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Originally posted by chevy369
by: Ethan A. Huff,
www.naturalnews.com...
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by chevy369
by: Ethan A. Huff,
www.naturalnews.com...
Oh god, its the habitual liar at naturalnews writing some more misleading garbage again.
There really out to be penalties for anyone posting a link from naturalnews.
Originally posted by Skada
How do you know this writer is a "habitual liar". You are using troll/disinfo tactics. back up your claim.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by chevy369
by: Ethan A. Huff,
www.naturalnews.com...
Oh god, its the habitual liar at naturalnews writing some more misleading garbage again.
There really out to be penalties for anyone posting a link from naturalnews.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by chevy369
by: Ethan A. Huff,
www.naturalnews.com...
Oh god, its the habitual liar at naturalnews writing some more misleading garbage again.
There really out to be penalties for anyone posting a link from naturalnews.
How do I know?
Because every single time someone here quotes an Ethan Huff article, it turns out to be lies.
11 Shocking Things You Now Realize To Be True, page 1
B Cell Maintenance of Subcapsular Sinus
Macrophages Protects against a Fatal Viral Infection
Independent of Adaptive Immunity
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by Skada
How do you know this writer is a "habitual liar". You are using troll/disinfo tactics. back up your claim.
How do I know?
Because every single time someone here quotes an Ethan Huff article, it turns out to be lies.
Anyway, I found the original paper here....
B Cell Maintenance of Subcapsular Sinus Macrophages Protects against a Fatal Viral Infection Independent of Adaptive Immunity.
If you read it, what they're actually saying is that instead of providing *only* a response in the adaptive immunity system, in some cases B cells can also provide a response in the innate immunity system.
As in, a secondary function on top of the well known systems we know about and have known about for all this time. An extra function.
It does *NOT* completely deconstruct the entire vaccination theory as Ethan Huff says.
It does *NOT* debunk the theory already known, as Ethan Huff says.
It does *NOT* proof a myth that vaccinations serve any sort of legitimate medical purpose, as Ethan Huff says.
It does *NOT* show the current knowledge is a dustheap of outmoded pseudoscience, as Ethan Huff says.
Thats the way garbage like creation science works - by attempting to show that if scientists are still learning and finding new things, then supposedly everything already known should be thrown away.
Science doesnt work like that.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by chevy369
by: Ethan A. Huff,
www.naturalnews.com...
Oh god, its the habitual liar at naturalnews writing some more misleading garbage again.
There really out to be penalties for anyone posting a link from naturalnews.
Originally posted by reitze
...I was interpreting this "mainstreme" research while pointing out the "spin" errors of its conclusion and context: Comparative Efficacy of Inactivated and Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccines (New England Journal of Medicine)
I posted the best research offered here about the question at-hand at the time regarding effectiveness of the flue shot... here (same link as in post #29 above): Comparative Efficacy of Inactivated and Live
Attenuated Influenza Vaccines (N Engl J Med 2009)
In table 3 it indictes these sample-results (of 1952 enrolled participants who still got the flu):
------------|--TIV----|---
LAIV----|--Placebo--
Influenza A--22 (2.7%)--55 (6.8%)---31 (9.5%)
So what's the claims made? and WTF are they saying about 95% confidence? Well for intuitive sake consider that if you divided up your sample sets into evenly divided smaller sets you could go with 10 each and have "relative" ratio#s as well as a sense of getting to 90% confidence in the significant digits. And use the %#s to stay pop-normalized. So /10 youd get:
(TIV=3, LAIV = 7, and Placebo = 10)/3 = 1:2:3. So you could claim w/ 95% confidence a 5x reduction (or 80%) in the rate of people getting the flu with the shot - that says it works.
HOWEVER, what it doesn't do is relate it back to the difference it makes for the individual. So doing that - again in round/intuitive means for discussion sake... of the 1952 enrolled, the individual would have a 10% chance of the flue w/o the shot, or a 3% chance w/ the shot but a more certain pain in the arm and 2 day cold. Is that worth it? Obviously for the drug/pharma companies. Also prolly worth it for schools and factories where people work close together, etc. But for someone healthy and not in contact w/ too many people... prolly not.
Corrections/improvements here:
(TIV=3, LAIV = 7, and Placebo = 10)/3 = 1:2:3. So you could claim w/ 90% (intutive est per sample sizes) confidence a 3x reduction (or 60%) in the rate of people getting the flu with the shot.
HOWEVER, what it doesn't do is relate it back to the difference it makes for the individual, NOR does it cover the likelihood of the shot covering the intended strain.
So doing that - again in round/intuitive means for discussion sake... of the 1952 enrolled, the individual would have a 10% chance of the flue w/o the shot, or a 3% (OR HIGHER PER THE STRAIN) chance w/ the shot but a more certain pain in the arm and 2 day cold. That means the 60% reduction in flu-rate wouldn't be as good. How good? hard to tell - perhaps 30% is best-estimate (conservative-midpoint) for finite but unknown aspect (while not claiming anything about confidence either).
So with that INFORMATION, is it worth it? For an individual? That's if the average infection rate is 10%, you could get the shot - with a 90% likelihood of a 2 day cold and some arm pain - to reduce your likelihood of getting flu to about 6% (+/- 3%'ish).
In addition, consider that if you rarely get the flue its of even less benefit while if you often get it and have other risk factors then it might be way more worth the pain, risks, costs.
And notice I didn't elaborate on the "risks" either - mercury injection? WTF? But of course there are opposing risks too. Vested interests too, like the drug/pharma companies.
So all in all its prolly worth it for schools and factories where people work close together, etc. But for someone healthy and not in contact w/ too many people... prolly not.