Precisely why politicians and heads of industry should stay the hell out of science. Politicians and oligarchs have zero dedication to truth, or the betterment of Humanity. They only care about their own greed for wealth and power.
Call me old school, but to me the heart of science is the pursuit of truth. The reason repeatability is so crucial. Big reason why I love listening to your conversations, you also pursue the truth.
yes. its about truth, its about discovery... its about finding better ways to do something... its about increasing our knowledge of our world, of our surroundings, purely for the sake of it...
Vinay, you're one of those smart people who speak freely and truthfully. I am sick of all these "science" believers who accuse others of stupidity while being stupid themselves.
On the money .. nailed it. Perfectly presented .. Holding up my rock concert lighter ... .. Gonna go relax.. not feel so crazy . Because basically it's a government that is manipulating People based on their science and the science isn't where it needs to be for it to be something that politics could even use on what can be done in these instances because they're getting money for it so they don't even have to work hard and then they come along and act like any of this is simple and then they don't ask advice from from enough you know doctors why why just the one guy he's been in here how long I mean our government's been screwed up how long oh sorry you know like is is that what this has been his career has been you know oh make it sound really good like he's some kind of pioneering you know like oh I'm in all parts of the history because I was involved with this this and that and that and now I wonder how much of it is well I better just stop doing that right cuz I'm supposed to be going to bed I don't know I'm just I just I need to let down but I'm just so grateful that it just I thought this day was never going to come I can hear y'all saying this all of these things right here and luckily hopefully they don't censor anyone else for this this is craziness like these are this is why they get degrees is why they go to school this is why you listen to them not them you know what I mean so you don't talk about government and doctors so yes amen maybe maybe now it'll be like you know moving forward more positive
Love this segment. We desperately need more critical thinkers and particularly sharp minds not swayed by power, prestige and money. Cannot wait to check out your papers.
Thanks for this. One of the American forefathers said if the people are corrupt then no system of government will work. The tool of science is the same. Sadly, its going to get worse before it gets worse. Good luck
Science is so often very, very hard. The World is incredibly complex. Finding patterns that are elucidated through numerous, rigorous trials with reproducible results is very HARD. If it were easy - I'd never have spent so much of my life in a lab. Thinking, tinkering and studying.
Brilliant video! I particularly liked that you remained agnostic about whether "bad" or "selfish" motivations of scientists are actually detrimental. If someone wants to do science to advance their career and earn renown/prestige, then I think that's great. The problem is that the way the system is set up right now, the criteria by which we hand out renown/prestige is deeply flawed. If the system were changed to reward rigorous science that is highly replicable and robust (rather than "sexy" but often not really true), then we could harness people's desire for fame in a way that leads to better scientific research being done
I think a great video would be to talk about the societal system failure of the scientific community when it came to speaking their minds during COVID. I have heard anecdotes from you and others that it was common for doctors to disagree privately but not speak out. Laying out the system failures that cause this is more important than detailing the failures of the CDC, FDA, and NAID. Only when doctors are silenced can these organizations do the horrible things they did. We need to document them and discuss solutions to the system so we don’t have gov’t actors ruining all of our public health orgs
As someone not in the medical / scientific field, thank you! I had to roll my eyes at some of the ads that popped up, including a few for PCR tests and cancer drugs. Sigh.
“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences - people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci
I think that our education system is in need of a re-boot. When I was in Jr. high school in the 60's, we learned about the scientific method first thing in 7th grade biology. We learned about the hypothesis and the null-hypothesis, random double blind testing and an introduction to statistics, including, believe it or not, how one can "cook the data '' . . etc. Nowadays people including massive corporations tell folks to "believe in science" which is nonsense. Science is not a belief system, it is a tool. Tools can be of great help, or they can be used to injure and destroy. It depends on the person/corporation using it.
An extension to the 'knowing' motivation: It's the idea that as people we are capable of finding out the truth. In the past, we were helpless. We felt that it is all in the hands of the gods. We worshiped them and prayed to them. It was the Greeks (and some other exceptions) that started this method of asking questions and methodically answer them. Not only because we want to know but also because we can.
The general public have been conditioned to just "believe science" without understanding how it works. I took a philosophy course in college on The Nature of Science. Everyone should take such a course. There are 9 basic tenants of science including science is subjective and theory laden because biased humans are engaging in it, but also empirical and imaginative. I will never forget the people and agencies that broke science during the pandemic and if the public had understood what science actually is, maybe there would have been more useful resistance and pushback.
I'm not a doctor but this is what I would give as the definition of science. People talk about truths and science, I think that word smuggles in too much baggage. There are patterns in our universe. Science is the finding and understanding of those patterns. Science is also our collection of techniques that help us find and understand those patterns.
There was a documentary out a few years ago about particle physics and it was clear that somewhere along the line we started to make stuff up without an ounce of proof. We hit a wall in science and manipulating math to fit the narrative became acceptable. That general lack of respect for proof has become an acceptable trend.
You are correct that science is only a tool. I think that living life, pursuing education, and even certain parts of practicing medicine, such as planning, are more artistic in nature though, because we end up putting things together to create meaning, which is fundamentally an artistic endeavor. Insofar as science serves us in the endeavor of life, it can help us understand what is really going on, and then in theory we can make life better, and not worse. Since your understanding of Science is strong, and your ability to identify garbage research is also excellent, perhaps one of your challenges is to sometimes see the bigger picture, which is fundamentally artistic in nature. It must be, because we have to put together stuff the best we can. And we can never have a perfectly complete, scientific understanding of Human Biology, Medicine, Life, and the Universe which we all inhabit - if we're fortunate, for the approximate 70 - 80 years of most of our lives.
My experience as a triple-threat (physician-scientist-educator) was that it was Life as Art. With tools at hand we fashion new answers to old questions with each person we care for. With ever changing understanding of those old problems we fashion new tools. And the greatest legacy we leave is showing the next generation that doing things better tomorrow isn't just something to be hoped for, it can be made real.
Counting publications is a big, big part of science. The number of times I've heard "so and so has X publications" is way more than I have heard 'so and so discovered X, pretty cool!'.
The way we measure the success and importance of Science/Scientists is actually the number of times they are cited by others. This is actually a good measure of how important and impactful the model/discovery is. Not # of publications at all.
@@zpettigrew Number of citations is a biased metric too. There are plenty of BS areas where it is easy for people to publish, and there are some people who are good at kicking off those areas and thus get a lot of citations. It's as if they present their case and I say "that's a pile of shit", and their response is "yes, but look how much there is!" Another bias on citations is field; another is prestige bias (e.g., high profile people are more likely to publish and be cited); there's also a paradigm bias--people who have things that challenge orthodoxy are less able to publish, and to be cited when they do.
YOUR "OFF THE CUFF" PRESENTATION CONTAINS MANY POINTS FOR THOUGHT AND REFLECTION...THE MAIN ONE'S BEING RAW TRUISM, WHICH I FEEL IS ONE OF YOUR GIFTS, AND JUSTIFIED CYNICISM. THE FAILED PATH OF "MEDICINE" TODAY CAN ONLY BE VIEWED CYNICALLY.
An excellent presentation. 'The desire simply to know' was, until the C20th century the prime motive of scientists, rich men such as Darwin, poor men such as Einstein. Yet today the state judges, educates, employs/regulates the employment of, determines which results are true and/or useful, pays for or excludes, science and scientists. This amounts to nothing less than Pharonic worship and will surely lead us to Ozymandias: ''My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I sometimes think people cite people because they think they should cite them. Some times I check on papers of mine that get cited, and I am routinely annoyed because they are mis-cited.
While at the school where Arthur Guyton taught physiology I began to develop the idea of "Rational Clinical Trial Design" in which numerical simulations of his elaborate computer model of the circulatory system could tease out highly robust clinical-biological measures for a given intervention for heart failure and thus reduce the scale and cost of a major clinical trial.
I study psychology because I don't understand people all that well. I've pivoted to Machine learning to test my understanding and to further my understanding through experimentation. Secondarily to that, since I'm building something that may have a significant impact on the world I have been thinking about how best to shape it in a way that will help people. Lastly to get funding I have to think about how it can make money. I think that last point people get wrapped up in and think it is more important than the primary or secondary. So they start lying to make money. I have been working on this since 2002, I haven't made any money on this. I do have a day job and that day job pays for me to research this. If begging for money came easier to me. I may have went down that road of funding instead of the work.
As basic science PhD, this really captures the last few years of my rants to co-workers- the perpetual need to lure in funders with a proverbial carrot ("understanding X will cure Y") is a massive (negative) incentive. Perhaps a majority of researchers believe the lie & design experiments explicitly to keep the ruse ongoing, end-result is neither translational nor fundamental. Mostly honest actors unaware of the incentives around them, structural reform is key.
@@MK-ih6wp no I got it because I have very high levels of anxiety and anxiety causes your body to make a lot of cortisol and cortisol affect the hairs in your ears
@@MK-ih6wp but I have heard even the Texas Roadhouse guy got tinnitus after covid or the job I'm not really sure which one but you got it and then committed suicide because it is unnerving I've had it for a couple years it does make me nuts
One of the reasons I dropped my minor advisor for my PhD was he kept asking me how my artificial life framework would benefit the fields of systems biology and microbiology. I don’t fucking know. And I truly do not care. I want to do it because I see a gigantic gap between molecular simulators and agent-based systems biology models. There’s this entire chasm between those two levels of modeling, and I can fill it. We have no idea what benefits it will have, because literally nobody has ever done this before. It is an entirely new way to model living systems that can host a mix of very fine detail and very abstract models simultaneously. Currently writing the actual implementation, so no, the code is not available yet.
*omg, i was @ Organ Porting university!* except it was less a university, more an ally. we ported organs from the poor to the wealthy. but it did rain sometimes! bullets. anyway, im due at the ICC in june. this is a gr8 vid tho. & both our stories are relatable: takes all kinds. horse for courses. fine entry. _JC
Do they use the Portland homeless population as organ donors for the wealthy? Wouldn't suprise me. Portland has a long history of trafficking. Ever been shanghai'd? Good times. Will keep an eye out for you on the ICC docket, friend.
Because though there may be a god-like entity that would just give the final because I said so Still Remains to be seen that if we are worthy of great Medical Science then we must not be afraid to keep looking into the actual information that we can that we can prove with human knowledge and understanding.
If he read the Cochrane report, he misunderstood it or simply misrepresented it. The report does not say masks don't work, and makes it clear that they grade the evidence on which they base their conclusions as very low confidence or low or moderate confidence. From this, and their explicit caveats to the contrary, Vinay Prasad MD MPH somehow became confident. He got it wrong.
Allah? if tony is allah, going by the portraits of himself all over his house - hes got some self vengence coming his way. also, whats w the pics? it's like whatevr, but also...is it? it is clinical. not to patholoegize everything. but GD. _JC
Hi Dr. Prasad, Can you please comment on The Cochrane Review apologizing for an evidence review that led many to conclude, inaccurately, that masks don't work. Much appreciated
@gribbler I've seen two of your videos in which you pretty dramatically cite The Cochrane Review as being the Gold standard. Look, I'm just an uneducated immunocompromised 65 year old man with disabilities trying to navigate all of this information. I understand everything has become over politicized but who and what am I supposed to believe. Also, don't you think you should comment in a video that The Cochrane Review has issued an apology and possibly is not the gold standard. This is truly not a Gotcha. Just looking for transperancy.
@@fmaiofaro8557Cochrane *apologized* for giving people the wrong impression about wearing masks? Interesting. I must have missed that. Cochrane lost me many years ago, when they kicked one of their co-founders, Peter Goetzsche, out of the group. He was causing too much trouble, by sticking to the science, instead of taking money from pharma.
@@MK-ih6wp _"It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses"._ Cochrane March 10, 2023 Simply put: the review doesn't say masks don't work. It was very clear what they said. But only people who needed to confirm their bias would misunderstand it. So, they did.
“Why does the body have hair that starts dark then turns grey” Experiment 1) experience high amount of stress… hair is still dark 2) have kids… hair turns grey… Universal fact discovered: Kids cause grey hair.
I think early grey hair might be a nutritional deficiency. Copper imbalance, perhaps. I think it might even be reversible! N=1 But I have 0 kids and turned grey in my 20s.
What are your thoughts on clinical work? I’ve been following Dr. Brooke Goldner’s work and also Dr. Colin Campbell. They both study and practice nutrition (Goldner practices more than Campbell). Goldner’s work is based mainly on clinical outcomes, which she’s had around thousands by now (I believe). If you have the time, I’d really like to know what you think of their work.
Dear Prof. Prasad, can you recommend a commentator like you from the field of neuro-immunology? For private family reasons, I am very interested in a critical opinion on all the research done in multiple sclerosis. I know that there is a lot of research going on but the disease remains a big challenge to society and those suffering from it - despite all the research done there...
The scientific method must be followed or it’s not science. Bias must be avoided as much as possible. Statistical methods must be adhered to. The scientific method is the best we have. Scientists are usually where things fail. They are human, and as a group are no less susceptible to common human failings.
We want to be able to thrive and to be able to exist in the most healthy way possible. The right to question everything that would be the only safe option from tyranny because I'm granted permission to everything within Myspace information about what I'm supposedly going to put into my body about Wicca possibly go wrong with this trip so I didn't fall for it that's all I'm going to say
*all religions are the same and annoying, & dont fear things. are you literally tripping tho (we can prescibe LSD, mushrooms & MDMA now - just hapnd. crayZee.)?* in any case, you may like this: meditation is a winner absolutely. take that. & ASMR, but i wana say...& tarot! (take that science!) tarot to inspire reflection from old psych archtypes can be relaxing. i find. ASMR isnt wiccan, it is just gr8. do that too maybe. tarot has at least a vague psych basis. i judge astrology, bc it is based on earth being ctr of the universe which...maybe thats fine? -_-. but here, these are the tarot i like when im stuck on something & want distraction for unconscious processing. A) just dont pick your own sign, & B) avoid any readers that only talk about love or twin flame or angels or christ nonsense too much (imho.) it doesnt test thr improv ability enough. if you ca see a garage door behind them: thats a win: jchronls.wordpress.com/☼/#asmr blessed be & merrymeet for the day. _JC
i would put money on him not knowing why peeps go to my cousin viny. it must speak to the demo? idk. thr arent many english 'v' names i gues. cmt sections are gr8. _JC
*10:30** fame is a funny one. you could be - in a field (& that is something.)* but go to anyone on the street & say _"hey, theyby! million $ if you can name 5 nobel winners in all of hx"?_ & you will have a million $ you get to keep. _JC
Speaking of science.. what's going on with the lights behind you ? If you turn around and look at them are some of them blinking or is that a function of the way a light emitting diode works that shows up when recorded digitally? Assuming that is a string of light emitting diodes . Curious minds want to know .
I did some "Google Scholarling" and found "Bassel Jallad, MD" of Cleveland Clinc Abu Dhabi. He's an oncologist from the looks of his papers. At least thirteen of them. Whether he has "Willie" as a nickname I don't know. You might look further along this path. It may be a false clue, though. Well, I tried!
Thanks Dr. Prasad. Now get some sleep. And check out the Brain Saver books by Anthony William. They’re a treasure trove of valid information and a rich source for research hypotheses. Keep up the great work. 💐💕💫
There should be new Mount Rushmore monument with heads of Gretchmar,Newsom,Cuomo and Fauci. What they did for our elderly will never be achieved by advanced science again.
I, myself a minority, am disgusted by the politically correct garbage published in my field. People are scared to work on real issues for they will be harshly criticized by activists and peers. It is easier to publish worthless shit than to do real science.
For me, science is about how to be a serious child for life. Eternally open to wonder and tenaciously dedicated to truth.
Precisely why politicians and heads of industry should stay the hell out of science. Politicians and oligarchs have zero dedication to truth, or the betterment of Humanity. They only care about their own greed for wealth and power.
A child needs to grow up. Not be so open minded their brain falls out. Truth and Reality should not be sacrificed for curiosity.
@@Penname25 Not falling out is funny but I would say that being serious is an adult attitude
@@FourthWayRanch Good grief, lighten up. Read some Feynman . Sure helped me during my 45 years in physics and biophysics.
@@FourthWayRanch You definitely need a break. Best to you in finding one.
Call me old school, but to me the heart of science is the pursuit of truth. The reason repeatability is so crucial. Big reason why I love listening to your conversations, you also pursue the truth.
yes. its about truth, its about discovery... its about finding better ways to do something... its about increasing our knowledge of our world, of our surroundings, purely for the sake of it...
He pursues the truth, yet chalks all the idiocy up to “incompetence” rather than agenda-driven. Blind leading the deaf
You're old school - but correct!
Vinay, you're one of those smart people who speak freely and truthfully. I am sick of all these "science" believers who accuse others of stupidity while being stupid themselves.
I almost fainted... you nearly went through 2 years worth of my thoughts.. in one video
On the money .. nailed it.
Perfectly presented ..
Holding up my rock concert lighter ... ..
Gonna go relax.. not feel so crazy .
Because basically it's a government that is manipulating People based on their science and the science isn't where it needs to be for it to be something that politics could even use on what can be done in these instances because they're getting money for it so they don't even have to work hard and then they come along and act like any of this is simple and then they don't ask advice from from enough you know doctors why why just the one guy he's been in here how long I mean our government's been screwed up how long oh sorry you know like is is that what this has been his career has been you know oh make it sound really good like he's some kind of pioneering you know like oh I'm in all parts of the history because I was involved with this this and that and that and now I wonder how much of it is well I better just stop doing that right cuz I'm supposed to be going to bed I don't know I'm just I just I need to let down but I'm just so grateful that it just I thought this day was never going to come I can hear y'all saying this all of these things right here and luckily hopefully they don't censor anyone else for this this is craziness like these are this is why they get degrees is why they go to school this is why you listen to them not them you know what I mean so you don't talk about government and doctors so yes amen maybe maybe now it'll be like you know moving forward more positive
Love this segment. We desperately need more critical thinkers and particularly sharp minds not swayed by power, prestige and money. Cannot wait to check out your papers.
Thanks for this. One of the American forefathers said if the people are corrupt then no system of government will work. The tool of science is the same. Sadly, its going to get worse before it gets worse. Good luck
It's nice to see someone who at least tries to have intellectual honesty.
Love the truth you speak about science. Science is easy yet they make it appear too hard…keep going science warrior. 🙏
Science is so often very, very hard. The World is incredibly complex. Finding patterns that are elucidated through numerous, rigorous trials with reproducible results is very HARD. If it were easy - I'd never have spent so much of my life in a lab. Thinking, tinkering and studying.
You are gradually becoming a philosopher Vinay! Thank you for the work!
Late night treat! Thanks Vinay for all you do.
Brilliant video! I particularly liked that you remained agnostic about whether "bad" or "selfish" motivations of scientists are actually detrimental. If someone wants to do science to advance their career and earn renown/prestige, then I think that's great. The problem is that the way the system is set up right now, the criteria by which we hand out renown/prestige is deeply flawed. If the system were changed to reward rigorous science that is highly replicable and robust (rather than "sexy" but often not really true), then we could harness people's desire for fame in a way that leads to better scientific research being done
I think a great video would be to talk about the societal system failure of the scientific community when it came to speaking their minds during COVID. I have heard anecdotes from you and others that it was common for doctors to disagree privately but not speak out. Laying out the system failures that cause this is more important than detailing the failures of the CDC, FDA, and NAID. Only when doctors are silenced can these organizations do the horrible things they did. We need to document them and discuss solutions to the system so we don’t have gov’t actors ruining all of our public health orgs
AMEN.!!!..
How are you going to force the system to reform/revolutionize? THAT is the important question. Since it's the obvious action required.
As someone not in the medical / scientific field, thank you! I had to roll my eyes at some of the ads that popped up, including a few for PCR tests and cancer drugs. Sigh.
“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences - people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”
- Dr. Anthony Fauci
From that one time he was honest...
I think that our education system is in need of a re-boot. When I was in Jr. high school in the 60's, we learned about the scientific method first thing in 7th grade biology. We learned about the hypothesis and the null-hypothesis, random double blind testing and an introduction to statistics, including, believe it or not, how one can "cook the data '' . . etc.
Nowadays people including massive corporations tell folks to "believe in science" which is nonsense. Science is not a belief system, it is a tool. Tools can be of great help, or they can be used to injure and destroy. It depends on the person/corporation using it.
An extension to the 'knowing' motivation: It's the idea that as people we are capable of finding out the truth. In the past, we were helpless. We felt that it is all in the hands of the gods. We worshiped them and prayed to them. It was the Greeks (and some other exceptions) that started this method of asking questions and methodically answer them. Not only because we want to know but also because we can.
The general public have been conditioned to just "believe science" without understanding how it works. I took a philosophy course in college on The Nature of Science. Everyone should take such a course. There are 9 basic tenants of science including science is subjective and theory laden because biased humans are engaging in it, but also empirical and imaginative. I will never forget the people and agencies that broke science during the pandemic and if the public had understood what science actually is, maybe there would have been more useful resistance and pushback.
Sounds like a great class
You are an Idiot if you think you can run an RCT in a global pandemic.
Corporate "science" is not science at all. It is marketing.
I'm not a doctor but this is what I would give as the definition of science. People talk about truths and science, I think that word smuggles in too much baggage. There are patterns in our universe. Science is the finding and understanding of those patterns. Science is also our collection of techniques that help us find and understand those patterns.
There was a documentary out a few years ago about particle physics and it was clear that somewhere along the line we started to make stuff up without an ounce of proof. We hit a wall in science and manipulating math to fit the narrative became acceptable. That general lack of respect for proof has become an acceptable trend.
This is amazing! The style, the delivery, the bluntness of it all just works! Couldn't stop laughing.
Same. I’m literally laughing out loud in my office. One his funniest videos.
Thank you. I value that you continue to speak your truth and to uphold science.
You perfectly described Pacific Northwest weather. So glad to be out of Seattle lol.
You are correct that science is only a tool. I think that living life, pursuing education, and even certain parts of practicing medicine, such as planning, are more artistic in nature though, because we end up putting things together to create meaning, which is fundamentally an artistic endeavor. Insofar as science serves us in the endeavor of life, it can help us understand what is really going on, and then in theory we can make life better, and not worse. Since your understanding of Science is strong, and your ability to identify garbage research is also excellent, perhaps one of your challenges is to sometimes see the bigger picture, which is fundamentally artistic in nature. It must be, because we have to put together stuff the best we can. And we can never have a perfectly complete, scientific understanding of Human Biology, Medicine, Life, and the Universe which we all inhabit - if we're fortunate, for the approximate 70 - 80 years of most of our lives.
My experience as a triple-threat (physician-scientist-educator) was that it was Life as Art. With tools at hand we fashion new answers to old questions with each person we care for. With ever changing understanding of those old problems we fashion new tools. And the greatest legacy we leave is showing the next generation that doing things better tomorrow isn't just something to be hoped for, it can be made real.
Superb… so glad you are able to speak Truth so brazenly!!!❤
On Science- one experiences a profound sense of gratification and exhiliration pursuing and accumulating knowledge..at least I have!
I think also one of the goals of science is to discover and document the objective truth, for this and future generations.
Sad to see 'science' which once fueled curiosity and breakthroughs reduced to political weaponization.
Counting publications is a big, big part of science. The number of times I've heard "so and so has X publications" is way more than I have heard 'so and so discovered X, pretty cool!'.
The way we measure the success and importance of Science/Scientists is actually the number of times they are cited by others. This is actually a good measure of how important and impactful the model/discovery is. Not # of publications at all.
@@zpettigrew Number of citations is a biased metric too. There are plenty of BS areas where it is easy for people to publish, and there are some people who are good at kicking off those areas and thus get a lot of citations. It's as if they present their case and I say "that's a pile of shit", and their response is "yes, but look how much there is!" Another bias on citations is field; another is prestige bias (e.g., high profile people are more likely to publish and be cited); there's also a paradigm bias--people who have things that challenge orthodoxy are less able to publish, and to be cited when they do.
Your Awesome man!
The powers at be Need the so called Science going on to support their narrative.
Remember to BREATHE and Stay Focused, We Need you!
YOUR "OFF THE CUFF" PRESENTATION CONTAINS MANY POINTS FOR THOUGHT AND REFLECTION...THE MAIN ONE'S BEING RAW TRUISM, WHICH I FEEL IS ONE OF YOUR GIFTS, AND JUSTIFIED CYNICISM.
THE FAILED PATH OF "MEDICINE" TODAY CAN ONLY BE VIEWED CYNICALLY.
VP definitely took the red pill... I'm glad, so glad he did!
Everything thing said here about the realities of science. Completely applies to Climate Science as well. Maybe more so.
You are Sagan's Candle In The Dark.
Thank you
An excellent presentation. 'The desire simply to know' was, until the C20th century the prime motive of scientists, rich men such as Darwin, poor men such as Einstein.
Yet today the state judges, educates, employs/regulates the employment of, determines which results are true and/or useful, pays for or excludes, science and scientists.
This amounts to nothing less than Pharonic worship and will surely lead us to Ozymandias:
''My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!''
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I sometimes think people cite people because they think they should cite them. Some times I check on papers of mine that get cited, and I am routinely annoyed because they are mis-cited.
Love this! Vinay, can you PLEASE address the study about 1 in 4 parents lying about their child's covid status? Right up your alley!
Which way do they lie?
How can a study know if someone is lying?
Thanks for the reminder. I wanted to go find that and see what in the world they were talking about.
While at the school where Arthur Guyton taught physiology I began to develop the idea of "Rational Clinical Trial Design" in which numerical simulations of his elaborate computer model of the circulatory system could tease out highly robust clinical-biological measures for a given intervention for heart failure and thus reduce the scale and cost of a major clinical trial.
I study psychology because I don't understand people all that well.
I've pivoted to Machine learning to test my understanding
and to further my understanding through experimentation.
Secondarily to that, since I'm building something that may have a significant impact on the world
I have been thinking about how best to shape it in a way that will help people.
Lastly to get funding I have to think about how it can make money.
I think that last point people get wrapped up in and think it is more important than the primary or secondary. So they start lying to make money.
I have been working on this since 2002, I haven't made any money on this. I do have a day job and that day job pays for me to research this. If begging for money came easier to me. I may have went down that road of funding instead of the work.
As basic science PhD, this really captures the last few years of my rants to co-workers- the perpetual need to lure in funders with a proverbial carrot ("understanding X will cure Y") is a massive (negative) incentive. Perhaps a majority of researchers believe the lie & design experiments explicitly to keep the ruse ongoing, end-result is neither translational nor fundamental. Mostly honest actors unaware of the incentives around them, structural reform is key.
What is this heresy? St. Anthony Fauci is science. He told me so.
As Vinay said, "Science is a tool" 🤔
As Tony Fauci said, "Tony Fauci is Science" 🤓
QED...
Tony Fauci is a tool. 💡
@@gnoelalexmay
Good one. I will steal that.
@@gnoelalexmay It's pronounced "Scoi-Ence!"
“I’m the sciiiionce” said the leprechaun
That Itie dwarf loves stroking his ego.
This video is your best work. I'm pretty goddamn inspired now. much appreciated 🍻
I bow down!! Good stuff. . Look for the drivers covert etc
I'm vibrating right now... could be the tinnitus..
Thank you for sharing
Goodnight
Did you get tinnitus from the booster like my dad? I hope not
@@MK-ih6wp no I got it because I have very high levels of anxiety and anxiety causes your body to make a lot of cortisol and cortisol affect the hairs in your ears
@@MK-ih6wp but I have heard even the Texas Roadhouse guy got tinnitus after covid or the job I'm not really sure which one but you got it and then committed suicide because it is unnerving I've had it for a couple years it does make me nuts
Should be used to inform not to coerce or control
One of the reasons I dropped my minor advisor for my PhD was he kept asking me how my artificial life framework would benefit the fields of systems biology and microbiology. I don’t fucking know. And I truly do not care. I want to do it because I see a gigantic gap between molecular simulators and agent-based systems biology models. There’s this entire chasm between those two levels of modeling, and I can fill it. We have no idea what benefits it will have, because literally nobody has ever done this before. It is an entirely new way to model living systems that can host a mix of very fine detail and very abstract models simultaneously.
Currently writing the actual implementation, so no, the code is not available yet.
Thanks Dr.
Funny, i grew up PDX and just moved back fir covid/family after decades in SF Bay Area.
I love the moisture up here!
*omg, i was @ Organ Porting university!* except it was less a university, more an ally. we ported organs from the poor to the wealthy. but it did rain sometimes! bullets. anyway, im due at the ICC in june. this is a gr8 vid tho. & both our stories are relatable: takes all kinds. horse for courses. fine entry. _JC
Do they use the Portland homeless population as organ donors for the wealthy?
Wouldn't suprise me. Portland has a long history of trafficking.
Ever been shanghai'd? Good times.
Will keep an eye out for you on the ICC docket, friend.
Because though there may be a god-like entity that would just give the final because I said so Still Remains to be seen that if we are worthy of great Medical Science then we must not be afraid to keep looking into the actual information that we can that we can prove with human knowledge and understanding.
I think the goal of science is to increase knowledge about reality. The goal of engineering (not that you asked) is to apply that knowledge.
Incredible. Must watch.
Great video! VP, will you please do a video about how you used to study in undergrad/medical school?
If he read the Cochrane report, he misunderstood it or simply misrepresented it. The report does not say masks don't work, and makes it clear that they grade the evidence on which they base their conclusions as very low confidence or low or moderate confidence. From this, and their explicit caveats to the contrary, Vinay Prasad MD MPH somehow became confident. He got it wrong.
That clown can't admit he was wrong
It's not a pursuit of truth, it's an industry. Science ™️.
It's all about MONEY! In the form of grants. Can't go against the narrative or you get defunded.
Study preregistration should be required for publication in medicine.
Science is the study of reality.
5:30 why is the sky blue, was blue sky research? wild. _JC
We know WHO THE holy science is!
(Praise be upon him)
Allah? if tony is allah, going by the portraits of himself all over his house - hes got some self vengence coming his way. also, whats w the pics? it's like whatevr, but also...is it? it is clinical. not to patholoegize everything. but GD. _JC
Hi Dr. Prasad,
Can you please comment on The Cochrane Review apologizing for an evidence review that led many to conclude, inaccurately, that masks don't work.
Much appreciated
The Cochrane Review on masks is far from being a gold standard review in this case.
@gribbler
I've seen two of your videos in which you pretty dramatically cite The Cochrane Review as being the Gold standard.
Look, I'm just an uneducated immunocompromised 65 year old man with disabilities trying to navigate all of this information. I understand everything has become over politicized but who and what am I supposed to believe.
Also, don't you think you should comment in a video that The Cochrane Review has issued an apology and possibly is not the gold standard.
This is truly not a Gotcha.
Just looking for transperancy.
@@fmaiofaro8557Cochrane *apologized* for giving people the wrong impression about wearing masks?
Interesting. I must have missed that.
Cochrane lost me many years ago, when they kicked one of their co-founders, Peter Goetzsche, out of the group. He was causing too much trouble, by sticking to the science, instead of taking money from pharma.
@@MK-ih6wp _"It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses"._ Cochrane March 10, 2023
Simply put: the review doesn't say masks don't work. It was very clear what they said. But only people who needed to confirm their bias would misunderstand it. So, they did.
Because I have anxiety ... I need to feel it makes sense .. trust issues .. shots .. ocd .. I care
Lmao Vinay spitting fire starting at 17:07 its a brilliant hilarious meltdown
“Why does the body have hair that starts dark then turns grey”
Experiment
1) experience high amount of stress… hair is still dark
2) have kids… hair turns grey…
Universal fact discovered: Kids cause grey hair.
I think early grey hair might be a nutritional deficiency. Copper imbalance, perhaps. I think it might even be reversible!
N=1
But I have 0 kids and turned grey in my 20s.
What are your thoughts on clinical work? I’ve been following Dr. Brooke Goldner’s work and also Dr. Colin Campbell. They both study and practice nutrition (Goldner practices more than Campbell). Goldner’s work is based mainly on clinical outcomes, which she’s had around thousands by now (I believe). If you have the time, I’d really like to know what you think of their work.
thats a cool look!
You need to start doing stand up comedy satirizing the current paradigm of science. because you are definitely killing it.
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is good
Hey VP, could you do a review of the letter that the CDC sent to the Florida Surgeon General?
Beard is over the top, bruh. Gerald Holton wrote an interesting, if not dated book entitled; "Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought". Good read 👍
Thanks for all your great videos,
Love to know what you think about Thomas Seyfried's work?
Dear Prof. Prasad, can you recommend a commentator like you from the field of neuro-immunology? For private family reasons, I am very interested in a critical opinion on all the research done in multiple sclerosis. I know that there is a lot of research going on but the disease remains a big challenge to society and those suffering from it - despite all the research done there...
Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
- Luke 5:31
When I hear "the science is settled" my bullshit detectors go off! Thanks for all you do sir
Science is when you can predict something with 51 percent accuracy like the weatherman and the card counter.
I found your comment at the 27:00 mark to be hilarious. And I agree, those 4 kids exist!
The scientific method must be followed or it’s not science. Bias must be avoided as much as possible. Statistical methods must be adhered to.
The scientific method is the best we have. Scientists are usually where things fail. They are human, and as a group are no less susceptible to common human failings.
How can we improve the corrupt systems that exist.
Looking good Doctor ;-)
We want to be able to thrive and to be able to exist in the most healthy way possible. The right to question everything that would be the only safe option from tyranny because I'm granted permission to everything within Myspace information about what I'm supposedly going to put into my body about Wicca possibly go wrong with this trip so I didn't fall for it that's all I'm going to say
*all religions are the same and annoying, & dont fear things. are you literally tripping tho (we can prescibe LSD, mushrooms & MDMA now - just hapnd. crayZee.)?* in any case, you may like this: meditation is a winner absolutely. take that. & ASMR, but i wana say...& tarot! (take that science!) tarot to inspire reflection from old psych archtypes can be relaxing. i find. ASMR isnt wiccan, it is just gr8. do that too maybe.
tarot has at least a vague psych basis. i judge astrology, bc it is based on earth being ctr of the universe which...maybe thats fine? -_-. but here, these are the tarot i like when im stuck on something & want distraction for unconscious processing. A) just dont pick your own sign, & B) avoid any readers that only talk about love or twin flame or angels or christ nonsense too much (imho.) it doesnt test thr improv ability enough. if you ca see a garage door behind them: thats a win:
jchronls.wordpress.com/☼/#asmr
blessed be & merrymeet for the day. _JC
Universities seek novelty, not truth
chrxst, if even that were true. _JC
My Auzzie best mate tells me that is simply good old fashioned American "Ooh! Shinny!!" Syndrome.
My cousin Vinny the people are not curious enough for good reasons.
i would put money on him not knowing why peeps go to my cousin viny. it must speak to the demo? idk. thr arent many english 'v' names i gues. cmt sections are gr8. _JC
*10:30** fame is a funny one. you could be - in a field (& that is something.)* but go to anyone on the street & say _"hey, theyby! million $ if you can name 5 nobel winners in all of hx"?_ & you will have a million $ you get to keep. _JC
Speaking of science.. what's going on with the lights behind you ? If you turn around and look at them are some of them blinking or is that a function of the way a light emitting diode works that shows up when recorded digitally? Assuming that is a string of light emitting diodes . Curious minds want to know .
I never noticed the blinking blue lights
Does anyone know what name Vinay Prasad says @28:34?
I did some "Google Scholarling" and found "Bassel Jallad, MD" of Cleveland Clinc Abu Dhabi. He's an oncologist from the looks of his papers. At least thirteen of them. Whether he has "Willie" as a nickname I don't know. You might look further along this path. It may be a false clue, though. Well, I tried!
@@karlspaulding1870 Wow, thank you very much!
Thanks Dr. Prasad. Now get some sleep. And check out the Brain Saver books by Anthony William. They’re a treasure trove of valid information and a rich source for research hypotheses. Keep up the great work. 💐💕💫
I just ordered it from Audible, thanks for the tip!
When did Drake get his MD?
We already know enough. We just don't use our knowledge to act right.
There should be new Mount Rushmore monument with heads of Gretchmar,Newsom,Cuomo and Fauci.
What they did for our elderly will never be achieved by advanced science again.
Zanu did that??? Dang!
-lymphoma nurse
I f****** love this video
Any thoughts on the Russian scientist that had some sort of involvement in the creation of the vaccine being strangled the death in his apartment?
dont try to jip your rent boy when its time to pay up...
Yeah that was strange. Was it a hit?
@@MK-ih6wp Not sure! But it definitely comes up like a 2 can keep a secret if one is dead type thing.
I, myself a minority, am disgusted by the politically correct garbage published in my field. People are scared to work on real issues for they will be harshly criticized by activists and peers. It is easier to publish worthless shit than to do real science.
Whoa I had no idea you worked at OHSU and lived in the woke capital of the world! That's my hospital and home (for now).
How about the science behind giving the Women of Courage award to a man?
Methodology > Conclusions
K now the crush is real
I am the science -fauci
(Translated to .. I am God.) I said ohhhh boy... anyone catch that ? How much did he make ?
I'll stop though :D
Science is a little tiny Italian man in his eighties.
♥️🙏
You are talking to the choir VP. Unfortunately the choir is not listened to by those fools who lead.