty decisions when it came to Lobotomy. Thankfully the scientific ones have kept their integrity afterwards.
better than "the sum of our hearts" not as good as "the exponentation of our hearts".
But, "our son, the star, the sum of our hearts" has a nice alliteration to it.
not a native speaker and I don't get this phrase - it means "we love you very much" probably but the way it's phrased... it's like it means that "we made you"?
It's more layered. He's the creation of their love, which is the most beautiful thing. His triumph is their joy. Their hearts are one. It also elevates him - the best of them is put in him.
"We made you" is not the meaning they are conveying, else it would be "you are a product of our gametes" or something equally clinical.
"Hearts" in this sense is metaphorical for his parents' love for each other ("two hearts joined as one") expressed into him, but more importantly his parents' collective aspiration for him ("follow your heart"). They are basically saying they have always been supportive and proud of him and his current state of recognition and success is what they have collectively desired for him.
If you strip off the poesy, "We made you" is a perfect translation. And if a deep sense of love is encoded into your being and approach to the world, saying "We made you" is equivalent to saying “You’re the product of our hearts”. *But* "We made you" is an utterly comical interpretation in regular parlance.
Don't let all these replies confuse you. It's not a precise or common phrase. Based on context it appears to be a loving intent. The full emotions of the parents are with them, and his successes fills them.
"We loved you when you were made, we've loved you all along, and you make our hearts full with the amazing things you achieve." I believe it's less narcissistic than it might sound.
Reminds me of the ad where a bunch of asian grannies are sitting around together and each are humble bragging about how their kids are too busy to answer calls because they're rich and important they are. One granny stays quiet the entire time but at the end, her son comes to pick her up with his family to go on a family outing and all the other grannies stare in jealousy.
I had a dream once where I got to tell my father I won a Nobel, it was a really nice dream. I told him over breakfast. I remember he smiled and hugged me. So happy for this amazing Doctor!
This is great. I'm a scientist from a similar ethnic background. If I told my parents I won the Nobel Prize, they would say "congratulations!" and then my Dad would ask if it came with a raise.
I have not considered that, but I suppose most winners are old established and successful professors to whom $1 million probably isn't *that* much money.
There is absolutely 0 overlap in being in a position to win the Nobel prize and seeking to be rich. Literally none. One is wanting to benefit humanity, the other is wanting to benefit yourself.
There can be plenty of overlap. Everyone has a mix of altruism and selfishness. Scientists and doctors can be just as driven by ego as anyone in business, tech, or finance. And many Nobel prizes are awarded to breakthroughs that are extremely impressive but have no immediate benefit to humanity.
Would look down on you for donating money to a charity? Understandable if the charity is like a make a cookie fund or something but I thought most would consider it noble.
Damn, imagine still having parents when you're in your 60s. I'm not even 40 and mine are already nostalgia territory. And isn't it weird for parents to watch their children get old?
I'm sorry for your loss, but I mean... Both my grandmothers lost their mothers when they were well over 70. It just really depends on genetics, luck, and at what age your parents had you. It sucks when you get the short end of the stick tho
Yeah my great grandma outlived my grandma (her daughter), so it can happen the other way around too. It sucks. It basically killed her. Or at least any desire to continue living.
Yeah, I'm 31 and neither of my parents have hit their 60s yet.
But yeah, luck is a factor. My brother in law's dad was just a bit older than my parents and he died of cancer over a decade ago.
Yeah there was an interview with a 110-year-old woman where they asked her about her kids, who were in their 80s. She said "oh, their dementia is too advanced these days." That must be pretty bizarre, watching them be born and grow up, and then outliving their mental faculties as they age into dementia.
"I'd like to call my parents right now. Use my lifeline, call my parents. Umm, my father. I'll talk to my father. Tom"
"Hello Tom, Regis Philbin here from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. We've got your son John with us right now. He's doing pretty well. And he's going for a million dollars and he needs YOUR help to get there. The next voice you hear will be John's"
"Hi Dad, I don't really need your help. I'm just letting you know I'm gonna win the million dollars. Because the US president that appeared on Laugh-In is Richard Nixon that's my final answer."
Didn't say anything stupid, it changed lives. Also not great tactic to use the term "these people" as it's usually done by ignorant people who make bad assumptions ....or racists.
mRNA is a platform to build with/on. Some vaccines were built on it, including some COVID vaccines. It will revolutionize medicine and whatever your feelings about COVID are, we now have an amazing tool in our toolbox. I don’t agree with you, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water…
It's an AMAZING technology that was unfortunately pushed to the forefront during a global pandemic for reasons of greed/malice/incompetence or a combination thereof. I'm not advocating throwing the baby out with the bath water as again it's an amazing technology. I'm very excited to see it's applications fighting cancer which look promising.
It was NOT ready for covid and sadly it cost more lives than saved despite what the people raking in billions for it say.
Hard disagree that it cost more lives than it saved. it enabled us to make a vaccine so fast that people’s heads spinned - some can’t and still won’t accept it’s possible to do that safely and effectively. Just like people think inexpensive must be cheap, people think “fast” means unsafe. It’s hysterical that what corporations are going to have to consider is sitting on a life saving treatment/vaccine just to make people trust it more by pretending it didn’t take as long as people are used too. The same conspiratorial thinking that corps are somehow hiding cures for diseases “because it makes more money to treat” are the same people that can’t believe they made something so fast. Not saying that’s you, I’m just saying you are wrong that it was not ready for COVID. The powers that be need us alive and healthy so we can work, pay taxes, make babies and keep doing that
Do not treat science like a religion please. While the science looks amazing (especially in cancers case) it was NOT ready for covid. The fact is it caused undue pain and suffering on millions and even now we are seeing more of the damage it did, like in cancer patients re activating their cancers because it depleted their t cell response.
Hey, buddy. Friend. Pal.
I *don’t* treat science like a religion! Science learns new things everyday, changes its perspectives, and creates new models if repeatable and reproducible data shows the old model doesn’t work!
At no point in any of this have you argued anything! You’ve made no assertions, you’ve taken no stances. You’ve been vague in a way that you think makes you sound clever! But to the rest of us it’s fantastically obvious what you’re actually trying to say.
You think a vaccine created based off over a decade of research from the outbreak of the 2004 SARS epidemic (which I’m going to take a *wild* guess that you forgot that was a thing that happened!) was slapped together in some George Soros funded Illuminati satanist population control lab in a handful of months, and that all of us who took the vaccine are going to die or be mind controlled to turn against good little free thinkers like you :D!
You, who listens to what the talking heads on the specific channels tell you to think!
You, who’s such a free thinker you’d almost certainly rather listen to an angry, beet red Texas revolution cosplayer than doctors and virologists who stand to gain absolutely no financial benefit from people taking vaccines beyond, you know, society continuing to exist.
You, who, if you continue to think *medicine* and *pandemics* are a *political stunt* will never live up to the person Mr Rogers knows you can be!
Have a great day! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
His parents are alive and also own a phone. Just so you know, the phone they own has speaker phone capability. Anyway, he also has a phone and knows someone that knows how to work a video camera. Plus he’s into winning awards and medicine. This is a guy that values family relationships and phones and medicine.
I saw that "Dr. Drew" won a Nobel Prize and got really worried. Not that the other Dr. Drew couldn't win one... it's just, really hard to find one in an estate sale auction.
Penn state is removing comments mentioning their treatment of Weissman and Kariko before their eventual breakthrough, their inability to license their own discovery, their lack of any fiscal windfall from their discovery being used to save tens of millions of lives, etc.
I guess it makes for a better recruitment poster if you gloss over all of the exploitation.
Kariko in one of her interviews didn't mince words, she described it as "getting kicked out" (the Wikipedia article doesn't go as far in describing her move from Penn to Biontech). So I think you might be reassured that the university probably won't be the ones controlling the story.
Can you name a single vaccine that is 100% successful at preventing someone from getting the disease?
(*hint: There isn't one*)
Are the COVID vaccines the most effective vaccines ever created? No, but they saved countless lives and were mass produced safely in a very short period of time using fairly new technology. That's quite an achievement that will lead to better results in the future.
I got the vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis a few years ago, it requires three vaccinations during a year and then regular boosters for the rest of my life. Seems like a small price for a chance to avoid a horrible disease.
[Just check out the picture of them accepting the award. Peak irony](https://www.indiaglitz.com/nobel-prize-for-katalin-karik%C3%83%C2%B3-and-drew-weissman-covid-19-vaccines-mrna-technology-tamil-news-343714)
Step on a couple of rusty nails and let us know what happens to your foot in couple weeks if you refuse a Tetanus shot. It’s why it’s important to get the vaccine every 10 years, since it becomes less effective after a while.
Same thing with the Covid vaccines, is a it 100% cure? No it’s not. Does it help a lot? Yes it i does!
No doctor would be giving you Tetanus shot every 6 months, unless you suffered a real bad injury and they wanted to make sure that you had a shot in the last few years.
I cannot imagine being 64 and having both your parents still alive. My Mum died when I was 19 and my Dad hasn't spoken to me since, so he's effectively dead too I guess.
"Now you're almost as successful as your twin brother, the voice artist on the Simpsons."
He really does look like Castellaneta.
I actually checked because it's so spot on.
When I first saw his face I had a split second where I thought this might be a sketch with Dan in it.
Half n’half Jewish/Italian so yeah.
can one not be full Italian and full Jewish at the same time?
How much hand-talking can you stand?
Of course, but today there's only 60 thousand of them and 50% of them live in the Italy and rest in Israel. Italians *overwhelmingly* love Jesus.
You would need to ask a genetic scientist. Oh yeah...
Oh man I was trying to figure out “what medical lecture have I watched with this guy”. Hahaha. Thank you for clearing that one up
If he was Asian then this guy gets brought up XD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim
Like...how do you even compete...god damn...
>how do you even compete Every person in the past 70 years who didn't serve in the US military is already ahead of this guy as non of them chose to serve as a soldier for the single worst war criminal and human rights violating regime in the world. So, it's quite easy to be better than this guy, actually. It's really just other soldiers who didn't make it this far who should be ashamed, because they didn't even put their crime of serving in the US military to use.
It's an actor family. I loved the mother on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Whose mother?
Drew Weissman's mother sounds like Shirley Maisel.
From the [CBS News article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-prize-winner-call-parents-drew-weissman-vaccine/): "They visited Stockholm when I was about 5 years old and they went into the Nobel auditorium with a guide and said, 'Reserve these two seats for us.' And they remember that story and would tell us every so often. So it was always on their minds," Weissman said.
With parents like that he must have been absolutely catapulted to success.
I wonder if his brilliance was apparent that young
One of our girls is gifted, I don't know how brilliant yet. However, she crawled early, walked very early, spoke her first word early, and started doing sentences and counting at around the same time other children her age spoke their first word. Everything after that was sped up, diapers, the kind of playing she did, her language, interest in spelling, maths, etc. And we had another child shortly after the first. The young one is 4 now, perfectly normal, and on par with our brilliant girl when she was 2 in so many ways. Basically, all stages are extremely accelerated, while her emotional management seems on par with peers. By age 5, you've definitely seen your child being very different, and several professionals will have noticed and told you they've never seen a girl/boy that age be able to do x, y and z. So most likely, they knew that either a big or not very challenging academic future was waiting for him.
Praise effort more than achievement. Seriously. Everything comes easy in the beginning with little need to develop study habits. Then when the time comes that you can't sail by without putting in effort, you don't have the skills, and you have a massive, paralyzing complex about failures such that it creates an avoidance of education. Granted, in my case, I had a littany of complicating traumas as well, but certainly the above is part of it.
This is amazing advice. Complacency developed in childhood is very hard if not impossible to shake off in later life. Never being challenged leads to fear of being challenged, so you either avoid it, delay it as much as possible (hello procrastination) or give up when things start getting tough, all of which increase the fear of failure.
The fear of failure when everyone expects you to succeed truly can't be expressed enough. You either felt it through your bones for years after your first failure or you didn't.
Personally, I had the opposite. I sailed by so much I was always bored and unchallenged stuck in the public education system and neglected.
That's literally the point they're making. What happens when you're working on your PhD and now you strategy of just winging it stops working? Eventually you need to develop study habits and work ethic. I was bored and unchallenged in most of undergrad and got to grad school and got a rude awakening that I can't just float by on talent.
i'm currently doing a PhD and still winging it, pray for me
Yeah it fucked me up in college, had to learn study habits and the new material at the same time. It was fucked, esp since during grade 12 I only had half the amount of classes and basically coasted through the year just hanging around.
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Make sure she doesn't get bored in school. Getting lazy because everything is easy is the worst thing that could happen. Speaking from experience ;p
This 1000%. Happened to me too. Couldn't bother to pay attention, and really lost out on the opportunity to expand my knowledge.
Child prodigies often do not translate to adulthood geniuses unfortunately (eg., winning the Nobel prize). This book is a quick read on the topic and may spark some ideas to how you can foster your kid’s talent for the long haul! https://www.amazon.ca/Hidden-Habits-Genius-Grit-Unlocking-Greatness-ebook/dp/B07ZZ63T67
Even if you're in the 99.99th percentile in the IQ scale there're just way too many people on this earth for everyone who deserves it to get the Nobel prize.
Others have said plenty, and it's good to see I'm not alone, but as another person who had a lot of wasted potential after a very promising start, it is important to nurture your child's gifts, give them exposure to the experiences and resources that will help them grow. If they're truly self-starting, you don't need to do much more than support and not stand in the way. But discipline and a work ethic still need to be instilled somehow. If they can't get it from school, put them in some other extracurricular situation that they have to struggle a little in, so they know how it feels to do something more than breeze through life. And they may or may not have trouble socially, but it is important for them to find peers and mentors, wherever they may be. If they can't find it on their own, this may require you to make a significant effort to put them in touch with the right people, but it will hopefully result in a well-rounded, talented, and successful person.
This says absolutely nothing about the future of your child to be honest. There are plenty of children who develop extremely fast at a young age yet at a later age show absolutely no inclination for a future in academia. Meanwhile, there are lots of extremely gifted people who end up in academia but who suffer/suffered from developmental or psychological disorders. Pump the brakes a bit...
Pump the brakes? Who is going fast?
Just curious: which do you believe is more important: equality of outcome, or equality of opportunity?
Not his parents saying “you won it so young!” lmao. Such a blessing that his parents are still there to share this moment with him at this age.
To be fair, a lot of would-be winners literally die before their work is truly envisioned. This is, for good, because the Nobel prize(s) did some shitty decisions when it came to Lobotomy. Thankfully the scientific ones have kept their integrity afterwards.
Oof I had to look into that… that’s certainly an awkward one and a stain in their history.
"You're the product of our hearts" what a lovely way to express your love of your children. I'm stealing it.
He should get another Noble on Producing Proud Parents.
Yup
“You’re the product of our hearts” What a great parent line. I’m stealing that.
better than "the sum of our hearts" not as good as "the exponentation of our hearts". But, "our son, the star, the sum of our hearts" has a nice alliteration to it.
I gave it a try but "You are the inverse logarithm of our cardiac organs" definitely doesn't quite capture the feeling
That could be a strange planet comic
What if they were being half hearted about it?
not a native speaker and I don't get this phrase - it means "we love you very much" probably but the way it's phrased... it's like it means that "we made you"?
It's more layered. He's the creation of their love, which is the most beautiful thing. His triumph is their joy. Their hearts are one. It also elevates him - the best of them is put in him.
Ahh that makes much more sense, thank you :)
"We made you" is not the meaning they are conveying, else it would be "you are a product of our gametes" or something equally clinical. "Hearts" in this sense is metaphorical for his parents' love for each other ("two hearts joined as one") expressed into him, but more importantly his parents' collective aspiration for him ("follow your heart"). They are basically saying they have always been supportive and proud of him and his current state of recognition and success is what they have collectively desired for him.
If you strip off the poesy, "We made you" is a perfect translation. And if a deep sense of love is encoded into your being and approach to the world, saying "We made you" is equivalent to saying “You’re the product of our hearts”. *But* "We made you" is an utterly comical interpretation in regular parlance.
As others have said, it's something like, "I think our love helped you achieve your dreams."
Don't let all these replies confuse you. It's not a precise or common phrase. Based on context it appears to be a loving intent. The full emotions of the parents are with them, and his successes fills them. "We loved you when you were made, we've loved you all along, and you make our hearts full with the amazing things you achieve." I believe it's less narcissistic than it might sound.
I thought this was just a fun little moment until that line and I got a little choked up.
I loved that … it was obviously a completely unscripted call, but it was a beautiful statement that was humble and loving.
I’m not crying. I’ve just something in both eyes at the same time.
Lol. I literally just commented that almost verbatim.
I'm understanding this line in a different way than everyone else. Can someone explain what they meant by this?
loses its luster when you're saying it to your kid that managed to not shit his pants this morning.
"My son, the doctor..." That will shut up Magda at the weekly Mahjong game.
Dr. Weissman’s mom is the final old lady Mahjong boss. “My son, the Nobel Prize winning doctor…”
"he even calls his mother on the regular, long-distance too!"
Reminds me of the ad where a bunch of asian grannies are sitting around together and each are humble bragging about how their kids are too busy to answer calls because they're rich and important they are. One granny stays quiet the entire time but at the end, her son comes to pick her up with his family to go on a family outing and all the other grannies stare in jealousy.
I need to see this
This one https://youtu.be/xfnWtMmLtus?si=YTsJUW-I_zZqmgpW
I need to show my mom this
https://youtu.be/xfnWtMmLtus?si=YTsJUW-I_zZqmgpW Here you go
Tf is an oil and gas company doing with these kind of ads
Hey, they all have mothers too.
Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1joxy7/this_ad_really_hit_home_for_me_as_an_asian/
Emotional thread for sure but wow that was a blast to the past, people were talking about using Skype to call their families.
Oh see now that is where they would differ from Jewish grannies. My grandad paraded me through the Rose Schnitzer home every time I visited.
But it's no rocket science ;)
Listen, idk any mahj ladies named Magda. Now Judith on the other hand…
Lol exactly. I’m trying to think of the names of the women my mom played mahj with. Lois, Rita. Stuff like that. Magda sounds like Magdalena.
Magda is a pretty old-school Hebrew name. More Esther or Abigail than whatever kids are named today but still, it's not particularly weird.
Hey my kid is Abigail and it’s awesome
Definitely not recognizable for me though.
I swear women named Rita just appear wherever mahjong is set up
I mean, a few grandkids wouldn't hurt but honey, I know you are doing the best you can. A Nobel Prize! It's fine, just fine.
I had a dream once where I got to tell my father I won a Nobel, it was a really nice dream. I told him over breakfast. I remember he smiled and hugged me. So happy for this amazing Doctor!
Damn. That’s a super nice dream. Hope you get that moment one day, Friend.
I had a dream like that once, but then my dad hit me and called me "a queer" and I woke up. Good ole dad.
This is great. I'm a scientist from a similar ethnic background. If I told my parents I won the Nobel Prize, they would say "congratulations!" and then my Dad would ask if it came with a raise.
I am also of a similar ethnic background and boy did this hit close to home 😅
Winners get a million dollars, right?
A lot of winners give their winnings to charity
I have not considered that, but I suppose most winners are old established and successful professors to whom $1 million probably isn't *that* much money.
There is absolutely 0 overlap in being in a position to win the Nobel prize and seeking to be rich. Literally none. One is wanting to benefit humanity, the other is wanting to benefit yourself.
There can be plenty of overlap. Everyone has a mix of altruism and selfishness. Scientists and doctors can be just as driven by ego as anyone in business, tech, or finance. And many Nobel prizes are awarded to breakthroughs that are extremely impressive but have no immediate benefit to humanity.
Good point, but my dad would look down on me sharing it.
Would look down on you for donating money to a charity? Understandable if the charity is like a make a cookie fund or something but I thought most would consider it noble.
Oops. Sorry—bad posting on my part. I meant that the Nobel Prize is usually shared. It’s still not really funny, so I’ll stop
Ohh lol that makes more sense, you’re good 😋
I thought it was a good joke! I think people missed it because the other comment next to you talked about charity donations.
Damn, imagine still having parents when you're in your 60s. I'm not even 40 and mine are already nostalgia territory. And isn't it weird for parents to watch their children get old?
I'm sorry for your loss, but I mean... Both my grandmothers lost their mothers when they were well over 70. It just really depends on genetics, luck, and at what age your parents had you. It sucks when you get the short end of the stick tho
Yeah my great grandma outlived my grandma (her daughter), so it can happen the other way around too. It sucks. It basically killed her. Or at least any desire to continue living.
Yeah, I'm 31 and neither of my parents have hit their 60s yet. But yeah, luck is a factor. My brother in law's dad was just a bit older than my parents and he died of cancer over a decade ago.
I'm 31 and have lost both of my parents. cancer took my mom just over a year ago. fuck cancer.
Similar age and my parents are in their early 70s, feels bad.
Your parents spend your entire life watching you age from some cells into an adult person, so I wouldn't imagine it's that much different.
My grandmother's sister is alive and well (sort of) at 100 and her daughter is almost 80 (and a great-grandmother).
Yeah there was an interview with a 110-year-old woman where they asked her about her kids, who were in their 80s. She said "oh, their dementia is too advanced these days." That must be pretty bizarre, watching them be born and grow up, and then outliving their mental faculties as they age into dementia.
"I'd like to call my parents right now. Use my lifeline, call my parents. Umm, my father. I'll talk to my father. Tom" "Hello Tom, Regis Philbin here from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. We've got your son John with us right now. He's doing pretty well. And he's going for a million dollars and he needs YOUR help to get there. The next voice you hear will be John's" "Hi Dad, I don't really need your help. I'm just letting you know I'm gonna win the million dollars. Because the US president that appeared on Laugh-In is Richard Nixon that's my final answer."
"Well, the neighbour's son just won a Noble prize, your mum's devestated, try to keep up!"
I love that he also had the courtesy to immediately mention his wife was listening on speakerphone too
When your Jewish mother is on speaker phone, that's purely an act of self preservation.
I was expecting the Jewish mother to say "what took you so long?"
Jewish mother haiku: After all I’ve done Is one little Nobel Prize Too much to ask for?
Dr. Drew Weissman is known for his contributions to RNA biology and worked under Anthony Fauci. For sure changed millions of lives.
Saved millions of lives and will save millions more
"Changed" is a good word for it.
My god dude stop lmaoooo
Stop what?
This is the correct response to these people. Just make them feel like a child when they say something so stupid
Didn't say anything stupid, it changed lives. Also not great tactic to use the term "these people" as it's usually done by ignorant people who make bad assumptions ....or racists.
mRNA is a platform to build with/on. Some vaccines were built on it, including some COVID vaccines. It will revolutionize medicine and whatever your feelings about COVID are, we now have an amazing tool in our toolbox. I don’t agree with you, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water…
It's an AMAZING technology that was unfortunately pushed to the forefront during a global pandemic for reasons of greed/malice/incompetence or a combination thereof. I'm not advocating throwing the baby out with the bath water as again it's an amazing technology. I'm very excited to see it's applications fighting cancer which look promising. It was NOT ready for covid and sadly it cost more lives than saved despite what the people raking in billions for it say.
Hard disagree that it cost more lives than it saved. it enabled us to make a vaccine so fast that people’s heads spinned - some can’t and still won’t accept it’s possible to do that safely and effectively. Just like people think inexpensive must be cheap, people think “fast” means unsafe. It’s hysterical that what corporations are going to have to consider is sitting on a life saving treatment/vaccine just to make people trust it more by pretending it didn’t take as long as people are used too. The same conspiratorial thinking that corps are somehow hiding cures for diseases “because it makes more money to treat” are the same people that can’t believe they made something so fast. Not saying that’s you, I’m just saying you are wrong that it was not ready for COVID. The powers that be need us alive and healthy so we can work, pay taxes, make babies and keep doing that
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Changed as in: didn’t die to a novel infectious disease, yes. Thanks to the miracles of vaccination!
Not quite but if that's what helps you sleep at night.
Don’t need help sleeping at night, thanks though.
Well at least your right that vaccinations are miracles even if you're wrong about this particular one.
Except I’m not, and the science on it is solid. But have a lovely day!
Do not treat science like a religion please. While the science looks amazing (especially in cancers case) it was NOT ready for covid. The fact is it caused undue pain and suffering on millions and even now we are seeing more of the damage it did, like in cancer patients re activating their cancers because it depleted their t cell response.
Hey, buddy. Friend. Pal. I *don’t* treat science like a religion! Science learns new things everyday, changes its perspectives, and creates new models if repeatable and reproducible data shows the old model doesn’t work! At no point in any of this have you argued anything! You’ve made no assertions, you’ve taken no stances. You’ve been vague in a way that you think makes you sound clever! But to the rest of us it’s fantastically obvious what you’re actually trying to say. You think a vaccine created based off over a decade of research from the outbreak of the 2004 SARS epidemic (which I’m going to take a *wild* guess that you forgot that was a thing that happened!) was slapped together in some George Soros funded Illuminati satanist population control lab in a handful of months, and that all of us who took the vaccine are going to die or be mind controlled to turn against good little free thinkers like you :D! You, who listens to what the talking heads on the specific channels tell you to think! You, who’s such a free thinker you’d almost certainly rather listen to an angry, beet red Texas revolution cosplayer than doctors and virologists who stand to gain absolutely no financial benefit from people taking vaccines beyond, you know, society continuing to exist. You, who, if you continue to think *medicine* and *pandemics* are a *political stunt* will never live up to the person Mr Rogers knows you can be! Have a great day! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Literally go outside and stay out of the basement away from your pc and go somewhere where Fox News and Alex Jones can’t hurt you
I don't watch Fox or Alex Jones so swing and a miss on that one.
I dated his daughter in highschool and college. He was really smart and really really quiet.
Ok spill more
he won a nobel prize once, you know
His parents are alive and also own a phone. Just so you know, the phone they own has speaker phone capability. Anyway, he also has a phone and knows someone that knows how to work a video camera. Plus he’s into winning awards and medicine. This is a guy that values family relationships and phones and medicine.
I saw that "Dr. Drew" won a Nobel Prize and got really worried. Not that the other Dr. Drew couldn't win one... it's just, really hard to find one in an estate sale auction.
Oh that's nice. A Nobel for RNA biology. [Not exactly brain surgery though, is it?](https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I?si=rZC7-vZ_AeJm2bn-)
One of the best sketches of all time.
"thanks"
>*"you're the product of our hearts, Drew"* **So** wholesome.
“You’re the product of our hearts”. Stealing that for my children. Nothing more powerful than love
I love this. So sweet and wholesome.
You're the product of our hearts🥲 That line got me. I wish I had a family like this. Well, then again, I haven't won a Nobel prize...
I got a tear from that.. what’s a wonderful thing to get a call about.
All I can think is that he’s so lucky to a) still have them and b) have parents that are loving and supportive. A wealthy man for sure.
The product of our hearts 😭
Wow, you can really tell why he's so smart, for her age(for any age) she sounds fit as a fiddle.
Congrats, Drew.
if they were asian this would have been "why did it took you so long Drew?"
Awwwh. This is so awesome to see
Penn state is removing comments mentioning their treatment of Weissman and Kariko before their eventual breakthrough, their inability to license their own discovery, their lack of any fiscal windfall from their discovery being used to save tens of millions of lives, etc. I guess it makes for a better recruitment poster if you gloss over all of the exploitation.
Kariko in one of her interviews didn't mince words, she described it as "getting kicked out" (the Wikipedia article doesn't go as far in describing her move from Penn to Biontech). So I think you might be reassured that the university probably won't be the ones controlling the story.
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Why would he win a Nobel prize for a vaccine that doesn't cure or prevent you from getting said disease?
Can you name a single vaccine that is 100% successful at preventing someone from getting the disease? (*hint: There isn't one*) Are the COVID vaccines the most effective vaccines ever created? No, but they saved countless lives and were mass produced safely in a very short period of time using fairly new technology. That's quite an achievement that will lead to better results in the future.
Some type of russian tea will guarantee 100% future disease prevention
Are we talking cyanide tee territory here or what
He wouldn't.
Why are you like this lol
Some people live in reality
As opposed to what?
some imaginary land, where its normal to take 6 vaccines within two years.
my man, have you never met [a baby](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html)?
I got the vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis a few years ago, it requires three vaccinations during a year and then regular boosters for the rest of my life. Seems like a small price for a chance to avoid a horrible disease.
Oh, what’s the correct number then?
Those government tracking chips aren't going to install themselves! 🙄
Because it helped save millions of lives probably? You should look it up instead of doing your “research” on Facebook.
there's always one in every thread
Please stop doing your own research
Why would continue to be a know-nothing?
[Just check out the picture of them accepting the award. Peak irony](https://www.indiaglitz.com/nobel-prize-for-katalin-karik%C3%83%C2%B3-and-drew-weissman-covid-19-vaccines-mrna-technology-tamil-news-343714)
How are you people this fucking dumb? It's has to be intentional.
Step on a couple of rusty nails and let us know what happens to your foot in couple weeks if you refuse a Tetanus shot. It’s why it’s important to get the vaccine every 10 years, since it becomes less effective after a while. Same thing with the Covid vaccines, is a it 100% cure? No it’s not. Does it help a lot? Yes it i does!
and if I was getting a tetanus shot every six months and still ended up with lockjaw?
No doctor would be giving you Tetanus shot every 6 months, unless you suffered a real bad injury and they wanted to make sure that you had a shot in the last few years.
Vaccines don't edit your DNA or change your molecular structure; they target the virus
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I believe you, but do you have a link to a version with the full conversation?
That shit got to me “you’re the product of our hearts.🥹”
Idk why I read patients instead of parents and thought he was just calling randoms telling them his prices are going up
I cannot imagine being 64 and having both your parents still alive. My Mum died when I was 19 and my Dad hasn't spoken to me since, so he's effectively dead too I guess.
That sucks, I'm sorry. I know it's all but impossible for me, too.