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Oct 13Liked by Siguna Mueller, Ph.D., Ph.D.

the tide turning is slow but monstrous….. thank you for your caring

https://okaythennews.substack.com/p/covid-vaccine-science-catching-up

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Thank you. These are plenty of encouraging signals!

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You wrote "Sadly, several times, I have received extensive push-back, especially from “no-virus” folks."

My response to "those" is to "sort them". Whether "those" are a bot or not, my experience informs me that responding to "those" is a waste of time and energy.

Some choose or are chosen to reside in a realm of delusion.

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You have neglected to include the total number of reports out of which these "potential" effects are taken. That would be 5,761,262 reports. That's almost 6 million. "Infections and infestations" amount to 5% of all potential side effects. Of that 5%, smallpox (15), monkeypox (6) and cow pox (5) added up together amount to 26 "potential" side effects. A mind-numbingly tiny proportion of issues merely associated with the Pfizer vaccine. So it's no wonder journalists have not been jumping all over it. I think there is not a story here.

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Thanks for your critique. But I have not neglected this. This is not a statistical issue. Let me explain. What underlies all this is the scaling of interactions (https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/9/1/00086/116462/Differentiated-impacts-of-human-interventions-on). In this very context, In 1974, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, discussing the relevance of scale, biological actions, and change, noted, "the “essence is that we now have the tools to speed up biological change and if this is carried out on a large enough scale then we can say that if anything can happen it certainly will. In this field, unlike motor car driving, accidents are self-replicating and could also be contagious. (emphasis added to Brenner, 1974) If this does not make sense, then please consult Prof Heinemann's work on this, as well as my book, where I discussed all this in the very context of the mRNA injections. To your comment, I don't care about "a story." What matters, is that in this particular context, various things can, and likely will, happen, that are not expected. This is why I find the very fact that *some* of the unexpected is reported, very interesting. Life is not dictated by statistics. Some are beginning to see mechanisms of action and relationships. Thanks.

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Oct 14Liked by Siguna Mueller, Ph.D., Ph.D.

Funny that you say life isn't dictated by statistics: I'm not really a statistics person in the first place. I'm an artist. I came to have a very basic grasp of statistics as an adult, and according to that this didn't seem like much. Hadn't thought about it all that deeply. Probably shouldn't wade into these waters in the first place. But reading more, I realize my lack. I think I'm not going to wade in more deeply about unexpected genetic modifications from these new vaccines. There are so very many problematic human experiments and activities. Thanks for replying.

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Thank you for sharing. I think you touched on one of the KEY challenges in this area. Many do use statistics as an excuse.... also, in this context, e.g. to argue it's just a random occurrence and has no biological/clinical meaning. What I was citing and trying to explain is not what you will hear from main-stream... However, if you think it through, rather than statistics, nature often functions according to the principle of "just good enough". Isn't this why we have the narrative of just ONE (or some say, two) spillover events from nature that resulted in SARS-CoV-2? I am not saying, this is what happened. Just trying to make the point how easy it is to turn the same argument on its head. Thanks again for raising the interesting and IMPORTANT question!

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