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  2. The promotion of statins are a very good example…the actual risk reduction is almost 0.
    http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/retired-medical-doctor-exposes-deceptive-statistics-used-to-justify-billion-dollar-flu-vaccine-and-drug-market/
    The Fraudulent, Deceptive Use of the Relative Risk Reduction Statistic
    What I am talking about is the common statistical trick of the pharmaceutical trade called the Relative Risk Reduction (RRR), a statistic that intentionally inflates embarrassingly low or even statistically insignificant results that had been obtained from corporate-controlled – and therefore very dubious – research studies.
    What the public deserves to be informed about, but usually doesn’t receive, is the far more meaningful Absolute/Actual Risk Reduction (ARR) numbers, which, compared to the RRR, are often so small and unconvincing that any rational thinker would regard the study as a failed one. Hence, the cunning invention of the misleading RRR. I will deal with the important mathematical differences further below.
    The Lancet article that revealed the lack of efficacy of flu shots did indeed deceptively report a “60% efficacy rate.” As one would expect that very phrase was prominently reported in the media, which also pointed out the commonly-accepted past estimates of “90% efficacy” in past flu shots.
    The deception involved was the fact that both the 60% and the 90% figures were intentionally misleading RRR stats. But what wasn’t reported in the media reportage was the fact that the ARR for the flu shots was a miniscule 1.5% efficacy. If that figure had been used, people would have balked at consenting to the shot. And, as any honest, non-co-opted, thinking person can see, the difference between the misleading figure of 60% and the real figure of 1.5% is huge – and, as ever, represents just another cunning statistical trick that is used to promote highly profitable drugs, that, incidentally, are often unaffordable and can also be toxic and dependency-inducing.

  4. Mohammed loves f*rting camels.
    “That seismic shift shattered the dominance of Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel, …”
    …-
    “Clash between OPEC and U.S. for oil supremacy nears day of reckoning
    OPEC’s struggle to keep a grip on world markets is at risk of being swamped by the greatest oil and gas boom in history”
    “The clash between OPEC and America’s oil industry is reaching a day of reckoning.
    The U.S. shale revolution is on course to be the greatest oil and gas boom in history, turning a nation once at the mercy of foreign imports into a global player. That seismic shift shattered the dominance of Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel, forcing them into an alliance with long-time rival Russia to keep a grip on world markets.
    So far, it’s worked — global oil stockpiles are draining and prices are near two-year highs.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/opec-clash-with-u-s-for-oil-supremacy-near-day-of-reckoning-1

  6. “Koch Bros are BUYING out a left-wing news outlet, libs are PANICKING!”
    The Koch brothers, being shrewd businessmen, likely won’t pull a hard right turn. I do suspect that they will demand that leftist propaganda not be allowed to be sold as fact.
    Given the financial health of conservative media compared to the Marxist media, I wonder why more businesses don’t try to compete on the right side of the spectrum. At times Fox News has as much audience as the rest of cable news combined.

  13. Tommy Douglas, not dead enough
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    The Ottawa Hospital has apologized after a staff member pointed to the floor when a patient begged for a place to lie down during a long wait in the emergency department.
    On Friday, the Civic campus was at 108 per cent capacity. It had been higher during the week.
    http://ottawasun.com/news/local-news/hospital-apologizes-for-telling-er-patient-to-lie-down-on-the-floor/wcm/1c568e99-4402-4faa-90b3-6c067a322d7d

  15. Thanks for that strad!
    I have been against the forced flu vaccine from the get go…much to my employers disdain.
    Based on personal observation of patients presenting to ER with ‘flu like symptoms’.
    Just had to ask if they had their flu vaccine…easily 70% ( my unscientific survey) reveals “yes, they did’
    But the hospital will not ask that question.

  16. “The Wynne government is allowing several bottled water companies
    to take up to 7.6 million litres of groundwater per day on expired
    permits.”
    It’s just effing water – worth nothing – lots of jobs.

  17. Health Care Worker? Do you clean floors or butts?
    The flu shot targets a few viruses most likely to kill you. You’re survey would surprise no one other than yourself.

  18. The flu shot targets a few viruses most likely to kill you.…at 1.5% efficacy, making them worthless.

  19. “Trump Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ at Event to Honor Navajo Veterans”
    “Trump calls Warren “Pocahontas” as a jab at her self-identification as being of Native American heritage. Reporting on Warren’s family is inconclusive about whether she is actually descended from Native Americans.” (bloomberg)
    …-
    “Peter MacDonald: Real Code Talker Interview
    A documentary film produced about Peter McDonald that served as a Navajo Code Talker during World War II.
    This film includes a series of interviews with Peter McDonald that cover his life and journey from Tuba City, Arizona to the United States Marine Corps.…”
    https://navajocodetalkers.org/

  20. Speaking of self-identifying as a patron of veterans…Dances With Bone Spurs…making america great 🙂

  24. “Never-Trump” Alabama Senate “write-in” candidate Lee Busby attended a fundraiser for liberal Democrat candidate Doug Jones.”
    “Busby admitted that he attended a fundraiser for Doug Jones and even voted for Ohio governor and infamous public eater John Kasich in 2016 Republican presidential primary.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/27/never-trump-plant-in-alabama-write-in-against-conservative-roy-moore-attended-liberal-dem-doug-jones-fundraiser/

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