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Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by eganist on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:57PM (#27465717)
> I've done enough research to know what I'm talking about

The standard practice is for those making the assertion to provide their references or data. Since you've done the research, can you please link any published and peer reviewed research establishing that the health risks from the vaccine are within two orders of magnitude of the health risks from the virus? Including morbidity, mortality, etc.

> The smartest people I know have reached the same conclusion.

Can you please reference them as well so I can read their published content?

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by 0-_-0 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:01PM (#27467069)
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by eganist on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:18PM (#27467295)
I mean, reading the discussion/conclusion via google translate, this seems to be a study on metabolism of the vaccine? Open to being fact-checked, but this doesn't seem related.

In any case, the only statement I found on health effects in the discussion/conclusion was "No toxic findings indicating liver damage were found in the rat repeated-dose toxicity test ( M2.6.6.3 )." but I don't speak Japanese and I'm sure using Google Translate is a very ineffective way of parsing research.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by 0-_-0 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:27PM (#27467391)
What I belive this might show (still trying to figure this out) is how the lipid nanoparticles from the vaccine are distributed in the body. Page 7 shows particularly high concentration in the ovaries for example. I think the idea of the vaccine should be that the intramuscular injection stays in the muscle and the spike proteins don't get into your blood, but this was never actually directly verified. What this study shows is that the vaccine lipid coating (and thus likely the spike proteins) get into your blood, which when binding to the ACE2 receptor can cause different kinds of damage. E.g. binding to platelets is what can cause clotting. I'm not sure about any of this yet, just started looking into it a few hours ago.
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by ds206 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:38PM (#27468740)
Bret Weinstein (evolutionary biologist), Robert Malone (inventor of mRNA tech), and Steve Kirsch (researching adverse reactions to covid vaccines) talked about this today on Bret's YouTube channel. It's somewhere between the middle and the end of the stream iirc.

I highly recommend watching the whole stream.

https://youtu.be/-_NNTVJzqtY

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by eganist on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:07PM (#27467711)
Given the sheer volume of doses delivered and the capability to detect clotting risks (az, JJ), the fact that clotting risk did not go up with biontech and moderna might throw a wrench into that hunch.

But even then, not seeing an indication of risk within two orders of magnitude of covid itself.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by mike_hearn on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:46AM (#27471166)
the fact that clotting risk did not go up with biontech and moderna might throw a wrench into that hunch.

There's no agreement on what's really happening. For example, clotting risk from the mRNA vaccines is supposedly the same as for the AstraZeneca vaccines, but governments across Europe already suspended the AZ vaccine due to clotting risks (supposedly). Therefore by implication, they would also consider the mRNA vaccines dangerous if their standards were consistent. Either the standards aren't consistent and the AZ blocks were political, or the claims that mRNA vaccines have similar clotting risks to AZ are wrong, but given the contradictory nature of many of the claims surrounding this topic - and given that you admitted you only just discovered some of the scientific discussion of the effects of mRNA vaccines - it may be worth dialing down your confidence slightly.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blood-clots-as-prevalent-w...

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by tim333 on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:18AM (#27472284)
I'm not convinced by "supposedly the same." Sure you can get blood clots after pfizer as well as after az but you can also get them after having a cup of tea as people get clots in general. I don't think there has been statistically significant data that pfizer etc cause extra clots, unlike az. (eg https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-vaccine-blood-clot-ris...)
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by mike_hearn on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:34AM (#27473095)
The study in question is from Oxford University and claims equal rates. Indeed, it may be wrong. However that's kind of the point - this thread is full of people making claims about vaccine efficacy or safety, but for basically any claim you want you can just plug it into Bing or DuckDuckGo and immediately find scientific studies that appear to contradict it. Science can tell you almost anything and everything, it seems, so no big surprise that people find it hard to trust.
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by 0-_-0 on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:17AM (#27470595)
I agree with that, I'm just slightly worried because I can imagine complications being underreported due to the politicisation of the issue.

It might also move the risk/benefit of vaccinating children and people who already had COVID.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by IG_Semmelweiss on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:41PM (#27467936)
He is wrong to make such a claim without data.

However, absense of evidence is not evidence of absense, either.

The simple truth is that there hasnt been enough time to really understand the long term effects of covid, or the vaccine.

Anyone claiming otherwise is simply lying.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by AshamedCaptain on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:46PM (#27468447)
And no one understands the effects the Russell teapot orbiting Earth right now has on the human body, either.
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by IG_Semmelweiss on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:09PM (#27477843)
Unlike the Russell Teapot, the claim on whether vaccines are safe, or not, is verifiable.

I am sure this is uncomfortable to many, but you are taking the position that many did take with tobacco, or asbestos. They were safe. Until they weren't.

Human life is limited in length. The burden of proof rests on those tampering with the natural (ie the human body) over the un-natural.

The counterfactual. Should we feed supermarket milk to babies ? At least in this case, milk is proven to be safe for humans long term. Would you give supermarket milk to babies ?

If you did, the burden of proving this is safe rests on you, not on the person stating they want to continue to provide breast milk to the baby

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by AshamedCaptain on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:16PM (#27479661)
It seems that you are arguing that human life span being finite makes every medical assertion effectively testable, but it does not. You still don't have an infinite population and you still do not have an repeteable way to measure "life span".

And the claim that there is a "natural" and "un natural" order of things is as unscientific as it gets.

I am not going to expect anyone with a half brain to verify the health effects of mixing milk powder with and without a Bible below it, even though a large magnitude of people claim it has an effect. Nor I am going to ask for a full medical study to show that there is no difference.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:11AM (#27484247)
>>>> You still don't have an infinite population and you still do not have an repeteable way to measure "life span".

I genuinely dont understand youe point here. Are you saying that 7B people arent enough to test every medical claim. Are you saying that because we cant determine with precision life span that we cant precisely understand medical results ?

>>>> the claim that there is a "natural" and "un natural" order of things is as unscientific as it gets.

The fallacy of misusing the naturalistic fallacy

According to the critique made, we should not claim that natural things are better than scientific experimentation. Yet, my original claim was not to use nature to derive a notion of how things "ought" to be organized. Rather, as scientists, we respect nature for the extent of its experimentation. The high level of statistical significance given by a very large sample cannot be ignored.

Nature may not have arrived at the best solution to a problem we consider important, but there is reason to believe that it is smarter than our technology based only on statistical significance.

The question about what kinds of systems work (as demonstrated by nature) is different than the question about what working systems ought to do.

We can take a lesson from nature —and time— about what kinds of organizations (such as human vaccines, or viruses) are robust against, or even benefit from, shocks, and in that sense systems should be structured in ways that allow them to function.

Conversely, we cannot derive the structure of a functioning system from what we believe the outcomes ought to be.

>>>>> I am not going to expect anyone with a half brain to verify the health effects of mixing milk powder with and without a Bible below it,

See above. It is not the same claim. Being cautious about taking actions you dont fully understand; is not the same as believing you understand certain actions

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by dragonwriter on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:18AM (#27484295)
> Are you saying that 7B people arent enough to test every medical claim

There are conditions where there are currently single-digit known sufferers among thar 7B, far fron sufficient to adequately test even one claim about that condition or its treatment, so, yes, 7B people isn’t enough to test every medical claim.

> Are you saying that because we cant determine with precision life span that we cant precisely understand medical results ?

Since one of the questions about medical results is about effect on lifespan, the former would certainly imply the latter.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by AshamedCaptain on Saturday June 12, 2021 @01:58PM (#27486230)
> Nature may not have arrived at the best solution to a problem we consider important, but there is reason to believe that it is smarter than our technology based only on statistical significance.

Funny. The two examples that you have used as "thought harmless but then found out to be harmful", tobacco and asbestos, are as natural _as it gets_. One is a leaf and the other is a rock. They have in fact been in use _literally_ since the STONE AGE. Dunno how to redefine "natural" to not include them without also excluding domestication, most cooking or practically all of civilization.

You can definitely take a lesson here. The "natural order of things" is either on the eye of the beholder and therefore useless as a scientific concept or outright amongst the most dangerous thing to happen to humanity, and hardly "smarter than our technology" which is what detected its harmfulness in the first place. Your choice.

Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by seoaeu on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:16PM (#27468609)
Oh, it would probably be lethal. But luckily Russell claims the teapot is in a stable solar orbit between Earth and Mars, so we should be fine for now.
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte... by booblik on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:30PM (#27468327)
I understand the long terms effects of death.