10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What's a mystery humanity can solve, but choses not to? Ask_SN
Big time, which is why I wish it were possible to have a productive and honest public conversation about them.
I certainly don't know what the right vaccine schedule looks like, but I'm pretty confident that we're giving too many too early compared to what an honest risk assessment would recommend.
I'm also certain that any product or service that is exempt from liability will become dangerous, regardless of how safe it was initially.
I was teaching my daughter today about how to think about "science" and how there's a lot of gray area in what constitutes scientific evidence... it's easy to cast doubt on solid evidence, and it's easy to upsell weak evidence... and the decisions usually just end up coming down to commercial interests. I'm not optimistic we can ever have an honest public conversation of anything with strong commercial stakes involved
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I'm not optimistic we can ever have an honest public conversation of anything with strong commercial stakes involved
Me neither
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I haven't had my vaccines "updated" in years, until I've enlisted in the military a few months back, be it in the reserve, but still.
Me and my group got like 5-6 vaccines, dispersed over a 2-4 week period.
Nothing against covid but regulars like tetanus and ticks.
Makes me wonder what the trade-off's of those are.
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That would be interesting know. I haven't seen anything that really talks about adult vaccinations other than Covid.
Edit: We did use flu vaccines as an example of selection bias in an econometrics course.
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