Jenson

VAR ruins games by just being there.

Ok, it's at this point that the actual science/data becomes irrelevant to the conversation.

All this author has done is write a review of meta analysis of data from trials run by other researchers, the largest of which was just 400 participants. Why are you happy to take the word of this author based on this paper, and dismiss the data taken from over 14,000 people on the effectiveness of the vaccines against the delta variant? It makes no sense.

Just for comparison, the largest trial study I can find for the benefits of Ivermectin against Covid19 is 1195 participants. Also: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-advises-against-use-ivermectin-prevention-treatment-covid-19-outside-randomised-clinical-trials

No worries, but I think your taking the word 'suggests' far too literally. The 96%/92% efficacy of the vaccines against the delta variant is calculated from data analysis of over 14,000 people. In terms of biological trials that's a pretty large number.

In 25 years of publishing (biological) scientific papers, I have never used the words 'proof' or 'proved' once. I have regularly used words such as 'suggests', 'indicates', 'evidence', 'shows', 'signifies' etc but never 'proof'. Nothing is ever 'proven' in biological science, the explanation for any phenomena is what best fits the data available.

There's no such thing in science.

The word 'suggests' is used extremely widely and regularly in all scientific publications. It's the go to word for saying this is what the data is telling us.

Fucking hell, that looked bad. Hope to fuck he pulls through.

We're all fucked.

Top work from from Big Div here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/feature/widening-participation/

Repped for 90 minutes. Bought that magazine religiously throughout the mid nineties.

Timo Werner hahahahahaha