Probably, but I may have forgotten. I think that's kind of what I was saying...bout an invariance we expect or demand agreement on? A fiction, or a fo...
It is in terms of risk assessment. Since there is no evidence for the delta variant (the study is still recruiting https://www.ukri.org/news/examining...
Yes, I think it's just unreasonable to assume there's no external cause (by 'external' here I mean external to the system doing the modelling, outside...
Yes, but you were imploring me, not you. That you're swayed by the friendliness of the voice (seems a bit easily led to me, but, hey ho), why ought I ...
There's a distinction between the perception and the cause of the perception. My perception of this wooden, light-brown, medium-sized desk is caused b...
Their having chosen with integrity? But when we're talking about preferences (not facts), that starts to sound worryingly like a presumption of confor...
Fully mandated vaccination in Indonesia, and Turkmenistan; public sector workers in Canada, Fiji and Saudi Arabia and much of the US; large gatherings...
Not sure I get this. Does 'unable to understand' really mean 'unable to approve'? I assume the bit I'm not getting is the explanation, but it seems to...
Ahh, that makes sense now. Yes I agree. But here, I'm interested primarily in why people believe my actions are bad. Those reasons you gave (reversed)...
That hasn't made anything any clearer. You might want to to try stringing your media snippets together with actual words relating them to the topic at...
No they don't. Not in the light of this latest one. With any evidence of a u- or j- shaped relationship, previous studies which lack sufficient granul...
My misunderstanding again. I thought you were referring to thresholds of risk in general (those thresholds, as in the one's to to with risk). I unders...
I agree actually. The amount of stuff we can believe to be the case without any problems arising massively outweighs the amount of stuff about which s...
Ah - OK, that's the easier question to answer. The hesitancy to authorise the vaccine for children is very widely supported, most advisory bodies are ...
Yes, that's my understanding of what the experts are saying too, but note Hence Professor Pollard's notion that it still all comes down to flattening ...
Ah, yes. I really only put that in as an example - to say that I didn't (contrary to a lot of arguments I've read) find anything wrong with the form o...
'My view' is a rather broad term so it's difficult to answer that question. I don't want to go off on some long spiel only to find you meant some quit...
Yes, I think that's true too. I interpreted Professor Pollard as saying that it would get to the vaccinated eventually, rather than that a variant wou...
I don't, no. But remember the scale is whole orders of magnitude different. The average risk of needing hospitalisation from obesity is over 50 times ...
We've been through the reasons, no? It's a risk I don't want to take (I prefer risks from external elements to risks from things I did to myself), I d...
There were 500,000 cumulative covid-related hospitalisations in the UK as of 23 Aug. There were about 600,000 obesity related admissions for the same ...
Absolutely. If you are obese, with heart disease and diabetes, the vaccine may be your only way of reducing your burden on the healthcare system, the ...
I'm glad it's not just me. I never got that either. It crops up everywhere as if it were a law of nature, and yet I've never heard anyone explain why ...
Not for the under 24s (well, not compared to the benefits anyway - the risks definitely are minimal in real terms) https://medium.com/@wpegden/weighin...
Yes, there's some disagreement there to. Perhaps. But if that were the case, then vaccination (alone) wouldn't be a very good strategy would it? Like ...
Well the simple answer is I doubt it, but I'm afraid I've no idea why you would be asking me, nor what the question has to do with my insulting Prisho...
Yes, I agree. But moral imperatives don't normally carry a means. "You should help the poor" doesn't include in it which charity to donate to. Even so...
A larger study has just come out showing the opposite. The study is in preprint, so should be taken as preliminary, but the picture may not be so clea...
Ha! I'm a semi-retired British academic...what can I do...there are laws about these things. They've only just rescinded the requirement to smoke a pi...
Yes, in the one aspect they measured (antigen breadth). Natural immunity has the advantage of not costing anything, not taking vaccines from those who...
Yes, you're right. Of course, the 'education' being thought of in the 'education ameliorates vaccine hesitancy' argument is not really PhD level. Only...
A scoping study often sacrifices quality of data for sample size. The idea is just to see if there's anything interesting to investigate, a good hypot...
That's a lot of verification. There'd have to have been a concomitant reduction in sample size, which may have been a trade-off they weren't willing t...
Ah, yes, that may be it. But if so, their claim is misleading. The only PhDs excluded from the last category would be active doctors and nurses. The i...
To be fair, it's not only what I'm arguing, so there's room for justified confusion. I'm more responding to comments than laying out a case, so have n...
Thanks. It's this I found odd Running a sensitivity analysis on this kind of data is no small undertaking for a start, but I can't see what form of se...
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