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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier
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    13 days ago

    The infant contracted it before they could get vaccinated.

    How do you think the infant got it, from the measles fairy?

    That virus was a gift from someone they came in contact with, so probably a family member.

    And that family member was given it by someone else, who got it from someone else, who got it from someone else, and so on, and so on.

    A whole long line of people that each bear responsibility for killing that child by not taking personal responsibility and getting vaccinated. Any one of them could have halted the transmission of the virus on that trajectory that lead to killing that child at that time. It only took one of them, but none of them did the responsible thing.

    Most of those people didn’t know that child, never met them, and are still blissfully unaware that their lazy selfishness killed a child. But that doesn’t absolve them of responsibility. They killed a child.

  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•'Millions of lethal doses' of heroin were actually 99.999% water in federal 'drug' bust
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    19 days ago

    https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/another-damning-homeopathy-report/

    Conclusion

    Homeopathy is based on magical thinking. It does not have even the barest toe-hold in science or reality. In spite of this it has been extensively researched for its clinical effects. While most of this research is of poor quality, there is some reasonably high-quality research, which consistently shows that homeopathy does not work.

    The extremely low prior probability combined with the negative clinical evidence is devastating to homeopathy. There is simply no rational justification for further investment in this pre-scientific and disproved notion. We do not need further research. No government should fund homeopathy, pay for homeopathic treatments, fund research, or even approve homeopathy in any official capacity. This means that homeopaths should not be licensed, and homeopathic products should not be approved.

    And yet homeopathy still enjoys the support of most governments. This is largely based on a misunderstanding among the general public as to what homeopathy is, combined with lobbying by homeopaths and supporters of unscientific medicine.

    Science clearly needs a stronger lobby.