No, you've not given the incidence rate there. — Isaac
No. Someone winning the NBA and Lebron James winning the NBA are two different events, statistically. — Isaac
Just a mere 'note' that my odds are actually zero because of a known variable? — Isaac
I count five on the first two pages, the rest seem to repeat that broad set. There's only a few thousand results in total, maybe less than fifty key papers, when do they start getting into the first million known variables? — Isaac
And yet vociferous disagreement nonetheless, against a position for which you have no idea what the argument is. — Isaac
Let's just take the statistical disagreement about what constitutes risk. — Isaac
You're very sure of your position, you don't cite any external sources so where does your knowledge on the matter come from? — Isaac
I'm actually left feeling quite disturbed in the end and find myself in no mood for good terms. — Isaac
To avoid being fired for failure to get vaccinated, people claim religious exemptions. Lawyers will have to go through the exemptions and rule on them. — frank
Oh, and the West is heaven on earth, right.I see your point. However, China has been an evil dictatorship from the day the Maoists seized power in 1949.
So, I would say that China (i.e. the political system, not the Chinese people) is evil quite independently of the West. — Apollodorus
So why not just, you know, stop importing low quality products from China?And precisely because the West bears a large share of culpability, it also has the responsibility to do something about it. Economic sanctions, for example, would definitely be a step in the right direction.
Oh, and the West is heaven on earth, right. — baker
So why not just, you know, stop importing low quality products from China? — baker
If the Westerners are unable to control their own greed, their own lowly impulses, how on earth are they going to control the greed of others?? — baker
But sometimes it does? That's news to me.The world doesn't always work on Buddhist principles. — Apollodorus
Absolutely.I think China knows exactly what it is doing. — Apollodorus
Are you sure about the former, given the rise of rightwing politics?If the West controlled Hitler and Stalin, why not Xi?
What are you saying? That, for example, people with transplanted organs (and who are on lifelong immunosuppresant therapy) should rightfully be categorized as having "failed to get vaccinated"? — baker
Are you sure about the former, given the rise of rightwing politics? — baker
The West trying to control China is like a drug addict trying to control his drug dealer — baker
A doctor's note is sufficient for exemption. Religious exemptions don't require any evidence. That's why it's become the strategy of choice. — frank
I have also heard of unvaccinated people who identify as a person who is vaccinated — Merkwurdichliebe
If the government declares something to be mandatory tout court it doesn't follow that they will be legally responsible to pay compensation in the unlikely event that something goes wrong. — Janus
For every other mandatory vaccine, there is a safety net for the case that something goes wrong, but not for the covid vaccines. — baker
I have also heard of unvaccinated people who identify as a person who is vaccinated — Merkwurdichliebe
They would have to provide proof to avoid being fired. — frank
Compared to the Maoists, yes.Oh, and the West is heaven on earth, right. — baker
World Health Organization approves malaria vaccine
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/new-malaria-vaccine-explained-by-the-who
In 2019, 386,000 Africans died from malaria, of which 274,000 were children under five, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the past 18 months, there have been 212,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
Now the WHO has approved a malaria vaccine for children for the first time, after a successful pilot scheme in three African countries: Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.
RTS,S - or Mosquirix - is a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which acts against P. falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite globally, and the most prevalent in Africa.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it a "historic moment" and a "breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control".
“Using this vaccine on top of existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year,” he added.
Great news! — Olivier5
in November GlaxoSmithKline pled guilty to knowingly distributing adulterated medication after a whistleblower, Cheryl Eckard, a company insider, tipped off federal investigators.
The extent of GlaxoSmithKline’s bad medicine is astonishing: after Eckard became the lead of a quality assurance team she made some horrific discoveries at a Puerto Rico plant manufacturing drugs for the U.S. For example, all the systems were broken, the equipment was broken, and the manufacturing processes were broken in the Cidra, Puerto Rico plant. Specifically, water tainted with bacteria was used to make tablets, failures on production lines made some drugs too strong and others not strong enough, and employees were contaminating the product by sticking their arms inside of tanks containing Bactroban, an anti-bacterial ointment. But the worst discovery was that employees were packaging the wrong drugs inside of the wrong bottles, and even mixing various drugs together in the same packages.
Federal investigators say that between 2001 and 2007, GlaxoSmithKline failed to disclose safety data from certain studies of Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration. This is, ethically, perhaps the most serious of the charges. Glaxo's handling of the Avandia matter was fraught with bad disclosure bordering on deceit. During that time period, Avandia became the best-selling diabetes drug in the world. Now it not only bears warnings that it might cause heart attacks, its use has been so restricted that the drug has nearly vanished off Glaxo's ledgers. To the extent that Glaxo kept Avandia's heart risk from being recognized, that means that patients were exposed to added risks.
Glaxo is ... pleading to misdemeanor criminal charges that it sold two antidepressants for purposes for which they were not approved. This includes selling Paxil, once of of Glaxo's top-selling drugs and a member of the same class of medicines as Prozac and Zoloft, to children and adolescents, a group that the drug was never approved to treat. Since 2004, all of these antidepressants have carried a warning that they can increase the risk of suicide in adolescents.
A Chinese court ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $492 million in 2014. The fine resolved charges of bribing doctors in China to use GSK products. It was the biggest penalty ever imposed by a Chinese court.
The court sentenced Briton Mark Reilly to four years in prison. He was the company’s British executive for China.
I still welcome the attention paid at long last to malaria. — Olivier5
There's no taboo that i know of on criticizing big pharma. — Olivier5
not spreading artificial doubt and confusion in the midst of a crisis. — Olivier5
Artificial doubt, manufactured doubt, is a problem. Well grounded doubt is not. — Olivier5
I can agree with that. Capitalism mechanically leads to an unhealthy concentration of power. — Olivier5
you think the stuff you get in your feed and you spread here comes from nowhere? You think nobody profit from it? Think again. — Olivier5
There's just a community that's soaked in misinformation. — frank
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