Re: Compulsory Vaccine articles
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:57 pm
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rachel wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:27 pm Macron’s Minority Government Defeated on Vaccine Passports
https://summit.news/2022/07/14/macrons- ... passports/
Imperial College has produced a new fantasy number to test people’s gullibility. This time they are claiming that 19.8 million lives have been saved by vaccination.
Imperial College now have a global reputation for making provable wrong claims based on modelling and they appear to want to bolster that reputation. Previous harm caused by Imperial include Neil Ferguson’s models in 2001 that led to the culling of 6 million cattle and sheep allegedly to prevent spread of foot and mouth disease which cost the UK economy £10bn. Subsequent predictions have included 50,000-150,000 deaths in humans in 2002 due to CJD because of the BSE outbreak (there were 177 deaths), 200 million deaths from bird flu in 2005 worldwide (there were 78); 65,000 deaths from Swine flu in UK in 2009 (there were 457).
Although this was not Neil Ferguson’s work, this latest model from Imperial college is also out by orders of magnitude. Modelling is nothing by glorified guessing based on extrapolating from assumptions of the authors’ choosing. The assumptions were so wild in the latest attempt that they reached the absurd fantasy of 20 million lives having been saved. It is almost not worth wasting time on it but given the coverage it has had on mainstream media, it needs to be addressed...
Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla has pulled out of an appointment to testify before the European Parliament's special committee on COVID-19, at which he was expected to face tough questions on how secretive vaccine deals were struck.
The decision follows an audit report into the EU's vaccine procurement strategy published earlier in the month that raised new questions about contact between Bourla and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that preceded a multibillion-euro vaccine contract.
The head of the U.S. pharmaceutical giant, the largest supplier of COVID-19 vaccines to the EU, was scheduled to appear before the panel on October 10. The committee is meeting with key officials involved in the EU's vaccine procurement process to draw lessons on how to respond to future pandemics. Other pharmaceutical executives have addressed the committee, including the CEO of Moderna and senior officials from AstraZeneca and Sanofi.
The committee's chair, Belgian MEP Kathleen Van Brempt, told POLITICO she "deeply regrets" the decision taken by Pfizer.
After a visit to BioNTech's headquarters last week, Van Brempt had said in a written statement that she looked forward to discussions "with other CEOs" including "Mr. Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer" on October 10.
The report, by the European Court of Auditors, found that von der Leyen had been directly involved in preliminary negotiations for the EU's biggest vaccine contract, for up to 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, which was concluded in May 2021. This was a departure from the negotiating procedure followed with other contracts, where a joint negotiating team made up of officials from the Commission and member countries conducted exploratory talks.
The EU watchdog also noted that the Commission refused to provide records of the discussions with Pfizer, either in the form of minutes, names of experts consulted, agreed terms, or other evidence.
Already in 2021, the New York Times reported on the seemingly-cozy relationship between Bourla and von der Leyen, with the two exchanging text messages in the run-up to the deal.
Contacted by POLITICO, a spokesperson for Pfizer said the company's president of international development markets, Janine Small, would attend the committee hearing. "She has been identified as best placed to support the committee in meeting their objectives," the spokesperson said.
Whilst DALL-E 2 generates images given a short prompt, the more famous GPT-3 model generates text. Here’s what it generates given the writing prompt “Here’s a standup comedy show by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Larry Page about how much it sucks to run a company.”
Given any starting point, these models will generate an unlimited number of random but plausible completions based on complex statistical models fitted to everything found on the internet. The difficulty this poses for academic processes is immediate and profound. Scientific writing is an extremely specific style, and some fields (like biology) produce many extremely similar sounding papers. This presents an absolutely ideal scenario for generative models, which as a consequence will happily start producing fake scientific papers without that even being requested:
- Larry: I think I’m going to do a reddit AMA.
Peter: I think that’s a terrible idea. You know how brutal they are on Reddit, right?
Larry: I do.
Peter: It’s the internet. That’s like stepping into a bear cage.
Larry: I’m not scared of bears.
Peter: Yeah, but think about it. When you go in there, they’re all going to be…
Larry: I don’t care if I get eaten by bears. You’re always telling me I should get out more and socialize.
Peter: Socialising on the internet is like if you walked into a bar and everyone there had only read about alcohol, but never actually tried it. You’ll be torn to shreds.
Larry: I don’t understand how the internet could possibly be worse than some of the stuff that’s happening in the news these days.
Peter: The news is funny because you know it’s fake, right? It’s not actually that bad. But if you go on Reddit and tell people that one plus one is two, they’re going to Photoshop your face onto a frog and put you in a Hitler moustache and have you firing rockets into space.