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Breaking :Act Blue to be investigated for alleged foreign funding .
What's a fake profile? Is that like a Russian pretending he's an American? -
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How do I use GROK 3 for FREE? Anybody know?
Not sure of the point of using X. Some like X. Some do not. I feel no prejudice against X. I think that TV is far better than X. -
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ALL VACCINES WILL KILL YOU - The evidence is overwhelming
I've seen that article before, and have heard of Neil Z. Miller too. He's a known anti-vaxxer, not exactly someone I'd call impartial. That said, the article itself makes some strong points. Here’s what Miller claims: Temporal Clustering: He looked at 2,605 infant deaths reported to VAERS between 1990 and 2019, and found that 58% of them happened within three days of vaccination, and 78.3% within seven days. Statistically significant (p < 0.00001) — no denying that. Literature Review: Miller pulls in a number of studies and case reports suggesting a possible link between vaccines and sudden unexplained infant deaths. Proposed Mechanisms: He throws out a few possible biological explanations — like inflammatory cytokines messing with the infant medulla, adjuvants crossing the blood-brain barrier and affecting respiratory control, and the idea that giving multiple vaccines at once could cause synergistic toxicity. BUT... While the study raises some interesting points, there are some major issues that undermine its conclusions... I'll list those below.. Nature of VAERS Data: Passive System: VAERS is passive - it relies on people voluntarily reporting events. That means underreporting, over-reporting, and a lot of noise in the data. No Causality: Just because an event is reported to VAERS doesn’t mean the vaccine caused it. It just means the two happened around the same time. Temporal Association ≠ Causation: Just because deaths happened shortly after vaccination doesn’t prove the vaccine was to blame. Babies get a lot of vaccines in their first few months - which also happens to be the peak window for SIDS. So you get an overlap that looks suspicious, but it doesn’t automatically mean one caused the other. No Control Group: There’s no comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated babies in Miller’s study. Without that, you can’t really say if the rates he’s pointing at are unusual at all. For context: From 1990 to 2019, there were about 130,000 SIDS deaths in the US. Only 2,605 were reported in VAERS. So the data’s incomplete - though, to be fair, it’s all they’ve got to work with. Author Bias: Miller’s reputation as an anti-vaccine activist isn’t exactly a secret. His past work has been rightly criticised for cherry-picking and bias, and that definitely colours this study too. Selective Literature Review: He mainly cites studies that support his theory and conveniently ignores the mountain of research that supports vaccine safety. That’s not how honest science is done. Speculative Mechanisms: Sure, the biological mechanisms he proposes are theoretically possible. But there's no direct, solid evidence linking those mechanisms to vaccine-related sudden infant death. Now, stepping back a little... Extensive research absolutely supports the safety of infant vaccines - and it pretty much dismantles Miller’s arguments: Epidemiological Studies: Massive studies, like one published in The Journal of Pediatrics, found no increased risk of SIDS after immunisation. Public Health Data: Since widespread infant vaccination programmes started, SIDS rates have actually dropped in many countries - not gone up. Regulatory Oversight: Organisations like the CDC and WHO keep a constant watch on vaccine safety — and they haven’t found any causal link between vaccines and SIDS. --------------- I want to add a little about the flaws in Miller's work... Misuse of VAERS Data: He leans on VAERS reports to push vaccine scare stories, despite the fact that VAERS is a messy, unverified data set that can’t establish causality. Experts constantly warn against using VAERS this way - it’s straight up misleading. Ecological Fallacies: In stuff like his 2011 paper (co-authored with Gary Goldman), Miller claims that more vaccines = higher infant mortality across countries. But critics have pointed out (correctly) that these kinds of studies are riddled with confounding factors and can't actually prove anything. David Gorski, a surgical oncologist and fierce critic of pseudoscience, has labeled these conclusions as "bad science" that misrepresents data to promote anti-vaccine narratives. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccines-and-infant-mortality-rates-a-false-relationship-promoted-by-the-anti-vaccine-movement-again-12-years-later Lack of Peer Review: A lot of Miller's papers are published in sketchy journals with minimal (or nonexistent) peer review - like Medical Veritas. That alone should raise big red flags about the scientific quality of his work. Confirmation Bias: In his books like Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies, he only highlights studies that support his anti-vaccine stance and ignores the much larger body of evidence showing that vaccines are safe and effective - its not an impartial study by any means. ------------ Thus: While the article presents data indicating a temporal association between infant vaccinations and sudden deaths, it does not establish a causal relationship. The reliance on passive reporting data, absence of control groups, potential author bias, and selective literature review limit the study's validity.... and thats just what I can pick out from the paper. Experts would tear it a apart ! -
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ALL VACCINES WILL KILL YOU - The evidence is overwhelming
Anything based on VAERS could be nonsense. Refusal to investigate is dubious to say the least. -
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Trump’s immigration ratings turn negative, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds
isn't ABC the flagship under which The View is broadcast? They must have polled Whoopie and all of her cronies...
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