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by ikitat 17y ago
Is that statistic based solely on the 1976 vaccine? If so, I'm not sure it's relevant today.
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by ikitat 17y ago
I have a barely functioning immune system That is why you should ask your doctor if you should get the vaccine. Immunosuppressed are on the high risk list and are encouraged to get the vaccine.
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by ikitat 17y ago
Jefferson's research doesn't show that the seasonal flu vaccine has no efficacy, just data showing that it has less efficacy for people over 60. He's mostly criticized for dismissing the convergence of independent evidence of efficacy fo
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by ikitat 17y ago
All Things Considered interviewed an expert today, he calculated 5.5/1,000,000,000,000.
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by ikitat 17y ago
The clojure wiki has examples.
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by ikitat 17y ago
As I understand it Jackson disregards any data that wasn't gathered via a randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled trial (RCT). Performing a trial with a placebo for flu vaccines has ethical implications because the flu vaccine has be
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by ikitat 17y ago
Based on the context of the article I believe the hand washing comment was made tongue-in-cheek.
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by ikitat 17y ago
I wanted to give a more thorough response, I was attending a birthday party earlier. Remove "making people have an accident" from the car analogy and it is still unethical since seat belts are proven effective. In order to make the study
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by ikitat 17y ago
don't shoot the messenger
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by ikitat 17y ago
I'm sorry, but the heading on table 2 reads: Table 2. Reported number of new and cumulative confirmed fatal Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza cases in EU and EFTA countries, as 23 October 2009, 09:00 hours CEST, and in the rest of the world
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by ikitat 17y ago
Perhaps an analogy would help: Most car accidents don't kill people. Seat belts have been proven as an effective defense against injury and death in automobile accidents. It would be unethical to perform a study in which you ask humans to
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by ikitat 17y ago
Did you read the article? The ethical issue is the fact that you are _not_ preventing a vaccine preventable disease. What information do you have that the flu vaccine is not tested properly? edit to your edit: You clearly didn't read the
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by ikitat 17y ago
Seasonal flu kills approximately 36,000 _Americans_ annually. Confirmed deaths worldwide for the 2009 H1N1 flu: 5,382 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
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by ikitat 17y ago
Hundreds? 48,161,019 Americans were vaccinated, 1098 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) recorded nationwide by CDC surveillance, 532 of which were linked to the NIIP vaccination, resulting in death from severe pulmonary complications f
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by ikitat 17y ago
Ethics are not ridiculous. Randomized placebo controlled double-blinded studies have the potential to cause harm to humans. A fantastic post on the issue can be found here http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=467
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by ikitat 17y ago
Yes
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by ikitat 17y ago
Any tips on installing Vista on my Alpha?
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by ikitat 17y ago
Mostly asymptomatic unless you get a severe infection (lots of worms) which can lead to anemia and protein deficiency.
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by ikitat 17y ago
WNYC's Radiolab did a great segment on one of their recent shows. http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/09/07/parasites/ People take dangerous steroids and/or extremely expensive biological treatments to knock down active immune systems. W
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by ikitat 17y ago
He may make a good point, but I wouldn't know. I didn't get past the 8th f-bomb.
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by ikitat 17y ago
Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) doesn't support raw files that come from cameras that are released after a new major PS/ACR release. The workaround is to use Adobe's free RAW to digital negative (DNG) converter. You can do this in a batch. Then p
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by ikitat 17y ago
No, BSD terms do not require redistribution. They do release some of OS X sans GUI as Darwin.
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by ikitat 17y ago
OWASP is the first thing that comes to mind. http://www.owasp.org I'm not sure if I'd consider it a start up though.
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by ikitat 17y ago
Reminds me of the Nike ad, "Training is the opposite of hoping."