Here is one reason to be interested: much of the world is still months, maybe years, away from getting access to vaccines. My adopted country of Ecuador as a case in point.
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:52 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > This does not seem interesting to me. The vaccines have been demonstrated > to be effective and safe to very large degrees based on many millions of > inoculations. Why should I care about some suspect studies with small n. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, May 6, 2021, 11:33 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Phellow Phriammers, >> >> >> >> I have noted that most of what I have written here of late has been >> ignored, and that’s ok, actually. Usually, it is the possibility that you >> MIGHT read what I write that keeps me writing and, behaviorist to the last, >> writing is what I need to do in order to think. >> >> >> >> But this situation is different. I really don’t know what to think about >> Pavlovic’s <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dragan-Pavlovic-4> >> paper. There may have been some trouble with the cloud version, so I have >> attached it to this message. >> >> >> >> So, this is a case where I really need some help. I realize that you are >> all engaged in this excellent correspondence about UBI, which has revealed >> all sorts of “-ists” that I never thought were alive and well in the world, >> let alone in this group. I would not interfere with that for a second. >> But, could a few of you take a look at his paper >> <https://1drv.ms/w/s!AptIKbsAd7gjllccpq9yXXQ4hb2N?e=HCzjaV> (very >> short, a commentary, actually). I think he is actually a candidate for >> this group. He is an MD, Phd, anaesthesiologist, retired in Paris, who has >> participated in hundreds of scientific papers, who is passionate ( I >> worry, perhaps sometimes a bit too passionate) about dozens of different >> things and suspicious of everything. He wants, for instance, to dig a >> gigantic tunnel to bring large ships directly from the danube to the >> Mediterranean. >> >> >> >> I, of course, live in a bubble, but I don’t like to have that fact thrust >> in my face as powerfully as when he reveals to me that the two HAAA=VUD >> papers denouncing Chloquoroquine were retracted a year ago, and I never >> found out. I can’t get any sense of whether there has been any attempt to >> revive them or to redo the original clinical study that suggested HCQ’s >> efficacy against CoVid. >> >> >> >> Any little bit of help you could give me would be great. >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nick Thompson >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 5, 2021 9:48 PM >> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' < >> [email protected]> >> *Cc:* 'Prof David West' <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Covid-Lancet-PART-2 (002).doc >> >> >> >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> >> >> I attach a paper >> <https://1drv.ms/w/s!AptIKbsAd7gjllccpq9yXXQ4hb2N?e=HCzjaV> written by >> an internet acquaintance I made some years back, Dragan Pavlovic. I am >> sending it along for two reasons. First, it reveals (to me, at least) that >> the two negative studies on Hydroxychloroquine use in SARS-CoVid-19 >> treatment were based on unverified data and were withdrawn by their authors >> almost immediately. (Have the rest of you known this for the last year and >> not told me? I cannot believe, after we pilloried poor Dave for advocating >> for it, that he has not gloated about it. ) Second, Pavlovic raises the >> intension/extension distinction in the context of the interpretation of >> scientific results and also questions Randomized Control Trials as the >> "Gold Standard" for discovery. Thus, I think he is a kindred spirit, being >> a bit of a grumpy contrarian like many of us here. I have promised to >> forward any comments you make to him, so be polite but speak truth. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Nick Nicholas Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >> >> Clark University >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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