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Dr Benjamin Janaway

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14 Jan

Train thought;

With regard to psychiatric diagnosis, such aetiological parameters of illness may be so diverse that any categorisation can only be referred to as a working model, enough to indicate a sphere of treatment but ultimately nothing wholly prescriptive or curative...

from outside the individual, defined in distance by its relative reductionism.

From a darwinian standpoint we can deduce a subset of approximately homogenous approaches, later defined as psychostasis, defences or, in extremis, psychosis, that by inheritance derive survival..

within the subject or local genus, but can only be known by either their behavioural overlays or phylogenetic overlaps. As such, even psychological explanations rely on the same approximations of faith in explanation, but nature is far wiser.

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Dr Benjamin Janaway

@drjanaway

14 Jan

An examination of anxiety;

Anxiety, as most we experience it, is an unpleasant feeling of pressure related to some potential, threatening event. And yet, when considered on merit, the event is often so unrealistic that the anxiety is considered bizarre, even embarrassing.

The original Freudian ideas, which are now extrapolated and refined toward diagnostic categories such as #generalisedanxietydisorder and #phobias, evolved to explain an incongruence between physical and emotional symptoms, and their target or explanation.

To consider this more deeply, we must first agree that there are different levels of consciousness in which our ideas and perceptions interact, some are not accessible to us, and are acted upon by psychic mechanisms to make them understandable or tolerable.

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Dr Benjamin Janaway

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21 Dec 21

The ethical case for #vaccination. A thread.

Before we consider what is, I believe, a reasonable case for universal vaccination, we must first address the problem of misinformation. There is no better way to do this than to present the facts as they most reliably exist.

First we must consider the truth that nothing in science is ultimately correct in all cases, but based on a statistical likelihood that error is less likely. Essentially if the relationship between two variables exists by something less than chance, we can be confident of 'truth'

This is not to remove the philosophical quandary of what defines 'truth' in its entirety, and if we were to be strict and reference Kant's diktats of reason we would conclude the same, that all knowledge is inferential and thus subject to our senses and conceptualisations.

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Dr Benjamin Janaway

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21 Dec 21

So let's talk about the #COVID19Vaccine and #Booster based on the evidence, including #death rates.* This data looks at non-vaccinated vs vaccinated (per dose) and booster (separate study). Links to the evidence are posted at the end of this thread.

Note before starting:

The ASMR (age-standardized mortality rate,) is a unit that compensates for differences between age groups. This is because mortality changes over age band, so it can be misleading not to adjust.

The use of 'person-years' is a unit designed to make sense of the number of people and time under an illness, i.e a measure of incidence and duration. The data used in the first study uses ASMR/100,000 person-years.

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Dr Benjamin Janaway

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20 Dec 21

I am the rat man,
scared of the cat, man
plague in my scat, man
live in the trashcan

big up big up , for my quadruped mammals,
big up big up, we scatter in the tunnels

I have the whiskers,
scare up your sisters,
feet have got blisters,
im nibble ya , mister

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Dr Benjamin Janaway

@drjanaway

18 Dec 21

Had a lot of people angry at me today around my tweet on the #londonprotest . I agree with many of them. Mandates suck, passports suck, and I worry about the government finding more reasons/ways of disempowering people. But my focus is the virus, and what it may do to people.

The virus is relatively equaliser, it doesn't care if you are labor or conservative, rich or poor. The inequalities bred out are societal, not of its making. The government have taken full advantage of the despair and chaos to profit, and certainly advance their agenda.

With legislation around protests, whilst having parties themselves, they have shown themselves to be the selfish malignancies they are. However, I do not align myself with them, but the effort to reduce infection and save lives is a common theme that we all share.

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