1/: Scientific integrity is a valuable commodity. What happens when external funders take influence on both scientific™ findings and media coverage can be seen in the current global crisis. It is time to return to the fundamental principles of science: ⬇️A thread⬇️
And plant growth experiment cannot be considered complex compared to the field of epidemiology or alike, where it’s even harder to control conditions.
The number of publications about the impact of #vitaminD on the #COVID19 pandemic is exploding. In the first 2 weeks of January alone, @Scopus recorded 29 new scientific papers addressing this topic. I'll provide you with an overview of the most cited papers. #UnbiasedScience \u2b07\ufe0f pic.twitter.com/UFxOItMxtm
— Dr. Simon \u30c4 (@goddeketal) January 14, 2021
1/ I am UNDER FIRE since I have written a post on the flawed peer-review process of @c_drosten's PCR paper. I will discuss some accusations in this thread and explain why the pure peer-review process window was even shorter than 2 days.
— Dr. Simon \u30c4 (@goddeketal) January 5, 2021
Yesterday's tweet: https://t.co/4cQF7ZdRGy pic.twitter.com/mjhAYvLKin
5/: The same @c_drosten was contradictory throughout the whole pandemic with respect to masks, mutations, etc. pic.twitter.com/qeezcW779v
— Dr. Simon \u30c4 (@goddeketal) February 25, 2021
https://t.co/1m7rpVqYFQ
What is it called when you contradict yourself multiple times under oath?
— Kevin McKernan \U0001f642 (@Kevin_McKernan) February 10, 2021
What is it called when you do it for 220,000 Pounds?
What is it called when you flip flop like this and it shuts down the world?
Still think Anon Peer Review is a good idea? pic.twitter.com/gDH4XEZiH1
https://t.co/pMIGbbKrLU
14/: Instead, biased people without any academic background such as @CorneliusRoemer are invited to talk to newspapers, podcasts etc., even though they are part of a think-tank and only model doomsday scenarios without any substance. #fearmongers pic.twitter.com/au29KzovkC
— Dr. Simon \u30c4 (@goddeketal) February 25, 2021
https://t.co/nElSOLHMUd
https://t.co/h78oX9Ah3a
Last week, @c_drosten made a remarkable statement by calling scientists who were part of the Great Barrington Declaration 'pseudo-experts'. A little later in that @ndr-podcast episode, he was then complaining about ad-hominem attacks. What #hypocrisy! pic.twitter.com/WaQvaXTjm5
— Dr. Simon \u30c4 (@goddeketal) April 6, 2021
https://t.co/2AzbGs4KDT
The John Snow Memorandum = Nerd Sweater Mafia
— Kevin McKernan \U0001f642 (@Kevin_McKernan) March 4, 2021
These authors are infamous for attacking the Great Barrington Declaration as being some @AIER libertarian think tank.
Let\u2019s stoop to their level and see how they take a dose of their same immature associative fallacy medicine. pic.twitter.com/2M0Sa3KwbL
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Im Dezember gibt es tats\xe4chlich, eine signifikante \xdcbersterblichkeit, die es allerdings so in den letzten 50 Jahren auch schon gab.
— Ben Marten \U0001f642 (@BenMarten) January 22, 2021
Wir wissen, dass #Lockdowns keinen/kaum nutzen bringen. Daher k\xf6nnte man vermuten, dass hier zus\xe4tzlich auch noch die Lockdowntoten dabei sind... pic.twitter.com/nYjviDs51T
Factor 1: Vitamin D deficiency.
Many people (especially elderly) have been locked in during the summer. Also the majority of holiday trips have been cancelled, leading to a lower 25(OH)D blood serum level as usual. The body can store vitamin D up to several months.
As vitamin D is a hormon that modulates the immune responses, we can assume that the lockdown measures had some adverse effect on our immune system. Especially elderly people in retirement homes must have been severely affected.
Factor 2: Loneliness
"Loneliness, it seems, can lead to long-term "fight-or-flight" stress signaling, which negatively affects immune system functioning. Simply put, people who feel lonely have less immunity and more inflammation than people who
Factor 3: Hyper Hygiene
Constant disinfections and high hygienic standards weaken the immune system. It gets literally "out of
2/ Before this very publication, virologists were neither treated like superstars, nor were they considered icons or half-gods. In 2009, Drosten almost succeeded in installing the false premise virology could supersede holistic medical sciences as discussed in this thread.
3/ Drosten is a virologist. He neither has any background in epidemiology, nor has he ever worked in the civil service. He also doesn’t have a background in public health. Yet he and his colleagues affect our daily lives to the level of whom to meet up or how to flush the toilet.
4/ Before January 2020, Drosten and Corman were common virologists at Charité Berlin, whenever they were not involved in economic implications (https://t.co/UTDwG8U7Du). Other than that, they looked at coronaviruses in dromedary calves in the Middle East or Africa. 😍 #cute
5/ Finally in Jan 2020, the published paper laid the theoretical grounds for the current pandemic, the RT-qPCR mass testing-religion, for which he was awarded his second German Federal Cross of Merit (he received the first one in 2005 for developing the SARS-CoV PCR test).
In this ⬇️thread⬇️, I will explain why our tool is that powerful for decision makers. #UnbiasedScience
2/ In the meantime, the submitted paper is available on the preprint platform @zenodo_org. Factual criticism is highly desired and encouraged. The publication itself presents a seminal Bayesian calculator, the Bayes Lines Tool (BLT). (Petje af, @waukema!)
3/ The Bayes Line Tool (available on https://t.co/jIomSIxOd9) is able to back-solve disease #prevalence, test #sensitivity, test #specificity, and therefore, true positive, false positive, true negative and false negative numbers from official governmental test outcome reports.
4/ This is done by creating confusion matrices with four variables. Namely: TP, FP, TN, FN. In order to calculate the matrices, we need prevalence, specificity, and sensitivity as well as the number of people that got tested (within a given period) and the number of positives.
5/ The number of positives and the number of tests are given by the government. Prevalence, specificity, and sensitivity are unknown. So we assume any combination of them ranging from 0-99%. These three combinations can amount up to #millions of #combinations.
2/: These so-called ‘Doctors’ Trial’ focused on physicians who conducted #inhumane and #unethical human experiments in German concentration camps, in addition to those who were involved in over 3,500,000 sterilizations of German citizens. (the picture shows doctors/criminals)
3/: Ten points of the code were given in the section of the verdict entitled "Permissible Medical Experiments". They can be found in detail on the following website:
4/: Point #1 means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, or deceit.
5/: Using an insufficiently-tested vaccine on humans is unethical. However, as long as people voluntarily consent to receive the vaccine, being informed about all risks, everything is OK. Doing this with force, however, is against the Nuremberg Code.
Important - share: Camera footage out of care homes (USA, corrected), provided by @RobertKennedyJr's team. You can clearly see: Collateral Damages, Army assisting, force, death.
— Bobby Rajesh Malhotra \u30c4 (@Bobby_Network) February 17, 2021
Worldwide phenomen, also in Germany:https://t.co/GV7gqiPl1u
21st Century Nuremberg Trials-material pic.twitter.com/wPekgPYHIR
2/: The interview is significant because @c_drosten made totally sane statements back then that follow the principle of common sense. Considering his involvement in the "genesis of the current pandemic", his assertions appear in an entirely different
The genesis of a pandemic.
— Pace \U0001f642 (@theotherphilipp) February 25, 2021
The #Corona crisis began with a panopticon of absurd events, improbable coincidences and outright lies.
Time for a review of the impossibilities.
A thread \U0001f9f5 pic.twitter.com/PLbETVv2p8
3/: In 2014, for instance, washing the hands was sufficient against being infected by coronaviruses. Several years he demands measures that destroy national economies and social life worldwide.
4/: Young @c_drosten also severely criticized the fact that Saudi Arabia used the PCR method to detect potential infections. From his point of view, that specific method could lead to many irrelevant cases. Nowadays, his view shifted his opinion towards 'collective punishment'.
5/: Whereas he demands "testing, testing, testing" nowadays and spreads panic and fear via (social) media, he heavily condemned that behaviour of Saudi media in 2014. On top of that, he expressed his concern that medial panic could increase the number of lab tests significantly.
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2/: These so-called ‘Doctors’ Trial’ focused on physicians who conducted #inhumane and #unethical human experiments in German concentration camps, in addition to those who were involved in over 3,500,000 sterilizations of German citizens. (the picture shows doctors/criminals)
3/: Ten points of the code were given in the section of the verdict entitled "Permissible Medical Experiments". They can be found in detail on the following website:
4/: Point #1 means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, or deceit.
5/: Using an insufficiently-tested vaccine on humans is unethical. However, as long as people voluntarily consent to receive the vaccine, being informed about all risks, everything is OK. Doing this with force, however, is against the Nuremberg Code.
Important - share: Camera footage out of care homes (USA, corrected), provided by @RobertKennedyJr's team. You can clearly see: Collateral Damages, Army assisting, force, death.
— Bobby Rajesh Malhotra \u30c4 (@Bobby_Network) February 17, 2021
Worldwide phenomen, also in Germany:https://t.co/GV7gqiPl1u
21st Century Nuremberg Trials-material pic.twitter.com/wPekgPYHIR
FACTS NOT FEAR
Covid 19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. SARS-CoV-2 is one of 7 coronaviruses known to man. 1/n
The pandemic is real. Excess deaths were observed in many countries. Not all countries were affected in the same way due to pre-existing immunity, the health status of the population and demographics (the proportion of elderly in the population) 2/n
https://t.co/65elPq3gp5
COVID 19 presents a high risk for the very few and negligible risk for the many.
The infection fatality rate in different age groups:
<19 y, IFR= 0.003%
20-49 y: IFR= 0.02%
50-69 y: 0.5%
>70y, IFR=
Not everybody is susceptible to the virus. If reinfected, pre-existing immunity from related viruses gives protection from developing the disease or from developing serious symptoms.
4/n
“The evidence that a subset of people has a cross-reactive T cell repertoire through exposure to related coronaviruses is
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