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D M's avatar

Roger has been on the wrong side of these shots from the very beginning.

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

Dr Nice is correct- anecdotes SHOULD be a starting place, just like VAERS SHOULD show warning signals. but if you discount all anecdotes and you never bother to look in VAERS to see if there are safety signals, you never get to hypothesis building.

meanwhile, us common folk who maybe can't wait years for the double blind RCT funded by the drug company will have to rely on anecdotes as our ancestors did. that's what kept them alive- observing and recording what happened around them. how else did they learn what mushrooms were good to eat and which ones would kill them? anecdotes. how did italian grandmothers know to cook tomatoes with olive oil without RCTs to tell them about lycopene? taste, which is a shared cultural anecdote. how did your mother know to feed you homemade chicken soup when you were ailing? anecdotes, stories, wisdom passed down from her mother.

the people who poo-poo anecdotes are too stupid to learn from living in the real world. not all knowledge comes from a lab. maybe someday THE SCIENCE will discover that IVM was indeed effective for covid, all other viral diseases and cancer but we'll all be dead by then. until that glorious day when science catches up with what you always knew to be true, we can rely on anecdotes.

or perhaps, to put a more sinister spin on things, the people who poo-poo anecdotes want us to be helpless and to rely on them utterly .

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