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In other news, your barber thinks you need a haircut. Until there is a proven net overall health benefit to this therapy, I wouldn't waste much ink on it. Also,
by grokcodec 1mo ago
In other news, your barber thinks you need a haircut.
Until there is a proven net overall health benefit to this therapy, I wouldn't waste much ink on it. Also, can someone please tell me how one controls the dose for an mRNA therapy ?
- rob74 1mo agoIf you actually had melanoma (a very aggressive type of skin cancer) you would be glad for one more chance of maybe still being alive a few years from now.
- grokcodec 1mo agonot if you dropped dead from a heart attack after your therapy. Are you familiar with vioxx ? https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-vioxx https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and...
- ted_dunning 1mo agoIF you dropped dead a decade later, it would be a fantastic trade-off. Vioxx was a long-term problem. Having that problem instead would be a great trade-off relative to untreated melanoma.
- xboxnolifes 1mo agoHow does one control the dose for anything? Why are you worried about mRNA vaccines in particular?
- grokcodec 1mo agoRadiation dose, for example, is precisely measured - we know exactly how much radiation the body is exposed to during therapy. mRNA products work by making our cells produce the desired protein/drug. There is no way of controlling how many cells are producing the drug and for how long they are producing it - ergo there is no way of controlling the dose. I hate to break it to you but they have found people producing spike protein over 3 years after getting the covid shot.
- egl2020 1mo agoSpike proteints: new production or residual fragments?
- ted_dunning 1mo agoCitation on the spike protein production?
- Plutoberth 1mo agoA successful phase 3 trial means that the drug is actually effective, not just safe. That's what they test in phase 3.
- grokcodec 1mo agoAs there is no safety data available on this new drug, what makes you say it is safe ? Pre 2020 it took an average of 10 years to release a new vaccine - why do you think it took that long ?
- preg_match 1mo agoCancer treatment is different. We have a high tolerance for side effects because many cancers are aggressive and deadly. It's a risk-analysis. If your odds of dying from cancer in the next year are 50%, and the drugs have a 25% chance of killing you, then the drugs are worth it. In actuality, even extremely aggressive therapies like high-dose chemotherapy with stem-cell transplant have shockingly low risk of death. Less than 5%. Bear in mind, that's for a therapy that literally wipes out all of your bone marrow. You know, the part of your body that produces your blood? Your body stops making blood and your immune system. And yet, we've gotten the death rate as low as it is.
- grokcodec 1mo agoSee my comments below on Vioxx - even the manufacturers admitted covid shots caused myocarditis in young men - why are you so sure this new therapy won't cause the same issues, or worse ?
- preg_match 1mo agoCovid itself has a higher risk of myocarditis than the covid vaccine. And even if it did, it doesn't matter. You didn't read my comment at all. There are cancer treatments which can kill you outright, I know because I've received them. I think maybe you don't understand what cancer is. We can be very aggressive with the treatments. We have much, much bigger fish to fry than a small risk of myocarditis.