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Dr. Colleen Huber's avatar

Especially with COVID related topics, I have found very often that scrutiny of the data will contradict the obligatory nod to orthodoxy in the beginning of the abstract (to get the article past the dilletante purse-string holders).

Papers that start with the line "vaccines are likely the greatest health care intervention in modern history" or similar paean very often end up providing a counterexample to that dogma in the Results section. The whole papers must be read, with a calculator handy.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Great essay. What an incredibly dishonest, corrupt world we inhabit.

Pontius Pilate, standing in for secular leaders ever since, asks Jesus, "What is truth?" In a culture where a man can become a woman by thinking/feeling himself to be one (transubstantiation for the non-religious?), the answer is whatever you want it to be.

Even Science (!!!) no longer seeks truth, but prostitutes itself for a pat on the head by those footing the bill. A lack of integrity is our real crisis.

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