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Oh and he's Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics From his fucking Wikipedia page. I thought you'd done ...

Again, if you think you know better than the editors of most of the world's leading health journals then you're more megalomaniacal than I suspected.

I'm not talking about his articles on oncology. I'm talking about his articles on the covid response. Something you'd know if you'd been following the...

Actually, forget that, this is just utter bullshit. Vinay Prasad has written for the BMJ, the Lancet, Stat, Medscape, Oxford University, Nature and ha...

Opinion/fact. We're going to need that diagram after all. OK, I'll bare in mind next time you cite anyone how strict a threshold you have for conflict...

We've been through this too. Rhetorically lamenting that there are "few scientists left" was meant as a wake up call to defend science before it got l...

We've been through this. It was rhetorical. I know what you're saying. 'Anti-science' and 'highly politicised' are both opinions of yours. That you ca...

You're clearly not. You're saying that anti-science rhetoric is not helpful and that Vinay Prasad's article is an example of it. It's the latter claim...

I've just shown it isn't. It isn't. He doesn't make a single medical recommendation. So you're saying I should only post things according to whether y...

I haven't. What's a qualification in immunology got to do with a discussion about discourse in science?

Then you must have missed What?

Or one which seeks to shore it up by calling out practices which undermine it. Depending on your perspective. You know...perspective...the thing peopl...

Oh and the articles I presented are not about knee-jerk reactions on twitter and the press. They are about actual scientific debate... but you'd have ...

It's rhetoric, moron. Like ...or do you actually intend to report me to the police for attempted murder?

, Same true of Stephen Baral, associate professor in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University then https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2020/10/...

Yes, I think we've already quite well established that anyone you disagree with is 'paranoid'.

Also, on the subject of bias, there's an interesting piece by Vinay Prasad in Medpage on this, form the 'other side'

I'm going to answer this question first as it will colour the responses to the others I goes back to what i said earlier about my arguments being in t...

Is that not covered under 'motive'. I'm still a little confused as to the distinction you're trying to make here. If I were to believe that the last r...

I like your thinking. The UK education system has given us some true geniuses, therefore I must be a true genius (being a product of the UK education ...

Nothing said here is intended to alter that view. Is it normal for you to consider "I'm not convinced by the arguments" sufficient ground to label tho...

Right. But this isn't about what you personally find convincing. I'm quite happy for you to hold the views you hold. I think you're wrong, but your vi...

OK, then you should hold back on the (whatever you're talking about above) unless you can back it up with more than just idle speculation. For God's s...

You're under no obligation to convince me. The obligation is to support a claim like "crazy paranoid shit", with something of more substance than your...

What a fantastically self-immunised argument. You suggest I'm paranoid, I resist such an accusation and you declare "there, see, paranoid people are n...

OK, so in your world I think we ought to just steal the vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies because they're evil. But I've not said that. You j...

I just answered that. It's because I was trying to read into it some relevance to the question. If I ask why my posts are crazy paranoid shit I don't ...

Because the question was why my posts were I couldn't see (and still can't) what the fuck the fact that we ought to pay for the vaccines we use has go...

Why? I'm asking you how you justify dismissing contrary opinion with you psychological be, and you said So why are you talking only about the US when ...

Yes. So... Recall, I'm asking you to explain why what I've posted counts as... ...you're explaining why we have to pay companies for their products......

Right? So where have I suggested we shouldn't make use of the vaccine?

To be clear... I asked why you think my view 'paranoid'. — Isaac You said Because of its essentialist and absolutist angles. — Olivier5 Then explained...

This is not about which strategy you advocate and why. It's about you being so utterly unable to see another perspective that you're prepared to claim...

To be clear... I asked You said Then explained that... So anyone who disagrees that pharmaceutical companies should be rewarded for making vaccines (a...

Possibly. So how do you get from there to 'anyone who disagrees with this strategy must be suffering from some mental illness'?

So what's special about pharmaceutical companies that you think it's a sensible policy for them when for the rest of the population the threat of crim...

So can you give me an example from outside of the corporate world where we reward people financially for not committing crimes?

So can you give me an example from outside of the corporate world where we reward people financially for not committing crimes?

By rewarding them?

WTF? Do you 'encourage' people not to commit crimes by rewarding them when they don't?

Indeed. I think Friston is a genius, and I don't use that word lightly, but in common with all geniuses, he doesn't know much about setting realistic ...

Where have I advocated blanket mistrust?

I didn't ask for the meaning nor for who else I could ask. I'm asking why you think my view 'paranoid'.

Why?

So which bit of any of that is actually false? I'm not, I presume, required to only write thing you agree with? We're talking about actual defamation,...

The matter of whether I trust the pharmaceutical companies or whether you trust me is irrelevant. I don't give a shit if you trust me or not, I'm not ...

I don't think it's appropriate to fill a public discussion with minutiae of the individuals involved, I can PM you if you're serious (though that seem...

Believe it or not, I do care about the accuracy of what I write, even if I don't care so much about the tone, so I'd appreciate it if you could just c...

I agree. My comments were more about someone in the fortunate position to be able to take a more distanced view of matters. Someone in the midst of a ...

You're incorrigible! The UK has never, ever, ever, had universal vaccine mandates, neither have hundreds of other countries in the world. The spectre ...