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Do you believe in things like that? Been trying to learn about it and keep an open mind but fuck it just seems so illogical

I think social awareness/skills is a big part of an autism diagnosis. Men are generally worse in this domain than women and this aligns with the frequency of diagnoses being higher with males. Autistic people tend to make others more uncomfortable in social situations without realizing it. They may not make eye contact in socially appropriate ways and they may not realize how their tone, body language, or behaviors are perceived by others as inappropriate. A few months ago I was in the bathroom of a restaurant washing my hands and this autistic teen stood somewhat close to me. I couldn’t tell right away he was autistic but I immediately started mentally preparing myself for some type of conflict. He kept staring and started leaning close to me. I was high as fuck so I was a little more paranoid than usually and reacted kind of aggressive and told him to back up. When I looked at his eyes I realized he was severely autistic. You can tell by the dull stare. But he had no idea that what he was doing is inappropriate and couldn’t tell that it made others uncomfortable. I think the autism spectrum may have caused more confusion by grouping functional autists with dysfunctional ones under the same label. I think it would be more useful to call functional autists neurodivergent and everyone else just autistic.

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A lot of this I already tried to answer as we went.

I will say I looked for an all cause mortality comparison. I can't find it. Disappointing. Search results are all about the covid vaccine and I already said I won't piss on that electric fence.

The best I can do is point to a rise in global life expectancy after the invention of vaccines. A lot of other things changed so I won't declare that to be a final answer. I'm here to share truth backed with real evidence not just say what I think will win the argument for my side.

I think a lot of your misunderstanding comes from wanting a binary yes or no answer to things. Science simply doesn't work that way. Each bit of scientific knowledge has a little imaginary probability attached to it. Higher or lower probability based on the quality of reseach and number of studies that align with that fact.

We're always building that body of knowledge and that means that probability for each "fact" MIPis always changing. If you don't have an intuitive sense that those probabilities are there and what they are for different current scientific beliefs it is rough. You'll never understand why sometimes a challenge to existing science is met with a laugh and sometimes it gets a maybe.

If you do grasp that you can see why I say sure the data isn't gold standard but this model has more data showing how it aligns accurately with observation than any other model for this thing, so we let it ride here.

Once upon a time there was a visualization of this concept rating various supplements by meta analysis of existing studies. 1 axis showed confidence rating of the average study and bubble size showed how many studies there were. I can't find it now but the mental model stuck with me. Also holy shit take Creatine for sure no excuses no other supplement was even close.

I take creatine every day. I’m not sure if I should be taking more than 5 grams though.

Here’s one last thing I’ll post from another study someone shared about this topic. This study mentioned that a majority of the research found a large variance of 0-80%. Maybe I’m not understanding exactly what that means but my initial reaction is to question the reliability of most research findings. Seems like a giant mess to navigate research in general.

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Man there was a terrible thing I did with my friends as a kid. If we did that today, we would have gotten caught for sure lmao

Okay so someone somewhere will be sick and then it spreads to everyone. Why doesn’t everyone get sick?

We’re going in circles again. Not everyone gets sick because there are certain factors and conditions that need to be in place. So if the presence of a virus alone cannot be established to create a cause and effect relationship. Then it shouldn’t be considered the cause of illness. It should be those factors and conditions that you talked about like stress, fatigue, and those other things you mentioned.

Ethics aside, if I wanted to make someone sick then I would compromise those factors. I wouldn’t just expose them to the virus. This actually would make more sense because I’ve been told that you are constantly fighting off viruses and bacteria all the time. That they are everywhere.

It would be ideal if they just compared vaccinated to unvaccinated people in general but it’s hard to when you’re risking your career over it. Thank big pharma for that.

I know right. I thought psyducks were just confused with headaches not mean.

Man I remember watching this scene in theaters I was dying 😂

I don’t recall saying doctors always wrong. The purpose of my original post was to see if someone could find a good study showing better health outcomes for vaccinated individuals. Your argument was that unvaccinated people benefit from the vaccinated population. But from what I’ve seen, it’s more than just that. What I see is that vaccinated people are less healthy than unvaccinated. One study I saw many years ago showed that vaccinated people have significantly higher rates of allergies compared to a population of Orthodox Jews that don’t vaccinate. I’ve also seen plenty of studies that showed people who get the flu vaccine are more likely to get the flu the following year. This is anecdotal but I stopped getting the flu after I stopped taking the flu vaccine. Meanwhile people who got the flu vaccine would still get the flu but then say well if I didn’t get this flu shot, my symptoms would be worse. How do you even know that?

I do agree with you that doctors are helpful in the short term. I don’t think they understand the consequences in the long term and you’re 100% right that it is easier to avoid legal responsibility that way.