Pyramus

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by Pyramus 5y ago
In many cases good is not the opposite of bad. Our brain is fantastic evaluation and extrapolation machine. Often I find myself judging something on a 1 dimensional scale, where 'good' is at one end and 'bad' at the othe
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not knowledgeable but I do know there was a grad student (post doc?) who created their own PCR test for SARS-Cov-2 in their living room using frozen peas as their cooling medium. Obviously this guy was a specialist with access to the right
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Nobody in their right mind would have predicted before the pandemic that some of the most developed countries in the world will have some of the highest death counts. I fear this will be deeply ingrained in the social consciousness and lea
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by Pyramus 5y ago
No it's not. What you are saying is everything is biased by money, therefore I can't trust anyone. What people are telling you is that you don't really understand the bias, not that the bias doesn't exist.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Directly from the article: > "Sometimes these people even have a specific theory for why elites are covering up ivermectin, like that pharma companies want you to use more expensive patented drugs instead. This theory is extremely p
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by Pyramus 5y ago
"Sometimes these people even have a specific theory for why elites are covering up ivermectin, like that pharma companies want you to use more expensive patented drugs instead. This theory is extremely plausible. Pharma companies are a
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> Sounds like all of the physical symptoms of so-called long-COVID. I don't understand - are you saying lung damage and neurological issues like loss of taste are not distinct factors of long Covid? Or did you come to the realisatio
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Came here to say something very similar. There is a very good podcast in Germany that involves two of the country's leading virologists [1]. In a recent episode they reviewed the current literature on long Covid. One of the key take-aw
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by Pyramus 5y ago
No "they" are forcing us to be part of a human experiment. It doesn't matter that what I eat, or the fact that I drive a car, or other medication I take is several orders of magnitude more risky than getting vaccinated. I jus
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by Pyramus 5y ago
We don't live in a comic world - things aren't black and white. People die from the virus with or without vaccination - what matters is how many. > Never have we mandated flu shots Flu shots are already mandatory in many countr
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Now think of the people that actually live or lived in a fascist regime - is that really what you are comparing your life to? Ironically people who do live under fascist regimes don't even get access to Covid vaccines...
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by Pyramus 5y ago
That's a false equivalence - just because it's not an 'endemic' issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. I don't see why things getting run over by cars (think of immovable things as well) shouldn't
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> IMO there are too many phenomena that are very difficult to explain only with individual selection, but trivial to explain with group selection. Homosexuality is an obvious example that comes to mind. If you know others please do post
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by Pyramus 5y ago
A couple of comments (not a medical expert): It's likely that the placebo/nocebo effect is confounded by regression to the mean - a typical example are diseases with some sort of cyclical pattern, e.g. some forms of depression. Bu
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Do you expect a single study to overturn decades of research and medical practice? Leaving aside that 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence', that would need to be extraordinary evidence, right? I'm not surprised at
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by Pyramus 5y ago
You are not wrong - placebos are a practical way to blind a study. The best way to blind, however, is no treatment, but no treatment only gives you the efficacy of the treatment, and not what you actually want to know, the efficacy of the &
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes, that's the reason RCTs are contrasted against placebo not no treatment. If you want too see how powerful this effect can become look no further than acupuncture. Or, for a nocebo result, people have actually died because they thou
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Parent's comment will not cease to amaze me: We are going through a pandemic that has cost more lives in the US than the Spanish flu (absolute numbers) and there are still folks running around proclaiming that > Remember - COVID is
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Please re-read what I wrote: It's BS to call natural immunity superior for the reasons of being "natural" or because "vaccines only encode the spike protein". There is no black and white argument why natural immunit
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> By definition there is no event closer to infection than infection [...] Hence things like chickenpox parties. Glad you mention chickenpox. Could you help me understand why the protein vaccine is much more effective than the attenuated
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> Can you link to studies mentioned in your quote ? - "If you look closely at the data in the studies, [..]" See e.g. papers mentioned here: https://g-f-v.org/2021/09/30/4411/ > myth to m
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> There is every reason to expect that natural immunity (derived from a previous infection) is better (than that conferred by a vaccine), simply because the immune system will recognize the entire virus and not just the spike cell. No -
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by Pyramus 5y ago
That's a logical fallacy - just because people exist that are non-anonymous and vile doesn't invalidate parent's point. The question is whether non-anonymity might lead to less vileness and I agree it's certainly worth t
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Are you saying you disagree with the US Constitution and Supreme Court? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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US / China trade war, US / EU tariffs, Brexit, "America First", the rise of nationalist parties all over Europe, some even in government. Border controls in Europe. It's concerning.
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That won't change. Legally grey will remain legally grey. What I'm saying is there is low hanging fruit: Clearly illegal death threats that are posted by anonymous accounts and therefore not/hardly enforceable.
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I see your point re noise - the case here is a lot simpler I believe: Being able to prosecute effectively anonymous death threats (which is a criminal offence in most jurisdictions) made via social media. While not trivial it is fairly stra
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not sure if you are being satirical or not. Political extremism is at an all-time high in Western democracies: The US has seen a president that doesn't respect elections, an attack on the capitol, an ever widening gap between the left&
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> And Ms Patel indicated she is considering going a step further by requiring sites such as Facebook or Twitter to retain details of the identities of people posting material which could be handed over to police investigating crimes. I d

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