In response to Satoshi Akima.
Today’s disaster is that we see the victory of Hamburg-styled laissez-faire undermining the scientific consensus around the principle that #COVIDisAirborne—demanding another Koch-styled state-lead engineering intervention to clean the air like the 19th century cleaned our drinking water.
10:53 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
Pettenkofer held that cholera never induced pathology as a waterborne contagion ingested through drinking water. He thus held boiling or filtering drinking water to be useless and clung to a fatalistic dogma that once an epidemic had erupted, it was futile for the government to take decisive action.
10:50 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
Hamburg's laissez-faire economics led to a rejection of Robert Koch's germ theory, favouring instead Max von Pettenkofer’s theory that cholera acted as a contagion only in deep-seated groundwater, necessitating no engineering overhaul of sewerage systems, plus rejection of lockdown and quarantine.
10:48 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
Since 1987, libertarians have become more extreme in their anarcho-capitalist radicalism than Thatcher or FA Hayek could ever have imagined, thus making this book even more relevant today than ever before. Hayek accepted central planning for infectious diseases. His heirs do not.
10:43 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
The 1892 cholera outbreak should never have happened—they already “had all the tools” to prevent it with public health interventions. Only political forces moved to undermine an emerging scientific consensus around germ theory. History has simply forgotten the lessons from this failure
10:40 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
It was the same laissez-faire economic ideology that, to disastrous effect, had dominated the decision-making of the ruling Hamburg merchant clique at the time of the 1892 Hamburg cholera epidemic. It contrasted to centralised public health policy in Berlin, where no outbreak occurred.
10:38 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
It reads like it was written for the COVID age, and it is surprising to find it was first published in 1987, at the height of the HIV pandemic. The book is equally a commentary on the rise of neoliberal Thatcherism in Britain and its adoption of decentralised laissez-faire economics.
10:36 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
2. Samir Okasha has a nice summary of how the Popperian paradigm fails by using the Adams/Leverrier example in his book "Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction". Falsification falsified.
04:30 AM - Mar 11, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
A link to the original article by Professor Evans https://www.newstatesman.c...
06:28 AM - Mar 07, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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.
06:11 AM - Mar 07, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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/ToshiA...
06:10 AM - Mar 07, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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/ToshiA...
06:02 AM - Mar 07, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
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
In response to Satoshi Akima.
After WWII, Fisher carried on a friendship with Baron von Verschauer—the PhD supervisor of Josef Mengele.
05:54 AM - Mar 07, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
The word “physician” shares the same etymology as “physics”. We need to get back to our roots and learn to trust physics. Let’s get a hashtag going: #TrustPhysics https://spoutible.com/thre...
08:55 PM - Mar 06, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
3. For those of you using social media for medical information dissemination (a type of medical intervention). Practice evidence-based medicine. IMMEDIATELY stop posting, until a Cochrane meta-analysis proves it to be safe and efficacious, with level 1 evidence of it improving all-cause mortality.
04:28 AM - Feb 24, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
2. Further, there are *NO* RCTs showing that reducing CO2 emissions mitigates the health impacts of climate change. The Cochrane group must let Carl Heneghan lead a review on climate change to prove it a “fraud” like masks, lacking Gold Standard “evidence”.
04:23 AM - Feb 24, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
2. If HCWs mostly get infected outside of hospital, it instantly renders the Loeb et al trial results null and void, as participants in that study masked only during work hours.
09:24 PM - Feb 23, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
2. If HCWs get infected outside of hospital, it instantly renders the Loeb et al trial results null and void, as participants in that study masked only during work hours. Those who tested COVID+ would have all acquired it outside of work when unmasked.
09:22 PM - Feb 23, 2023
In response to Satoshi Akima.
To demand RCTs before taking action on either atmospheric CO2 emissions or indoor CO2 standards is to act as an anti-science merchant of doubt. They are often funded by similar Koch brothers' dark money pushing an anarcho-capitalist anti-regulatory agenda.
06:29 AM - Feb 23, 2023
