I am very grateful for this series of essays … it has, among other things, reminded me of an important principle … Don’t confuse correlation with causation! Thank you for doing this, it’s valuable information.
Thank you Judith! I remember when you first brought up this article and several people began to post about it. It's then and seeing so many people replying about the "healthy" adolescents that showed that maybe there were a few things being glossed over in the reporting.
As to the essence of this post, it really was to bring attention to the fact that a rush to report may miss out on some key details that may provide things that we should look into even further, and we certainly should be careful to make absolutist statements if it removes any nuanced discussion.
I appreciate many people find value in this work! I do hope they can take it and use it to change their perspective.
Mental Sloth Syndrome is such an interesting way of putting it! I tend to argue that our critical thinking faculties have been hijacked and that we essentially need to try to reclaim that. I may use that phrase one day!
Skeptics are always needed on all sides to at least provide some brakes before jumping over the deep end, and so I do want to provide some hesitancy and at least more nuanced thoughts on what's going on.
If you haven't seen it yet, Joomi Kim made a post today that encourages the concept of ambiguity when it comes to studies including COVID (she looks specifically at studies seeing if spike gets into the nucleus of cells and outlines a few problems in their methodologies).
Physique, huh? To me that photo of John Eyers with his bulging muscles-and-veins is just grotesque! He looks more like a skinned carcass than a living human.
Bodybuilding is a strange world to be frank. They use tanning sprays to help create shadows that accentuate different muscles and help show leanness. Although it may help judges discern things better to the public it looks very strange. Compare pictures of John above to other ones and he looks quite different.
I believe the opposite of the placebo effect is the nocebo effect, although it may refer to a placebo that is made to be considered harmful rather than innocuous. Here's one definition that's rather broad and infers a harmful side effect due to perception:
A substance that causes undesirable side effects as a result of a patient's perception that it is harmful rather than as a result of a causative ingredient.
In my argument it was more of the idea that stress from concerns over adverse reactions such as myocarditis may elevate Catecholamine levels which would, ironically, pass the synergistic threshold after vaccination and actual contribute to the adverse reaction. So constant fear mongering may greatly harm one's health which means they'll be less resilient against adverse reactions.
I do appreciate your personal remarks. The 3rd paragraph is one that I'm really concerned about given the current climate, as if to say that nearly everything is a symptom of the vaccine. That's why I'm very hesitant to go down the route of aerosolized spike protein from the vaccinated without any really good evidence because that just seems like a perfectly good way to create an evermore divisive climate. I certainly don't take your remarks to be ones that cast aspersions but just provides a nuanced, intrapersonal perspective on how you would respond to such circumstances.
Huh, a cul-de-sac analogy. I've ironically considered that the way that forums such as Reddit, and quite honestly Substack operate is a cul-de-sac of glass houses where we can all peer into each other's houses and are constantly aware that people can look in and it goes the same for our neighbors and sort of seeing who wants to cast the first stone. Distributed cults is a rather interesting way of putting it. It sort of works in the same vein as disseminated information.
I'll make sure to check out your post Rob! Was that in regards to OAS? It's a shame that Substack, for all of its updates, doesn't have a good way of collecting and organizing articles because I'm sure there are plenty of writers who think their works don't become instantaneously antiquated!
Also, I've commented that I'd rather people leave longer comments if it helps engage and provides more perspective. I think Substack already has an issue in which it is being treated more as a Twitter alternative than a place that may provide open discourse via the comments section.
I am very grateful for this series of essays … it has, among other things, reminded me of an important principle … Don’t confuse correlation with causation! Thank you for doing this, it’s valuable information.
Thank you Judith! I remember when you first brought up this article and several people began to post about it. It's then and seeing so many people replying about the "healthy" adolescents that showed that maybe there were a few things being glossed over in the reporting.
As to the essence of this post, it really was to bring attention to the fact that a rush to report may miss out on some key details that may provide things that we should look into even further, and we certainly should be careful to make absolutist statements if it removes any nuanced discussion.
I appreciate many people find value in this work! I do hope they can take it and use it to change their perspective.
Such an excellent series! Big thanks, and I can’t wait to go back and read it again to see what I missed the first time.
I do think many people are quite comfortable being told what to think. Mental Sloth Syndrome. There aren’t enough skeptics these days.
Mental Sloth Syndrome is such an interesting way of putting it! I tend to argue that our critical thinking faculties have been hijacked and that we essentially need to try to reclaim that. I may use that phrase one day!
Skeptics are always needed on all sides to at least provide some brakes before jumping over the deep end, and so I do want to provide some hesitancy and at least more nuanced thoughts on what's going on.
If you haven't seen it yet, Joomi Kim made a post today that encourages the concept of ambiguity when it comes to studies including COVID (she looks specifically at studies seeing if spike gets into the nucleus of cells and outlines a few problems in their methodologies).
https://joomi.substack.com/p/does-spike-protein-get-into-the-nucleus
Physique, huh? To me that photo of John Eyers with his bulging muscles-and-veins is just grotesque! He looks more like a skinned carcass than a living human.
Bodybuilding is a strange world to be frank. They use tanning sprays to help create shadows that accentuate different muscles and help show leanness. Although it may help judges discern things better to the public it looks very strange. Compare pictures of John above to other ones and he looks quite different.
He looks freaky/weird and repulsive.
Thank you Rob!
I believe the opposite of the placebo effect is the nocebo effect, although it may refer to a placebo that is made to be considered harmful rather than innocuous. Here's one definition that's rather broad and infers a harmful side effect due to perception:
A substance that causes undesirable side effects as a result of a patient's perception that it is harmful rather than as a result of a causative ingredient.
In my argument it was more of the idea that stress from concerns over adverse reactions such as myocarditis may elevate Catecholamine levels which would, ironically, pass the synergistic threshold after vaccination and actual contribute to the adverse reaction. So constant fear mongering may greatly harm one's health which means they'll be less resilient against adverse reactions.
I do appreciate your personal remarks. The 3rd paragraph is one that I'm really concerned about given the current climate, as if to say that nearly everything is a symptom of the vaccine. That's why I'm very hesitant to go down the route of aerosolized spike protein from the vaccinated without any really good evidence because that just seems like a perfectly good way to create an evermore divisive climate. I certainly don't take your remarks to be ones that cast aspersions but just provides a nuanced, intrapersonal perspective on how you would respond to such circumstances.
Huh, a cul-de-sac analogy. I've ironically considered that the way that forums such as Reddit, and quite honestly Substack operate is a cul-de-sac of glass houses where we can all peer into each other's houses and are constantly aware that people can look in and it goes the same for our neighbors and sort of seeing who wants to cast the first stone. Distributed cults is a rather interesting way of putting it. It sort of works in the same vein as disseminated information.
I'll make sure to check out your post Rob! Was that in regards to OAS? It's a shame that Substack, for all of its updates, doesn't have a good way of collecting and organizing articles because I'm sure there are plenty of writers who think their works don't become instantaneously antiquated!
Also, I've commented that I'd rather people leave longer comments if it helps engage and provides more perspective. I think Substack already has an issue in which it is being treated more as a Twitter alternative than a place that may provide open discourse via the comments section.
You are correct! Well, gotta change that title there! Thank you!
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