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• Comment by Edzard on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Saturday 21 December 2024: 11:12 “As they say, you can’t fix stupid.” Yes – and by Jove, you are the living proof!
• Comment by RG on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Saturday 21 December 2024: 10:12 @Talker If the public continues accepting mRNA vaccines, that is their choice. Hundreds of millions will choose otherwise. We should not forget the definition of insanity, doing the same thing and expecting a different result. As they say, you can’t fix stupid.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Saturday 21 December 2024: 10:12 Correction: ” If all those 85-year-olds received a COVID vaccine, then that would also lead to 35,000 mandatory(!) death reports with VAERS …” From what I understand, this mandatory reporting only applies to deaths of patients in the care of healthcare workers at the time of vaccination – otherwise VAERS would be deluged with death reports as per my calculation. What this tells me is that we should leave the interpretation of VAERS data to professionals, and that does not include me – or antivaxxers, for that matter. So stop using VAERS as a kind of oracle that tells you what you want to hear.
• Comment by Talker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Saturday 21 December 2024: 03:12 what the Yale scientist have now realized You mean the same Yale that’s recommending a brand spankin’ new mRNA vaccine for RSV? https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-you-get-an-rsv-vaccine 🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣 The Nobel Prize winning mRNA revolution is here. The majority got covid mRNA jabs, and most will end up getting RSV jabs as well. There is nothing antivax loons like you and Old Bob can do anything about it except s*** bricks.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 19:12 Those reported deaths are not a signal either. They were in fact fully expected. Now you are probably way too stupid to understand the following, but here’s the math anyway: – Healthcare workers are required by law to report all deaths in a period of 3 months (IIRC) following vaccination to VAERS, regardless of what the cause of death was. – Now for instance an 85-year-old has a 2.5% probability to die within 3 months. – There are about 1.4 million 85-year-olds in the US, so 35,000 of those will die within a 3-month time frame. – If all those 85-year-olds received a COVID vaccine, then that would also lead to 35,000 mandatory(!) death reports with VAERS – even if not a single one of those deaths was actually caused by the vaccine. – Repeat for all age brackets, and you get hundreds of thousands of VAERS death reports, not one of which would be reported to VAERS under normal circumstances (i.e. without mass COVID vaccination). And yes, healthcare workers were required by law to file those thousands of reports, even if it was abundantly clear that people died from other causes. So if anything, deaths are not under-reported as you try to suggest, but in fact hugely over-reported. As this was expected, scientists and other experts were not alarmed at all by the sudden surge of death reports. Only antivaxxers and other ignoranuses keep screaming bloody murder about those numbers. Now there will of course be some deaths caused by the COVID vaccine – even mild vaccine side effects can give an extremely frail person the last push. And some unlucky people will develop an anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine, which can kill in minutes if not treated promptly. But those cases are exceedingly rare. Most estimates peg the death rate of COVID vaccines at about 1 per 10 million vaccine doses administered, which is the same as with other vaccines. So summarized: there are no signs whatsoever that COVID vaccines cause excess deaths or are particularly harmful in other ways.
• Comment by Pete Attkins on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 18:12 Old Bob wrote: “Go here: https://openvaers[dot]com/covid-data” OpenVAERS is an American anti-vaccine website created in 2021 by Liz Willner. The website misrepresents data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to promote misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. … COVID-19 vaccine misinformation OpenVAERS misrepresents data from the VAERS database to indicate that the COVID-19 vaccines are harmful by publishing unverified data and statistics on the number of people who have allegedly died or suffered injuries after being vaccinated against COVID-19. The website is designed to present the information in an easily accessible format, which allows decontextualized screenshots to be shared on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Logically noted that the website did not include the VAERS disclaimer for how its data should be interpreted until it was added on August 12, 2021. Kolina Koltai, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center for an Informed Public (ICP) at the University of Washington, described OpenVAERS as “misinformation 101”, adding: “It’s decontextualization. I literally show examples like that in classes that I teach. You take a bit of information and you remove all the other context from it. That’s common with almost any misinformation you can see.” Logically analyst Nick Backovic said, “By design, it’s there for virality because it’s so easy to share these screenshots, out of context, and people won’t question it. It looks official, sounds official, because it also has this very similar name to the actual government website.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVAERS
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 17:12 I wrote “safety signal” not “proof”. You think there’s no problem, you take the vaccine.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 16:12 https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html : A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine. https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/vaers-reported-vaccine-deaths-have-not-been-confirmed-or-deemed-causal-by-cdc-idUSL1N2MZ2H8/ the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires healthcare workers to report any deaths AFTER (not necessarily caused by) vaccination to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System).
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 15:12 Go here: https://openvaers.com/covid-data And scroll down a couple of pages to “All deaths reported to VAERS by year” and then scroll down a bit more to “VEARS COVID vaccine reports by days to onset-all Ages” And there is your safety signal, and remember that a one million dollar review by Yale, funded by the FDA said that less than 1% of adverse effects are reported by doctors.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 15:12 @RG the readers here have little interest in what the Yale scientist have now realized, because the information was not posted from a legacy media website. There is no ‘information’ and there may even be no ‘Yale scientists’. All there is so far is the words of an antivaxxer with no scientific credentials whatsoever who has a history of lying and making things up – so in essence someone like OB and you – who claims that two anonymous people told him about two equally anonymous researchers who claim that they found spike protein in people who were last vaccinated several years ago. Based on this, our ignorant antivaxxer then conjures up the explanation that residual DNA in mRNA vaccines somehow a) codes for spike protein (which it doesn’t), b) got integrated in human DNA (which is impossible), and c) got expressed (which is ludicrously unlikely). In other words: the man has no idea what he is talking about. But of course ignoranuses like OB and you swallow his nonsense hook, line and sinker, and even spread it on. the population is in a worse state than before, because they are suffering from the same previous chronic conditions. and new unhealthful conditions due to the jabs. What ‘unhealthful conditions due to the jabs’ are those, pray? I can’t think of any. There is no indication that mRNA vaccines cause any significant, widespread health problems (apart of course from the known, usually mild side effects).
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 15:12 As you say, it is impossible to interest anyone in this group if it goes against their credos. Some folks I know have changed their minds, but only through direct experience (I only tried once, in 2021 with one fellow and the guy really got angry, so I never did that again, not personally. The great thing about anonymity is that it is impersonal – you can have fun and no relationship gets hurt. The pattern is always the same: reduce the argument to some minimal detail, preferably to the person themselves and then attack the person – and it works against anyone who just wants to be friends, which is why I guess, it is universal, and so easy for tyrants to take advantage of. So I look for this trait in myself and sure enough it is there e.g. when you are growing up, you might cry when you lose some game against an adult, and look foolish, so you eradicate it, kill that fucker dead and never do that again, but this is in childhood when you think you know more than your Dad (who turns out to be a genius, later). It is a lack of maturity: The Leftist thing (if you are not a socialist when you are 18 you don’t have a heart, if you are not for free-enterprise when you are 40, you don’t have a brain – or however it goes). This is how I now handle myself professionally (some years ago): “Young Bob, your code needs to change.” Furious rage suppressed, “Why?” “Because when the temperature drops below minus 10, the WDT timesout (it’s an RC).” “Shit, thanks for that, it never occurred to me!” And *that* gives me a buzz that I managed to control myself, that I still smile about today, in the same way that with a terrific effort, I managed not to cry when I lost at bowls aged 8. The evidence against The vaccine and hence all the others is now so overwhelming that it is being reported, even on MSM (see this week’s theH…W…) e.g. the December 4th report. Being dispassionate about medicine, (and everyone should be because after all it is a “practice” not a “science”), makes the subject really interesting and nothing to get upset about.
• Comment by Pete Attkins on Best Practices for Chiropractic Management of Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Pseudo-Science at its Most Ridiculous Friday 20 December 2024: 12:12 The study is published in the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. Its last listed author is John Weeks, Seattle, WA, USA, who according to the National Library of Medicine is an author of this: Holger Cramer, John Weeks. The Best of Both Worlds: Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine Is Now an Official Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. 2022 Mar;28(3):195-196. doi:10.1089/jicm.2022.29104.hc. Epub 2022 Mar 2. PMID: 35238616. (https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jicm.2022.29104.hc)   The editorial board of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine includes: Holger Cramer, editor-in-chief. John Weeks, Seattle, WA, USA, editor emeritus. Iris R. Bell, MD, PhD, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA. Dana Ullman, MPH. https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/journal-of-integrative-and-complementary-medicine/26/editorial-board   See also: https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/10/2397-john-weeks.html
• Comment by Aviv on Best Practices for Chiropractic Management of Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Pseudo-Science at its Most Ridiculous Friday 20 December 2024: 11:12 I find the recommendation of LLLT in FMS as one of the most absurd on the list(Even for Chiros). It is a very local treatment, while FMS is a widespread pain syndrome that is mostly considered nociplastic pain. There is a bit of preliminary research on red light therapy by LED on FMS and chronic pain, at least it makes more sense for a widespread problem than a very localized laser. it’s like recommending a 1 needle acupuncture, maybe with a fancy name for the marketing like “the ROOT needle”. According to prof. Michael Hamblin that researched the field of photobiomodulation, LLLT has almost no benefits over simple LED and the skin surface area exposed to the light is a factor in the treatment as well. Recent feasibility trial: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10525895/
• Comment by RG on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 11:12 @Old Bob Sir, the readers here have little interest in what the Yale scientist have now realized, because the information was not posted from a legacy media website. I tested positive for covid-19 twice, once before vaccination and once after, the same for my wife. My age was 64 on the first time around and 65 the second. The virus is SO deadly that you need to be tested to even know if you have/had it. Both experiences were very similar, much like the flu, in fact I had worse flu attacks many times. The only reason that some children should have been vaccinated is the same reason some older adults need a jab… underlying health conditions. Was it the virus that killed so many ? … or was it they were already suffering from chronic health conditions ? I contend the later. I can’t speak to what happened in other countries because I am not familiar with the health However, I do know the health in the general population in the USA is so poor that it’s no wonder the death toll was so high in comparison. Many died needlessly due to health preconditions. Does that even sound familiar to anybody ? And now as you have pointed out Bob, the population is in a worse state than before, because they are suffering from the same previous chronic conditions. and new unhealthful conditions due to the jabs.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 09:12 @RPGNo1 So what we have here is two unidentified people who heard two unidentified researchers claiming a hugely implausible result from some unregistered and thus unidentified study which may be ‘published soon’ as non-peer-reviewed preprint – as shared exclusively with Berenson’s own ‘Unreported Truths’ Internet sewer channel. Well, that sounds like pretty solid science to me 🙂
• Comment by RPGNo1 on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Friday 20 December 2024: 06:12 How predictable! There you go again, dodging because you have been caught out as a lying ignoramus. 😀 Early in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Berenson vocally argued that people and the media were overestimating the risk of the new virus, that it posed little risk to young Americans, and that it was being used as a cover for government overreach.[8][29] Many public health experts have rejected his claims.[8][29]: 1  In May 2020, Fox News announced that Berenson would host a TV show called COVID Contrarian on its online streaming platform Fox Nation. However, by July 2020, amid surges in coronavirus cases across parts of the United States, Fox News appeared to have backtracked and removed the announcement of his show from its website.[30] In 2021, Berenson tweeted that COVID-19 vaccinations had led to 50 times more adverse effects than flu vaccine. PolitiFact rated the claim “mostly false”.[12] The Atlantic called him “The pandemic’s wrongest man”, owing to what they termed his “dangerously, unflaggingly, and superlatively wrong” claims of the vaccine’s ineffectiveness.[10] On January 25, 2022, Berenson appeared on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight declaring that existing mRNA vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective” against COVID-19, and further demanding that they be withdrawn from the market immediately.[31] The Washington Post’s Philip Bump denounced Carlson for “inviting Berenson on, despite his proven track record of misinformation and cherry-picking” and observed that “Berenson’s claims went unchallenged.”[32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Berenson#COVID-19_pandemic
• Comment by Pete Attkins on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 22:12 And Old Bob has already contaminated his genome with cabbage DNA and coffee shrub DNA: Old Bob on Friday 23 October 2020 at 15:32 … eat cabbages, no (added) salt, a little conventional therapy and a lot of Gerson + coffee enemas, then tell everyone about it and sit back to bathe in the abuse – works for me. https://edzardernst.com/2020/10/manifesto-against-pseudosciences-in-health/#comment-127531
• Comment by Talker on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 21:12 Well… a breatharian lifestyle wont work either. The human genome contains 8% of foreign DNA of viral origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus#Human_endogenous_retroviruses. Old Bob may need to get creative to rid of foreign DNA from his genome. Maybe he will follow Trump’s suggestion and inject bleach? I heard bleach cleans your genes and dissolves foreign DNA. 😆
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 18:12 This just in today: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yale-researchers-have-found [quote] Yale researchers have found Covid spike protein in the blood of people never infected with Covid – years after they got mRNA jabs [end of quote]
• Comment by RPGNo1 on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 15:12 How predictable! There you go again, dodging because you have been caught out as a lying ignoramus.. 😀
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 13:12 @JK Why would authorities do this if there is evidence of fraud and harm? You tell me. Authorities also allow other, extremely harmful things such as the sale of tobacco – which, admittedly, does vastly more harm than any type of SCAM. I guess it’s about money and about business lobby. And yes, there is also quite a bit of lobby for SCAM. … get taken in by any conspiracy that you get sucked into … What conspiracy? I simply see that there are thousands of people who are selling ‘healthcare’ that doesn’t do anything and may even be harmful. Almost all real doctors and scientists agree with me – or rather, it’s the other way round: I agree with them when they show us (via research) that SCAM does not actually help people get better.
• Comment by JK on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 11:12 You make allegations of fraud and harm Richard that you cannot support with evidence. You claim that ‘authorities in many countries ignore the scientific evidence and instead fall for the nonsense that SCAMmers claim.’ Why would authorities do this if there is evidence of fraud and harm? Only a conspiracy theorist would make such a claim implying that authorities are somehow making mistakes and ignoring all of this fraud and harm. By all means Richard please get taken in by any conspiracy that you get sucked into. However, I would like to remind you that they did land on the moon, the earth isnt flat and i wouldnt be too concerned about any vaccines you have had.
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 10:12 @Margaret Lamont Have you been to a doctor recently? Not recently, and I don’t think that but personal anecdotes are important or representative anyway – but since you ask for it: when I suffered from bouts of rather bad lower back pain, the doctor at the time a) checked if there wasn’t anything serious going on, or if there were clear causes for my problems (heavy work), and when that wasn’t the case b) prescribed ‘pain-guided activity’. Which means to go about business as usual, but just taking it easy. No extended periods of resting (which I tended to do until then), and no painkillers unless the pain really messed up my sleep at night. It appeared to work: new episodes of back pain only lasted 4-5 days instead of two or three weeks. And by paying more attention to proper techniques for loading my back and lifting etc. I managed to reduce recurrence to maybe once every few years. I also tried things like physiotherapy and massage, but apart from feeling nice and relaxed those things didn’t bring any significant extra relief. … even for example on YouTube. They could help so much more by referring to many of the alternative techniques that you blindly call SCAM. The scientific literature begs to differ. Many alternative treatments and techniques claim to be effective, but when properly researched, none of them are – beyond placebo, of course. There’s always placebo.
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 10:12 Sure, such as DES (diethylstilbestrol).
• Comment by Margaret Lamont on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 09:12 In response to Richard Rasker Your definition of doctors is lovely and would that it was that way. But that is what is imagination! It used to be more like that but has sadly lost its way now. Have you been to a doctor recently? And how do you expect all that in 8 minute appointment, if you can get one? Have some experience being under GP, consultant and specialist team for last two years. Also referred to physio for arthritic knees and sacroiliac which is frankly pretty pathetic compared to what is available, even for example on YouTube. They could help so much more by referring to many of the alternative techniques that you blindly call SCAM.
• Comment by Pete Attkins on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 09:12 I hope you’re already a breatharian, Old Bob. Foreign DNA which is regularly ingested with the essential food supply is not completely degraded. Small quantities of fragmented DNA rather persist transiently in the gastro-intestinal tract of mice and can be traced to various organ systems, except for cells in the germ line. Foreign DNA entering and persisting in mammalian cells can stochastically lead to genome-wide alterations of transcriptional and CpG DNA methylation profiles. In the course of food-ingested DNA invading somatic cells, completely new cell types can be generated which might be involved in the causation of common ailments. Doerfler W. Essential concepts are missing: Foreign DNA in food invades the organisms’ cells and can lead to stochastic epigenetic alterations with a wide range of possible pathogenetic consequences. Clinical Epigenetics. 2020 Feb 7;12(1):21. doi:10.1186/s13148-020-0813-z. PMCID: PMC7007663.
• Comment by Margaret Lamont on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 09:12 You are absolutely right. That will happen. It will completely change everything,
• Comment by Richard Rasker on Reiki in Companion Animals? Thursday 19 December 2024: 09:12 @Mojo cars don’t get better of their own accord In a way they can, or at least appear to do so. Like medical complaints, technical problems can be intermittent, or they can have a non-technical cause – maybe the increased fuel consumption was the result of a more wasteful driving style, or because the owner used the AC a lot more because of an exceptional heat wave. Or maybe that annoying scratchy, squeaky noise was actually a mouse. Or wires can short out only occasionally when rubbing against each other due to vibration – problems like this can take a LOT of time to trace, and seemingly even ‘fix themselves’. Been there, done that. This is why there are no Alternative Car Mechanics. Well, in a way, there are. And there are of course LOTS of quite incompetent mechs out there who are almost one-on-one comparable with alternative medical practitioners.
• Comment by Old Bob on Donald Trump might try to “outlaw” some vaccinations in the US Thursday 19 December 2024: 07:12 https://anandamide.substack.com/p/squid-ink-and-smoke-screens [quote] Australian drug regulator knows DNA fragments in mRNA vaccines can enter nucleus and integrate into genome, internal emails show [end of quote]
• Comment by Mojo on Reiki in Companion Animals? Wednesday 18 December 2024: 21:12 Suppose you take your car to a garage because its fuel consumption has noticeably increased. The mechanic charges you $100 for just waving his hands around the engine compartment for half an hour, suggesting that you “try and see if things are better now”, claiming that his intervention “usually works”, or even that it is “scientifically proven”. At no point did the mechanic even try to locate and address the real problem, e.g. a leaking fuel line. Because this mechanic has not been properly trained, and doesn’t actually know how cars work, and what may cause certain problems. The crucial difference between car maintenance and treatment of disease being that cars don’t get better of their own accord, so the Voltairean* approach doesn’t work with them. This is why there are no Alternative Car Mechanics. *Amusing the car while nature takes its course.