Ryan Horath
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Lawyer, software developer. Epistemic trespasser. I block people who block the people who block the people who block the blue checks.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Didn't take long to go from censoring "misinformation" to censoring true information that is inconvenient. So many people assured me this was no slippery slope. You don't have to be a genius to see that censoring this will increase vaccine hesitancy.
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Before the pandemic behavior like this would have been recognized as a mental illness. But public health has normalized it and encouraged it. This is a tragedy and will have a lasting negative impact on society.
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@daphnehk
Twitter, Meta, Google, etc fear antitrust action, revocation of 230, loss of govt contracts, etc, etc. They fear RETALIATION. This is not a mystery. You can read their interactions and see it reads like a BOSS-EMPLOYEE relationship. This is wrong. It violates 1A.
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@TracyBethHoeg
@KevinBardosh
@VPrasadMDMPH
@AngryCardio
@liviadrusilla90
@GHS
@walidgellad
@KrugAlli
@NicolaKSDavis
It's a never-ending series of attempts to bullshit. First it was "myocarditis is rare". Then it was "it's mild". When that failed, it was "myocarditis from covid is worse". That has failed, so now it's "it's no worse than other vaccines". Endless attempts to bullshit.
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@jessesingal
Am I the only one that stayed for the payoff, then said, "Oh, dear." Then read tweets 5 & 6 for fun, but then thought, "No, I cannot do this anymore." And quit right there. I assume this is what most people have done?
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@EinatWilf
@Haggii1955
There were ~260k Jewish refugees from the Arab countries around 1948. They lost everything, whether voluntarily or by force. They went to Israel, were welcomed, and started a new life. They didn't create camps where they reside for 70 years demanding a right of return.
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@BrianKarem
Only a few years ago, it would be considered deeply inappropriate for the President to comment on whether a private individual should be investigated. Partisanship has really blown away a lot of safeguards. Slouching toward authoritarianism.
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@rwlesq
@Noahpinion
Because it's common sense. If you voluntarily consume drugs, you consent to whatever choices you may make that you normally would not. You consented to lowering your inhibitions. When it's not voluntary, it gets more complicated, but still relies on common sense.
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@ggreenwald
@TaylorLorenz
@SubstackInc
I cannot wait for her article threatening to leave Substack unless they ban Glenn Greenwald because she needs a safe space.
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@nycexpatmom
@schmangee
It's a sign of the sickness of our democracy that the first thing on people's mind is issuing *executive orders* that cut Congress out of lawmaking. Not long ago this was rightfully controversial. Now it's an expectation. Our country has regressed back to monarchy.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
"No one's facing any restrictions"
Translation: I'm working from home and loving it, unmasked, meeting with my friends, etc, etc. Not sure what everyone is so upset about.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
It always amazes me how many studies seem to have 5 minutes of thought in the design followed by months of study and a bazillion dollars spent. But the study was designed on the back of a napkin and the results are basically worthless.
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@jessesingal
Article summary: "I implore you to stop thinking about both sides of this issue and please only think about one side. Here is an emotional appeal to get you to disregard the other side."
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@lhfang
EIP issued a statement denying any nefarious intent but confirmed in that statement that they partnered with CISA. Matt's error was in thinking a particular email that referenced CIS actually referred to CISA when it did not. But he was correct that EIP partnered with CISA.
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@devahaz
@pencil_gang
@realChrisBrunet
@PosterTubs
He also said it's not worth the price. Yeah, what airport food is? Chick-fil-a is generally pretty cheap.
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@WillOremus
My only wish is that people like yourself would understand the difference between viewpoint moderation and everything else. And why that distinction is super important.
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This is actually exactly what it means. Accepting that we will get infected over and over - not because "the government doesn't want to try anymore", but because there is nothing we can do to stop this that won't destroy society.
"Living with COVID" shouldn't mean getting reinfected with COVID over and over because the government doesn't want to try anymore.
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@MichaelPSenger
@cliftonaduncan
It's extreme doubling down. Basically gaslighting people for criticizing them. A big middle finger with kids used as the victim.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
@carlheneghan
"This meta-analysis by two people who don't do meta-analysis for a living and a third guy that is a pop culture celebrity, is definitely better than the meta-analysis by the Cochrane reviewers who have been doing this work for two decades."
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Apoorva is symbolic of our times. She replaced a veteran science reporter who showed actual skepticism. He was ousted by a fake scandal. She stepped in and applied zero skepticism, spread many harmful falsehoods, and has become a darling of the elites for her efforts.
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@SMooreesq
@VPrasadMDMPH
The CDC has been having weekly meetings with social media companies for a while now. Telling them specific posts and people they want censored. The companies have no choice but to follow orders, given the power the executive branch holds over them.
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@WillOremus
Hint: Someone's real time location is not a "viewpoint", has near zero societal value, and moderating it does not offend free speech. In contrast, someone's political/scientific/etc opinions are a viewpoint and moderating those *does* offend free speech.
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@kieraevebutler
As a former long-time reader of
@MotherJones
, it is sad to see this publication fronting for pharma. Never thought I would see the day, but it has been going on a while now. The public has lost an asset.
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@BenDelecto
@Leftylockdowns1
No, but that's irrelevant. Their motives for having you on are not important - only that they will have you on. Her views are correct, so it matters that only conservative media will hear her correct views.
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@Saikmedi
@kmpanthagani
Her critique is not good. The ICD10 thing is silly b/c that would show up even larger in older people and it does not show up at all.
I searched her posts real quick and she was unsurprisingly a myocarditis minimizer. Claimed it was mild and all recovered. Biased party.
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Imagine you are Peter Aaby. You devote decades to vaccinating poor children in Africa. And you are a scientist, so you use the opportunity to study measles and the effects of vaccination...
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@ajlamesa
I have finished reading the piece and will summarize it for the benefit of others:
Section 1: Emily Oster is a Bond Villain who gets funding from right-wing sources.
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@TheNickFoy
@angrybklynmom
My head hurts after reading him say masks work on a small scale but not on a larger scale. Does he realize the larger scale is composed of the smaller scale and this is a logical impossibility?
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@VPrasadMDMPH
This seems like such an unforced error. It just adds to the feeling among hesitant people that things are being kept from them. I don't get the rationale at all. I don't think there is one. "Because we can." seems to be the idea.
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@ifihadastick
@mcuban
@DrJBhattacharya
It's unfortunate b/c Mark means well. This is what happens when you have fake science created to hoodwink the public to justify bad policy choices that were anti-science. The studies that favor lockdown have all been seriously flawed - by design. The goal is to justify the policy
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@davidzweig
@VPrasadMDMPH
"We have a mask mandate and cases eventually went down" is the level of logic we are dealing with here. Don't try to make sense of it. It's just full on confirmation bias run amok. They don't care.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
If your study finds that kids with COVID have less respiratory symptoms than kids without COVID (0.91), you should probably realize your study is bananas and not publish it.
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@IoanaA_Cristea
It's so hard to know who to trust: the kind, humble scientist with a sterling reputation, legendary publication record, and 100% open to criticism...or the grad student who freely insults other scientists and blocks anyone who utters a word of disagreement. Ha ha.
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@TheEliKlein
@ggreenwald
@lopezobrador_
Some journalists should really record what's going on at Mastodon. When liberals/journalists are unleashed to practice "moderation" the way they want, it degenerates into an orgy of banning that results in e/o getting banned for something "offensive" eventually.
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@zamishka
@anish_koka
The question is whether such "tradeoffs" are justifiable. They were not. Never were. And a court has now agreed they were not only unjustifiable, but arbitrary and capricious. The "tradeoffs" forced upon them were gross violations of their rights.
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@angrybklynmom
Yeah, this list is pretty eye opening. It basically takes every argument made, some good and some not so great, and labels them all "fascist". Case closed. If you believe in justice, fairness, facts, etc, you are a "fascist". My 8 year old reasoned better than this when he was 2.
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@kylamb8
@Google
@YouTube
@factchecknet
Guess who else funds these "fact-checking" operations? The US govt. Big Tech and the govt together fund these intermediaries, using them to launder their 1A violations through. The intermediaries take orders from the govt & Big Tech takes orders from the intermediaries.
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@maxam_ross
@ggreenwald
Which is exactly why it's important that someone defend them. Most people "don't see the infatuation with defending" everyone accused of a crime. Most people say they believe in "innocent until proven guilty" but actually believe accused are always guilty.
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@ezralevant
@kylamb8
I bet this is an artifact of prior infection. Unvaccinated are more likely to have prior infection, which provides more durable immunity. As the actual protection from vaccination reaches zero, vaxxed are more infected because unvaxxed have more natural immunity.
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@angrybklynmom
@jasmith_yorku
No one else got the memo that today was 'dress like Bane day' at the grocery store.
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@adamcifu
The results of this poll make me think evidence-based medicine doesn't stand a chance. Although, I think this poll is clever, as it's secretly gathering evidence for the next version of Ending Medical Reversal.
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@MSmelkinsonPhD
When so many people think it's that high, you can understand why many might support draconian measures and police shooting people with rubber bullets to enforce them. If the stakes really were that high, who wouldn't support it?
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@annbauerwriter
@markmywordsltd
When we have that psychologist's ear, we should also ask them what's wrong with people who refuse to wear energy bands. It's not like it's hurting you or anything. Just wear the fucking energy band and get your chakras in alignment, God damn it.
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@chetfaliszek
@MikeIsaac
That is literally the purpose of free speech. Today's "crazy conspiracy theory" is often tomorrow's truth. Not always, but it does happen quite a lot. The concept of free speech is meaningless if it doesn't apply to controversial speech - that's the only thing that matters.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
I was disappointed but not surprised to see various actors like Fauci telling people to expect approval by December. How can they say that w/o seeing any data - especially on safety? It undermines e/t and creates pressure to approve just to save reputations. How can a/o trust?
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Our leaders are addicted to forcing individuals to do everything and refusing to provide any assistance for them. We would have been a lot better off if Fauci personally visited nursing homes all over the country vaccinating people than the silly push to vaccinate young people.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
We went from no concerns about rebound to rebound is rare to rebound basically happens to everyone. This is the story of almost every major drug side effect.
Also, I have some questions about what this drug is doing to the immune response long term. Is it diminishing it?
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@ZaidJilani
This article is unintentionally hilarious. Lectures about minority issues? No problem. Turn the lecture around and say, "Hey, white women are people, too. Here is their experience." You're fired. The complaints were even the same! "I was being lectured to." Indeed.
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@angrybklynmom
The thing that really bothers me is that places like Denmark have high rates of vaccination because they do exactly the opposite of what we do. Nuanced public health messaging that's honest about risks and benefits. They don't lie to try to force people into certain decisions.
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@MartinKulldorff
Based on the age splits and the evidence of behavior changes in the mask groups, it's likely the effect is due to behavior changes, not the masks. So, we have a study with 0% - 11% efficacy, with the smart money on 0% or something close to that. It's not a great finding.
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@BallouxFrancois
I think she misheard. I think they were actually explaining how you get monkeypox.
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@ProfDBernstein
@anaraintuitive
For 75 years, every single conflict with Israel has been instigated by the Arab side and every single conflict has ended when the international community pressured Israel to stop. They always give in eventually, but this time they said, "Enough". Hamas did not expect this.
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@phl43
This guy is showing that the demonstrators are blocking Jews access to public property. Imagine seeing this and calling it a "stunt" instead of being outraged over the clearly illegal behavior here.
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@feelsdesperate
@EricLevitz
After years of suppressing speech, some progressives are suddenly in favor of protecting speech again - once their own suppression tools are aimed at them. And they want a pat on the back for this bold stance. I mean, it is superior to those who still back the suppression, but...
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@BenBurgis
@superhumanity
@Paul_Ferdous
Anyone who thinks Dresden was a war crime has zero sense of morality. You can only make such pronouncements because your ancestors had the moral fortitude to preserve your freedom, which included bombings like Dresden.
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@_sbeck
@LindseyBoylan
Impersonating other people has always been against TOS for good reason. The blue check was created to address this problem.
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@ajlamesa
If you ask the local people, 100% of them just say "We are following the advice of the CDC and Fauci." No accountability anywhere.
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@ryangrim
Commercial shipping containers didn't launch an attack on the Houthis. This is not hard. Would you have written a post during WWII saying that German civilians deserve more protection than shipping containers? Something tells me you would.
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@BallouxFrancois
None of the cool kids are going to Mastodon. All the unbearable people are. They will be back. Mastodon is a worse version of Twitter with zero moderation ability and is built by a Russian programmer in Germany b/c he thinks social media should not be owned by "a US corporation".
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@tjp7118
@TheEliKlein
It's not unexpected that someone with a severe case would have long term symptoms. What is not likely are the large number of people with mild cases claiming long term symptoms. The people with real long-term symptoms are being overshadowed by those with something else.
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@ALPublicHealth
Pretty graphics are not science. Randomized trials are science. Yet we failed to conduct those for *anything* in this graphic aside from vaccines, which were required by law. We talk a good game, but our "science" is not so far from the dark ages.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Yep. Twitter's head of US public policy resigned the other day after revelations she was a willing participant in govt censorship. Her career path was Senate staffer -> Consulting lobbyist -> Twitter lobbyist. She is also married to a former Sr. Justice Dept official.
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@kylamb8
@JeromeAdamsMD
Not to mention that the post-COVID "myocarditis" is not actual myocarditis, but small troponin leaks that have none of the features of myocarditis. This is apples to oranges and deliberately misleading. Lying to the public is not good for trust in public health.
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@NAChristakis
They have now clarified that these courses are open to everyone, it's just that black and Latinx students get special treatment. Whew, glad they cleared that up!
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The Left is clearly in the same downward spiral that led to their support of Stalin and Mao. It's so obvious and horrifying to see. People now backing homicidal Islamic fundamentalists and acting like anyone who doesn't is crazy. Holy cow.
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@adamcifu
I'm not a Vitamin D fan or anything, but I would assume any possible benefit would be severe disease prevention, not prevention of infection. The idea that we can stave off basic viral infections completely does not hold water. But do we respond better? Better question.
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@bendreyfuss
The dude is displaying classic avoidance. He doesn't care about anything, apparently. Because he cannot justify it, so he deflects by saying he doesn't care. It's also awfully convenient that men in women's restrooms don't bother him - of course, he's a man, not a woman.
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@DavidSteadson
@alex22627455
@NonProphet75
@craniosurgeon
@GCarty80
@Nils_Littorin
@FatEmperor
@PGtzsche1
@MLevitt_NP2013
Here are two heavy hitters in the field commenting on Tegnell. Balloux has been the most accurate expert during the whole pandemic.
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@kittypurrzog
Have you ever seen so many people cheering and hoping for the collapse of a service they are addicted to and use every day? In fact, pining for the collapse of the service...on the service?
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@phl43
It's mainly about hiding their identity. Tribal signaling is secondary now. Even amongst this tribe, mask wearing has declined substantially. But it's near 100% at these events b/c these people don't want to be seen and don't want the consequences of their actions.
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@bennetthaselton
@LukeryaStart
@Bob_Roony
@russelllking
@AuhsdBond
@KingBeauregard
@empathypoison3
The article indicates it was one facility that went rogue and did it not just to Palestinians, but to Israeli civilians & soldiers. They took some organs from dead people w/o consent. A bad practice, but it was not targeted at Palestinians in any way, making the claim misleading.
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@mysteriouskat
The 2nd video sounds like she was a liberal Israeli and had convinced herself that most Palestinians are not terrorists and don't support Hamas - like Western liberals believe. And her experience shook her beliefs to her core and caused her to reevaluate what she believed.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Not to mention if we stop getting influenza it may make influenza cases more serious when we get them. If we actually decreased spread of influenza, there is serious concern it could lead to a new pandemic. Wouldn't that be great, the first man made pandemic!
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@timpatent
@ZacBissonnette
Over and over again forever because the temptation to silence criticism and disagreement is simply too much for many people. They cannot resist it.
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@VPrasadMDMPH
This data from Spain is pretty good. Just ask anyone if they can guess the age at which masks were required.
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@jeremyscahill
Did that woman stab the soldier? Did the boy stab Jews? Yes, they did. You can watch the video online yourself. Whether you consider the justice system by which they were tried to be appropriate seems secondary to the fact they are guilty. Yet, you seem obsessed with it.
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@Saikmedi
I feel like society - and especially science - has developed an arrogance that every problem can be solved. Some cannot. You cannot solve this issue. Some will regret going through puberty the "wrong" sex and some will regret having their puberty blocked...
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@benoliveira62
@strauss_matt
Zombie lies never die. You may not have heard, but this data from Manaus was unreliable. My best estimate is that infection rate in Manaus is roughly half of what is given by this data.
See here:
This thread from December pointed out that convenience samples are not suitable for any but the coarsest estimates of prevalence, and that the popularity of a prevalence study like this can be driven more by its status as an outlier than by its quality.
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@angrybklynmom
@AmerAcadPeds
What I find interesting is that AAP has taken 2 contradictory positions within days. And like all contradictory positions these days, it's based on paternalism/authoritarianism. They warned against people making their own formula *using cow's milk*...
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@NateSilver538
It's the whole "nudge" issue. Once the measures are in place, they become the default. Then you have to have extraordinary reasons to get rid of them. And since you can always imagine a scenario where they are needed, they never get shut down. Inertia.
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@wamblingaphid
@ChristieSmythe
I can give one: you are not allowed to criticize the claims of political govt agencies around COVID. Even when they are false, you can be banned from most major online services for challenging them. I received two bans for accurate criticism of bogus CDC studies...
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@kallmemeg
What scientific evidence is this claim based on? What is the efficacy of this shot in pregnant women with substantial prior immunity? What are the harms?
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Right on. And they are using this now to avoid accountability. "I supported opening schools RIGHT AWAY when it was SAFE!" If your idea of "safe" was an impossible bar based on no evidence, you didn't support opening schools. You just want to avoid accountability.
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@DavidSteadson
@GCarty80
@NonProphet75
@Nils_Littorin
@FatEmperor
@PGtzsche1
@MLevitt_NP2013
We know:
1) Stockholm's break was during the time the virus was spreading.
2) 10% of all Swedes traveled internationally in only a few weeks.
3) Serology data confirms Stockholm virus came from many countries not seen in serology data from other Nordic countries.
Case closed.
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@Saikmedi
Some people have said he is trolling and I didn't pay much attention. But watching this video and this is obviously condescending humor meant to insult women. How can anyone think this is sincere?
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I'm not sure what's worse here: the antivaxx label applied to one of the most important vaccine researchers of the 20th century or a supposedly "prominent" vaccine researcher not even knowing who Peter Aaby is and what he has accomplished.
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@DaveCranstonMan
@jessesingal
There is a whole graveyard of harmful medical treatments once thought to be beneficial. Vioxx, lobotomy, etc, etc. Experts in evidence-based medicine could go on for days. Even bed rest for preterm birth is a harmful treatment still used today.
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@ianmSC
@YaleSPH
@meganranney
Disqualify? That's the main qualification for these positions. The last three years was her audition. She nailed it.
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@jessesingal
@ShaiDavidai
Does Columbia usually have a large crowd of people on the quad holding religious events, such as a Christian prayer, on a microphone for everyone on campus to hear? I doubt it. The event seems benign, but the intent is not benign at all.
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@angrybklynmom
@AmerAcadPeds
But cow's milk itself is now okay. How does that make sense? My guess is they worry if people make "alternative" formula, that people might do it permanently and stop using store bought formula, whereas if they are just using milk they will see it as temporary...
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