Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I laugh at the irony of the unqualified making categorical statements about the opinions of the qualified.
Don't get me wrong: It may well be that Teresa C. Long, MD, MPH, FS does not exist, or is 'misguided' or an 'outlier' or bat**** crazy in fact. I just laugh that you presumably expect us to accept your assertions to that effect. The affidavit - fake or otherwise - acknowledges that correlation does not amount to causation. But it also explains - with some force in my view - who bears the burden of disproving causation, and why.
And the history of medical science is not typified by the unerring unanimity of opinion or the constant correctness of the opinions of the majority.
I have to reiterate that I doubt there are many pilots making contributions to these kinds of threads who've had anything to do with CASA Avmed.
You know, there's a certain irony in this post when you yourself made no effort to verify the veracity of the so called affidavit.
It was published as an unsigned, unwitnessed PDF, uploaded to scribd and embedded in a network of known fake news networks such as yournews and infowars.
It's full of medical jargon that looks legitimate to the untrained eye.
It regurgitates common anti-vax talking points, in particular making multiple claims about COVID and its possible therapies and treatments that are not supported by evidence from clinical trials.
It promotes FUD about the COVID vaccine under the guise of protecting the US troops.
It makes unverifiable claims about medical events happening at a military base and connects them to the COVID vaccine. More sinisterly, the author of the affadavit acknowledges "correlation not equalling causation" in an attempt to pre-empt the most obvious retort and generate the appearance of knowledgable level-headedness, but then goes on to dismiss it with no justification.
Anyone with scientific training will see right through it, anyone without might be convinced it's reasonable. In other words, it's a classic psyop, and if you didn't realise that, it's not safe for you to assume anything you read on the internet is anything other than fiction.