Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
Fringe websites? What do you consider reliable? CNN? NYT? The fact that a study appears on a particular website doesn't discredit the study. Only the study can do that. I assume you have never published and have no experience with the peer-review system. Either that or you are a journal editor/reviewer.
I'm very sorry to be confused by a master pedagogist such as yourself, obviously my fault. On the one hand, the ivermectin studies are inadequate because the NEJM/JAMA/Lancet won't publish them, but on the other hand the vaccines have been adequately studied because ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/FNC/NYT says they are, and because the CDC approved them under an improper EUA? On the one hand, COVID does in fact have a minimal impact on mortality, as the statistics I post from the CDC conclusively demonstrate. On the other hand, I am enraged that people are being prevented from taking a very effective drug for the disease if they want to do so, while being shunted into the Vaccine Industry/Big Pharma/CDC revenue stream in the absence of adequate data on these products. Your scare quotes around "with" and "from" indicate a lack of familiarity with death coding in the clinical systems involved in these statistics, and the monetary incentives set in place by the governments. So help me with your bizarre logic here: you think I want people to die because nobody that isn't already dying of something else dies of COVID, and dying is better than getting treated effectively when the government is trying to kill you? Or you think that since you think I said that nobody is dying, that I should not object to the people who are dying because they have been refused effective treatment, because you think I said that nobody is dying? The fuck are you talking about??