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xrunner posted:...homeopathic movement ... This person has a worldview of diffusion that is completely incompatible with reality. She believes that you can make drugs stronger by diluting them, chemtrails make perfect sense from that perspective.
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Jack Gladney posted:Wait, how old is the chicken pox vaccine? I'm 30 and had never heard of it before a few years ago. Has it really been around for 20 years? It wasn't very common when you were at the age it'd be most useful. If you were a year or two younger you might have gotten it.
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Mar 24, 2015 23:56
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I think James Randi has written a bit about how scientists are easily fooled by magicians. Because they don't know how magic works, they don't even know the kinds of controls they should be implementing. It's kind of like when you're a total novice and someone asks you if you have any questions, you don't know enough to know what you don't know. Add in the human element where the manipulative magician is playing on the scientist's desire to discover something new and you have a recipe for disaster. This doesn't mean they're idiots, the whole reason we have peer review and other structures is to help fight these natural problems.
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Apr 16, 2015 18:03
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Discendo Vox posted:That means that more subject information/knowledge actually polarizes people more. At first, I thought this was a dumb idea, so I read up on it and did some research. Now I think it's a REALLY dumb idea.
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Apr 18, 2015 21:17
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Discendo Vox posted:It's interesting you should mention that- information-seeking intention is one of the potential spoiler variables, but it's proving difficult to effectively measure. Information-seeking in general doesn't have any effect on the polarization effect. Don't look into it too hard, I'm just giving you a hard time 
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Apr 18, 2015 21:35
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Homeopathy sort of makes sense in an 18th century context where all medicine was basically quackery so distilled water resulted in better patient outcomes than bloodletting or snake venom or whatever was trendy. From that angle, I don't really think it's awful for minor aches and pains where someone might seek out pain medication. But of course, the homeopaths don't limit themselves to harmlessness, they bash actual medicine while creating homeopathic inhalers for asthma.
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Apr 20, 2015 21:17
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Discendo Vox posted:It's a violation of basic principles of informed consent in medical treatment to give a patient a treatment that doesn't work- in part because it places the clinician in a position of absolute power over the recipient of care. I want to be clear, no medical professional should ever prescribe homeopathic remedies outside of a research context where the patient is aware that they may or may not be getting real medicine. I'm just saying that it isn't disastrous for someone with a mild cold to buy vitamin C or homeopathic remedies instead of something that has actual medicine in it.
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Apr 21, 2015 04:47
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VitalSigns posted:True. You're supposed to peel two apples and then hold them in your armpits as you sleep.
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Apr 21, 2015 07:13
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PhazonLink posted:You joke but that argument was seriously used during WW2 when head injuries suddenly went up when new helmets were used. If I remember right, that was one of the classic questions of operations research. The original plan was to place armor on the parts of planes that were most damaged. The problem with that is that their sample set included only bombers that survived. The damaged areas on survivors represent non-vital areas. The decision was made to increase armor on the areas that were undamaged, on the basis that those points were most likely to lead to a destroyed aircraft if hit.
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Apr 29, 2015 08:09
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Gorilla Salad posted:From the schadenfreude thread in PYF: That kid is awesome. Think of all the things a teenager could spend their babysitting money on and she decided to go with vaccines.
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Jul 11, 2015 06:17
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Evil Fluffy posted:I seriously wish it was against the law for shows like Dr. Oz to exist. Being really good in field A shouldn't mean you're allowed to bilk idiots out of their money by peddling bullshit snake oil stuff related to fields B, C, and Q. I'll find the pictures when I get home, but the last time I went to the doctor, I got a printout of all sorts of new-agey bullshit including colloidal silver and some sort of detox fruit shake that I could buy through their website.
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Aug 20, 2015 23:34
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Evil Fluffy posted:Report them for medical malpractice.   
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Aug 21, 2015 07:35
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That Works posted:I regret wasting my time trying to convince him of anything. If his kid got any vaccines, you may have saved a life. 
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Aug 21, 2015 15:21
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Just sent this to my girlfriend in Pharmacy school. She's allergic to the Pertussis vaccine. I'm gonna have to bring home wine or something because she's furious.
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Nov 6, 2015 00:27
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Ddraig posted:I seem to remember something about something similar being done to child soldiers when they get introduced to a normal life, it's incredibly helpful for both the children themselves and the community if they have some sort of 'cleansing ritual' as it makes the transition from being a killer to being a regular child more palatable. I used to work on a reservation and at least a few Native tribes have rituals and ceremonies for people returning from the military. They follow the same basic idea about transition and cleansing. I can't help but think that there's value in that.
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Mar 10, 2016 17:56
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Volcott posted:One might argue it's unethical to let plague bombs into public schools, while we're making a list. I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back quote:Look, I’ve done the research on these issues, I’ve read the statistics, and I’ve carefully considered the costs and benefits, and there’s simply no question in my mind that inciting a nationwide health emergency by unleashing a disease that can kill 20 percent or more of its victims is the right one for my child.
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Mar 20, 2016 07:07
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Ilustforponydeath posted:My friend's mom says that the tamiflu vaccine made her allergic to electricity. Tamiflu isn't a vaccine, it's an antiviral that fucks up the way viruses spread.
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Jun 1, 2016 23:50
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I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back
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Aug 10, 2016 09:22
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When I am faced with a tough moral question, I use the following thought experiment (I think this is from Rawles): Imagine that time stops, and everyone who has a moral stake in the issue is summoned to a meeting, where nobody knows who each other is, nor do they even know their own identities. From this perspective, it should be easier to find the right answer. For vaccines, nobody knows if they're the one that's an immunocompromised child that will be vulnerable. I think it's easy to conclude that it's okay to force some people to be vaccinated, because the downsides of forced vaccination are mild, and it protects innocent people. For skateboarding, it's harder to make that case. The impacted parties are really only people involved if there's an accident and the skater needs medical care. Is it really worth banning skateboards just to reduce some injuries to people who know that there doing something risky? It's not a perfect tool, but I think it helps.
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Aug 12, 2016 02:06
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Discendo Vox posted:The Veil's not great- it frequently serves as an undirected intuition pump, so it doesn't help much for reaching consensus. I kinda had an intuitive feeling that that was the case. At the very least, I would assume that the unusual framing of the scenario would make it harder for people to just regurgitate canned arguments.
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