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Great. I am extremely pro vaccine. Not providing this data just gives anti-vaxxers more ammo. I just got Omicron and it was easiest cold I've ever had. I'd like

Great. I am extremely pro vaccine. Not providing this data just gives anti-vaxxers more ammo. I just got Omicron and it was easiest cold I've ever had. I'd like to give the vaccines credit, but I'll have to wait on that research to come out.

kube-system 5y ago
Anti-vaxxers are already using released technical documents to support their ideas using out-of-context or misinterpreted snippets of information. I don't think it's going to affect them much either way.
- creaghpatr 5y ago
  >using released technical documents to support their ideas Yikes, not good!
  - MaxDPS 5y ago
    > Anti-vaxxers are already using released technical documents to support their ideas using out-of-context or misinterpreted snippets of information. Is this intentional irony? If not, way to prove their point lol.
- MrZongle2 5y ago
  Wait, how is anybody using technical documentation to support their position a bad thing? As opposed, say, to simply faith? Doesn't this mean that such positions can be more readily confirmed or rejected, based upon the validity of the source material?
  - kube-system 5y ago
    As I said: > out-of-context or misinterpreted For instance, the most prevalent example of this is people taking reports from VAERS and presenting them in an article as if they’re assumed to be causal effects, rather than correlative. It is quite easy to mislead people with highly technical information, because all you have to do is suggest an interpretation of the data that sounds plausible with an authoritative tone.
    - yucky 5y ago
      >the most prevalent example of this is people taking reports from VAERS and presenting them in an article as if they’re assumed to be causal effects, rather than correlative. I think if the jump in VAERS reports since the vaccines were released wasn't ~2,700x, you wouldn't see as big of a deal about it. But you can cut that in half and still have an astronomically alarming number of vaccine adverse events reported.
  - belltaco 5y ago
    E.g. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-cdc-covid-tests-flu-16750781.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/a...
Bellamy 5y ago
Vaccines are brilliant but I don't like the idea that a company manipulates data and put people's lives at risk for profit. It's clearly criminal activity.

kube-system 5y ago

Anti-vaxxers are already using released technical documents to support their ideas using out-of-context or misinterpreted snippets of information. I don't think it's going to affect them much either way.

creaghpatr 5y ago
>using released technical documents to support their ideas Yikes, not good!
- MaxDPS 5y ago
  > Anti-vaxxers are already using released technical documents to support their ideas using out-of-context or misinterpreted snippets of information. Is this intentional irony? If not, way to prove their point lol.
MrZongle2 5y ago
Wait, how is anybody using technical documentation to support their position a bad thing? As opposed, say, to simply faith? Doesn't this mean that such positions can be more readily confirmed or rejected, based upon the validity of the source material?
- kube-system 5y ago
  As I said: > out-of-context or misinterpreted For instance, the most prevalent example of this is people taking reports from VAERS and presenting them in an article as if they’re assumed to be causal effects, rather than correlative. It is quite easy to mislead people with highly technical information, because all you have to do is suggest an interpretation of the data that sounds plausible with an authoritative tone.
  - yucky 5y ago
    >the most prevalent example of this is people taking reports from VAERS and presenting them in an article as if they’re assumed to be causal effects, rather than correlative. I think if the jump in VAERS reports since the vaccines were released wasn't ~2,700x, you wouldn't see as big of a deal about it. But you can cut that in half and still have an astronomically alarming number of vaccine adverse events reported.
- belltaco 5y ago
  E.g. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-cdc-covid-tests-flu-16750781.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/a...

Bellamy 5y ago

Vaccines are brilliant but I don't like the idea that a company manipulates data and put people's lives at risk for profit. It's clearly criminal activity.