Once had a discussion with a 9/11 truther, who asked me: 'Why has there never been an official investigation why WTC 7 came down'. Showed him the official investigation. 'You will not believe these official investigations, will you?' Conspiracy theories are not falsifiable...
30.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Intro to the new Ioannidis et al paper says 'Models may give unreliable results, depending on assumptions' – then it proceeds to use a model with very questionable assumptions, ignoring the best available IFR data...
29.07.2025 10:08 — 👍 77 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3
Only the UK had a good idea of its infections and yet I am not aware of a single study using it to determine IFR of covid by age
A study was published today by Ioannidis et al on lives saved by vaccines and their IFR is massively lower than the real data based on from the UK
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25.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2
Would still be a big success of Covid vaccination, but don't forget that the focus of the study by (guess who?) is to claim the the number of lives saved is much lower than other studies have calculated.
25.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Safety and Immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain and N-Terminal Domain mRNA Vaccine
The mRNA-1283 vaccine encoding the RBD and NTD of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was well tolerated and had improved immunogenicity compared with mRNA-1273,
Actually Moderna reported higher VE against symptomatic disease as a result of their Phase 3 study (not published yet, woul be interesting to see results in detail). The higher NAb-titers by mNEXSPIKE had been shown in their Phase 2a study, published in January 25.
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
31.05.2025 20:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sehr wichtige Studie der Gruppe von @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social, die zeigt, dass nicht Imprinting sondern geringe Immunogenität der Omikron- Epitope für schwächere Omikron-spezifische Immunantwort verantwortlich ist. Ergebnisse können enorme Bedeutung für zukünftige Vakzinentwicklung haben.
28.05.2025 16:38 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Wurde mittlerweile korrigiert
27.05.2025 05:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eben "so rasch" ist relativ. Dürfte vor allem für gesellschaftliche Krankheitslast ziemlich irrelevant sein. Vermute dass Hauptfaktor für steigende Abwasserdaten waning immunity nach langer Zeit relativ niedriger Viruszirkulation ist.
26.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Da es weder BA.3.2 noch irgendeine andere Sprungvariante geschafft hat sich durchzusetzen, kann man das m.E. alles mit ziemlicher Gelassenheit betrachten.
26.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Böhmermann und die Zeit haben zusammengearbeitet. Was für ein lächerliches Ausweichmanöver.
12.05.2025 04:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blödsinn. Wurde 1. längst weit verbreitet und 2. Geht es nicht um strafbar machen sondern einen modernen Pranger, den man verurteilen kann auch wenn es nicht formal strafbar ist.
12.05.2025 04:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dass die Berliner Zeitung ihrerseits nicht seriös ist, macht Doxxing nicht besser. Die Angaben "Marc-Philipp L." haben gereicht um die Identität festzustellen, der Betreffende wurden sowohl im familiären als auch sonstigen privaten Umfeld denunziert.
11.05.2025 09:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Herpes Zoster Vaccination and Dementia Occurrence
This study investigates whether herpes zoster vaccination affects the probability of receiving a new diagnosis of dementia.
4/ Nächste Studie aus Australien, die Ergebnisse aus Wales bestätigt. Herpes Zoster-Impfung reduzierte Wahrscheinlichkeit Demenz zu entwickeln während 7.4 J. follow-up.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
24.04.2025 20:47 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ich war ehrlich gesagt etwas skeptisch. Aber das besagte Kapitel ist (auch bzgl. der biologischen Zusammenhänge) sehr interessant und gut geschrieben. Wüsste gerne, was Du dazu meinst, wenn Du es gelesen hast.
20.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Habe bisher nur Kapitel 7 "Das vernachlässigte Gain of Function-Labor der Natur" gelesen. Ist alleine das Geld wert, wenn man die (leider ) hochgradig relevante und massiv instrumentalisierte Diskussion über zoonotischen Ursprung oder Lab leak von SARS-CoV2 besser verstehen möchte.
20.04.2025 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2.
Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3.
Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
4.
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5.
By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
19.04.2025 08:46 — 👍 2352 🔁 1022 💬 98 📌 104
Entre invention de preuve, faux témoignage, et recherche falsifiée.
Figure 1 from the preprint, showing the distribution of collection dates of the newly uncovered data and comparing it to the distribution of previous sequences collection dates; earliest new one is in early Jan.
Caption:
Figure 1. Temporal distribution of initial dataset and newly added sequences (samples collected between 24-Dec-2019 and
15-Feb-2020). Sequences in the initial dataset from market-linked samples and within a single familial cluster are colored green and
purple, respectively. Other sequences in the initial dataset are colored orange. Newly added sequences are colored blue. The arrow
indicates the earliest sequence in added data, which is market-linked.
There have been many lab leak articles in the media recently, but none had actual new data
In a new preprint, @zachhensel.bsky.social and I analyze early COVID-19 cases sequence data that have been overlooked so far.
These new data continue to point to a natural origin ▫️1/7
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
08.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 504 🔁 208 💬 14 📌 16
Arbeiten Sie an Ihren Grammatikkenntnissen: "Möglicherweise". Eine der "möglichen" (und plausiblen) Erklärungen für das Ergebnis der Studie ist, wie die Autoren ausführen, die reduzierte Häufigkeit von Varizella Zoster Reaktivierungen.
10.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Weil er nicht mehr auf dem Markt ist, da es mit Shingrix einen viel effektiveren gibt.
10.04.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Maya Adam
Geldsetzer Lab Recent Discovery
3/ Effekt durch mittlerweile verwendeten rekombinanten Impfstoff Shingrix ist möglicherweise noch grösser, da dessen Effizienz deutlich höher und anhaltender ist als die des untersuchten attenuierten Lebendimpfstoffes Zostavax. Sehr schönes Erklär-Video zur Studie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiT...
04.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
2/ Was die Studie so aussagkräftig macht ist, dass zufällige Korrelation sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, da in Wales 2013 nur bestimmter Stichtag der Geburt entschied ob jemand Impfung bekam o. nicht und dadurch fast perfekte Randomisierung wie bei RCT möglich war.
04.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
@skyview.social please unroll.
29.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid (Gift Article)
The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.
Well worth a read. Not because of the content - it's total horseshit - but because it's a prime example of what happens when you mix anti-science, conspiracism, arrogance, and a total lack of expertise.
Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷♂️.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
16.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 594 🔁 156 💬 28 📌 32
Klar darf er nicht, Drosten hat ja auch gesagt, dass sie unter Geheimhaltungspflicht stehen. Aber bin ganz der Meinung von E. Wyler, dass man Fakten braucht und nicht Wahrscheinlichkeitsangaben, die auf nicht öffentlichen Nachrichtendienstberichten beruhen und zu Spekulationen führen. That's all.
15.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trotzdem unklare Formulierung. "Wahrscheinlicher" kann heissen "wahrscheinlicher als vorher" oder "wahrscheinlicher als zoonotischer Ursprung". Man könnte die Kaffeesatzleserei beenden wenn man die Gründe, die zum Umdenken geführt haben, nennt. Wenn nicht sollte man m.E. auch keine Interviews geben.
15.03.2025 15:22 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
This is the justification of the german government from today regardig the question why they didn't inform the parliament before (and not mentioned in the article from wednesday). But more important: As long as nobody says what these "new insights" are based on it's all reading tea leaves.
14.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes, but Drosten comes to a different conclusion and says he is not able to judge about the "new evidence" without seeing the source data. I wonder how Wieler is able to do so.
14.03.2025 21:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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