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I think it depends on two main factors. One is, as you say, the reason you're doing it (ameliorating a greater harm/risk might outweigh the imposition...
August 10, 2021 at 06:43
Firstly, where they are is right in the middle of their main job - full approval of a BLA for a new medicine. Secondly, you've still not given any det...
August 10, 2021 at 06:35
It's a blessing just to hear from someone who actually understands at least the structure of the argument I'm making... at least I'm not having to exp...
August 09, 2021 at 20:40
Why have you started from the middle of our conversation? You said That is wrong. That's all I've been arguing. Your own later comment says as much. I...
August 09, 2021 at 19:56
Still going? How have you translated my saying that your argument doesn't make sense into me disagreeing with one of its propositions? If I claimed tr...
August 09, 2021 at 19:09
I'm not sure that the integration of information is the correct teleology for the systems Friston describes. The objective is to minimise free energy ...
August 09, 2021 at 19:02
Yes, sorry. I missed out the important analysis of the statistics - here (see chart no 3) https://medium.com/@wpegden/weighing-myocarditis-cases-acip-...
August 09, 2021 at 11:27
From the petition sent to the FDA by (among others) Peter Doshi, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research,University of Maryland S...
August 09, 2021 at 06:33
Last try. I'm fairly sure there's no tiger in the next room. I've checked as best I can using a standard tiger-searching method. It's safe to go in th...
August 08, 2021 at 22:06
No one is denying it's safe and effective. As I said No one is denying it takes time either... I'm not sure who you're arguing against here. Again, no...
August 08, 2021 at 21:59
That's our other matter of dispute. Here in the UK take up is over 90% for the first dose and 74% for the second https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-552...
August 08, 2021 at 18:27
Oversubscribes the set.
August 08, 2021 at 18:21
If 70 in every 100 are in the group {ought to take the vaccine} and there are factors determining who is and is not in that group, my chances of being...
August 08, 2021 at 18:17
No there isn't. 70% is the prevalence. The proportion of a population who fall ( or in our case, should fall) into some set. It's only the same as 'ch...
August 08, 2021 at 18:10
Of course. To the extent vaccines reduce the risk of severe illness I can do likewise by reducing the factors known to be associated with over 90% of ...
August 08, 2021 at 17:52
Depends on the factors determining that 70% and whether any of them apply to me. I assume you're not suggesting it's random.
August 08, 2021 at 17:43
So, Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research is lying when he says... In actual fact they can just use that dat...
August 08, 2021 at 17:42
Well then maybe you could clear that up? The original sentence you took issue with was a question, so cannot be an inference and I've not once suggest...
August 08, 2021 at 16:44
You said... It is your claim that the FDA work from this point does not address safety and effectiveness that I'm disputing.
August 08, 2021 at 16:35
Well, this has taken a turn for the Kafkaesque No. It doesn't require research to know that fewer than 30% of the population are injured by vaccines. ...
August 08, 2021 at 16:32
The VAERS data is freely available here https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html. It's considerably less than 30%. I really can't make any sense of that I'm af...
August 08, 2021 at 16:22
Glad you found it interesting.
August 08, 2021 at 16:18
Not sure how you think repeating it is going to help. You could just explain how you think the inference is wrong. Unless you genuinely think that my ...
August 08, 2021 at 16:11
We agreed that 70% of the population should take the vaccine. I asked who the 70% should be, you replied... Leaving the 30% to be made up of people li...
August 08, 2021 at 16:00
Are we just going to go through the whole dance again? Safe and effective are not binomial measures. They're continuous variables. Things can be safe,...
August 08, 2021 at 15:43
Eh?
August 08, 2021 at 15:23
So you think that 30% of the population are likely to be injured from taking the vaccine? And the immunocompomised (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/a...
August 08, 2021 at 14:39
Ahh, I misread you. Interesting, but I don't think it's a majority is it? Most talk (Eric Topol recently, for example) has been about the difficulty m...
August 08, 2021 at 14:26
Sure. The headline is that the brain is hierarchical (in both structure and network relations) such that each cortex or cluster has, as it's data inpu...
August 08, 2021 at 14:20
I suppose 'popular' and 'mainstream' go pretty much hand-in-hand here. We've only recently got used to having more than four TV channels, whereas you ...
August 08, 2021 at 11:50
Mainly the UK Guardian/Obsever, plus my experience with generally left-wing colleagues who've perhaps read more widely. I read the Jacobin quite frequ...
August 08, 2021 at 11:15
I think the other issue here is this kind of epistemo-moral imperative which has somehow been snuck in to recent narratives. No longer is it sufficien...
August 08, 2021 at 10:26
So? Computer simulations are real things, you can buy them in the shops. Why would they present some problem for what to call them?
August 08, 2021 at 09:34
No, absolutely not. But, as I said above, many other industries can also lay claim to outstanding achievements, it doesn't seem to buy them a free pas...
August 08, 2021 at 09:33
Yeah. As I said, the polemicising effect of social media pushes this kind of narrative. Government evil. Scientists saints. No nuance. No balance. I'm...
August 08, 2021 at 08:42
I don't see that being enough. The measles vaccine alone is responsible for saving millions of lives, but so are fertilisers, it doesn't make us trust...
August 08, 2021 at 08:28
Yeah. I think this is one of the most interesting things about the progress of this pandemic. It's really highlighted the way in which the Pharmaceuti...
August 08, 2021 at 07:11
If Boston is all of a person's reality, what do you call the world outside it?
August 08, 2021 at 05:36
No problem. Hope you enjoy it.
August 08, 2021 at 05:33
I don't have an 'opinion' on the matter, I'm not an expert in immunology. David Dowdy, Associate Professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins says... So...
August 08, 2021 at 05:20
The European Medicine Agency doesn't work in the same way as the FDA. Four vaccines have been approved, but their approval rating has a sub-category "...
August 08, 2021 at 05:12
So, what level of risk reduction absolves one's social responsibility here? Is there a point where we can reasonably be said to have done enough to re...
August 08, 2021 at 04:59
Their client could have mandated vaccinations, didn't, and someone died - big payout: Their client mandated a fully approved vaccination and someone d...
August 08, 2021 at 04:55
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15249-0.pdf Is a good primer for any interested.
August 08, 2021 at 04:52
You said that not taking the vaccine was... ...I'm asking you how it is detrimental to a group outcome in the scenario I outlined. I don't see how me ...
August 08, 2021 at 04:46
Oh, and to be super clear. On... "I expect there's no tiger in that room" and "I've checked; there's no tiger in that room" are two entirely different...
August 07, 2021 at 21:48
I'm not sure why you're addressing that to me. It's precisely the argument I've been making. The FDA work makes "a real difference" in significant are...
August 07, 2021 at 21:33
Strange how the supply of evidence vacillates between being a marker of one's sanity to being entirely optional depending on which side of the debate ...
August 07, 2021 at 20:02
Not sure why you'd suppose that since I've not claimed anything even close to such a proposition. It depends entirely on how poorly working it is and ...
August 07, 2021 at 19:00
I didn't say that I think it won't be approved. I said that the risk to the public is higher prior to them completing their checks than it is after th...
August 07, 2021 at 18:51