Safi Bakal
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Where I go to right away that's interesting is the efficacy data, which is post-marketing, adverse events, description, drug interactions, clinical studies, section 14. Yeah, that's amazing. You look at table eight on page 10 or whatever.
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page five, the SAE, serious adverse events. And you would just look at that table and you would say, no difference.
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Numerically, if anything, there were more SAEs on the placebo than the control arm, but it's insignificant. It's like the difference between eating a banana or an apple.
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Let's see, where are you? Next page. Yeah, seizures. Yes. Numerically, maybe a little higher. But the SAEs were exactly the same.
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I mean, that's just astonishingly, it just makes, it's just astonishing. Yeah. So wait, what's he doing?
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Well, firstly, I doubt that he actually looked at this source. I'm sure he's a pretty busy guy. But Safi, he writes
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Yeah. Wasn't he trained as a lawyer? I don't know. He's a lawyer, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because on the list, I guess I try to err on sort of generous explanations. And maybe you go on the other side. I don't know. But aren't lawyers trained to do that sort of thing, dig deep into facts and make a case or prove or disprove a case? You would think that would be part of your legal training.
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There was one incidence... of any grade of diarrhea or gastroenteritis, which is what this virus is supposed to protect, and 51 on the placebo arm. Oh, wow. So it's 50 times higher, 50 times higher more kids will get some serious or moderate diarrhea or gastroenteritis compared to those who got the vaccine. That tells me, of course I want the vaccine for my kid.
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What was that word that they used a few years ago? Truthiness.
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Right? There must be an equivalent word of scienceness. My book has scienciness because it has footnotes that are sciency. Done.
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That's absolutely astonishing. That's just jaw-dropping. You almost never see that kind of efficacy in a therapeutic for treating active disease. You see it once in a generation. You know, a 50x improvement is incredible.
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That's just complete bullshit. I don't know what else to say. That's just, you look at this data. This is extremely robust, careful data. You look at the statistics published in all of the numbers and tables here. That is just absolute nonsense.