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pyrrhus's avatar

I'm still waiting for a longitudinal study of ANY vaccine, with a proper control group of at least 5-10 years...None exists, and one can only conclude that's because they wouldn't survive such a study....Don NOT vaccinate your kids....

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John Day MD's avatar

I'm looking forward to Bobby Jr. getting some of that science actually done.

I am of an old enough school of physicians to have been very, very suspicious when vaccine companies got liability waivers the year I finished med school, as were many of my peers. We delayed starting any of our kids on any vaccine until after a year of age, which literature has always supported, to let the immune system mature a bit.

There were far fewer shots back then, and we spaced them way out.

The kids are alright.

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pyrrhus's avatar

Likewise, but I think we were lucky even so...I think the evidence will ultimately show that if a vaccine is actually shown to be net beneficial (unlikely IMO), it nevertheless should not be administered before the age of 6...The AMA and the whole vaccine shtick was pushed by the Rockefellers, and has been extremely profitable for them..

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John Day MD's avatar

I agree that we need to see studies with all-cause mortality as an end point. Funny things happen. Kids might start dying of pneumonia if they get MMR vaccine, for instance, as a retrospective analysis of African data surprisingly showed.

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pyrrhus's avatar

I just read that Mike Nichols lost all his hair when he got the MMR vaccine...

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John Day MD's avatar

I remember having an itchy scab on my left shoulder for 2 weeks, which I was forbidden to scratch, after my Smallpox vaccine, and getting a sugar cube with a pink blot on it for polio.

I remember having measles in first grade. It was pain and discomfort in every fiber of my being, inescapable and interminable, the most miserable I have ever been. Most people don't remember things like that clearly.

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Drew Currah's avatar

There is no such thing a 'peak oil'; oil is created constantly in the earth's crust-it is abiotic (1)

1.https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/215/1/012103/pdf.

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John Day MD's avatar

There is still peak oil with abiotic creation, because the easier to get oil gets used up, since it is used much faster than it is gradually created from deep within the bowels of the earth, as hydrocarbons migrate slowly upwards. This means that one has to drill deeper, under the sea beds and in the Arctic, which is much more costly, and which can also be depleted, though the higher cost suppresses the economy in general.

Net Oil Production + Condensates peaked in late 2018.

"Conventional" Oil peaked around 2005.

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Drew Currah's avatar

I disagree; technology has always allowed oil, gas production form more remote and deeper wells-as well, give the old wells some time and more oil will be deposited.

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John Day MD's avatar

That is the fracking principle, really.

New oil is not so much being deposited as seeping in from the surrounding rock, back into the cavities, which drillers aim for.

Fracturing the Kerogen lets more seep get into cavities, natural or created.

Old oilfields don't die, but they just turn into slow-drip "stripper" wells.

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pyrrhus's avatar

Thus far, the theory that adiabatic oil exists in quantity is not supported by any evidence...and drilling that deep is quite expensive...

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John Day MD's avatar

Heh, heh, heh ... You wrote "adiabatic".

Heh, heh, heh ... That refers to compression and rarefaction of a gas without gaining or losing heat from the system.

Yes, I stayed within the bounds of abiotic oil theory, which I like, but it is hard to prove.

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

No granola. Just completed coffee and water only 4 day fast.

Can't wait to eat a big lunch again.

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

It's all good we just need raaaiiin! 400 mm in 12 months. Dams dry, quite a few fruit trees dead. Rain dammit

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John Day MD's avatar

I'm sorry to hear about that.

;-(

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John Day MD's avatar

I don't eat much granola any more, but it has a certain cachet.

I hope you have a wonderful first meal back.

;-)

(And I hope it was nice, organic coffee.)

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