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Real facts that people won't like to hear: anyone who thought differently probably needs to retake a high school biology class.

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ebiester 5y ago
The problem is that you think a high school biology class is sufficient to understand the broader implications. What is the limitation of this study? For example, in the context of the paper, "immunity" means that your immune system mounts an immediate response. Do the antibodies created attack variants equally effectively relative to vaccines? Are they better? Worse? This paper is one data point. Your high school biology class won't teach you how to understand the limitations of the paper. That's why we have people who study this for decades. Don't mistake your "high school biology class" with expertise.
- BrianOnHN 5y ago
  This is a great example of the Dunning–Kruger effect[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
  I suspect nobody commenting here is equipped to analyze critically the science being done either on the virus or the vaccine, yet everybody speaks with authority on what's relevant and what's bullhockey. A high-school biology class will give you good general priors and instincts about how things generally work and is as good as you're gonna get trying to understand what's going on currently without a relevant degree or a few years of hindsight for the politicization to die down. Infections generally leave antibodies behind therefore I'm going to assume people who have been infected have some immunity to this variant. Masks reduce the spread of spit therefore I'm going to assume they are generally useful to combat the spread. I'm sure this will strike some as being anti-science but having seen how the sausage gets made wrt science and medicine I don't trust myself or the journalists to interpret or qualify the new results we get every week.

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ebiester 5y ago

The problem is that you think a high school biology class is sufficient to understand the broader implications. What is the limitation of this study? For example, in the context of the paper, "immunity" means that your immune system mounts an immediate response. Do the antibodies created attack variants equally effectively relative to vaccines? Are they better? Worse? This paper is one data point. Your high school biology class won't teach you how to understand the limitations of the paper. That's why we have people who study this for decades. Don't mistake your "high school biology class" with expertise.

BrianOnHN 5y ago
This is a great example of the Dunning–Kruger effect[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
I suspect nobody commenting here is equipped to analyze critically the science being done either on the virus or the vaccine, yet everybody speaks with authority on what's relevant and what's bullhockey. A high-school biology class will give you good general priors and instincts about how things generally work and is as good as you're gonna get trying to understand what's going on currently without a relevant degree or a few years of hindsight for the politicization to die down. Infections generally leave antibodies behind therefore I'm going to assume people who have been infected have some immunity to this variant. Masks reduce the spread of spit therefore I'm going to assume they are generally useful to combat the spread. I'm sure this will strike some as being anti-science but having seen how the sausage gets made wrt science and medicine I don't trust myself or the journalists to interpret or qualify the new results we get every week.