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nawilo_420
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Feels Villeneuve posted:

they're all dopers and should retire immediately and also tennis should be over

mods please take action against this extreme filth or make me IK of this thread so i can take care of it

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Djokovic-backed ‘biotech’ firm’s approach likened to homeopathy
QuantBioRes says it designs treatments for viral diseases based on electromagnetic frequency

Melissa Davey
Thu 20 Jan 2022 15.56 (CET)

A Danish “biotech” company in which Novak Djokovic holds a majority stake is working on a “frequency” treatment for Covid-19 that an expert says bears similarities to the principles of homeopathy.

The world No 1 men’s tennis player was forced to leave Australia on Sunday after the country’s immigration minister cancelled his visa on the basis that his presence in Australia might risk “civil unrest” as he is a “talisman of anti-vaccination sentiment”.

On Wednesday it emerged Djokovic had acquired an 80% stake in QuantBioRes, the website of which says it designs treatments for viral diseases and resistant bacteria through “predicting the electromagnetic frequency” that can interfere with a virus’s activity.

“At QuantBioRes, we work in utilising unique and novel Resonant Recognition Model … a biophysical model based on findings that certain periodicities/frequencies within the distribution of energies of free electrons along the protein are critical for protein biological function and interaction with protein receptors and other targets,” the website says.

It carries a quote from the Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla: “If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration.”

Dr Darren Saunders, an Australian biomedical scientist, said the approach described on the QuantBioRes website was reminiscent of homeopathy, an alternative and unproven treatment that claims illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell.

Homeopaths claim that by diluting these substances in water or alcohol, the resulting mixture retains an “imprint” of “frequency” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body by causing an energetic shift.

Saunders said in his opinion it was “a stretch” for QuantBioRes to call itself a biotech company. “The ‘innovative technology’ they describe on their website does not reflect contemporary understanding of how biochemistry works,” Saunders said. “If any athletes or other potential investors would like advice on not blowing their cash on this stuff, my fees are reasonable.”

The website says the company will “soon start testing different treatment approaches”, but a link encouraging people to “learn more” appeared to be broken when the Guardian attempted to access it. A link to a July 2020 announcement that QuantBioRes would test Covid-19 deactivation mechanisms also appeared to be broken.

Prof Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and antimicrobial resistance expert, said the QuantBioRes website used “fancy terms” without providing any evidence of success of the methods it promoted. “They’ve given nothing in the way of data,” he said. “People are looking out for new molecules all the time, but the website describes a way of finding a new molecule without providing any evidence of success.”

The chief executive of QuantBioRes, Ivan Loncarevic, denied that the methods developed by his company had anything to do with homeopathy, and defended the lack of data on the company’s website.

“What we do has absolutely nothing to do with homeopathy,” he said in an interview. “The theory behind homeopathy is that you can transfer information from a chemical to another substance, such as water. What we do is to develop peptides with specific functionality. This is pure, classical science.

“Of course we are not putting our data on our website for every idiot to look at. We will soon publish an article in a scientific journal that will collect all our clinical testing.”

When asked when the article would be published, Loncarevic said: “With a little luck, in two to three months, after peer review.”

Asked about Saunders’ opinion that it was “a stretch” for QuantBioRes to call itself a biotech company and that the “innovative technology” described on its site did not reflect contemporary understanding of how biochemistry worked, Loncarevic replied: “That’s because we are innovative.”

He said other pioneers in engineering or science, such as Elon Musk and Galileo, had faced similar criticism when first airing their views. On the subject of broken links, he said this was the first time he had heard of the problem and “it’s not [done] on purpose”.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/20/djokovic-backed-biotech-firms-approach-likened-to-homeopathy

nawilo_420
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Waking up to another day where Roger is still
the GOAT. Beautiful.

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https://twitter.com/rodrigocamacho_/status/1496391223761944579?s=21

lmao

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Alexander Zverev (24)

- Abused his ex girlfriend
- While that was playing out had a baby with another ex
- is constantly breaking covid protocols

a real treasure

edit: he was elected german athlete of the year this year btw lmao

edit2: his current girlfriend is a german "actress" who is known for speaking out against feminism and gender equality, and who called #metoo "an insult to real rape victims"

nawilo_420 fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Feb 23, 2022

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djoko isn't playing in indian wells because you need to be vaxxed in order to travel to the US lmao

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Naomi Osaka broke out in tears and lost the match at indian wells after someone in the crowd shouted "Naomi you suck". While i sympathise with her mental health issues, i dont think this is the life for her tbh

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Rafa lost the Indian Wells final to... a guy called "Fritz"???

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Ashleigh Barty quit tennis 😭

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I was very excited for the start of RG today, turns out it's just the qualifiers 😑😑😑

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BUT IT STARTS TOMORROW!!! 🎾🎾🎾

Mods if you are reading this, can you please change the thread title to:

Tennis Thread: the final s is silent in french

thank you!!!!

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Roger Federer (pbuh) is the GOAT, but clay is the best

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In this thread we hate alexander zverev, and he is currently 2 sets down :heysexy:

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sorry for jinxing it everyone

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Thank you mods 🙏 this thread is going places

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Big day today as Rafa "not quite the GOAT" Nadal takes on the man with the weirdest name in the top 100, Botic van de Zandschulp.

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bump_fn posted:

well done rafa

wtf? 😳

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We All Hate Alexander Zverev and he's playing now so please send him bad vibes

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Big day for the Tennis Thread today!

At the moment, Novaxx Dkocovid is playing Diego Schwartzman, an Argentinian with a German last name. Sadly Novaxx is winning, and he also hasn't suffered a career ending injury yet. I just tuned in for a sec, saw him berating someone in the stands, and zapped away.

We also have Alexander Zverev playing Bernabe Zapata Miralles, a qualifier. We all hate Zverev so let's focus our energy again on him losing. I would really appreciate that.

There's also Rafa "Rafa" Nadal playing Felix Auger-Aliassime. Well, it doesn't matter how many titles Nadal still wins because he will never be the GOAT.

Thread favourite 🤩 Carlos Alcaraz 🤩 is also playing today! I want him to win everything. He's playing Karen (lol) Kalashnikov from the country that shall not be named btw.

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Medvedev OUT

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I'm Crap posted:

hope this latest Spanish steroid fraud can beat the Russian wifebeater from Germany

not looking great op :(

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the way this is going djoko will start hitting balls at the ball kids soon

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one thing im grateful for is that boris becker is in jail and so i don't have to listen to him on german eurosport, especially during novax games

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gently caress yeah there's the break

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oh good someone please throw a loaf of bread at djokos stupid grin

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can the french please shut the gently caress up already

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lol rafa beast mode

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rafa what are you doing

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lol at the 88 minute 6-4 set

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Wifi Toilet posted:

This second set is tense. Winner of this one's gonna win the match.

no

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Cavauro posted:

anyone think nadal is the best tennis doer of all time? just curious

he's good op... but we all know there's only one true GOAT...

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Virtue posted:

What a match. Should have been the finals. It's going to be a huge shame if Rafa is gassed from this and goes out in the semis/finals

I hope he is op 😈

someone else needs to win it (except for zverev)

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Roger (pbuh) would never dope

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congratulations to Nadal for winning his 142 Roland Garros

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so uh what's the deal with Swiatek?

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Rafa pls

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lol thx

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lol Zverev quit

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