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   @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 00:28:43 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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   @sam_harris @StellaMaris @jjcouey Actually Bayesians who used the priors of failed novel vaccine trials easily predicted it. Also the number of "firsts" in this face-ass vaccine would only compound the chances of failure, not success.

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     "I also put it in the context of vaccines being the safest of all pharmacological interventions. Even the people that were sceptical about these vaccines could not have predicted how bad these would turn out to be."
     
     Scott Adams couldn't predict this either. Ultimately it's just a coin flip
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     StellaMaris (stellamaris@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 00:28:45 JST StellaMaris

     • jjcouey
     ....and lastly.... this charlatan.... they are so obvious now... thanks, @jjcouey ...
     
     We have a battle between truth versus money
     A conversation with Dr. Aseem Malhotra
     
     This interview appeared first in Optimist magazine, October/November 2024!!
     
     *with classic quotes like....
     
     Q. I have two more questions. One is, are there things in the previous three years, let's say from the start of the Covid crisis that you regret?
     
     A. "I'm not I'm not the type of person that lives with regrets. I see every situation that one goes through as an opportunity for learning. Even if you make a mistake, I see it as an opportunity for learning. Because making mistakes is a part of human existence. The most important is that we act from a place of good and pure intent."
     
     "Having said that, if there was something that I regret more than anything else in my life right now, partly because it's had a negative effect on me mentally, has been taking the Covid vaccine."
     
     Q. And maybe even promoting it?
     
     A. "I don't have that much regret for the promotion part if you look back at the interview I did, because it was at a very specific early time in the pandemic and actually still stands up to some scrutiny: high risk people from ethnic minority groups who weren't taking it. We were only offering it to those high risk people at that time. I also put it in the context of vaccines being the safest of all pharmacological interventions. Even the people that were sceptical about these vaccines could not have predicted how bad these would turn out to be."
     
     "For me personally, as someone in his early 40s who was fit and active and healthy, there was no reason to have it. I thought I was going to maybe protect patients from getting Covid, but genuinely, I didn't think there was a reason for me to have it."
     
     "If you look at the the data now, there is an argument to be made that there was more good than harm taking the vaccine for high risk people at the early stage of the pandemic. However, because the risk rate of serious adverse events is so high, 1 in 800, I don't believe it should have been given to a single human. Having said that, there's not been a single person that's come forward saying, Doctor Malhotra, I took the vaccine because of you and now I've been harmed. I would apologise to that person."
     
     https://maartenfornerod.substack.com/p/we-have-a-battle-between-truth-versus