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Science Vs. Advocacy, Omicron, & More (w/ Dr. Peter Attia & Dr. Marty Makary)

Jan 3, 2022

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Investing in Hedge Funds - I'm Always Right or Not?

02:16

Is There a Precedent for a Respiratory Virus to Not Generate Natural Immunity?

02:18

The One Critique That Isn't on Board With the Government

03:24

Introduction

3min

Omicron Is a New Serge

3min

Is Covid Going to Be the Fifth Seasonal Corono Virus?

2min

The Evolution of the Virus

3min

Is There a Laboratory Test to Measure T Cel Immunity?

4min

Is There a Way to Measure Immunity?

5min

Is Your Child Having a Symptomatic Covid?

2min

How Many Times Has My View of This Problem Changed?

4min

Do You Know What the Infection Death Rate Is?

5min

10.

Do You Think Boosting Vitum and D Is a Good Thing?

2min

11.

Do You Have a Take on Vitum and D?

4min

12.

The Difference Between Science and Advocacy

2min

13.

Do the Lock Downs Make People Mask Promote What It Is Promoted?

5min

14.

Is There a Precedent for a Respiratory Virus to Not Generate Natural Immunity?

2min

15.

Is There a Spectrum of Immunity?

3min

16.

The Data on Natural Immunity - 27 Times More Protective

2min

17.

Natural Immunity Is Not Lasting

2min

18.

Are You Hearing About Re Infections?

3min

19.

Vaccines Are a Probablistic Game

5min

20.

How Much Do Vaccines Reduce the Ability to Spread an Infection?

2min

21.

Is There a 66 % Reduction in Transmission?

3min

22.

Do We Have Effect Agents to Treat Infection?

3min

23.

Covid Vaccine

3min

24.

Is It a Pandemic?

4min

25.

Are There Risks of Vaccines?

2min

26.

The Difference Between Peace Time and War Time Vaccine Communication

4min

27.

Is the Vaccine a One Size Fits All Strategy?

2min

28.

The Risk of Mio Carditis in Young People Is Exposed by the Fizer and Mederna Vaccines

2min

29.

Is It Safe to Vaccinate Mya Carditis?

5min

30.

Is the Maderna Vaccine Associating With Mio Carditus?

3min

31.

Why Aren't We Ranking the Dummest Colleges?

2min

32.

College Isn't About Learning, That's a Side Effect

3min

33.

Boosting Every 16 and 17 Year Old in the U.S.

3min

34.

Anthony Fouche Denies an IH Funding for a Biological Disease

3min

35.

I've Made Mistakes With Patients

3min

36.

I'm Sick of This, and It's Not My Joke.

3min

37.

Is There Really a Precedent for Tracking Rates of Infection for Respiratory Illnesses?

3min

38.

Symptomatically Testing Athletes

3min

39.

Is the End Point of Vaccines?

5min

40.

What's the Function of Covid?

2min

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Is There a Long Term Consequence of Vaccines?

5min

42.

The Covidiots and the Covidians

3min

43.

Is There a Dialectical Synthesis?

2min

44.

You Can't Kill Racism, Right?

2min

45.

The Pandemic of Lunacy

5min

46.

Is Twitter an Anti-Longevity Agent?

3min

47.

What Can Parents Do?

4min

48.

Who Are the Voices of Reason in This?

3min

49.

You Should Always Question Your Beliefs

2min

50.

Investing in Hedge Funds - I'm Always Right or Not?

2min

51.

The One Critique That Isn't on Board With the Government

3min

52.

Are We All Anti-Made Parachutes?

3min

Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor) and I team up to try some serious sense-making in the Age of Omicron.

Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here.

Topics & Timecodes:

Comparing omicron to delta and other mutations [4:15]
Measuring immunity and protection from severe disease—circulating antibodies, B cells, and T cells [13:15]
Policy questions: what is the end game and how does the world go back to 2019? [18:45]
A policy-minded framework for viewing COVID and the problem of groupthink [24:00]
The difference between science and advocacy [39:00]
Natural immunity from COVID after infection [46:00]
The unfortunate erosion of trust in science despite impressive progress [57:15]
Do the current mandates and policies make sense in light of existing data? [1:02:30]
Risks associated with vaccines, and the risk of being labeled an anti-vaxxer when questioning them [1:18:15]
Data on incidence of myocarditis after vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines [1:26:15]
Outstanding questions about myocarditis as a side effect of mRNA vaccination and the benefit of boosters [1:35:00]
The risk-reward of boosters and recommendations being ignored by policy makers in the US [1:40:30]
Sowing distrust: Lack of honesty and humility from top officials and policy makers [1:43:30]
Thoughts on testing: does it make sense to be pushing widespread testing for COVID? [1:52:15]
What is the end point to all of this? [1:58:45]
Downstream consequences of lockdowns and draconian policy measures [2:05:30]
The polarized nature of COVID—tribalism, skeptics, and demonization of ideas [2:10:30]
Looking back at past pandemics for perspective and the potential for another pandemic in the future [2:20:00]
What parents can do if their kids are subject to unreasonable policies [2:25:00]
Voices of reason in this space [2:28:45]
Strong convictions, loosely held: the value in questioning your own beliefs [2:32:15]