Comments on: Stirring the bird flu pot http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm Reviewing scientific paradigms and other general beliefs in the light of the scientific and professional literature Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:57:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Truthseeker http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4347 Truthseeker Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:48:32 +0000 http://www.paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm#comment-4347 <i>People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.(???) <br /> <br /> TB==> 300,000 dead <br /> Bird Flu==> 62 dead </i> <br /> <br /> Thanks Wily. The information passes from the research data of the scientist to the notes of the reporter to the editor's copy to the printed page to the NIH funding application to the NIH funding approval to the White House announcement to the side effects insert of Tamiflu to the profit sheet to the investment report to the business page to the investor's bank account without going through the minds of anybody involved... <br /> <br /> Guess we now have to write out a list as follows (borrowing from a comment at Dissident-Action): <br /> <br /> <i>Top killers <br /> <br /> Diarrhoea: kills over 2m <br /> Pneumonia: kills over 2m <br /> Malaria: kills about 1m <br /> TB: 0.3m <br /> (So called) Aids: kills about 0.3m <br /> Bird flu: .000062m</i> <br /> <br /> But of course this statistic only reflects the success of the tough but fair health policy ruthlessly applied to our feathered friends world wide to contain the spread of H5N1 wherever it is detected. <br /> <br /> <i>Like AIDS (as a contagious pandemic), Bird Flu is a legend in the minds of its creators.</i> <br /> <br /> Yes, indeed, Martin, and one that quickly became a biblical fiction in the minds of millions, owing primarily to a) the magic of instant federal funding, and b) the baffling phenomenon of so many people who really know nothing about the science at all suddenly being willing to die before they will allow it to be examined by anybody else. People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.(???)

TB==> 300,000 dead

Bird Flu==> 62 dead

Thanks Wily. The information passes from the research data of the scientist to the notes of the reporter to the editor’s copy to the printed page to the NIH funding application to the NIH funding approval to the White House announcement to the side effects insert of Tamiflu to the profit sheet to the investment report to the business page to the investor’s bank account without going through the minds of anybody involved…

Guess we now have to write out a list as follows (borrowing from a comment at Dissident-Action):

Top killers

Diarrhoea: kills over 2m

Pneumonia: kills over 2m

Malaria: kills about 1m

TB: 0.3m

(So called) Aids: kills about 0.3m

Bird flu: .000062m

But of course this statistic only reflects the success of the tough but fair health policy ruthlessly applied to our feathered friends world wide to contain the spread of H5N1 wherever it is detected.

Like AIDS (as a contagious pandemic), Bird Flu is a legend in the minds of its creators.

Yes, indeed, Martin, and one that quickly became a biblical fiction in the minds of millions, owing primarily to a) the magic of instant federal funding, and b) the baffling phenomenon of so many people who really know nothing about the science at all suddenly being willing to die before they will allow it to be examined by anybody else.

]]> By: Martin Kessler http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4346 Martin Kessler Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:11:25 +0000 http://www.paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm#comment-4346 Like AIDS (as a contagious pandemic), Bird Flu is a legend in the minds of its creators. Like AIDS (as a contagious pandemic), Bird Flu is a legend in the minds of its creators.

]]> By: Wilyretrovirus http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4345 Wilyretrovirus Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:14:46 +0000 http://www.paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm#comment-4345 <i>—œFarmers say dying chickens are normal in life,—? she said. —œAnd you must realize that 62 dead people in one and a half years? That—™s not very much in Indonesia. Three hundred thousand die from TB, from dengue. People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.—?</i> <br /> <br />Was this paragraph intended as some sort of dark humor? <br /> <br /><i>People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.</i>(???) <br /> <br />TB==> 300,000 dead <br />Bird Flu==> 62 dead <br /> <br />Somebody, please help me, because if 62 dead is a "pandemic", what is 300,000 dead? —œFarmers say dying chickens are normal in life,—? she said. —œAnd you must realize that 62 dead people in one and a half years? That—™s not very much in Indonesia. Three hundred thousand die from TB, from dengue. People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.—?

Was this paragraph intended as some sort of dark humor?

People in the villages don—™t grab what is a pandemic.(???)

TB==> 300,000 dead

Bird Flu==> 62 dead

Somebody, please help me, because if 62 dead is a “pandemic”, what is 300,000 dead?

]]> By: Wilyretrovirus http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4344 Wilyretrovirus Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:51:50 +0000 http://www.paradigmoverthrow.com/blog/stirring-the-bird-flu-pot.htm#comment-4344 <i>—œI—™ve gotten at least 10 media calls in the last few months asking me to deliver the death sentence for avian flu,—? said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. —œBut at any conference, if you get a group of virologists at the bar, after the fourth beer, they let their hair down and admit it —" <b>they don—™t know what is happening. They—™ve been incredibly humbled by this virus</b>.—?</i> <br /> <br />It's beginning to sound like another mysterious virus. One described as cunning, elusive, enigmatic... <br /> <br />Is there a pattern to these various bird flu outbreaks? Any rhyme or reason? They appear to be utterly random. <br /> <br />Is somebody pulling the strings? Here in Washington State, the health department has been airing "bird flu" ads on television. Giving us health and safety tips for the inevitable pandemic. —œI—™ve gotten at least 10 media calls in the last few months asking me to deliver the death sentence for avian flu,—? said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. —œBut at any conference, if you get a group of virologists at the bar, after the fourth beer, they let their hair down and admit it —” they don—™t know what is happening. They—™ve been incredibly humbled by this virus.—?

It’s beginning to sound like another mysterious virus. One described as cunning, elusive, enigmatic…

Is there a pattern to these various bird flu outbreaks? Any rhyme or reason? They appear to be utterly random.

Is somebody pulling the strings? Here in Washington State, the health department has been airing “bird flu” ads on television. Giving us health and safety tips for the inevitable pandemic.

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