Have you been vaccinated?

[jirskyr]

I would recommend people spend around 2 hours of their lives to listen to this interview with Dr Peter McCullough. He is the Vice Chief of internal Medicine Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He has over 1000 articles published, has 500 citations in the National Library of Medicine. He is a Principal Faculty in internal medicine for the Texas A & M University Health Sciences Center. In short, he has some street cred.
Do not be alarmed by the click bait title of the interview.
As I said, its about 2 hours long, but very easy to listen to and I would love to receive some feedback.
Cheers, and good luck.
https://rumble.com/vhp7y5-full-interview-world-renowned-doctor-blows-lid-off-of-covid-vaccine.html<BR>FULL INTERVIEW: WORLD RENOWNED DOCTOR BLOWS LID OFF OF COVID

I'm not going to sit and listen to the whole thing, just for the sake of time. I looked up a summary of Dr McCullough's position and COVID vaccine skepticism.

What I can tell you is Dr McCullough is a cardiologist. Not a infectious disease expert, not an epidemiologist, not a public heath policy maker. Not a vaccine developer and not a virologist. Don't let titles and volume of research wow you.

Would you have a cardiologist do your brain surgery, or treat your diabetes, or be your wife's OBGYN? Sure he has medical training but doctors specialise for a reason.

So ask Dr McCullough for his opinions on heart disease, not COVID.

Secondary to this, you must understand that in any realm of thought, you can find some well-credentialed folks who don't agree with the consensus. You can find climate deniers amongst scientists. That is how science works, because it's about developing a consensus and constantly testing that consensus out, and if you can demonstrably prove new facts nor new theories, then the consensus should develop with you.

But one dude's opinion against the weight of information pro-vaccine - pretty irrelevant. If you can find five thousand Dr McCulloughs, then you have something different.

 

[tig_prmz]

I read this the other day:

“Do your research!!!”

Here’s the thing. Research is a learned skill; it is hard, it is nuanced and complex, and it is true that the majority of people would not even know where to begin or even HOW to do [their own] research.

Research is NOT:
Googling, scrolling your FB newsfeed, or watching YouTube or 4Chan 😖 to search for the results you are hoping to find to be “true.” These are called confirmation biases, and are quickly and easily ruled out when doing actual research.

A post credited to Linda Gamble Spadaro, a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, sums this up quite well:

“Please stop saying you researched it.

You didn’t research anything and it is highly probable you don’t know how to do so.

Did you compile a literature review and write abstracts on each article? Or better yet, did you collect a random sample of sources and perform independent probability statistics on the reported results? No?

Did you at least take each article one by one and look into the source (that would be the author, publisher and funder), then critique the writing for logical fallacies, cognitive distortions and plain inaccuracies?

Did you ask yourself why this source might publish these particular results? Did you follow the trail of references and apply the same source of scrutiny to them?

No? Then you didn’t…research anything. You read or watched a video, most likely with little or no objectivity. You came across something in your algorithm manipulated feed, something that jived with your implicit biases and served your confirmation bias, and subconsciously applied your emotional filters and called it proof.”

This doesn’t even go into institutional review boards (IRB’s), also known as independent ethics committees, ethical review boards, or touch on peer-review, or meta-analyses.

To sum it up, a healthy dose of skepticism is/can be a good thing…as long as we are also applying it to those things we wish/think to be true, and not just those things we choose to be skeptical towards, or in denial of.

Most importantly, though, is to apply our best critical thinking skills to ensure we are doing our best to suss out the facts from the fiction, the myths, and outright BS in pseudoscience and politics.

Misinformation is being used as a tool of war and to undermine our public health, and it is up to each of us to fight against it.

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To me, again I am a health professional and I definitely encourage my patients to do their own research. However, this is a time sensitive issue and there is a consensus already.. your decision affects everyone.

 

[Geo]

I read stuff on the internet..

 

[tig_prmz]

Also, science works on hypothesis and experiments to confirm or deny hypothesis. I do not agree with members of the community marketing against the consensus at this time. This confuses people. Right now, everyone needs to be on the same page.

 

[mike]

I just want to say to @jirskyr and @tig_prmz a big thank you for your posts. If I could give you more upvotes I would. 100% on the money.

Again I thank you. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

 

[tiger_one]

I just want to say to @jirskyr and @tig_prmz a big thank you for your posts. If I could give you more upvotes I would. 100% on the money.

Again I thank you. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Can I join in and add to more thanks to @jirskyr and @tig_prmz.

 

[Tigerdave]

Had my first shot yesterday, sore arm and that's it.

Was hoping for mutant powers, but maybe that will come later

Pfizer?

yep pfizer

 

[cochise]

Had my first shot yesterday, sore arm and that's it.

Was hoping for mutant powers, but maybe that will come later

Pfizer?

yep pfizer

Yeah I was the same after my 1st shot

 

[dazza65]

I just want to say to @jirskyr and @tig_prmz a big thank you for your posts. If I could give you more upvotes I would. 100% on the money.

Again I thank you. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Hear Hear 🍷 🥂

 

[earl]

But one dude’s opinion against the weight of information pro-vaccine - pretty irrelevant. If you can find five thousand Dr McCulloughs, then you have something different.

This is exactly what I was stating in an earlier thread. People completely miss the point.

My daughter when the lock down began tried to convince myself and my wife you could have 5 people in your home. I told her no that isn't the way it works. She was convinced and confirmed that she was correct via the NSW Health Site. My only argument against her point was that she was looking at outside metropolitan Sydney. My daughter isn't dumb. She is studying software engineering at uni. She though has an ego like a lot of us do and she will go and look for information to verify her emotional opinion rather than try and see the reality of the situation.

 

[mike]


 

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