Dr James Morris

Chemist in the Bay area. PhD in organometallic chemistry. Interested in scientific progress and chemistry.
Tweets are my solely my own thoughts & opinions.

[Dr James Morris @James___Morris]

@ZavalaA @HeathFloraCA @SenValladares @AsmLaurieDavies @RosilicieBogh @BrianDahleCA @DianeDixonAD72 Those will be tossed in the trash after an intern screens them out.

[Jonathan Howard MD @19joho]

I’m willing to risk a sore arm to get an updated vaccine.

Yet @VPrasadMDMPH @DrMakaryFDA @NIHDirector_Jay @TracyBethHoeg reject my bodily autonomy and medical freedom.

My body. Their choice.

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

We’ve been awarded a major prize for our research during the COVID-19 pandemic from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

New blog entry on the relative strengths of Far-UVC and air purifiers. Kindly repost wherever you can on various platforms, if we do, mods tend to delete it.

https://t.co/9LpouEFf2m

[HouseFresh @ThisHouseFresh]

“Far-UVC and air purifiers aren't competing technologies- they're complementary ones.” — @NukitToBeSure

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Please help get the word out that the Nukit Lantern is back in stock for US and International sale:

https://t.co/otzZ3ifHvn

https://t.co/wSoZmX5pDm

If you've had a bad unit with a broken button or any other issue that has not been resolved to your satisfaction, please email us. We will make it right, refund, replace, credit- you name it. Far-UVC is too expensive, and budgets are too tight for any nonsense. You get what you paid for or you don't pay.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Soooo remote work is more productive and it keeps people safe. It’s now been ruled discriminatory to withhold the option of remote work from immunocompromised employees… and I’d argue anyone working in person is endangering their personal health unless they have other mitigations in place.

But what are we doing again? Ah yes… the opposite.

[Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA @N95Anaesthetist]

Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid.
My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.

https://t.co/YxBxZwW18M

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[Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA @N95Anaesthetist]

Key facts that challenge existing dogma.

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[Nicolas Smit @PPEtoheros]

The CSA just released their draft for comment on respiratory protections for healthcare settings in Canada and it’s a huge game changer.

https://t.co/vWQwYGasSI

Some of the highlights:

-surgical masks should not be used for respiratory protections or for source control with patients

-elastomeric respirators are to be put into widespread use & there are several situations where they are the preferred option vs N95

-every worker in healthcare settings will be protected with a respirator, no longer just HCWs. They say about 3 million workers should be covered under these new policies

-patients are to be given respirators and only given surgical masks if unable to wear a respirator as a way to better protect HCWs from infected patients

-respirators are to be worn in all areas and at all times unless unless an area is designated special area where respiratory protections aren’t needed

-workers exposed to blood can use any type of elastomeric respirator but have to ensure they use surgical N95s if using an N95

 Not only will these new policies help HCWs & patients, they will help workers and residents in ltc as well

[Dr James Morris @James___Morris]

@SmartAirFilters Just be aware that cooking can be a major source of particles & CO2. Opening a window or using a vent fan then makes a massive difference.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

As many of you know, Nukit has outperformed all competitors by a huge margin in filtered 222nm milliwatt output per dollar by verifying claims with third-party test results. Now, many Far-UVC companies have accepted the challenge with characteristic Yankee ingenuity, gumption, and moxie and turned their R&D departments and millions of dollars in profits towards making their products better and more affordable, starting a cycle of healthy competition that benefits consumers.

Just kidding, no, of course they haven't🤣

Talk is cheap and easy, engineering is expensive and hard. So they have followed up their debunked claims with even more unverifiable claims.

The goalpost is being moved to emitter life, and they are frantically insisting from their suburban office parks, that actually their product features a super secret proprietary techology no ones knows about that makes it last longer (under conditions they cagely avoid talking about) and so offers a lower cost of ownership than the well-documented upstart that costs a fraction as much. Really, they pinky swear- this time it's totally true.

Most KrCL excimer bulbs last about 3,000 hours- this is bad, that's why we work on replaceable bulbs. Some manufacturers like to claim various amounts of elevated working hours for their KrCL bulbs, from 5,000 to 10,000. Durations that are usually safely out of warranty, so why not? What are you going to do about it when it falls far short? At worst, they have to refurbish a small number of units from people who actually make noise about it- nothing, with their massive profit margins.

All these claims are supported (once again) by our old friend "internal testing"🙄. Yes "we've investigated ourselves and discovered we are awesome."

It's all an attempt to excuse the fact that their entire overpriced product becomes e-waste without costly refurbishment - you can't just replace a bulb yourself. (Lanterns have this same problem, it sucks, we hate it, we're working daily on replacable bulbs for the next models.)

As a rule of thumb- standard KrCL excimer bulbs last about 3,000 hours. Any claims exceeding that, suggested to lower ownership cost, call for third-party evidence.

So- if you'd like not to be an easy mark-

Hitchens’s Razor- "What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".

"When there is no penalty for lying, the truth is soon in short supply." -Unknown

"Nullius in verba" or "on the word of no one"- accept nothing without evidence

"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus" or "false in one thing, false in everything".

These companies have a long track record of refusing to be transparent with third-party test data or making outright deceptive claims when they believe those claims can't be easily verified by the public. There is no reason to suddenly start trusting them on this particular unverified claim.

Simply put- a product is what the seller can prove it is- not what they can get away with claiming it is without consequences. If you trade the family cow for a handful of magic beans, you probably won't wake up to a beanstalk, and that's on you as much as the person who told you the beans were "magic" based on their "internal testing".

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Sorry for the delay in refreshing Tempest stock, we're releasing a new model- the Tempest Pro. It uses 3M Filtrete 20x25x1 filters that can be easily ordered outside the US through @Digikey.

We're offering an optional wall mount to save floorspace. It should be available in about 4-6 weeks.

[Dr James Morris @James___Morris]

@SmartAirFilters Kind of amazing that @PHA_Berkeley @SF_DPH is not here, but multiple other Bay Area organizations are.

[Dr James Morris @James___Morris]

It would be nice to see more organizations added to this list.

[Smart Air @SmartAirFilters]

Who is breathing Smart Air?

[Dr James Morris @James___Morris]

@NukitToBeSure @digikey Once again you show fantastic innovations for air purifiers that have clear benefits to many situations.

[Daniel Park @Daniel_E_Park]

Excellent overview of Long COVID in children from JAMA pediatrics.

Long COVID impacts almost 6 million kids, which is "higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children."

[Lindsay Toczylowski @L_Toczylowski]

ICE just threw a teargas canister at the two female @immdef attorneys moments after this picture was taken while they were calmly asking to be allowed to see the warrant and to be allowed to observe its execution.