lpah4all

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by lpah4all 6y ago
Shouldn't their 5-year warranty drives still be good? My favorite idiom comes from China: Pay a lot, cry once.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
If I need to explain to you how we know that the Earth is not flat, then I should just end this conver
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by lpah4all 6y ago
That's not who the OP was talking about, not-Einstein. He's talking about the idiots who idiotically polarize needed conversations that need nuance. a-hem
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by lpah4all 6y ago
We're not talking about medical experts here.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
The problem is that the only organizations wealthy enough to do the necessary tests to provide "proof" have ZERO motivation to do anything that could jeopardize their already flowing coffers. I mean, the govt could do it, if they
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Honest, capable people don't put words in other people's mouths. Please show me where I said, "All of medicine is therefore bad." No, you said that. Now, will you apologize? I doubt it. Will you do better at reading and
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by lpah4all 6y ago
There's nothing more tedious than someone who cites an argument fallacy incorrectly.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Regulatory capture and goal-seeking driven by profit-seeking B-school acolytes.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
But when the consensus is based upon for-profit goal-seeking corps that have engaged in successful regulatory capture, it is your duty to question it. Why, pray tell, are the US's vax schedules so heavy compared to Europe? Are all thei
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Depends on the doctor, depends on the situation. I did, you should note, get told not to come back to a doctor's group -- after a single visit to establish a PCP -- for quote "asking too many questions". My wife was with me a
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by lpah4all 6y ago
You got it. It takes intelligence to entertain both sides of an argument, grasp and appreciate the nuance of the situation and then come to a sensible conclusion, which is often "I don't know, I'll need to learn more to decid
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Uhh, google "opioid epidemic". Or, perhaps "cancer-causing agents in prescription drugs" (caused by not testing their processes for unwanted by-products making their way into the medicines). Or, that airbag manufacturer
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by lpah4all 6y ago
>> The people who are producing vaccines don't typically make tons of profit on them. You have not done your research. >> Are you a stupid mark for trusting the regulatory system that ensures safety? Why do you assume I tru
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Smart people are loathe to trust for-profit corps with their health. How safe do you find those opioids now? What were they saying in front of the congressional committee? What were their sales reps saying? What were their privately-funded
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by lpah4all 6y ago
It's difficult to mandate self-evolution through education. Most people just binge-watch vapid fiction after vapid fiction.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Your biases are so ingrained you don't even realize them. Yes, I am biased against for-profit corps. Which one, especially among the pharmas, do you trust? No, this is not my gut, this is my experience with for-profit corps and my know
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by lpah4all 6y ago
No, you can only be forced into quarantine if you have a communicable disease. And the immuno-compromise put themselves at risk every time they go out without a mask. Now, are you also going to require older people to top-up their vaccinati
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Most people are fascists at heart, more than willing to control your body over their own fears and stupidities. We each get to choose what to do with our bodies so long as we are not intentionally causing harm to others. Most people won&#x2
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by lpah4all 6y ago
The use of thimerosol is solely to increase shelf-life. Keeping stock from expiring (thus being unsellable) is a fundamental B-school technique for controlling costs. Anyone with any knowledge of human physiology knows injecting any form of
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by lpah4all 6y ago
It also increases profit. You trust those B-schoolers and their hand-picked goal-seeking researchers to shade toward safety or profit? I am pro-vax (within a sensible schedule) and anti-for-profit-corps, who NEVER EVER give a shit about
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Vaccines are an absolutely revolutionary technology. That said, mixing profit with essential medical technology is a recipe for failure. The first way to make something more profitable is to cut costs. What corners do these corps cut to up
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by lpah4all 6y ago
>> I don't know what exactly contributes to this Proper mental models, tool mastery, love for hyperfocus, brutality of testing, passion for solving interesting, difficult problems, along with the proper work environment involving
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by lpah4all 6y ago
What one values in life is the basis of mental health, unless one has a physical pathology (e.g. depression). Congratulations on your success. There is a significant part of the world population that refuse to learn how to look at the world
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Josh Marshall and his team at TalkingPointsMemo have been doing a fantastic job for these past four years documenting Trump's AG turnstile that finally landed him the cover-up artist Barr, whose lawyering for government criminals goes
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Who the fuck would downvote this? It is established fact. Oh, that's right. It's 2020 and the Internet has no shortage of ideological idiots and information saboteurs. Talk about a thorny problem for a board like this.
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but words have meaning and, as a father-to-son Scotsman, I'm pretty fucking sure that a Scotsman has to have some branch of their ancestry come from Scotland. Also, a priest can't honestly say
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Well, RS certainly prepared him for how to deal with the patient dying. I'm sure he tried to save my beloved RS, too. I remember reading a Rolling Stone article years ago about neurosurgery residents ( 7 years) where one of the guys l
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by lpah4all 6y ago
Every person is a door to your happiness, and you have the choice to serve their happiness or to treat them callously or even cruelly. There is no religion without the person actively trying to be a better person to every single person arou
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by lpah4all 6y ago
The universe exists to give us the opportunity to be selfless caregivers for our fellow human beings or be callous or even predatory towards those we deem "other" or "lesser". This why we each are born with a sense of mo
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by lpah4all 6y ago
The same guy who told Frost, "Well, if the President did it, it's not illegal." Clearly, his grip on reality was a long time gone in service to his power-seeking for his constituency. Even a president can be a data point in D

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