Popular Post stevenl Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, rattlesnake said: Context is everything, Steven. I will gladly clarify for you: "Waking up" here means breaking free from the paradigm under which "science" is the de facto way forward and all those who challenge it are somehow lacking intellect or "education". What Hotez refers to as "the rise of anti-science" is in fact the rise of awareness: awareness that the parmaceutical industry is worth billions of dollars and does not profit from healthy people. Hotez and his pharma-sponsored acolytes don't get to decide who is smart and who isn't anymore. People are doing their own research and feeling a lot better for it, and nothing can change that. Stupidity is as stupidity does. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattlesnake Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 13 minutes ago, placeholder said: Which is why when vaccines became available, the death rate from covid in Republican voting areas became substantially higher than it was in Democratic leaning areas. If "feeling a lot better" means feeling nothing at all, then you have a point. Otherwise, not so much. "Nothing can change that" includes dubious statistics of course. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rattlesnake Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 14 minutes ago, stevenl said: Stupidity is as stupidity does. Undeniably. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 minute ago, rattlesnake said: "Nothing can change that" includes dubious statistics of course. And your criterion for dubiousness apparently is whatever doesn't support what you believe. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rattlesnake Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 16 minutes ago, placeholder said: And your criterion for dubiousness apparently is whatever doesn't support what you believe. My criterion for dubiousness is whatever doesn't fit what happens in the real world. As an unvaccinated person, I should be long dead according to your rationale, and yet here I am, in perfect health. I never even caught Covid. I know a lot of people who can say the same, so it isn't just me. Unfortunately the same can't be said about the vaccinated. I can PM you a social media post where 2000+ Thai people (unquestionably real people, these are not "statistics" or sweeping third-party statements) comment on their health issues since taking the jab. Are you interested? Edited October 9, 2023 by rattlesnake 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabas Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, rattlesnake said: What Hotez refers to as "the rise of anti-science" is in fact the rise of awareness: awareness that the parmaceutical industry is worth billions of dollars and does not profit from healthy people. Hotez and his pharma-sponsored acolytes don't get to decide who is smart and who isn't anymore. People are doing their own research and feeling a lot better for it, and nothing can change that. Holtz is not talking about true contrarians, but about blurred folks blindly following other blurred folks on social media. A bit like someone bashing Hotez as a big pharma baddie clueless that Hotez is actually a top anti big pharma hero. Yes, he's brilliant and designs his own vaccines that he gives away for free to combat big pharma. "CORBEVAX, licensed for free to Indian biopharmaceutical compaies, represents a major step toward accelerating worldwide access to vaccines. Hotez is also working on vaccines for hookworm, leishmaniasis, and other overlooked illnesses." There are other bright scientists fighting big pharma whom I've discussed in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattlesnake Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, rabas said: Holtz is not talking about true contrarians, but about blurred folks blindly following other blurred folks on social media. A bit like someone bashing Hotez as a big pharma baddie clueless that Hotez is actually a top anti big pharma hero. Yes, he's brilliant and designs his own vaccines that he gives away for free to combat big pharma. "CORBEVAX, licensed for free to Indian biopharmaceutical compaies, represents a major step toward accelerating worldwide access to vaccines. Hotez is also working on vaccines for hookworm, leishmaniasis, and other overlooked illnesses." There are other bright scientists fighting big pharma whom I've discussed in the past. This is what Hotez wrote in 2021: "We must recognize the potential necessity of assertively confronting anti-science, even if this exceeds the usual confines of biomedicine or the comfort zone of scientists. This may include an appetite to dismantle and remove anti-science content and organizations from the social media and e-commerce sites." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842901/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 Not easy to get out of the cult but a good article here on how a student nurse broke free from the online anti vax misinformation and is now administering vaccines herself. She used to call herself an antivaxxer. Now, she’s a student nurse — who just gave her first vaccine Spending time in anti-vaccine circles only drew her in further. “It’s almost cult-like,” she says. Feeling like your concerns are being heard makes it easy to join, and the fear of betraying a trusted community makes it hard to leave.” She says some parents are “just on the fence and confused” and they’re relatively reachable by vaccination campaigns. But for those who have fully embraced the community, it’s tougher. “The parents who were like I was? It’s a long battle.” https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/she-used-to-call-herself-an-antivaxxer-now-she-s-a-student-nurse-who-just/article_93cfd39c-7546-5ff5-bc84-75f087f7d7a3.html https://archive.ph/4WPgy 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Red Phoenix Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 6 hours ago, rabas said: A bit like someone bashing Hotez as a big pharma baddie clueless that Hotez is actually a top anti big pharma hero. Yes, he's brilliant and designs his own vaccines that he gives away for free to combat big pharma. A little back-ground on that brilliant philantropic scientist: Institutions run by Dr Hotez have received well over 100 million dollars in grant funding over the years from the Gates Foundation and U.S. government health institutions, specifically focused on developing hookworm and parasite vaccines. And the government continues to give healthy sums of annual grant cash to Hotez, both for his Baylor entities and his parasite vaccine work. NOTE: Hotez has dedicated his career to developing vaccines for parasites, specifically hookworms. And what began as a doctoral dissertation on hookworm vaccination in 1987 (!) has transformed into a several decades quest to create vaccine-induced immunity against multicellular organisms. Unfortunately for Hotez, 35 years later, he still has nothing to show for his prized parasite vaccine ambitions, besides ongoing trials. Yep, a brilliant parasite if there ever was one... 1 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, rabas said: "CORBEVAX, licensed for free to Indian biopharmaceutical compaies, represents a major step toward accelerating worldwide access to vaccines. Hotez is also working on vaccines for hookworm, leishmaniasis, and other overlooked illnesses." Licensed for free in India, where they can then do the human testing required to get it approved in wealthier countries like the USA where it will sell for $$ billions? Edit: That is a question mark... And one of my pet peeves. Drugs that sell for gobsmacking prices in the USA are available in other countries for less than 1/10 the price. Sometimes, virtually free. So I suspect a commercial motive, rather than a humanitarian one. Edited October 10, 2023 by impulse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LosLobo Posted October 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, rattlesnake said: Context is everything, Steven. I will gladly clarify for you: "Waking up" here means breaking free from the paradigm under which "science" is the de facto way forward and all those who challenge it are somehow lacking intellect or "education". What Hotez refers to as "the rise of anti-science" is in fact the rise of awareness: awareness that the parmaceutical industry is worth billions of dollars and does not profit from healthy people. Hotez and his pharma-sponsored acolytes don't get to decide who is smart and who isn't anymore. People are doing their own research and feeling a lot better for it, and nothing can change that. 'People are doing their own research'? Do your own research. 'A phrase meaning "Google until you find something that agrees with you"'. 'Typically used to pretend the person saying it is somehow smarter than all of the experts'. Urban Dictionary: do your own research Edited October 10, 2023 by LosLobo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rattlesnake Posted October 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 4 hours ago, LosLobo said: 'People are doing their own research'? Do your own research. 'A phrase meaning "Google until you find something that agrees with you"'. 'Typically used to pretend the person saying it is somehow smarter than all of the experts'. Urban Dictionary: do your own research "A phrase meaning "Google until you find something that agrees with you" As you have just demonstrated. This phrase is the symptom of an irremediable breach of trust in the authorities. 1 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted October 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 Disturbing rise of the cult of hard-line anti-vaxxers “Anti-vax influencers” are using the same techniques today, Hassan argues, noting they use social media “to bombard their targets with message that sow doubt, fear and confusion about the COVID-19 vaccine.” Specifically, they highlight examples of adverse vaccine reactions without saying how rare they are, withhold positive information about the vaccines, distort information by misinterpreting data, casting doubt about public-health experts, and spreading outright lies on social media about vaccinations. Here in Canada, cult-like anti-vaxxers are stepping up their tactics of harassment and intimidation, especially against health-care professionals and politicians — all with the aim of getting them to reverse their stand on the need for vaccinations https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/disturbing-rise-of-the-cult-of-hard-line-anti-vaxxers/article_e6c2b0ee-2595-5ef5-b9b0-2a17b8057dc5.html 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 20 hours ago, rattlesnake said: People are doing their own research Every time I see googling called "research" I want to vomit 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rattlesnake Posted October 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 Few people care about what makes vax cultists vomit, nor what causes them to write books nobody reads. Times are changing. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 If only they hadn't been in the cult.............. More and more conservative media leaders are dying from COVID-19 after advocating against vaccines Another leader in the conservative media space has died from COVID-19 and his death marks a growing trend of like-minded anti-vaccine advocates that have themselves succumbed to the virus. Marcus Lamb, the 64-year-old co-founder of Christian TV network Daystar, died this week after contracting COVID-19 in November. The conservative broadcast network questioned the safety of vaccines and aired a segment that falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines are, “killing your immune system,” according to The New York Times. Lamb’s death comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared omicron a new variant of concern, and urged that vaccination efforts be “intensified” for all eligible populations. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/584077-more-and-more-conservative-media-leaders-are/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 51 minutes ago, Lorry said: Every time I see googling called "research" I want to vomit Googling is research. You obviously don't know much about research. You can read a 100 scientific studies on all sorts of topics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gargamon Posted October 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 38 minutes ago, bignok said: Googling is research. You obviously don't know much about research. You can read a 100 scientific studies on all sorts of topics. Googling is research to people who don't know what research is. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, bignok said: Googling is research That belongs in the thread for jokes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, gargamon said: Googling is research to people who don't know what research is. You dont know what research is then. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 30 minutes ago, Lorry said: That belongs in the thread for jokes Another person with no idea about research. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Person A spends 100 hours googling the mating habits of bees is going to be an expert. Same with any topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamb00ler Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 5:54 AM, BritManToo said: Bible says life is 3 score + 10 = 70 years. As far as I have seen that's pretty much correct. No need for science, the bible has already said it all! Until the 1800's high infant mortality kept the life expectancy far below the bible's prediction. Next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattlesnake Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said: If only they hadn't been in the cult.............. More and more conservative media leaders are dying from COVID-19 after advocating against vaccines Another leader in the conservative media space has died from COVID-19 and his death marks a growing trend of like-minded anti-vaccine advocates that have themselves succumbed to the virus. Marcus Lamb, the 64-year-old co-founder of Christian TV network Daystar, died this week after contracting COVID-19 in November. The conservative broadcast network questioned the safety of vaccines and aired a segment that falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines are, “killing your immune system,” according to The New York Times. Lamb’s death comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared omicron a new variant of concern, and urged that vaccination efforts be “intensified” for all eligible populations. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/584077-more-and-more-conservative-media-leaders-are/ This is from December 2021. I appreciate the effort… but could you Google 2023, Brian? I would be interested in statistics on the vaccination status of people currently dying of Covid. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamb00ler Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, rattlesnake said: I would be interested in statistics on the vaccination status of people currently dying of Covid. Miss Info has several YouTube channels to "answer" your query. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattlesnake Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 12 minutes ago, gamb00ler said: Miss Info has several YouTube channels to "answer" your query. Sharp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Phoenix Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 11 hours ago, Bkk Brian said: If only they hadn't been in the cult.............. More and more conservative media leaders are dying from COVID-19 after advocating against vaccines Another leader in the conservative media space has died from COVID-19 and his death marks a growing trend of like-minded anti-vaccine advocates that have themselves succumbed to the virus. Marcus Lamb, the 64-year-old co-founder of Christian TV network Daystar, died this week after contracting COVID-19 in November. The conservative broadcast network questioned the safety of vaccines and aired a segment that falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines are, “killing your immune system,” according to The New York Times. Lamb’s death comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared omicron a new variant of concern, and urged that vaccination efforts be “intensified” for all eligible populations. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/584077-more-and-more-conservative-media-leaders-are/ Wow, you found a December 2021 newspaper article! TIP: Check out Mark Crispin MILLER's daily overview of people that "died suddenly" all over the world, consisting of the announcements as published in regional/national newspaper and orbituaries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Phoenix Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 10 hours ago, gargamon said: Googling is research to people who don't know what research is. OK, so if I put on a white lab-coat and do a Google (or preferably a less biased search-engine) query while in my lab, then it suddenly becomes 'research'? Ridiculous nonsense. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamb00ler Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said: OK, so if I put on a white lab-coat and do a Google (or preferably a less biased search-engine) query while in my lab, then it suddenly becomes 'research'? Ridiculous nonsense. You're not even pointing your weapon (mind) in the right direction. Try again! Googling is background reading... always has been..... always will be. Research takes place at the edge of knowledge not in some bunker well away from the front. Edited October 11, 2023 by gamb00ler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Red Phoenix said: Wow, you found a December 2021 newspaper article! TIP: Check out Mark Crispin MILLER's daily overview of people that "died suddenly" all over the world, consisting of the announcements as published in regional/national newspaper and orbituaries. Oh dear, it went straight over your head as it did with another poster. The point of the post was that they would still be alive today in 2023 had they not been entrapped by the cult. The HermanCainAwards are still going strong 12 hours ago, Bkk Brian said: If only they hadn't been in the cult.............. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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