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TallGuyJohninBKK

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  1. How I wish this kind of anti-vaxer nonsense was rebranded and erased from everyone's memory!!!

     

    Yet another in the poster's endless repertoire of ANONYMOUS anti-vax bloggers of totally unknown credentials and credibility.

     

    Real and credible sources on public health and medical matters don't hide beyond ANONYMOUS Substack blogs.... They publish their findings under their own names, often in peer reviewed medical journals.... But no, not this snake oil peddler.

     

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    --AI supported

     

    Hmm... "The author has written in favor of unproven or controversial treatments."  That certainly sounds like a died-in-the-wool anti-vaxer.

     

    Is he really a doctor?  Maybe he's a quack doctor like the anti-vaxers favorite doctor, Peter McCullough, who was stripped on his medical board certifications for posting COVID misinformation, and has had studies published under his name retracted by journals that found his claims unsupported by his evidence.

     

    Or perhaps he's Pierre Kory, another anti-vaxer doctor who likewise was stripped of his board certifications for peddling COVID misinformation nonsense, and likewise had some of his published research retracted.

     

    https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113624

     

    Or maybe the Midwestern Doctor isn't really a doctor at all... Who knows? The only thing we really know is he or she is some anonymous anti-vaxer hiding behind an anonymous blog who's make documented dubious claims in the past. Buyer beware!!!

     

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    --AI assisted

     

    AND

     

    Fact

    "Findings from vaccine safety monitoring systems and scientific studies have shown that flu vaccines have an excellent safety profile. Hundreds of millions of Americans have safely received flu vaccines for more than 50 years. The body of scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports their safety."

     

    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/vaccines/flu.html

     

  3. Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick with flu.

     

    "Flu vaccine prevents millions of illnesses and flu-related doctor's visits each year. For example, during 2019-2020, the last flu season prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, flu vaccination prevented an estimated 7 million influenza illnesses, 3 million influenza-associated medical visits, 100,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations, and 7,000 influenza-associated deaths. [emphasis added]

     

    During seasons when flu vaccine viruses are similar to circulating flu viruses, flu vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of having to go to the doctor with flu by 40 - 60%.

     

    Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of flu-associated hospitalization.

     

    Flu vaccination prevents tens of thousands of hospitalizations each year. For example, during 2019-2020 flu vaccination prevented an estimated 100,000 flu-related hospitalizations.

     

    A 2018 study showed that from 2012 to 2015, flu vaccination among adults reduced the risk of being admitted to an ICU with flu by 82%."

     

    https://www.cdc.gov/flu-vaccines-work/benefits/index.html

     

  4. As for the flu and flu vaccines, info from a U.S. context:

     

    What Is Flu?

    "Influenza (in-floo-en-zuh), or flu, is a virus that can spread from person to person. It can cause mild symptoms or can make people feel very sick, causing serious problems that can lead to hospitalization and even death. Even healthy children and adults can get very sick from flu.

     

    Burden

    While the numbers vary, each year in the US, millions of people get sick from flu, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized, and tens of thousands die from flu and related complications. Flu also affects employers and businesses, costing an estimated $11.2 billion in direct and indirect costs in the US annually. Vaccines help prevent millions of cases of respiratory infections each year.

     

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified the 2024-2025 flu season as high severity overall across all ages. According to preliminary estimates, there have been at least 47 million flu-related illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 610,000 hospitalizations, and 27,000 deaths, including 281 pediatric deaths during the 2024-2025 flu season. [emphasis added]

     

    https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/flu/

     

  5. Web MD has a more balanced assessment of the farmed vs wild caught salmon issue.... But it should be noted, their assessment is from the U.S. based on farmed salmon sold there.... not that sold in Thailand.

     

    But they have these comments on farmed salmon "cons."

     

    Difference Between Wild and Farm-Raised Salmon

    April 21, 2025

    ...

    "The negatives of farm-raised salmon are as follows: 

     

    "Persistent organic pollutants (POPs). These pollutants found in farm-raised salmon have been linked to type-2 diabetes and obesity. They’ve also been linked to an increased risk of stroke in women. One type of POP, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), is five to 10 times higher in farm-raised salmon than in wild-caught ones. 

     

    Added red dye. Wild-caught, natural salmon has pink or red flesh. This is due to their diet of krill and shrimp. Farm-raised salmon don’t have the same diet, so their flesh is greyer. ‌

    To achieve the natural pink look, farmers feed their salmon a synthetic chemical to “pigment” the flesh. This process may have unhealthy long-term effects on your body. ‌‌

     

    ‌Antibiotics. Farm-raised salmon are given antibiotics to prevent infections. When you eat these salmon, the antibiotics can enter your body. This can cause antibiotic-resistant bacteria to grow and infect your body. "

     

    https://www.webmd.com/diet/difference-between-wild-and-farmed-salmon

     

    Yes, thanks, I'll have an order of farm raised salmon sold in Thailand, which more than likely is sourced from the cheapest possible sources for mass market consumption, with a side order of organic pollutants, added red dye and antibiotics!!!

     

  6. 24 minutes ago, shdmn said:

    Just eat salmon.  Most of it comes from Norweigian fish farms. Ignore the know nothing idiots here claiming the farmed stuff is bad for you and toxic despite zero evidence. 

     

     

    OK, so I certainly hope you will eat farmed salmon to your heart's content!

     

    Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food

    Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food A look into farmed Salmon and Asian Panga.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYYf8cLUV5E

     

     

    Salmon farming exposed: Does the industry’s ‘green image’ stack up?

     

     

    But what do we know about how salmon is farmed, what the fish are fed and what the environmental impacts are? These issues have brought the industry to a flashpoint in Tasmania which has the biggest salmon farming area in Australia. Thousands of jobs in that state depend on salmon farming and its future relies on a 'clean green' image. But in this investigation, industry insiders and a trail of documents challenge that, questioning the use of chemicals, intensive farming and reveal a corporate culture far removed from the marketing image of a wild salmon leaping from a pristine river. No one from the Tasmanian Government or the state regulator would be interviewed for this program.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIph7Ct-rQ

     

     

    Can Norway’s wild salmon be saved?
    DW Documentary

    Factory farming is threatening to wipe out wild salmon populations in Norway - due to the dramatic spread of parasitic salmon lice. Can the wild salmon still be saved? On Norway's vast salmon farms, a parasite is causing mass deaths of fish. Salmon lice have gotten out of control, infesting not just farmed salmon but also the wild salmon that swim between the sea and Norway's rivers. The parasites are finding their way into open water from the open-net cages of off-shore salmon farms, where millions of fish swim.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOXMoJUBag

     

     

  7. 52 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

    Russia has announced that its experimental mRNA-based cancer vaccine, Enteromix, showed 100 per cent efficacy and safety in preclinical trials conducted on animals. The vaccine, designed to target cancers such as colorectal cancer, glioblastoma, and melanoma, can prevent tumour development and promote tumour regression.

     

    https://www.timesnownews.com/health/russia-says-its-enteromix-cancer-vaccine-has-achieved-100-success-rate-in-trials-article-152701442

     

     

     

    Exaggerated claims about Russia’s cancer vaccine Enteromix sweep across Africa

    September 29, 2025

     

    "In September 2025, the Russian Federal Medical and Biological Agency announced that a Russian cancer vaccine had passed preclinical trials with promising results. Following this announcement, posts spread on social media in Africa claiming that a Russian vaccine called Enteromix, which they described as mRNA-based, was a “cure” for cancer. The posts also claimed the vaccine was ready for general use and would be available for free. However, the claims conflated several Russian vaccines still under development and oncology vaccine specialists poured cold water on the claims, saying reliable clinical evidence for Enteromix is not yet available. [emphasis added]

    ...

    Several Russian cancer vaccines are currently in development, according to statements by Russian officials and scientists. One of these is Enteromix, which uses viruses to attack tumours. Another one uses mRNA technology. These seem to have been conflated in the claims circulating online. [emphasis added]

    ...

    Ready for market? 

    There is no evidence to show that Enteromix has been released to the public, let alone approved for general use, be it in Russia or anywhere else in the world."

     

    (more)

     

    October 2, 2025 - Corrects to state that Enteromix is not an mRNA vaccine and adds context about Russia developing multiple cancer vaccines.

     

    Agence France-Presse

    https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.76UX8KE

     

     

  8. Not to mention the loss, at least in the U.S., of the following that also had serious cancer fighting prospects:

    mRNA technology could hold hope for fighting cancer, but future is in doubt under RFK Jr.

    August 13, 2025

     

    "If you think last week's decision by the federal government to halt $500 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again. 

     

    These types of vaccines use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to prompt the body to make proteins that induce an antibody response to protect against a pathogen. The science behind it is also being studied for a wide range of other uses, from fighting cancer to treating autoimmune conditions and more. 

     

    Health experts have criticized the move to defund this research, pointing to the impact it will have on America's ability to develop breakthroughs against deadly or debilitating diseases.  Jeff Coller, professor of RNA biology and therapeutics at Johns Hopkins University, called the cuts a "completely reckless decision from Robert F. Kennedy Jr." that was "clearly being made for political motivations and not those that are rested in our science."

    ...

    mRNA studied for pancreatic cancer, rare diseases and more

    Collier said one of the most exciting avenues for mRNA technology is in the treatment of deadly cancers, including pancreatic cancer, which is fatal for many patients within six months to a year.  In recent years, researchers have been testing the effectiveness of using an mRNA vaccine to target the cancer. A small NIH-funded clinical trial by Sloan Kettering in 2023 used infusions of an mRNA vaccine to help boost T cells in the immune system of pancreatic cancer patients. The results, published in the journal Nature, showed improvements among about 50% of participants. [emphasis added]

     

    (more)

     

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mrna-vaccine-defunding-cancer-treatment-rfk-jr/

     

     

     

  9. It's good that some promising research into cancer treatments is still going on in the U.S., despite the following:

     

    Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

    America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

     

    Sept. 14, 2025

    ...

    "When America declared war on cancer more than 50 years ago, there was a misguided assumption outside the scientific community that it would be only a matter of years before the disease was eradicated — that defeating cancer would be no different than building an atomic bomb or putting a man on the moon. But there would be no miracle cure: As of this writing, some 40 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life.

     

    What there would be, however, was decades of minor breakthroughs that would accrue over time, transforming both our understanding of the disease and our ability to treat it. One way to measure the cumulative effect of those breakthroughs is with statistics: In the mid-1970s, America’s five-year cancer-survival rate sat at 49 percent; today, it is 68 percent. You can also correlate America’s sustained investment in cancer research directly with these returns: According to a recent study in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, every $326 that our government spends researching cancer extends a human life by one year. Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes. [emphasis added]

     

    In a matter of months, the Trump administration has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer-related research grants and contracts, arguing that they were part of politically driven D.E.I. initiatives, and suspended or delayed payments for hundreds of millions more. It is trying to sharply reduce the percentage of expenses that the government will cover for federally funded cancer-research labs. It has terminated hundreds of government employees who helped lead the country’s cancer-research system and ensured that new discoveries reached clinicians, cancer patients and the American public. And the president’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year calls for a more-than-37-percent cut to the National Cancer Institute — the N.I.H. agency that leads most of the nation’s cancer research — reducing it to $4.5 billion from $7.2 billion. Adjusting for inflation, you have to go back more than 30 years to find a comparably sized federal cancer-research budget."

     

    (more)

     

    New York Times

    https://archive.ph/H6403

     

  10. A fuller version of the OP's post:

    Cancer Study Links COVID Shots to Longer Survival

    — 3-year survival twice as high with mRNA vaccine in lung cancer patients receiving immunotherapy

    October 20, 2025

     

    "BERLIN -- Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients starting immunotherapy were nearly twice as likely to be alive 3 years later if they got a COVID-19 vaccine around the time of treatment, a researcher reported here.

     

    Retrospective data in advanced NSCLC found that mRNA COVID vaccination within 100 days of initiating a checkpoint inhibitor was associated with higher 3-year survival rates compared with no vaccination (55.8% vs 30.6%; adjusted HR 0.51, 95% CI 0.37-0.71, P<0.0001), according to Adam Grippin, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
     
    Analyses in metastatic melanoma mirrored the results, with 3-year survival rates of 67.5% and 44.1%, respectively (adjusted HR 0.34, 95% CI 0.17-0.69, P=0.0029), findings presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) showed.
    ...
    "The really exciting part of our work is that it points to the possibility that widely available, low-cost vaccines have the potential to dramatically improve the effectiveness of certain immune therapies," Grippin said in a press release. "We are hopeful that mRNA vaccines could not only improve outcomes for patients being treated with immunotherapies but also bring the benefits of these therapies to patients with treatment-resistant disease."
     
    (more)
     
    MedPage Today
     
     
  11. 46 minutes ago, banglay said:

    About half of my saved regular items have disappeared

     

    They seem to have monkeyed with customers'  Favorites lists lately....

     

    I long had a long Favorites list with them with many items. But then one day not long back, most of them suddenly disappeared... And when I tried to add some back,  others got deleted... It looks like they adopted some kind of system limit of items (like 10) per list....

     

    So, I found a way around that... Their system allows you to create more than one named favorites list... So I created multiple lists called Fav 1, Fav 2, Fav 3, etc, each with about 10 items... And I've been able to keep and use all those just fine using that method.

     

  12. Is It Safe To Take Ibuprofen Every Day?

    This medication is best used on a limited basis

     

    "You have a headache, so you take ibuprofen. Your muscles are sore from a workout, so you take ibuprofen. Your menstrual cramps are bad this week, so you take ibuprofen.  Here’s the concern with all that: It’s really not safe to consistently take ibuprofen. [emphasis added]

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    Potential side effects of ibuprofen

    "It’s estimated that NSAIDs — nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat pain and inflammation — contribute to more than 100,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths a year in the U.S.

     

    One review connected 1 out of 9 preventable drug-related hospital admissions to NSAIDs like ibuprofen. When used incorrectly or chronically (long-term), the negative effects of ibuprofen can range from relatively minor issues — like diarrhea, nausea or upset stomach — to more serious health concerns. Your kidneys are your most likely organ to be damaged by excessive ibuprofen use."

     

    Cleveland Clinic

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-it-bad-to-take-ibuprofen-every-day

     

    But, regarding just occasional use as described below:

     

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    --Ai assisted

     

  13. Once again, be careful where you get your medical advice from, especially when being conveyed by dodgy social media "X" accounts:

     

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    --AI assisted

     

    That said, there are a lot of POTENTIAL side effect and risk factors associated with Ibuprofen, seemingly a lot more than with Tylenol, especially when involving prolonged use:

     

    https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-5166-9368/ibuprofen-oral/ibuprofen-oral/details#uses

     

    Get your advice and guidance on medications from reputable, credible sources.

     

  14. How dare you post real, factual, credible research here!!!

     

    I mean, it's not written by anonymous internet bloggers with histories of spreading misinformation.

     

    Where are the authors who lost their medical licenses or been stripped of their medical board certifications, and now sell fake COVID cures and vax "detoxes" from their websites to gullible prey???

     

    I only wanna see "research" by authors who've had their prior reports retracted by journals after being found to have made up or otherwise monkeyed with the data!!!

     

    FAIL!!!!. 🙂

  15. Here, let me help:

    Fact Check: US infant mortality rise not linked to vaccines

    Reuters Fact Check

    Updated November 13, 2023

     

    "A report showing a 3% rise in U.S. infant mortality in 2022 compared with 2021 did not even examine vaccination of mothers or infants as a factor, contrary to posts online suggesting that vaccination played a role in the increase, which came after a 20-year decline.

    ...

    Vaccination status - of mothers or infants - was not one of the factors examined in the report. In a statement responding to the CDC report, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) President Dr. Sandy L. Chung said there are many reasons for the 2021-2022 infant mortality increase, including challenges in access to nutritious food and affordable healthcare, as well as racial and ethnic disparities in accessible healthcare including prenatal care.
    ...
    The CDC, World Health Organization (WHO), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and evidence-based research support vaccinations for preventable diseases and reducing infant mortality. Reuters has previously addressed similar false claims that vaccinations were linked to sudden infant death syndrome rates in the U.S.

    VERDICT

    Missing context. There is no evidence that the 3% rise in U.S. infant mortality rate between 2021 and 2022 documented in a CDC report has any relation to vaccinations; the cited report did not include vaccination as a factor.
     
     

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