The JCVI in the UK have just advised against rolling out childhood vaccination, so I don't know where you're getting your 'consensus' from. Well then ...
In what way do you think pro-vaccers avoid this situation? Without prejudice, if you've been campaigning to inject your whole community with something...
How would my doctor know about those risks? I can see why they might keep themselves abreast of the latest medical data (though there's absolutely not...
Potential harms of the virus - catching it and dying, catching it and getting long-term effects, catching it and passing it on to someone vulnerable, ...
Actually there's been some very interesting work by Susan Hespos on exactly what else. She's been trying to work out what laws of physics babies take ...
If someone has to 'make sure' of it, it wasn't a consequence was it, prior to the making sure? The consequences of our actions are usually considered ...
Why not? We're talking about 'data' here, not conclusions. Presumably scientists are willing to accept data on tarot reading and astrology, that's how...
Yes, I think that's right. But as I said to Srap above (in other words), there's more to consider than either the shopping list or the grocery basket....
Yeah, that's the way I see it. That why I opened my contribution here with an argument against idealism. We all assume there are external objects. Unl...
Both. The chance of harm from the vaccine and the fact the money made out of this response is all going to these companies who then have a massive inc...
Then why have you cited an article written by a psychiatrist and science-journalism hack as evidence against one written by three epidemiologists with...
"...the cause of our representation of that something". Processes and objects are two different things, we can conceive of objects as being representa...
Would it surprise you if I didn't? Here's where it goes wrong, and hopefully in a simple way. I was trying to argue that distrust of pharmaceuticals i...
Yes, but in question is the veracity of those things, the interpretation of them, the contextual meaning. The literal transcript is irrelevant. Depend...
How would anyone go about doing that without simply getting into a second level of some scientists saying one thing, some saying another and having to...
Yes, but I don't think that means there's no issue. It's just that the anti-realist is wrong about where. That you (and sufficient others in your lang...
It helps to think about this in terms of Markov blankets. A little diagram... External cause > sensory receiver > sensation > representation. The repr...
Yes, definitely. Yes, but the entire scenario - ball, cause of mass, gravity etc - contains a mix of socially constructed representations and immutabl...
I can't think of anything either. It seems a dead end. Of course, there do seem to be causes of our representations for which no amount of re-thinking...
Yes, seems self evidently true. So the question is whether the claims are true. We have two choices - we analyse the claims ourselves, or we trust som...
But all of those things (and states) are still unarguabley some way things seem to us to be. We have no other source of things to say other than our b...
Yeah, that's rather the problem I was trying to highlight, but from the other side of the coin. The anti-realist says "things are only as they seem to...
Exactly. It's a pre-requisite for the use of 'talk about'. There must be someone else to talk to. We're trying... It's been my research field for the ...
Come now, we all know ants aren't real... It's self-evident that all we have that can be talked about is the way things seem to us, it is both phenome...
Yeah. An oncologist and journalist with no training at all in epidemiology criticises just about the most cited epidemiologist in the world and you si...
I can't see the risk you're seeing. If we boil my claim down to "people who have good* reason to believe they don't really* need the vaccine ought not...
Probably, but policy recommendations are made by public health authorities. Epidemiologists advise them. As I said on the other thread, public policy ...
I don't see how. To counter an argument that the spread of the virus isn't sufficiently slowed in young healthy people to justify vaccination, you'd n...
Now that one has been mentioned. But I see no mention in the article of the issues raised (at least by me) None of the actual studies cited in the art...
I don't think it's a particularly naïve faith to assume that there aren't huge swathes of people so psychopathic that they're knowingly going to let m...
...well, here now. Since you've not replied to anyone who actually raised it here all you've done is given it more airtime. Still, made a nice little ...
That's not a different idea than mine. I'm absolutely certain some of then think that way too. Are you really having so much trouble with the notion o...
Yes. This is the line of argument I have most sympathy with (though not quite enough to actually agree). If something ought to be done on average, but...
Of course. I suspect I'm much more interested in your questions than you are in my answers. More of your jejune all-or-nothing analysis. Why must I ei...
I simply took it as an exhortation to be wary of glass-house stone throwing. I didn't realise you actually wanted answers! Because I've spoken to many...
But they do by the same metric used with Covid. We've introduced a new 'using up a hospital bed' measure. All the things I mentioned have a small incr...
Did you not get the memo? It's only those opposed to universal vaccination whose motives have any occult psychology. Those promoting it are all comple...
This is the typical response (not in a bad way, just useful to summarise). The common themes are 1. It doesn't matter how little the risk is reduced, ...
The two data sets can't be compared since they use different methods of classifying cause of death. COVID deaths are recorded by mention on the death ...
Not being coerced into taking a corporate product by those exact same politicians is taking a stand against the fact that corporations can buy our pol...
Not a complete answer. We use this at work. http://covid19-phenomics.org/PrototypeOurRiskCoV.html This one is the only one I know of to include BMI ht...
I was just being facetious. Of possible interest... https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-t...
That just doesn't make any sense. Unless you have access to the raw data then the extent to which such actions affect others is exactly the matter abo...
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