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"#Data: a new direction" - a public consultation by @DCMS on "reforms to the UK’s #DataProtection regime":

gov.uk/government/con…

The consultation ends on 19 Nov 2021, and you can respond by e-mail to DataReformConsultation@dcms.gov.uk or online here:

dcms.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4P… Image
A quick sample of initial reactions...

We're clearly going to be hearing a lot about #LegitimateInterests, as well as #commercial and #public ones. The real question being, how do this Government's interests actually align with YOURS?

140+ pages on a Friday is a lot to digest, but @lilianedwards' "penumbra of often futile determinedly populist ideas largely not evidence-based" seems entirely consistent with @DCMS's Drunkard's Walk through #data and #ID this past year...

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Saviez-vous que vous ingérez une plus grande quantité d'ARNm à chaque repas à travers les aliments que vous mangez qu'il y a dans le vaccin Pfizer (30 μg per dose) ?

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

#vaccinations
#vaccine
Pourtant je n'ai jamais entendu d'inquiétudes concernant une potentielle modification de notre ADN par les ARNm contenu dans les aliments ingérés...
Si on prend l'exemple de la banane pour la #TeamBanana,

d'après le document ci-après,
pour obtenir la même quantité d'ARNm dans une banane que celle contenue dans une dose de vaccin Pfizer, il suffit d'en ingérer 10g.

agritrop.cirad.fr/568245/1/docum…
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@TheJaggi The quoted paper does not constitute clinical evidence of efficacy of cow urine in treating infections in humans. The authors themselves are at pains to point out that these were all in vitro studies. A useful start at best but of no use in clinical pract
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
@TheJaggi On the other hand so called fecal transplants to manage treatment-resistant Clostidium difficile infections in humans have been subjected to extensive clinical trials before being accepted in clinical practice. See: nature.com/articles/s4157…

The important thing is RCTs
@TheJaggi RCTs - Randmised Clinical Trial with placebo controls are vital to test and measure the efficacy of proposed treatments. The big big problem of India's obsession with #GauMutra and #Panchgavya is that blind faith in their therapeutic ole has supplanted scpeticism.
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