"Since you did not provide any studies that I could read that might have been quality I presumed that is likely the case here as well, since I was not given the means to determine otherwise."

<sigh> I did provide links to the studies at

Journal
Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry

Journal
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Obviously I believe that vaccination is beneficial. I also believe there are risks, and that "informed consent" requires ALL known risks to be be disclosed. And with that, I think this topic is exhausted... perhaps until next time.

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 24, 2019, 16:00

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 24, 2019, 16:00

Nov 24, 2019, 16:00

sda @sda@qoto.org

Antibiotic exposure and risk of Parkinson's disease in finland: A nationwide case‐control study

https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.27924

?tldr;

Conclusions

Exposure to certain types of oral antibiotics seems to be associated with an elevated risk of PD with a delay that is consistent with the proposed duration of a prodromal period. The pattern of associations supports the hypothesis that effects on gut microbiota could link antibiotics to PD, but further studies are needed to confirm this.

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 16:25

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 16:25

Nov 23, 2019, 16:25

sda @sda@qoto.org

This one's even better.

The Failure of Peer Review
https://globalfreedommovement.org/the-failure-of-peer-review/

@freemo

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 15:02

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 15:02

Nov 23, 2019, 15:02

sda @sda@qoto.org

I've read several articles lately on the uselessness of peer review.
From 2006, from the editor of BMJ:

"So peer review is a flawed process, full of easily identified defects with little evidence that it works. Nevertheless, it is likely to remain central to science and journals because there is no obvious alternative, and scientists and editors have a continuing belief in peer review. How odd that science should be rooted in belief."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 14:11

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 14:11

Nov 23, 2019, 14:11

sda @sda@qoto.org

CDC Unpublished Data Comparing Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Obtained via FOIA

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Vaxxed-Unvaxxed-Full-Presentation-Parts-I-VI.pdf

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 13:39

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2019, 13:39

Nov 23, 2019, 13:39

sda @sda@qoto.org

"and there are abundant hypersaline and hyperacid pools, with pH values that are even negative."

One of those wrong things you learn... pH value of 1 is as acid as it gets.

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2019, 19:20

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2019, 19:20

Nov 22, 2019, 19:20

sda @sda@qoto.org

re: time spent on phones
@_lunawinters

Humans forgot how to be offline
https://www.patreon.com/posts/31698321

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2019, 19:05

**sda** @sda@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2019, 19:05

Nov 22, 2019, 19:05

sda @sda@qoto.org

Current mind meandering...

What is "science?"

In ancient times, there were seven sciences: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy.

When I hear "science" without any context, my mind jumps first to hard sciences like Physics and Chemistry; fields that weren't even conceived back then.

It's hard to think of Music as a science today. I mean, everyone knows Music is an art, right?

Then there's medicine. Science or art? On the one hand, you have people in lab coats doing research that's undeniably science. On the other, you have "the healing arts" or even "the art of medicine." I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to "the science of medicine."
Are the healing arts separate from the scientific aspect of medicine? Once I put it like that, it's obvious. Of course they are!