"You can come to my dinner party and not drink, but you won’t be coming back."
Or,
"You have to be vaccinated to come to my dinner party"
"You can come to my dinner party, but you have to wear a mask"
Sorry Vinay, you lost me. People making reasonable lifestyle choices and trying to be prudent about what they put into their bodies apparently is just too much for you, the vaccine pushers, and the maskers. All you have proven is that you are not a seeker of truth but rather one who desires to coerce behavior around whatever confirmation bias you can tease out of a study.
Your attitude is consistent with millennia of social tribal behavior. The group must ingest brain poison of some type and have their state of mind altered at some level to gain acceptance.
How thoroughly modern and thoughtful. I had high hopes for your work but it really seems like worthless navel gazing at this point. Unsubscribed.
Perhaps not. Perhaps no sense at all but Vinay's comment reveals once again that social biases plague science and the search for truth. Maybe Vinay's dinner guest was a former alcoholic that chose not to reveal that past. Vinay is certainly allowed to set the criteria for his dinner guests, but his bias to associate only with people who imbibe, reveals a common problem with those who purport to analyze scientific data.
Should an OCD germophobe conduct studies on masking? Should a vaccine manufacturer be responsible for vaccine policy.
My own bias is that there are a lot of dinner parties you can tell that I am no longer invited to because I didn't meet the social standard as to what I drank, wore on my face or though about as to what I was injected with. Best
Dr. Mike Osterholm for some time here in Minnesota during rampant COVID days had a strict policy of requiring people who came to dinner parties at his lavish skyscraper condominium to "test negative" some number of times within a prior time period before an event. We have to suppose that he, his partner, and their guests dropped their 3M face masks for the no-doubt fine wines served during the vigorous pre-dinner gemutlichkeit as the candles flickered all around.
Steve, the difference is there are several thousand years of evidence of benefits of alcohol (that doesn't mean there aren't "costs"). But there isn't great evidence of the benefits of the covid vax, and almost no good evidence of the benefits of continuing masking in public against the covid virus.
It has been said that traditions are still traditions because they are behavior patterns that work, that have stood the test of time. With that said, I'm sure that we are all happy that many behaviors from the last several thousand years have disappeared.
Sure, social bonding, French paradox, stress reduction, the tradition of drinking sterile alcohol versus a contaminated water source could all be looked at as possible benefits.
The question is whether alcohol is damaging to human organs and at what amounts.
A researcher with a certain level of social bias to alcohol' s benefit loses credibility on this issue.
"You can come to my dinner party and not drink, but you won’t be coming back."
Or,
"You have to be vaccinated to come to my dinner party"
"You can come to my dinner party, but you have to wear a mask"
Sorry Vinay, you lost me. People making reasonable lifestyle choices and trying to be prudent about what they put into their bodies apparently is just too much for you, the vaccine pushers, and the maskers. All you have proven is that you are not a seeker of truth but rather one who desires to coerce behavior around whatever confirmation bias you can tease out of a study.
Your attitude is consistent with millennia of social tribal behavior. The group must ingest brain poison of some type and have their state of mind altered at some level to gain acceptance.
How thoroughly modern and thoughtful. I had high hopes for your work but it really seems like worthless navel gazing at this point. Unsubscribed.
Have you no sense of satire?
Perhaps not. Perhaps no sense at all but Vinay's comment reveals once again that social biases plague science and the search for truth. Maybe Vinay's dinner guest was a former alcoholic that chose not to reveal that past. Vinay is certainly allowed to set the criteria for his dinner guests, but his bias to associate only with people who imbibe, reveals a common problem with those who purport to analyze scientific data.
Should an OCD germophobe conduct studies on masking? Should a vaccine manufacturer be responsible for vaccine policy.
My own bias is that there are a lot of dinner parties you can tell that I am no longer invited to because I didn't meet the social standard as to what I drank, wore on my face or though about as to what I was injected with. Best
Dr. Mike Osterholm for some time here in Minnesota during rampant COVID days had a strict policy of requiring people who came to dinner parties at his lavish skyscraper condominium to "test negative" some number of times within a prior time period before an event. We have to suppose that he, his partner, and their guests dropped their 3M face masks for the no-doubt fine wines served during the vigorous pre-dinner gemutlichkeit as the candles flickered all around.
Steve, the difference is there are several thousand years of evidence of benefits of alcohol (that doesn't mean there aren't "costs"). But there isn't great evidence of the benefits of the covid vax, and almost no good evidence of the benefits of continuing masking in public against the covid virus.
It has been said that traditions are still traditions because they are behavior patterns that work, that have stood the test of time. With that said, I'm sure that we are all happy that many behaviors from the last several thousand years have disappeared.
Sure, social bonding, French paradox, stress reduction, the tradition of drinking sterile alcohol versus a contaminated water source could all be looked at as possible benefits.
The question is whether alcohol is damaging to human organs and at what amounts.
A researcher with a certain level of social bias to alcohol' s benefit loses credibility on this issue.
Maybe Steve would benefit from a great glass of red wine. 🍷