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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, the methodological father of the modern RCT as practised in medicine today, was a eugenicist. His most fanatical GBD heirs today remain quasi-eugenicist Social Darwinist RCT ideologues. Article by Prof Richard J Evans
05:52 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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After WWII, Fisher carried on a friendship with Baron von Verschauer—the PhD supervisor of Josef Mengele.
05:54 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Satoshi Akima
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Prof Richard J Evans is a hugely respected British historian and one of the leading authorities on the history of the Third Reich. It is simply impossible to paper over his sober analyses in the glib and shameful way that apologists in Nature Heredity did.
05:56 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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The authors do nothing to respond to the fact that the use of gas chambers for euthanasia was developed in the eugenicist Aktion T4 that predated the later Judenaktion (Final Solution). They conveniently gloss over facts brought to light by Sir Richard, such as these.
05:57 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Prof Richards knows about Aktion T4 because he wrote what is still the definitive introductory textbook to the era (see volume 3 of his monumental Third Reich tetralogy). Attempts to extricate Fisher's eugenics from the taint of genocide are unconvincing.
05:58 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Well after the Holocaust, in the 1950s, while defending his friend Verschauer, RA Fisher continued to uphold the racist notion that there were profound differences in the intelligence of races.
06:00 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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It is hardly surprising that RA Fisher's heirs oppose respirators for the mitigation of aerosol spread of COVID, rejecting aerosol physics by demanding RCTs in the most flat-earthed manner possible. #covidisairborne https://twitter.com/ToshiAkima/status/1627184313593909248?s=20
06:02 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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The RCT fanatics who push for RCTs of a physically engineered safety device are the same hardliners who oppose all public health measures to mitigate infection, except vaccination, as it is supported by RCT evidence.
06:05 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Fisher himself is notorious for his opposition to the idea that smoking is harmful, claiming that association is not causation. Today he would have demanded an RCT to prove it was harmful. Meanwhile, Nature Heredity, the journal he founded, defends his historical legacy.
06:08 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Fisher's heirs today demand the dropping of physical mitigations in favour of a mass infection strategy aiming first for herd immunity, then for the use of SARS-CoV-2 as a natural booster to engender so-called “hybrid immunity”—a euphemism for a mass infection strategy.
06:09 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Their ideology has unleashed a quasi-eugenicist, Social Darwinist democide on a vast scale upon the vulnerable in society as COVID is left to rip. All rationalised as the price paid for progress necessary to stimulate the economy. https://twitter.com/ToshiAkima/status/1523259874435813376?s=20
06:10 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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Anarcho-capitalists who have unleashed unfettered Social Darwinian forces upon society for its betterment, while uttering platitudes about “focused protection”, are predictably those pushing a hard line that only an RCT where we watch subjects die in it is a good study.
06:10 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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These murderous fools fetishise RCTs as the supposed pinnacle of the scientific method. Yet, every day these people trust their lives to engineered devices that were never once tested by RCTs
06:11 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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The inability to use basic molecular modelling to fully predict the safety/efficacy profile of a drug is the exception in science, not the rule. Our predictive abilities are improving. One day, we will design drugs like engineers design aeroplanes.
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06:11 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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I now recall a debate at medical school decades ago during which I heard an ethicist argue that all RCTs were unethical. I thought she was a bit extreme. Now I look back after all this time and see that she was ultimately right. RCTs are a primitive method of last resort.
06:12 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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It's time to reevaluate the validity of RCTs. In the name of progress, medicine must aim to phase out RCTs and become more like engineering. One day, they'll be shocked Fisher's heirs ran studies where people died in the experiment—just like Mengele's.
06:14 AM - Mar 07, 2023
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