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Debunked Myths of covid and covid vaccination

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So, onto the vaccine and covid stuff. What is really interesting about this is stuff that was recently said by Dr. Ben Goldacre Ph.D.  Now almost no one has been a bigger critic of Big Pharma than Ben Goldacre - UK Doctor, Academic, And Oxford Professor of Medicine as well as the author of several best selling books such as "Bad Pharma" https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/dp/0865478007, "Bad Science" https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/0865479186, and "I think you will find it's a lot more complicated than that" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HATQA8K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1. This guy as well as his colleagues have also contributed greatly to the way the medical profession does things nowadays, at least within the UK anyway.  Oh and guess what? He was even involved in vaccination research regarding the covid pandemic. https://bjgp.org/content/72/714/e51. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/blue-print/jonathan-sterne_methods-issues-randomized.pdf?sfvrsn=a4222730_9. https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/?lang=pt&q=au:"Ben Goldacre", https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/72/714/e51.full.pdf. https://covidreference.com/comorbidities-ticker.

Oh, and what this guy recently said is that he is satisfied with the way drug companies, at least within the UK are doing things; it appears they are finally cleaning up their act. "

Even the author and academic Ben Goldacre, whose book Bad Pharma shone a light on disreputable behavior in the industry, is impressed by its response to the pandemic so far. “Right now, everyone is hugely motivated to pull in the same direction – and fast. It’s amazing to see. More broadly, our research from the DataLab at Oxford has produced strong evidence that pharma is cleaning up its act much faster than academia, at least in some key areas, in recent years.”

For instance, a recent analysis suggested drug companies were now far better than academics at complying with a requirement to share the results of all clinical trials within 12 months of completion. “More than anything, it shows once again that problems in science are about bad systems and incentives rather than bad people or bad organizations,” Goldacre said." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/04/covid-vaccines-offer-chance-for-big-pharma-to-improve-its-image.

Moreover, it's time to get to some of the covid and covid vaccination myths that continue to plague us:

The above involves access to more in-depth literature surrounding some of these myths, of which some do contain a grain of truth but a small grain that is buried deep underneath all that mud of misinformation on the surface!

For more generally basic (not nescessareliy basic in academic terms though) stuff just see this:

  • Political Nonsense "This is not to be trusted because it's pushed by liberals"
  • Myth 1: The vaccine will give me COVID-19

  • Myth 2: We can’t trust COVID-19 vaccines because they were rushed

  • Myth 3: We don’t know what’s in these vaccines

  • Myth 4: These vaccines will alter my DNA

  • Myth 5: I already had COVID-19, so I won’t benefit from the vaccine

  • Myth 6: Since COVID-19’s survival rate is so high, I don’t need a vaccine

  • Myth 7: The vaccine will cause infertility

  • More political nonsense "You can't trust those science sites as they are all politically motivated" - there will no doubt be someone saying something along the lines about how we can't trust this legitimate science as there so often is here
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1748013219301483

However, I highly recommend you read the previous myths as they give a more in-depth picture of the common myths that continue to infect us. It will make you a better bullsh!t detector. And on that note, I am brought to another point. And that is there are people out there that pose as credible authorities spreading disinformation. There are groups of trolls such as the Russian Troll Factory for instance, that literally get paid to engage in this behavior! Other motivations include ideological reasons, and potentially just for pleasure purposes. Some of these guys are very clever, and well-read but make no mistake; what they are feeding you is pretty much bullshi!t! I guess the trick is not to believe automatically everything you come across at face value. And fortunately, in these modern times, we have a whole legitimate council of experts of which we can defer to when are not sure about something that someone is saying.  :)

With all this being said, I think it's unlikely that any of this stuff is going to die, at least any time soon when taking into consideration the number of people that are imprisoned by their cognitive biases such as the Dunning Kruger effect, Borrowed library effect, cognitive dissonance, ideological bounds, those acting in bad faith due to financial gain or tied up by some other motivation, and so forth. Nontheless, the public dispelling of misinformation serves a good purpose in the sense that there will likely be people with minds less narrow than those of others.

Thank you very much. :)






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