My husband still thinks everything is because of Covid

Aplogies for typo - debate 😂

There we have it. No denate. No arguments presented. No evidence...just attack any other opinions by attacking the messenger. Classic head in the sand. Search for Doctor John.

Exactly the same as 'climate change'...just go back through alarmist headlines since the seventies and you will see forecasts of disaster that have never come to pass.

Those who blindly follow the narrative of politicians who have everything to gain should have their intelligence questioned. Just follow the money.

That's perfectly understanable to me: it's natural that when people are afraid of something, they're prepared to take chances on potential solutions, even if they believe those solutions may carry their own risks.

Before the vaccine, approximately 1 in 200 cases of polio led to paralysis. Far more serious than covid. Also, polio and tetanus vaccinations have now been proven effective and safe for decades.

When the potential consequences of something are likely to be mild for the individual, they're more inclined to accept the risk rather than opt for a solution that's seen to pose its own dangers.

Hence the constant updates on death tolls etc during the pandemic.

This reminds me of this meme I once saw.

I'm so sorry Chenners to hear about your husband and your children's dad. It's heartbreaking.
I think it's very normal to question what may have contributed to a cancer that's unusual for the demographic of the person that has it.

Don't be daft! It's suppressed of course. Look for Doctor John..

Obviously they don't want to scare the people who had lots of pointless boosters. I'm happy to say I had only the one NON-mRNA jab...and no others. Had one mild Covid (pretty much just a bad cold) and nothing else, whilst everyone I know who had multiple jabs had several Covid attacks...most pretty severe...and more than a few have now been diagnosed with various cancers (some young people too!).

Are they? Could you link to the studies? I had a Google but couldn’t find anything.

Yawn. Sorry, OP. Commiserations. It's hard and draining to live around people like this. ☕🍩

I find it weird that some people have all these unfounded opinions about the Covid vaccines but never have an opinion on the Polio or tetanus vaccines. Maybe because they realise they could have become disabled by polio or died from tetanus but don’t like to mention that ?

Accelerated cancers are linked with Covid boosters

You're brave, on a forum that are clearly in denial. Where is astra zeneca now? No longer term testing of this vaccine. Unusual considering they take 7 years minimum and are experimental. On the other hand no, not all cancers are caused by vaccine.

You're mischaracterising it: this isn't about fringe studies being "uploaded" to various platforms. This is about prestigious journals publishing studies which claim significant effects, which have subsequently been found unable to be replicated.

I'd say he's right look up Dr Campbell. The covid jabs weaken your immune system and seem to be causing turbo cancers and heart issues in young people and middle aged peoeple. My 3 children just lost their father to cancer he had the jabs and wishes he hadn't. He was diagnosed with bile duct cancer that's usually seen in old people and it had already spread.

Are you actually ok? At what point did I say I'm a scholar? 😂

I did, yes - it's evident that you've exhausted your ability for substantive discourse. Ad hominems and appeals to authority failed, so now you resort to patronising remarks and emojis in order to try to goad.

Really sad to see an esteemed scholar behave this way.

The deterioration in your spelling and grammar (and double replies) suggest that you may be vexed in some way, but I'd have thought that an esteemed scholar such as you would thrive on discourse.

Plus we do not actually live in a 'free speech country'. That is a common misconception about the UK. Article 10 of the EHCR protects freedom of expression, but ironically a lot of 'freeze peach' nuts are the very people who want us out of the EHCR! There is no First Amendment equivalent which is specific to UK law, and the Conservatives would love to curtail our rights to protest.

the replication crisis, which has exposed significant flaws in much of scientific research

In order for findings to be accepted, they must be replicable. That's not a bug, @Lea3, it's a feature.

There is a research 'crisis' going on. It's about hundreds of studies being uploaded to open platforms every day, far more than can be reviewed in a timely manner. That's led to thousands and thousands of unchecked papers being widely available online, where they are read by people who don't know how to verify the findings. Only a tiny percentage of readers look for the peer reviews, and an even smaller percentage of them check the reviewers' credentials. Hardly anybody cross-checks the cited precedents, methodologies and logic for themselves.

That's how you can find earnest papers proposing or supporting the most batshit of theories 🙃

You'll note how I'm not engaging in any of your arguments. That should show you how I regard them 😊

Which way do you work lovely? Let me Hazzard a guess.. you do your own research right?

You seem to be implying that because scientists are also sceptics, it therefore follows that I should believe them.

However, the statement "You are a fellow sceptic, and therefore I blindly believe you" would be nonsensical. Scepticism requires critical thinking and scrutiny of information, rather than blind acceptance based on shared beliefs or affiliations.

You've already made it clear that your own beliefs are based on faith and appeals to authority (hence your demands for my credentials), but I don't work that way.

Id forgotten covid was all Bill Gates fault at one point

Genocide by vaccine to stop people dying of covid. The least efficient method of killing millions of people ever invented.

Scientists are skeptics. Where do you get your 'knowledge' from?

Id forgotten covid was all Bill Gates fault at one point 😂

I wouldn't call my friend who keeps going on about how the upper middle classes want us all to be serfs unintelligent and uneducated, because she isn't. What she does do is spend a lot of time on sites like X and social media generally, and from experience I know that you get sucked into the bubble chamber of conspiracy theories and they all start sounding completely plausible. It's one reason why I don't log onto X any more - I didn't like the angry obsessed person I was becoming.

All I can do with her is shut it down when she starts.

Given the academic credentials you've suggested you have and evaluate others by, I would have thought that at some stage you'd have learned about the false dilemma fallacy?

Scepticism is justified and doesn't necessarily require an immediate alternative to be valid.