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Comment Re:I'm all for this (Score 1) 64

This type of binary thinking (that people you disagree on could not be right about anything) is what drives brain rot on the left. For example, before it became mandatory to criticize "party traitor" RFK Jr., Bernie and he agreed on A LOT of issues. Not much changed from then, other than RFK Jr. joined Trump's administration.

Submission + - White House asks FDA to review pharma advertising on TV (whitehouse.gov) 1

sinij writes:

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to ensure transparency and accuracy in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising, including by increasing the amount of information regarding any risks associated with the use of any such prescription drug required to be provided in prescription drug advertisements, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall take appropriate action to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Actâ(TM)s prescription drug advertising provisions, and otherwise ensure truthful and non-misleading information in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements.

Advertising dollars is a major avenue for pharmaceutical companies to influence news and attempt to shape public opinion. Advertising was a major contributor to painkiller addiction, where networks were hesitant to cover early reports of addictivness. It is likely directly contributing today to lack of critical coverage of Ozempic. It is just too big of a conflict of interest to allow to stand.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 137

Wait, so you actually believe that all those excess deaths that were attributed to COVID infection were actually caused by the vaccine?

I didn't know Cathy Newman had a /. account. In the very quote you supposedly responding to, the very first link, the very first paragraph:

Excess mortality is a statistical term that refers to the additional number of deaths, from all causes, during a crisis, above the level we expect to see in âoenormalâ conditions
In this case, we're interested in comparing the number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic to the number we would have expected had the pandemic not occurred. This is a very important statistic that cannot be known but can be estimated in several ways.
Excess mortality is a more comprehensive measure of the total mortality impact of the pandemic, compared to the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths. This is because it captures not only confirmed deaths, but also COVID-19 deaths that were not accurately diagnosed and reported as well as deaths from other causes that are attributable to disruptions and overall crisis conditions.
In the section âoeExcess mortality during COVID-19: backgroundâ, we discuss the relationship between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and excess mortality in further detail.

If true, this suggests some legal funny business, i.e. everybody who sees a spike protein in some culture convinces a judge that the vaccine caused the death.

No, you are suggesting that, without any evidence. More so, Japanese data is not out of line with VAERS data in US. Deaths due to vaccines are rare, but in case of mRNA shots they are 100x what is normally seen from vaccinations. Worldwide over past few years it is at least hundreds of thousands into low millions. To the point that "everyone get a shot" is hard to justify as a health policy.

I'm not an expert in the field, so I'm not going to try to tear this article apart, but once a group of authors has such a high number of papers retracted...

You might as well justify your views based on Twitter/FB censorship policies. You do understand that a lot of retractions are administrative (i.e., politically motivated) and have nothing to do with content of these papers?

Comment Re:Don't know about Monetization but they lost me (Score 2) 25

Google perpetuated massive AdSense fraud, where they pretended that both competition was bidding up on search terms and actual people (and not bots) clicking ads to siphon advertising money away from traditional media. During 2015 or so I was running Google search ads for a niche of a niche business, there was nobody else running advertising on my search terms, yet Google would rather not show any ads then allow me to run them for less than $2.5/click. Because of low visitors, I could see with high degree of certainty that clicks that I'd get, despite selecting "first part search only" were all bots. Was a waste of money even at 500$/mo budget, even when legitimate leads would be worth to us easily couple hundred.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 0) 137

So the worst-case, most ultra-paranoid interpretation of the data results in a few thousand deaths

You have no idea what you are talking about on excessive deaths. Start reading here
Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic

Conclusions Excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years, despite the implementation of containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines.

Significant Increase in Excess Deaths after Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan

After the emergence of the Omicron variant, however, the number of infections surged dramatically in Japan in 2022, despite more than 80% of the population having been fully vaccinated. Surprisingly, the number of excess deaths per million in Japan exceeded 1400 in 2023, three times higher than that in the United States, whereas COVID-19 deaths in Japan accounted for only 10% of these excess deaths.
Another hypothesized cause of the excess deaths is various adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Indeed, under its relief system for injury to health with vaccination, the government has provided payouts for as many as 8432 injuries including 903 deaths after COVID-19 vaccination as of November 18, 2024.

Myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination: Epidemiology, outcomes, and new perspectives

Despite consistent safety signals showing a relatively high risk of myocarditis and its sequelae in younger age groups, public health authorities have defended the continued use of these products with claims that myocarditis from SARS-CoV-2 infections, including Omicron, is more frequent; that vaccine-related myocarditis is rare, mild, and transient (without long term sequelae); and that the benefits outweigh the risks. However, our critique, grounded in epidemiological, clinical, and immunological evidence, challenges these assertions. The combination of low risk of severe COVID-19 and a higher likelihood of mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis in younger people makes it difficult to rationalize a policy of ongoing mRNA vaccines in this population.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score -1, Troll) 137

People didn't need a hundred vaccines, but we're still getting new covid variants, and vaccines are still helping prevent people from getting seriously sick

Seriously? After everyone vaccinated, myself included, had multiple rounds of COVID you are still insisting that jabs did anything? They did not work on variants and did not prevent infection or transmission. Plus, they came with a small chance of serious side effects and we are still not finished with excessive deaths do to that.

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