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Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid de... by teddyh on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:13PM (#28385004)
Your comment has attracted a host of comments containing personal anecdotes from various people having different adverse experiences with different COVID-19 vaccines. What purpose do these comments (and yours) serve, except to divert attention away from science and towards personal anecdotes and rumor?
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Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid de... by lrem on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:19PM (#28385071)
People like to share their experiences. Sharing them with people who experienced similar things gives that warm fuzzy feeling of community. One that we're not getting enough due to the pandemics.
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Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid de... by MatteoFrigo on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:05PM (#28385512)
A result is scientific not when experiments confirm it, but only when repeated attempts at disproving it all fail. Without the skeptics, the crackpots, the deniers, there is no science.

When vaccines are concerned, the skeptics have been censored and ostracized (generally speaking, not on HN). Therefore, whatever results are claimed to be science are not such, or at least not yet. Relying on anecdotes is the only recourse that we have to restore some semblance of scientific process.

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Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid de... by dalmo3 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:14PM (#28385589)
The science is there to affect/improve/save people's lives. Those comments are talking about people's lives.
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Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid de... by secondaryacct on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:26PM (#28386833)
We should just be assigned numbers and allowed one pre proposed sentence by HN topic. Here "Science is great, keep up the good work".

I live in China, where we do that. You re welcome to join, something tells me you'll like it here.

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