Re: the "lane" comment - I still stand by that. Influencers (not unlike drs in academia) are often found making statements about subjects that are not their area of study or expertise. Not my cup of tea regardless of whether or not I agree with the statement on its own merits. It's one of the nasty parts of social media and I like nostr for its typical lack of it.
nostr:npub1l2h50te8u00qd6plx3hudn82p24lcafqmqhlayxy3h7dwsxxnj4q28n2lz nostr:npub185cl0jg373tl9hqaa000z0znzw7r5c909nkc2ndf9mvmgenqxpjqf4x93y
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev isn't reasoning well but the gestalt of his argument is valid. If vax administration causes system-wide inflammation, then what if the cure is worse than the disease? This hasn't been adequately studied. Lifelong allergies for 50% of population, and continuing propogation of weak genetics, and way too many old people dying of chronic diseases that need long term care, vs 20% of your sickly people dying and leaving the gene pool, and folks dying younger but more quickly and not taxing the system. What if that's what we're looking at? Nobody asks that question. Half (made up stat) of my younger colleagues want people to live forever and are afraid of death. My older colleagues are bleeding hearts and want to eliminate suffering.
Doctoring needs to focus on relieving the suffering of the individual, not groups. There is a fine line between using evidence to guide care for an individual (i.e. which med works for this?), and using it to dictate public health. The key is in admitting you don't know what you don't know. And you don't know what you didn't measure.
The corruption and hubris of the scientigic community and medical system in the US is sickening. I happen to have dipped toes in both pools, and internationally. The vast majority of us who are actually caring for people don't have the bandwidth to adress even a fraction of the problems. We usually can't even verify the quality of evidence handed to us, instead outsourcing that to a third party.
Lastly, it's okay to call out poor reasoning, sensationalism, etc., but I find it poor form to assign another human a "lane". Really, this lane of health is everyone's.
Discussion
You may notice that you have assigned Guy with a title 'influencer', which has no real definition and Guy probably doesn't identify with that title.
I don't take what he says as true or false because of who he is, but because I understand what he is saying.
He has a following because he creates quality content and dedicates himself to what he is researching.
“Influencer” is just a term to use against people who have an audience to dismiss what they have to say as “he’s just doing it for clout” or whatever.
I neither spout bullshit for attention, nor did I even think this would get a positive response. On Twitter it’s almost nothing but derision and insults. Granted I bet a ton of people agree now, but I think many are afraid of liking or retweeting because it almost invariably means a shadow ban.
That said I don’t think of myself as an “influencer” and find it a vapid term.
Though, I suspect anybody that calls me one just doesn’t listen to anything I produce or chooses to ignore anything I say or do because it’s a convenient term for many to dismiss an argument without having to make one themselves.
And I don’t mean to be insulting to anyone despite obviously being a bit standoffish about all this. Hard not to be.
Unclear that you're in your lane lol. I'm going to disagree with you here. Who decides what lanes people get to play in? Who decides what level of expertise merits lane-admittance? And can't an outsider make salient points? And can't an insider make imbecillic mistakes?
A cool thing of having fresh preclinical med students on the wards is their distinct lack of expertise. They're uncomfortable and "out of their lane" so they think differently and often provide valuable insight.
Docs telling others to stay in their lane has caused pain through history. I'm grateful for nonexperts who speak up.
Again, healthcare is everyone's lane.