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forcry
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> There have been hundreds of millions of vaccinations. People have been smoking for a very long time without noticing any apparent problem. Vioxx is estimated to have caused a 100000 additional heart attacks in US alone, but no one noti
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5y ago
>That's what the French did, everything was explained and accessible. Nothing I said implied that authorities will always be able to get away with what they believe to be the best thing for the population.
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>This removes any opportunity to nudge more people toward getting the shots, he added.“The whole idea behind a good vaccination campaign is making not getting vaccinated the harder choice, and getting vaccinated the easy choice. Right no
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5y ago
This is wrong if true. Science based on experiments that are not repeatable by anyone cannot have the legitimacy that have been traditionally assigned to Science. Because where does the credibility of science come from? It comes from the fa
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forcry
5y ago
I agree 100% I have been feeling this for a long time and I fully expect the tide to turn in sometime.
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5y ago
Public funding is the biggest evil, because all the evil that the executives do can be justified as being done for the public, who has invested in them, and to appreciate their investment in valuation, the same actions that could harm the v
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5y ago
Science based on experiments that are not repeatable by anyone cannot have the legitimacy that have been traditionally assigned to Science. World is recognising this simple fact. If you do an experiment, one that very few people in the worl
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5y ago
>But the hesitancy I've witnessed is not based on a kind of logic or reasoning, rather just an 'instinct'. What about the advocacy? I would go further and say that not even advocacy, but the general behaviour to trust the
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5y ago
>vaccines are generally safe I am not sure how that can be correct. Because each vaccine is different, and can vary drastically in what the contain. Now, if you say, all FDA approved vaccines are generally safe, then that might make a li
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5y ago
Thanks. But this was mostly useless. This was mostly two persons citing their reasons, and there was not enough picking apart of the other side's argument, And to me, the lab leak scientist's arguments were a lot stronger where th
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5y ago
Only a very low dose of Ivermectin was used. From the study limitations.. > Low percentage of hospitalization events, dose of ivermectin and not including only high-risk population. I think one would at least use any of the protocols tha
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>A lot of simultaneous trials have been run globally.. Where can I read about all these studies, indvidually, say for example, for Moderna vaccine?
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5y ago
> when science protects us I am not sure how much this "science" that seem to be afraid of data, be able to "protect" us. > https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#worker >OSHA does not wish t
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5y ago
One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda
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5y ago
Here is one idea. Let someone host a debate that pitches scientists on either camp against each other. Let them fight it out in public. It is quite useless for the public to divide themselves depending on what version of "science"
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5y ago
>But hundreds of millions of doses delivered, with a complication rate significantly less than the disease itself... that's pretty powerful evidence, no? Yes. But there is a problem. This implies an unrestricted flow of information.
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>Here, one individual component of the FDA was compromised, but other checks-and-balances are coming to bear.. The damning thing is the point it got up to, before the "checks and balances" came into play that we have to conside
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>You might be able to buy off the FDA, but it's a lot more work to buy off all the regulatory authorities of the world, at short notice. That is kind of naive. Because you don't buy off FDA, you keep it on your payroll. If you
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>My father is kind of scared of the COVID vaccine - understandable. >But he gets his 'flu shot' (and a bunch of other things) by the doctor all the time. Does make a lot of sense to me. Because not all vaccines are the same.
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>Credibility is easy to be lost and hard to be gained again. I disagree. If you have media in your team, this is easy, given some time. Particularly in current times when you have a treasure trove of possible distractions that you can ma
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> trade off that we as a society.. >Regulators have the tough job of balancing the risks, benefits, and science when making the call on whether to accept one. I am curious. How much of the society was involved in making this decision.
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>FDA is now narrowing the recommended window of patients to only those with milder forms of the memory-robbing disease. .. So not really walking back. What a joke! Just a hand full of bullshit "research" showing "good effe
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>The messages are used to legitimize people armed with daggers and sickles and machetes belonging to sundry outfits pouring out onto the streets and indulging in arson, rioting, and murder. https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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To treat covid if I am not mistaken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28YV8TfTieE
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So I think we can agree that there was a clash with police. But you were saying the farmers where indulging in murder. so do you have a number (and source for the same), for how many were murdered by the farmers, during this event?
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>scam covid-19 treatments One problem I have with this is that Ivermectin is proposed by real doctors who treat patients on ground zero. As far as one can see, there is zero incentives for them to promote a treatment that does not work.
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> except when you're in charge of the law and order of a city, and you have messages such as these doing the rounds in the midst of a large scale protest. I think that cannot justify it. There are lines that should not be crossed, n
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>Twitter refused to take down such blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets. The problem of applying censorship to counter fake news is that the same thing can be applied to counter legit news as well. So such a precedent shoul
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The sad fact of the situation that argument by some proxy does not really work. A person goes like "Here is what my scientist say!" and the others are like "No, you are wrong! Here is what my scientist say". It is quit
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>There's no definitive proof of this, either! I really don't understand what you are saying. Weren't all the first cases identified around Wuhan? Just because some other variant was found to be dominant elsewhere a later
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