Another long thread, alas.
This is a great illustration of Surowiecki's contempt for those who disagree with him about the #vax. Hilariously, he is the author of THE WISDOM OF CROWDS, but has decided the #AntiVax crowd has no wisdom at all.
This is a great illustration of Surowiecki's contempt for those who disagree with him about the #vax. Hilariously, he is the author of THE WISDOM OF CROWDS, but has decided the #AntiVax crowd has no wisdom at all.
https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1438869058695335941
Let's examine his sneers, as he tells us what we ought to think.
We should be opposed to Monoclonal Antibody therapy, because it isn't FDA approved yet. Implicit in this is the idea that one can't evaluate the FDA or its decisions intelligently. We are just too stupid for that
We should be opposed to Monoclonal Antibody therapy, because it isn't FDA approved yet. Implicit in this is the idea that one can't evaluate the FDA or its decisions intelligently. We are just too stupid for that
(unlike other crowds, which are oh, so wise).
He claims MAB trials started just before those of the #vaccines. I turn to Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclona…, and find that MABs were developed in 1975, and the developers won the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine that achievement.
He claims MAB trials started just before those of the #vaccines. I turn to Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclona…, and find that MABs were developed in 1975, and the developers won the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine that achievement.
"In 1988, Greg Winter and his team pioneered the techniques to humanize monoclonal antibodies," and other research on MAB use in humans went on throughout the 1990s. The 2018 Nobel Prize for medicine went to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, for using MABs in cancer treatment.
So, we have another case of #EditingIsLying. Surowiecki is carefully implying that MABs are as new as mRNA vaccines. THIS IS A #LIE. MABs have been around for decades. But mRNA vaccines had just started with human experimental trials in 2018, says Nature nature.com/articles/nrd.2…
There's a rather large difference between "X was never tested till recently on this NEWLY DISCOVERED VIRUS NOT DESCRIBED TILL EARLY 2020, THOUGH THE BASIC TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN IN USE FOR THREE DECADES" and "X was never tested till recently ON ANY HUMAN DISEASE, BECAUSE IN
ANIMAL TRIALS IT HAD VERY BAD OUTCOMES."
And using HORSE antibodies on infections goes back about a century. The tech lapsed when antibiotics came along, because those who received it became allergic to future infusions. But there appear to have been no other bad effects.
And using HORSE antibodies on infections goes back about a century. The tech lapsed when antibiotics came along, because those who received it became allergic to future infusions. But there appear to have been no other bad effects.
The reason people became allergic to HORSE antibodies after one or two treatment is because of differences between the structural parts of the horse and human antibodies. Since MABs are HUMAN antibodies, this does not occur.
We make antibodies ALL THE TIME to deal with infection, so The Science® says there is no reason to expect long-term adverse effects.
Let me throw in a personal anecdote: I have cancer.
Three times, tumors have been found in my liver. Two of them were treated with
Let me throw in a personal anecdote: I have cancer.
Three times, tumors have been found in my liver. Two of them were treated with
an "experimental" procedure not yet approved by the FDA. How long have these experiments been going on? OVER TWENTY YEARS. I have little worry about long term side effects.
But I worry a lot about long-term effects of a technology that tells your immune system that your own cells should be attacked. Auto-immune diseases are quite nasty, and this tech INHERENTLY risks developing auto-immune disorders.
N.B., when the vaccines were rolled out, I don't recall warnings about side effects that we NOW know about, such as myocarditis. Looks like there's a lot we don't know yet. But Mr. Surowiecki doesn't want you to think about that, or anything else. #HaveFaith!
In the second tweet of his thread, Surowiecki again sneers at us poor, idiotic fools. Fauci has praised MABs, so we should automatically distrust them. Our rejection of Fauci's #Vax advice can't have anything to do with the all the times he's lied or reversed himself, and
of course we are incapable of independent thought. HOW DARE WE EXERCISE CASE-BY-CASE JUDGMENT?, you can hear him fume.
The third sneer has to do with the use of aborted fetal cell lines being used in both MAB production and the mRNA vaccines.
The third sneer has to do with the use of aborted fetal cell lines being used in both MAB production and the mRNA vaccines.
All #AntiVaxxers must necessarily have the same position on abortion, because we are all to stupid to think for ourselves, and anyway we peasant scum are not allowed to think. We must shut up and obey.
As I've mentioned before, I find the "arguments" of the #ProVaxxers the biggest argument against getting the jab. If The Science® was as clear and unambiguous as they falsely pretend, they'd use it. Their constant #lying tells me that what they're selling is fraudulent.
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