Okay. I win. I win because this post is entirely off-topic. You wrote not one word about LYMErix, because you haven't got any further serious contributions. This is so riddled with errors I don't know how to respond in a serious manner.

Yes, sometimes you decide that vaccines aren't worth the risk. You do it because you are irrational and paranoid. You ask me that, in order to demonstrate that the LYMErix trials were not "rigged", that pharmaceutical companies must be shown to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. It's absurd, and what's more absurd is that you go on to casually dismiss all of the relevant data on the basis of a book collating instances of problems in the medical industry. The specific fallacy is ad hominem: my adversary is a jerk, so don't believe him. The influenza trial you mention? I didn't respond because that quote you've pointed out twice now relates to efficacy, not safety. We were talking about vaccine safety, and frankly I don't have time to embark on a wide-ranging analysis of the medical industry. If you continue to poison your own well by reading only books written for a popular audience with titles like "Bad Pharma", you will of course be misled repeatedly into this sort of recondite discourse and you will be woefully uninformed and unprepared for it. So you have so far doubted every study that disagrees with you on frivolous grounds, and you blindly accept any piece of information that supports your position -- the book, the one influenza vaccine study you're so fond of, etc -- and none of these is deserving of such unflappable sycophancy by someone who claims to care about intellectual honesty. The thing is, if you were really concerned about the truth, I shouldn't have to explain this to you.

You repeatedly pretend the various mistakes you've made are unimportant to the point, even though basically all of the claims in your original post have been discredited. In this new post of yours, you do it again: pharmaceutical companies will not even in a fantasy nightmare scenario suppress information about idiopathic problems, because "idiopathic" means without any determinable cause. The chance of being injured in a car accident likewise is after wearing a seatbelt, and yet you consider this a remedy. All available evidence says that the LYMErix trials were gonest, and you call them rigged. Furthermore, your apparent belief that a "starving waif in some developing country" is at a high risk for malnutrition-induced immunodeficiency is outrageous. While immunocompromise appears in extreme cases of malnutrition, this is rare even in LDCs and the vast majority of immunodeficiency cases of any relevance are linked to diseases and genetic disorders. This is in addition to your misrepresentation of Japanese vaccine scheduling, your misrepresentation of the history and use of OPV, and your misunderstanding of vaccine court, this last point having been central to your original argument. Your misinformed opinion is so asinine it affects my application of Hanlon's razor, and furthermore: everything I have posted has been true, and where approximations have been used they have been clearly marked alongside the relevant reasons for applying them. Your assertion that our arguing techniques have been in any way comparable is laughable.

This is in addition to the fact that your responses to my arguments have been terrible; you wish to characterize my opening comparison as absurd when even in a previous post you had acknowledged it as reasonable: how else am I to interpret your claim that vaccine risk is fundamentally more avoidable than lightning, which was at least close enough to the mark to be amusing, but now it is merely sad.

The repeated insults you have delivered over the course of this thread have been without provocation. I have been harsh, but in every case I have been careful to address your argument, not you, and you have justified it by the paucity of honesty on display. Whether you want to believe it or not, the misinformation on display in your posts is exactly the sort of selective attention and scaremongering that is damaging public-health efforts across the globe.

You are a dangerous, blithering idiot, and I bid you good day.

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