I want to briefly go over the Alberta Health Services study released on medRxiv a couple of days ago. Generally, I am not particularly interested in studies attempting to justify the vaccination anymore but this study is something else: This is a triage study. The analysts involved in writing this study are interested in finding a way to justify a “rational allocation” of Paxlovid in the wider population.
I had a stats teacher back in the 80s who loved to talk about all of the problems with Albert Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. He'd make jokes about the 10% of us played for the other team, which, while totally inappropriate, made his classes quite memorable.
We were all engineering students, so one of the big things he emphasized was that while Kinsey's study was complete bs, in the bigger scheme of life, it didn't really matter, because the study was just a stunt, a way to get publicity, not something, that if it failed, would kill someone. When engineers make mistakes, like O-rings in the space shuttle spectacular and fatal events follow. When medical people.make errors, they indiscriminately kill people. I'm not too sure the authors of the study, TKT Lo, Hussain Usman, Khokan C. Sikdar, David Strong, Samantha James, Jordan Ross, Lynora M. Saxinger, are fine with murder, but since they put their names on that trash study, I have to think they are cool with whacking the weak, allegedly. Who knows, maybe they are just morons.
The Science Worshiper Method has been the entrenched favourite used by AHS, academia, and provincial and municipal politicians for decades, for attacking everything from home birth midwifery to wild horse preservation. I remember well the attacks on the Empower Plus supplement studies at U Calgary, and also the fury of those same worshipers when voters dared to object to water fluoridation in Calgary on grounds of logic, science and ethics.
I had a stats teacher back in the 80s who loved to talk about all of the problems with Albert Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. He'd make jokes about the 10% of us played for the other team, which, while totally inappropriate, made his classes quite memorable.
We were all engineering students, so one of the big things he emphasized was that while Kinsey's study was complete bs, in the bigger scheme of life, it didn't really matter, because the study was just a stunt, a way to get publicity, not something, that if it failed, would kill someone. When engineers make mistakes, like O-rings in the space shuttle spectacular and fatal events follow. When medical people.make errors, they indiscriminately kill people. I'm not too sure the authors of the study, TKT Lo, Hussain Usman, Khokan C. Sikdar, David Strong, Samantha James, Jordan Ross, Lynora M. Saxinger, are fine with murder, but since they put their names on that trash study, I have to think they are cool with whacking the weak, allegedly. Who knows, maybe they are just morons.
The Science Worshiper Method has been the entrenched favourite used by AHS, academia, and provincial and municipal politicians for decades, for attacking everything from home birth midwifery to wild horse preservation. I remember well the attacks on the Empower Plus supplement studies at U Calgary, and also the fury of those same worshipers when voters dared to object to water fluoridation in Calgary on grounds of logic, science and ethics.
Does Canadian Health Care use the NPM-model and/or the QALY-model? They are very good at wrecking well-functioning practical systems.