Frank found this https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-the-record-straight-on-claims-about-vaccine-hesitancy-among-ph-d-s/ But I...
Well, the world needs herd immunity, not just the UK. I just can't see how this is so complicated, it's like people are doing this convoluted mental g...
Shame. The authors now seems to think a mass conspiracy of fraudulent responses was to blame, possible with the numbers. It just sounds really wierd t...
That's a fair assessment, and, if I was going to do something along those lines I don't think it would be an absolutely terrible preliminary approach....
It's not hard work to get a vaccine and it's entirely beneficial to those getting it, so I really can't see how even moving furniture works. You're st...
Undergrads are, in my experience, sorely unaware of the limits of their stats, but you're spot on about the non-scientific PhDs, I didn't think of tho...
Indeed. So one wonders what possessed them to conduct, gather, analyse and write up the data if they knew all along it was just going to be a load of ...
Well no. But it's not a dangerous mission is it? Getting the vaccine gives you (as we've just been emphatically told) 29.2 times less chance of gettin...
I have already done as you suggest, I'm not an idiot. I have a PhD and, until a few years ago held a professorship at one of the 'better' (ahem!) UK u...
I'm not starting all over again simply to act as your whipping post. I've laid out my argument in these 200 some pages. If you've an interest simply r...
It would help if you quoted the part of my post you think says that. It's certainly not what I intended to say, I've provided several dozen articles f...
I'm not arguing from it. None of my supporting arguments rely on it. I'm just saying that there's bigger fish to fry if poorly evidenced opinion is an...
Not 'niceness' no. It's not a bad decision. It's a different decision. A bad decision is one which can be shown to fail, or one which can be shown to ...
It's not about an uncontrolled variable in one cohort (although it could be, they haven't checked), it's that the Odds Ratio which applies to the popu...
If you strike out every single other reference to any data with equal or lesser statistical rigour. Are you prepared to do that? I'd hazard a guess th...
No. I'm not asking you to do anything. I haven't once made any request of anyone here nor have I judged them in any way for their choices. In fact I t...
I haven't relied on that poll for evidence of anything on which my arguments hinge. I only brought it up in response to others making equally spurious...
No. The unvaccinated hospitalised are 29.2 times more prevalent than the vaccinated hospitalised. Your likelihood would only be the same as the preval...
Actually most of the people I've cited opposed to the current policies are epidemiologists. Also my personal experience. It's primarily epidemiologist...
Yes, but I have other goals too. Remember this is a conflict between ends and means. Two goals (at least). Not 'whatever' though. Not as far as my mor...
No objections at all. I just asked since age adjustment is done for comparative purposes and involves at least one variable. The variable was not list...
Yes, that's about it. What I really wanted you to answer was why you thought that a selfish decision (tragedy of the commons reference). The reason I'...
Yes, I know what age adjustment is, I was wondering why they'd adjusted (or more specifically what they've adjusted). I suspect it's adjusted for vari...
Talking of Professor Prasad, I'm going to post a recent article of his here because it neatly sums up virtually every position that I've encountered o...
Yes, they changed it a few years back, don't know why, now it's just BMJ. Sounds more like a music magazine, by hey ho, we've got to move with the tim...
He's talking about a known entity - the numbers of people recorded on the database whose admission to hospital was for a cause unrelated to any covid ...
Oh. It doesn't stand for anything anymore. It used to stand for the British Medical Journal, now it's just 'BMJ'. It's one of the world's leading medi...
This is something I've said before, but it's relevant here too. There's a shift in the culture here from the separation (of scientist from crackpot) b...
The title is "What the heck happened to John Ioannidis?", not -"a response to some of John Ioannidis's claims". The tone is what I'm criticising here....
If you're interested, here's the same happening to Pete Doshi, the editor in chief of the BMJ and a respected professor of pharmaceutical health servi...
Sorry, a little more cantankerous than usual this morning (and 'usual' is not always up to standard either) https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-...
Yeah. like most woo merchants, one whiff of death and you'll prostitute yourself to anyone with a 'sciencey' sounding cure, grab a flag and join the p...
Do you need me to provide all of my 30 something citations again? Do you think enough time has gone by now that you can safely pretend I haven't fully...
I can't make any sense of this last in the light of your prior assessment. If I've justified uncertainty about whether the harms of the means outweigh...
Yes, and? It is an ethical question nonetheless. The complaint raised against them is not a technical one, it's that they are unethically putting othe...
OK, then we're back to the insane claim. If you're using 'alllows' to mean only the exemptions they actually specify within the recommendations (and n...
I don't know why you're still banging on about exceptions. The state has provided an exception to it's recommendation on vaccination too, I don't have...
It's in support of the focus of future efforts which are at at risk of being subsumed by the current Disney version of events. Some very, very serious...
I'm just not prepared to do that. The point of the citations was to point out the clear insanity of the claim that you comply with every single state ...
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