Well, maybe I ought to have said "As often..." rather than "As ever...". Yep. That's basically what I'm saying, but once we've completed that eliminat...
Yeah, but one can always claim to have missed it. The thing about social media personas is that you've nothing real tying them down, so people can cre...
Yes, it's driven by the polemicism of social media I think. People didn't use to be able to identify an enemy quite so clearly and find such unbridled...
Seems contagious. Yeah, but we also want to be able to not trust, no? We don't want to have to just swallow whatever we're told, charitable to the ver...
and @"unenlightened", if you're at all interested. This is what I was arguing on the other thread, but the stats clearly did not go down well. Nonethe...
Really? Putting aside for now your judgement about the facts of the case right now, can you really not see a problem with creating a system whereby a ...
Ha! That's brilliant. You're citing a study showing how radicals refuse to believe in the possibility of error as evidence that we should accept what ...
One factor. Distrust of pharmaceutical companies. Another factor. Having diabetes and no other choice than to take the product of a pharmaceutical com...
I never made that claim. Your data? Why would it. I didn't make the 'original claim'. Is all the opinion of some scientists based on a handful of low ...
Ah, the binomial thinking is contagious. Why, in your bizarre hypothetical, are people robbed of their ability to use more than one factor in their ju...
No, that one was pretty much a blanket statement. I can't think why you'd want to know about my personal judgements in that much detail, but (answers ...
I think they'd be happier with a system guided more around the public good and less around private profiteering. Are you really so bromidic that you c...
Distrusting pharmaceutical companies != not taking any of their products under any circumstances. You've heard of nuance! Depends entirely on the circ...
The vaccines reduce the virus in the blood, the virus that you transmit is in the nasal mucosa. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33320052/ That the two...
Yes, that's right. The indicators of the exact humility, concern for accuracy and acceptance of complexity which you consistently lack in your sophomo...
I think that's a very charitable summary. I hadn't intended it to be 'idea' at all really, just trying to see how my knowledge from my specialist fiel...
No, but it makes a massive difference to understanding the variance in support for different solutions. Mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry and go...
Presumably they'd decide whether or not they thought it was the right thing to do and act accordingly. Or would you rather we just suspend all moral j...
Emergencies don't change the risk profile, that's derived from the state of affairs as they are so includes any state of affairs that might justify th...
I'm not referring though to the third-person's assessment. I'm referring to our own. We (in our modelling relationship) make a decision about whether ...
Emphasis mine, to help your reading comprehension. It's a complex matter involving the degree to which the vaccines effect viral populations in the na...
Then we'll have been 'right' to assume such. A sensation is a single category, the interocepted physiological state signals are manifold and form a no...
He may have done if he overstated the degree to which it's representationalist. I think we've talked about this before. I get what you're saying about...
Woah, so the way vaccines interact with viruses has changed since January! Those damn biological facts, they just won't stay the same from one minute ...
You know this how? Correlation is not causation, there are many factors acting on the number of cases, serious symptoms and deaths, not least of which...
Just by way of checking how far you normally take this attitude... If a chemical company, say DuPont, had spilt some chemicals in your drinking water ...
and As I said... I'm arguing against the identification of a word with a referent. (I doubt you'll have had a chance to read other posts I've made on ...
Explain how you reconcile "it's neither" with "I don't trust the pharmaceutical industry"? Or are you just asserting that I should trust the pharmaceu...
I don't know why everyone is asking the question over and over in such mock bafflement as if I hadn't answered it six times already. Unless your lifes...
Yeah, I lose a lot of people at that point. What do you think the 'sensation of pain' is, as an existent entity. What type of thing is it? On what gro...
It's not normal to require people to take all action available to them to reduce any given risk. We normally only require that the rusk be reduced bel...
I didn't ignore them, they are the entire point. I was refuting a response from ssu that we had made progress on the other causes of death - the drop ...
As I'm sure you're aware, the pharmaceutical companies have a track record of lying about both safety and efficacy, so they wouldn't even need the pre...
It think I do. Possibly, it's that clinging on to every second of life by our fingernails and "hang the expense" is pointless and undignified. People ...
So do you have knowledge I'm not privy to? Or is there some other reason why you can say that the death toll would likely have been much much more "in...
Yes, that's exactly it. @"Banno" and I have been here before. When we talk about cognition, in the scientific sense, we need a language-game to talk a...
Yep. And here we are, one public forum among many, talking about nothing but how ordinary people not taking vaccines and not wearing masks are to blam...
Will it though? With rapidly dropping effectiveness against even minor variants of SARS-Cov-2, to what extent do you think it's going to be of any use...
No. HIV, poverty, tuberculosis, malaria, childhood obesity, heart disease, cancer, mental health issues, are all still ongoing causes of death and deb...
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