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Here Is An Honest Question
Here Is An Honest Question
question As a physician, I would strongly urge you not to provide public medical advice that will
result in further harm and mortality.
Answer Brock Hollett as a Dr. of Philosophy, a philosopher of science, and epistemologist whose
job it is to analyze whether science and medicine is being conducted properly, I would strongly
recommend that you not provide philosophical advice in the areas of philosophy of science that
will result in further harm and mortality. #TrustTheExperts
http://www.tanadineen.com/writer/introwriter.htm?
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no one said doctors are being cut checks for prescribing particular medications. It was said the
doctors are owned by Big Pharma, and that medicine is so heavily influenced by Big Pharma and
the corporate-academic-government partnerships (i.e, the cronyism), the very practice of medicine
itself is corrupted.
You have to be completely naïve, purposely ignorant, or disingenuous to deny this fact.
Just go read Dr. Marcia Angell (member of the faculty of Global Health and Social Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine)
and her article, "Drug Co & Doctors: A Story of Corruption."
this is pretty close to cutting checks, wouldn't you think?
"most doctors take money or gifts from drug companies in one way or another. Many are paid
consultants, speakers at company-sponsored meetings, ghost-authors of papers written by drug
companies or their agents, and ostensible “researchers” whose contribution often consists merely
of putting their patients on a drug and transmitting some token information to the company. Still
more doctors are recipients of free meals and other out-and-out gifts. In addition, drug companies
subsidize most meetings of professional organizations and most of the continuing medical
education needed by doctors to maintain their state licenses.
No one knows the total amount provided by drug companies to physicians, but I estimate from the
annual reports of the top nine US drug companies that it comes to tens of billions of dollars a year.
By such means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors
evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at
prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even
the definition of what constitutes a disease." - Dr. Marcia Angell
Annie, it is time to chose sides. As Bush once said, "you are either with us or you are with the
terrorists."
Cuffid
Here is another one for the Covid cult members:
"Using vaccine trial data, an Orthodox Christian medical researcher debunks the "95%" efficacy claims put forward for
Covid vaccines. The truth is closer to 1%. The vaccines provide such little protection, that vaccinating the entire U.S.
population would reduce deaths by less than 8%. If people are properly informed that their ineffective protection from a
Covid vaccine is actually 1% or less, and not 95% as advertised, vaccine uptake would drop dramatically, and in this
particular instance, it should. Even in the clinical trials, side effects were more common than building actual immunity. What
you don't know about Relative Risk Reduction and Absolute Risk Reduction could kill you."
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-real-efficacy-of.../...
[addendum]: The doctor and medical researcher provides corrections to his original calculations in the article. Nevertheless,
the adjusted numbers still prove the point:
"If the NNT to prevent one case of Covid infection is 119 and the population of the US is 330,000,000, dividing the
population by 119 yields 2.77 million Covid infections. In other words, immunizing every American in the US would prevent
2.77 million Covid infections.
However, the US already experienced 33,217,718 infections. For simplicity, I assumed all of these infections occurred in an
unvaccinated population.
Therefore, had every US citizen been vaccinated, 30,440,718 infections would have occurred instead of 33,217,718
infections.
593,282 deaths – 543,810 deaths = 49,472 fewer deaths had every American citizen been vaccinated with the Pfizer mRNA
Covid-19 vaccine
By cross-multiplying again,
X = 4,947,200/593,282 = 8.3
With an NNT of 119, the Pfizer vaccine would have resulted in 8.3% fewer deaths, and not 1.78% as per my original
calculation.
I do apologize for this error, but it does not change the fact that the vaccine would have had little impact both in the infection
rate and the death rate had every US citizen been vaccinated."
For each individual vaccinated, the Absolute Risk Reduction is still 0.84% which means that the risk for getting infected after
vaccination is 100% – 0.84% = 99.16%, and NOT 5% as the RRR implies.
Yes, some lives will be saved, but at what expense, and could we have done better with a different approach?
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-real-efficacy-of-covid-19-vaccines-a-medical-researcher-debunks-the-claims/?
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Anne I personally know an Orthodox physician who would strongly disagree. This doctor is a
specialist at a major California university hospital. It is also been supported by Bishop Benjamin
as well as others.
As someone who has severe lung damage from Covid six months ago sure I avoided death but I
have to be hooked up to a lung machine three times a day with several medications. I can’t walk
up stairs without shortness of breath. It is terrible.
The anti vaccine movement is unscientific and puts lives at risk.
Hundreds of millions of these vaccines have been given out and Covid numbers are down
dramatically.
Fr. Deacon you know nothing about the philosophy of science. So keep up the ad hominems
calling me unscientific
I should say: of course we care and feel bad that you got COVID and suffered the way you did.
But no one is arguing that COVID isn't real or those with underlying conditions that contract it
aren't higher at risk and suffer. So I am not sure what you point is intending to prove.
As I have argued before, the numbers have been inflated, the PCR test notoriously unreliable, and
the science surrounding all this severely corrupted.
I have written about this and I am having an article published, as well as an article in a book. So I
am not sure why you would question my expertise.
Here is my epistemological question for you: why do you trust what is being pushed and said
about the science? Because you know an Orthodox physician? Well that isn't enough because if
we find other Orthodox physicians and scientists who disagree, you don't accept it. Do you simply
trust the "official narrative" because people say it is science? Are you telling me that you would
stick anything in your arm as long as someone calls it a vaccine and says trust the science?
also, here is an article that references the recent MIT study that shows that covid skeptics by and
large actually know the science:
https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/mit-covid-skeptics-champion-science-
1243196579867037696?
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