STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER

Hi Chicagoan, the fog is lifting re the truth. Spain as brought their chief honcho up on charges, Scotland produced a report that was in the news yesterday effectively condemning the mandated stuff, Pfizer exec admitted during inquiry in Australia this week that a different batch was flown in for Pfizer people.
Just as in all research reading the actual study is the best, but not a guarantee the peer reviewed study is a good one. Recently a big wig doc from Harvard that was a world expert on Honesty has had all her research retracted for the last ten years or so b/c she falsified data. Untold numbers of other studies using her research are being retracted. Ironic, Honesty expert 's whole career a fraud. Another, professor at Florida State "renowned expert" on crime is out of a job and research being pulled b/c he falsified data when a research assistant ratted him out for playing with the numbers.
Plug in the word Errata should bring up the website that is the central place for info of retractions from peer reviewed journals. There are other specific websites that are watching for retractions.
The overall damage done by people that cheat in science is so sad and criminal, b/c once out into the internet all the info can't be corrected. People are harmed by the cheating
Can anyone tell me how to find "your topic list"

Bcincolarda, sorry to here things aren't good. Blessings. Thanks for the couple of notes I found in my inbox.

Anyone have Egads007 topic on Keto link???? It was the mostly perfect put together info.

True so true, I think the key to survival is staying ahead of and top of approvals by insurance and knowing doc limitations. I'm here simply b/c I UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEMS. Didn't mean to cap i.e.yell. I made so many things happen in the firsts weeks of my DX. between docs and insurance. Breast cancer and brain tumor dx'd the same day. Breast surgeon said see you in three months b/c the assumption the brain tumor took precedence over the BC. B/C I knew as a nurse, I understood how to get things done, and I got it done, I was on the table 3 weeks later. That was 2009.

I wasn't covid antivax initially. I was anti-new drug. I started in 1969 as an aide. Nursing school in 1971. The first week of nursing school they required updates on vaccines. I talked my way out of smallpox update b/c of data. The polio vaccine they said I either take it or drop out of school. I had polio in 1952. Well documented. I got horribly sick, missed a week. Not sure how many days into it, I asked for the PDR. Black box warning—NOT to be given to a patient that had polio. There was a kerfuffle about that for sure. Not sure if it changed things as my twin and I life long had many of the same post polio complaints. Early, in the 1970's I learned there was a lack on doc's and nurse part of carefulness with drugs. I became a stalwart of understanding drugs. Particularly, when it came to me.

Around 1999 when Celebrex was the new wonder drug. I lost my chiropractor. I thought it reasonable to seek a full-blown evaluation to see if Celebrex was a good drug for my musculoskeletal complaints. Neuro, Ortho, Rheumatology, GI. They all cleared me. Ended up with a colon resection. I had researched it on the internet and the Black Box warning never presented itself. But as I was going through the colon fiasco, I looked again to the BOOK PDR. Seared into my memory "Not to be used with a history of diverticulosis, diverticulitis, has been known to cause spontaneous colon rupture". I had a history of diverticulosis with a hospital admission. None of the doc's, even the GI doc, put the history together with the drug.

My advice to patients was always, consider waiting a couple three years when a new drug comes out to see what the aftermarket reports showed. I got caught by Celebrex. THEN we went on to the Aromatase inhibitors. I still remember the video of the U of M lead researcher saying "We never had the reports of musculoskeletal pain in our clinical studies, that we are hearing about now. We are going to have to look at that." The early days here about the reports were clear. Horrible. Docs denying that the pain was real. Then the denial of pain medicine.

By the time it came to taking the covid vax, I had the same attitude. Watch and see. New drug mRNA. All new novel(redundant) drugs have the potential to cause harm. The attitude was based on injuries to myself and innumerable patients by drugs. Watch and see.

Even though I had most of the risk factors: Hypertension, Obesity, Cancer history (BC 2008-9 and Thyroid cancer 2014, and nose cancer 2020) I was willing to not take the vax. Just b/c of my history of drug weirdness and history. My twin just died June 24 2023. She took two doses. Did that have an impact. Dunno. Will never know. She had a very serious history last 10 years. But also, a BC history that she survived from1996 with extreme lymphedema and liver loss due to alcohol.

So we each bring our own baggage to any conversation.

Did I get Covid? Yes, I did. July 4th 2022. Five of us shared a joint. We all were sick. Survived it. I know I will be lambasted for my statement that it was an interesting experience. But everything I experience apart of me evaluates what is going happening. My guess when I die I will be saying the same thing.

The interesting things were the first five days were predictable based on the written info. My experience was that there were three body places that were particularly affected: 1 Trauma to a calf in 1993, that area I've had to always watch b/c of compartment syndrome i.e a bleed into a muscle space that is contained b/c of the connective tissue that surrounds the muscle. It's been trouble spot for years, mostlly healed, but would get iffy at times. It was as if a gremlin was prodding it aggressively. Management for changes in the past was Aspirin. I took aspirin. The 2nd was the left Achilles, that was aggressively attacked. It had been a problem with a "something variant of eczema a year or so previous. Same gremlin attack. What still worries me is the brain. The feeling was the same gremlins popped all over my brain.

SOOO, the question is: Since there were two known areas with past histories of tissue trauma, what did it mean that the same sensing of the gremlin attack mean about the brain. Oh yeah, history of a brain tumor. So, previous tumor and crani. The gremlin attack at each site was something that had multiple appendages that was grabbing and attempting to pierce. Jumping as if to break something, That was my sense of it. The attack on the brain was the hardest. But my sense of it was that it was repelled.

Then the respiratory thing at the 5 day mark. lasted approximately 5 days with another week or so of recovery.

Dunno now why the story. It just kept flowing. Perhaps, I've come back b/c my twin has died. Hmm yeah. It sucks. The positive is she died on my wedding anniversary. So, my husband who was dx'd with lymphoma 3 months behind my BC dx and died in 2010 and her will always be remembered together. Even when she was progressing in dying, on the 20th of June I thought could she make it to the june24th. She did. I told my brother to whisper to her to come see me when she left. I prayed for my Greg to met here and all the relatives. She died early the 24th. The next day a thing that had been on the wall for 30 years fell with great force on the floor. The doorbell cover. "Okay you are here :)" but no other sense after that.
Do I feel better that I've written this. hmmyes and no. Mostly I miss her

@chicagoan Thank you, yeah, bummer, we talked several times a week. We were both adverse to traveling. We only were together twice in 20 years. Very weird. But we were very comfortable with the phone. I was with her in the last couple of weeks.
The mask thing. the Denmark study was ignored basically. Public not being notified of OSHA fit requirements -awful. You are so right about the tight fit. Even with the tester trying multiple times to get my fit right, I still smelled the scent.
Why did people buy into the cloth masks and masks. Fear. The early reports were not good. The west coast reports from the initial nursing home. Ever something facility. Media. It's like the guy that shows up at all hurricanes, Italian name Can something. The joke here in Florida, it's bad when he shows up. Now with supposed "worst temps thingy" The back screens are all in red to change perception. When by history we are the same in Florida as we have been since it started to be measured. The screen is an oh so subtle thing. My machine had "88 degress Near record". Duh, by adding the near record, it causes a question, a concern. It's a normal temp for Florida in August. Change the language, change the presentation, it plays well in poukipsee.

What I object to is that by the false narrative that masks work, people can be harmed by thinking themselves safe and others are harming them by not masking. Creates division, anger, hatred.
Now for my self when I got covid, it was a fools tread. Someone came to a party of five, she was sick, didn't declare it. We all shared a joint. We all got covid. No testing on my part, but two were. It's kind of a duh thing.

Okay did it: "Ghosts and other Phenomena" thread

@ctmbsikia No question masks are a controversy. BUT it is known aerosolized particles aren't filtered. Hopefully fit tested N95 does it. BUT I read the Factcheck.org post that you linked. There is lot's of gobblygook in it.

Their conclusion paragraph "“Ultimately even a very careful person will be infected eventually, but masks could delay that or reduce the rate of infection from once per year to once every few years, perhaps,” he said. “Community masking is not aimed to prevent everyone from ever getting infected, the aim is to reduce transmission and ‘flatten the curve’, reducing peak healthcare demand, or to work in combination with other measures like social distancing to contain transmission in the short-term.”

WOW says a whole lot of nice words but doesn't say they work. It's why I wrote the thread about how to read studies(and articles about studies which is apparently in the BCO computer netherland. Think about what this is saying "but masks could delay that or reduce the rate of infection from once per year to once every few years". Interpretation? Where masks endlessly? I get that the cancer community is at risk, I've had 3, BC Thyroid and nose twice. and surveillance for a bunch more b/c of taking RAI-31 for thyroid. I'm not oblivious of you concern. This fact check writes a good—-con line. They are trying to lay low, discount, smear Cochrane et al. You'd be better off reading the whole of Cochrane and paying attention to what they say. They are the star in the industry of watching studies and evaluating them.

Thinking about comparisons. The drug go to is dailymed which is the government repository for all drugs. Could have given a full URL if I knew beforehand I would cite them. Another site that is very valuable is Medscape., another Healthline. Medscape is primarily directed at professionals, but don't be dissuaded trying to register. It's free. Once registered you get access to studies and the companion articles explaining the studies.

That is truly a key, the companion article. I'm sure in the industry there is a bonafide name. It's one step out from the study. The reporter/author takes the study info and translates it for us mere mortals.

IF there has been no mischief in the study, and IF the next level reporting states correctly what the study is saying, we may get useful info. The problem is mischief. Next post

My job in the late 70's was running a Paramedic program. It was in the Department of Emergency Medicine. All doc residencies have what's called Grand Rounds (presentations). The nitty griity, the resident was expected to review at least several dozen articles/studies (weight on studies) for x number of years (weight on most recent years), include a historical perspective, then develop a presentation with Audio/visual, then a question/ answer period. AND present what their opinion was the future based on all this info. It was quite fun. Seriously fun.
Outcome from my point of view, for example, was the resident that did the required residency bug/ spider/snake research became my go to guy to do the bug spider snake lecture for the paramedics. The further outcome was they became the resource for other docs.

What it taught me is how to research and evaluate what I was reading.
I did do a thread on this, it's in the abyss

1.Determine search term(s), modify as needed to pull studies, 2 Expect to superficially read many studies to see if they apply to the question/topic. 3. Refine search by deleting studies or refining search term.

4 How to read a study as an ordinary medical/ nursing/ nonmedical person. This is my approach probably millions of other approaches. The construct of a study is absolute. It was so to speak codified in the late 40's. and is referred to as the Scientific Method. The intent was that world wide research could be expected to follow a common method. That way anyone can research the same question to validate the previous study

The construct: Abstract, Introduction, method, data, discussion, conclusion

My approach, remember I said that, would love to have others to state their approach,

I read the Abstract which is a synopsis (The short story with a conclusion Kind of like Cliff Notes) The body of the study states intent (Question and hypothesis), method, data, discussion, conclusion.

I read the abstract and the conclusion first. Reason is long ago, not sure which year or study. The abstract was not stating what the conclusion was stating. It was a random catch. It was quite a WTF moment. Why would that be done? Anywhooses that's been my approach ever since. Have I found discrepancies since? Not that I can quote now. But that one occurrence caused the wariness.

Then I read the discussion, Maybe the introduction to find out what their initial thoughts were. The discussion is very informing but can be misused. They identify the strengths and weakness of the study and identify areas of future research.

It can be a problem where the next level decipher of the study translates it to us normals. I did a posting on the science thread, on an AP associated press release that said that Champaign could reduce Alzheimer's. It was in our press and on the tv news last a few days. I traced it to UK Sun News, to an interview that the person being interviewed was going to start (Otry)a study and talked about all that they "predicted" would be the outcome. But they hadn't been approved for the study, no enrollee's in the study