I read your whole post, you don't even mention the matter again, let alone give reasons why restricting the choice of preventative measure is 'legitim...
So with pro-vaccine sentiment it's a sign of mental illness to ask who benefits, with vaccine hesitancy it's just a sensible question. What if you can...
I appreciate that. As I'm sure you'll understand, the revelations about my descent into madness are still quite raw for me, I'm welling up just thinki...
Yeah, right. A completely different topic, me thinking the pharmaceutical companies are untrustworthy to a story about how people thought a foriegn co...
And yet... Cue long spiel hopelessly trying to smear distrust of pharmaceutical companies with the taint of antisemitism ...whilst thinking about pro-...
Really? The people on this thread are all experts on paranoia? Who'd have thought it. There was me thinking they were just random people on the intern...
OK, so provide some evidence to support this assertion. My 'line' is... 1. I can support my view with citations from bone fide experts in the appropri...
That's the same thing. Eight studies concluding one thing, two studies concluding another. All ten studies meeting the minimum threshold for acceptabl...
I was more thinking along the lines of if they failed the test (as many would) they'd have to go home - and so not be available for work at all. With ...
Yes. I've made the point in other posts on the covid crisis. Public health policy is a very blunt instrument and has frequently simplified and on occa...
Wow. The idea that you might be wrong isn't even on the agenda is it? It's not even an addendum to a footnote in 'Any Other Business'. Your dogmatic s...
The 'closing off' is irrelevant. I could refuse to read anything from the New York Times, or I could read everything from the New York Times and decla...
If they can 'obviously' say that, then dismissing them as 'insane' is exactly the hand-waiving you complained of. That's the point I'm making. Very fe...
Of course. So who do we trust to tell us whether the thing we're believing in is going to lead to harmful actions? As I said in the other thread, you ...
Coffee money compared to the profits they made. It used to work reasonably well. Governments might not be too much better than corporations, but it's ...
Not in the least. The aim of the smoking ban was to prevent illness from passive smoking, there was only one way to do that (cut down on smoke). Hence...
It's a choice over who to trust. Something people seem to find impossible to grasp is that the question is not about actual consequences either way, i...
It strikes me, in anticipating the justification that will follow, that this whole issue is about academia. I don't think a single person involved in ...
1. Beliefs are not individuated, they're built from structural components. My belief that this desk will hold the weight of my teacup is built from a ...
Likewise I find it disturbing that at the first whiff of danger to their own health most of those on the left will just obediently lie down let the co...
Have I become a new expletive? Indeed, I don't even feel the need to check it sounds perfectly plausible. It is. So's disposing of used swabs but no o...
I already did. You then claimed that it doesn't mean the same and I asked you to support that claim. Are we just going to do the whole thing again? Th...
No you asserted it. What is it with you people and your egos? You're not my teacher, you've made no claim of expert knowledge. You just saying somethi...
No. Just a citation from the medical literature. It shouldn't be that hard, here... https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/immunity https://...
I'm perfectly happy with the meaning and my understanding of the articles. It's your claim that they're substantially dissimilar, why would I go and a...
How so? The articles I cited both refer to 'lasting immunity' arising from naturally acquired infection. If you think that's inappropriate then it's o...
And from the medical literature...? We're looking for the term 'becoming immune' being restricted to uses where immunity has been proven ex vitro to l...
In what way does a durable memory in the immune system not mean 'becoming immune'. What would 'becoming immune' mean if not a durable memory in the im...
They are criminals, they've been convicted of criminal offences, it's literally the definition of a criminal. Regardless, you're changing the subject....
So that's saying that the pharmaceutical companies have behaved reprehensibly and so solutions developed by them should be used sparingly and begrudgi...
Quote me doing so then. That way we can discuss actual comments rather than your strawman version of them - "wholesale condemnations" is the claim her...
Well yes, but demonstrating the existence of a scale doesn't act as evidence of the position on it of any given piece. Just because not all mainstream...
In what way is that exchange interpretable as my condoning the spread of unfounded doubt? Just explain the thinking. I'm suggesting that the pro-vacci...
'Now saying'? Either quote me ever saying that spreading unfounded doubts was not problematic, or argue like a grown up. If you can't support your arg...
You do realise you just followed a post about the questionable trustworthiness of mass media by citing six articles from mass media outlets as evidenc...
Well, yes. We've been through this before, so I'll just refer you to my previous argument. Once you stratify a population by some variable (expertise ...
Unlikely. The death rate is about one in one thousand of the population. Most people's social groups are a little under 100 people, so 90% of the popu...
Stick to reading reputable journals and expert opinion. What's so difficult about that? Newspapers are meant to be biased, it's their modus operandi, ...
Right. So when you said... ...you meant "everything is fine and any doubt about that is artificial and manufactured"? Or you were perhaps referring on...
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