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Ruth's avatar

Another great article, Leslie. Thanks for all the research you do. You have the gift of breaking things down and presenting it in an understandable way!

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Surak's avatar

"The plural of anecdote is data" This is SO important. People in my profession in STEM are fond of dismissing real-life experience. They love to say "The plural of anecdote is not data". Of course it is!

I had an argument with a scientist on another website regarding the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. He cited one study after another. I cited actual real-life experience; real data. He was certain about the theory. I was certain about the facts. I realized we were living in two different universes. He would risk his life based on a theory. At that point, rational discussion fails.

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Leslie Dennis Taylor's avatar

I agree! And when it comes to vaccine safety data, many times people were only followed for days or weeks so real life experience is the only data we have.

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Jerry Shotkoski's avatar

Thank you Leslie for all the truths you pass on to me and the world... Evolution? It took me several years to to get that indoctrinated idea from my head.. As a Rancher, for many years watching mama cows give birth to her calf every year.. Sitting out in a pickup, waiting and watching one of the cows lay down get back up, look around, as if their looking for something smelling the ground they were laying on. Eventually going into labor, contractions, the calf head presents with the two front feet. More up and down, smelling the earth. Finally giving birth. The calf and mama both laying still, calf not moving but blinking it's eye as if it's trying to focus on what just took place.. Then the mama jumps up turns around and smells the new calf, starts to lick the calf at first slowly, then more aggressively. The calf finally gets up, seems like an eternity some times and begins to try to suckle. Unbalanced but trying, the mama circles back around as if she knows this calf needs to be steady on its feet before it can find the goodness. When the calf is balanced enough and getting close the mama reaches back around, without moving her own feet and steadies that newborn just enough to allow them to get that very first bit of colostrum... The milk that they have to have for living beyond 2 or 3 days.. Me? As I've sat and watched this hundreds or thousands of times over and over again. Think about the blinking calf the instincts the new mom has from cleaning off the calf to helping the calf nurse. No... That all didn't start from one cell or one organism a gazillion years ago and just so happens to eventually divide into what just unfolded before me. There is absolutely no way that all this didn't happen without the help of God. And I'm lucky enough to get to be a witness to this every year..

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Leslie Dennis Taylor's avatar

What a beautiful testimony, Jerry. I wonder if part of the reason why evolution is so widely believed is because modern people are largely separated from such gorgeous biological miracles.

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erin's avatar

Meh. People are more apt to turn to alternatives in their speculative minds, but if cancer really strikes, most will run to an oncologist. And some chemo works. A few cancers respond well. It's not either or.

Do your research!

On the other hand. I am facing a slowly growing lump in my breast, and after losing a decade of my life in and out of treatment for lymphoma many years ago, I have decided to avoid the oncology treadmill. Just not how I want to deal this time. Does anyone have stories of what worked for other women?

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Surak's avatar

Wishing you all the best! Try this: https://imahealth.org/research/cancer-care/

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Kaia Formoso's avatar

Great article! If you have moved on from the Darwinism then I challenge you to look into the flat earth theory next! Not kidding. 🙃

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Surak's avatar

There is a great way for the medical freedom movement to lose all credibility.

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