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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Non-scientists doubting scientists is anti-intellectual. Please stop. This is a bannable offense on YouTube.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Non-scientists doubting scientists is anti-intellectual.

Trying to understand what the current state of the science is isn't anti-intellectual. Nor is calling out a particular scientist for going to the public with claims that aren't accepted by science.

This is a bannable offense on YouTube.

Spreading misinformation is bannable on youtube. Wondering what the fuck can possibly be meant by "The whole immune system would become measurably stronger by a factor of 3 to 5 times" isn't misinformation.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That's the whole point! You're not qualified to make such a judgement!

Are you a scientist? No. You are not. So how do you get to judge statements of fact by scientists?

Even if you are a scientist, which you are not, are you in the same field? Are you a specialist in immunology? If not then YOU are the one spreading misinformation!

I don't get how this is so hard to process. It's straightforward and is a point that has been hammered home again and again over the past two years. You must have internalized it by now.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's the whole point! You're not qualified to make such a judgement!

By finding current and mainstream scientific opinion in the peer reviewed literature.

Supplementing Vitamin D has a small but positive effect on reducing acute respiratory infections. Something like 9% reduced incidence. That's due to vitamin D derivatives being important in multiple parts of the adaptive immune response.

It is also well short of the effect of the vaccines with respect to Covid-19.

The late Dr Prendergast in the youtube video, does not actually contradict that. He says that German scientists in the 1920s thought that the vitamin D supplementation was better than any vaccine was likely to be. But that is in the context of bird flu and the 1920s, and Germany between the wars.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm qualified to wonder what the fuck he's talking about, and know enough infectious diseases to know that "The whole immune system would become measurably stronger by a factor of 3 to 5 times" is bullshit.

No, you're not! You're not a scientist! You're not a subject matter expert. Shut up! You're lucky this is a free speech site. On any other corporate controlled platform you'd be silenced for spreading disinformation. And rightly so.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, you're not! You're not a scientist! You're not a subject matter expert.

The people who wrote this review are scientists. They find that the effect of supplementation by vitamin d on acute respiratory infections is a reduction by 1% to 16% in incidence (that's a 95% confidence interval). (Odds Ratio [OR] 0.91, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.99; P for heterogeneity 0.01)

That's not better than a vaccine

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're injecting YOUR opinions, which are NOT scientific opinions. You're not a scientist! You're not a subject matter expert! How is this so hard to understand‽ Shut up!

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're injecting YOUR opinions, which are NOT scientific opinions.

What opinion is mine and not a scientists, that you are objecting to?