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

Jan 3, 2022

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Omicron Is a New Serge

Is Covid Going to Be the Fifth Seasonal Corono Virus?

The Evolution of the Virus

Is There a Laboratory Test to Measure T Cel Immunity?

Is There a Way to Measure Immunity?

Is Your Child Having a Symptomatic Covid?

How Many Times Has My View of This Problem Changed?

Do You Know What the Infection Death Rate Is?

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

Do You Have a Take on Vitum and D?

The Difference Between Science and Advocacy

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

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

Is There a Spectrum of Immunity?

The Data on Natural Immunity - 27 Times More Protective

Natural Immunity Is Not Lasting

Are You Hearing About Re Infections?

Vaccines Are a Probablistic Game

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

01:01:03 • 2min

Is There a 66 % Reduction in Transmission?

01:02:53 • 3min

Do We Have Effect Agents to Treat Infection?

01:05:24 • 3min

01:08:16 • 3min

Is It a Pandemic?

01:11:27 • 4min

Are There Risks of Vaccines?

01:15:43 • 2min

The Difference Between Peace Time and War Time Vaccine Communication

01:17:45 • 4min

Is the Vaccine a One Size Fits All Strategy?

01:21:57 • 2min

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

01:23:41 • 2min

Is It Safe to Vaccinate Mya Carditis?

01:25:15 • 5min

Is the Maderna Vaccine Associating With Mio Carditus?

01:30:02 • 3min

Why Aren't We Ranking the Dummest Colleges?

01:33:30 • 2min

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

01:35:29 • 3min

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

01:38:23 • 3min

Anthony Fouche Denies an IH Funding for a Biological Disease

01:41:16 • 3min

I've Made Mistakes With Patients

01:43:57 • 3min

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

01:47:04 • 3min

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

01:50:05 • 3min

Symptomatically Testing Athletes

01:53:04 • 3min

Is the End Point of Vaccines?

01:56:16 • 5min

What's the Function of Covid?

02:00:52 • 2min

Is There a Long Term Consequence of Vaccines?

02:03:01 • 5min

The Covidiots and the Covidians

02:08:01 • 3min

Is There a Dialectical Synthesis?

02:10:53 • 2min

You Can't Kill Racism, Right?

02:13:22 • 2min

The Pandemic of Lunacy

02:15:04 • 5min

Is Twitter an Anti-Longevity Agent?

02:19:48 • 3min

What Can Parents Do?

02:22:28 • 4min

Who Are the Voices of Reason in This?

02:26:15 • 3min

You Should Always Question Your Beliefs

02:29:43 • 2min

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

02:31:37 • 2min

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

02:33:54 • 3min

Are We All Anti-Made Parachutes?

02:37:18 • 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]

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