Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Pure evil

That would be Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. He ordered a study of the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine, and when the result of the study was that it is safe, he altered the report to falsely imply that it poses a risk of cardiac complications in young men. In other words, he lied to the world in order to support the pre-ordained conclusion that his boss, the pathological liar and fascist governor of Florida, was touting as part of his political act. The result we can assume is that some people did not get vaccinated who other wise would have, and that therefore people got sick and died because of the lies of "Doctor" Ladapo. 

The linked Politico article prominently presents Ladapo's denials and doesn't really explain technically how he altered the report and its conclusions, presumably because they think you couldn't possibly understand. As I've discussed here many times, spurious associations are often observed by chance, so statistical techniques are used to assess how likely this is in a given case. Ladapo essentially deleted all of the references to sensitivity analysis, and to the risks of Covid-19 infection itself, including these:

Deleted: in the primary analysis, but this association was
attenuated and no longer significant when applying the
event-dependent exposures model utilized for multidose
vaccines. Thus, there is little suggestion of any effect
immediately following vaccination.

 

Deleted: Since the vaccine is designed to mimic a natural
infection, it will be important to better understand what
proportion of excess deaths are related to cardiac events
that could be attributed to COVID-19 infections before
vaccine recommendations are changed.

 He should lose his medical license.  But obviously that is not going to happen in the tinpot dictatorship of Ron DeSantis.




8 comments:

Don Quixote said...

Yeah, he should lose his license ... and Shitler should be in prison forever ... and a lot of prosecution "should" happen but doesn't in Amerikkka.

Limousine Guy said...

Yeah, I don't have the skill set to follow all of this, but if it's true that he altered the results for his political agenda, that's a HUGE problem for me.

I'm pretty sure the state medical board is who controls whether he keeps his license or not and not the governor.

Don Quixote said...

Fire this evil idiot's ass.

https://www.change.org/p/ron-desantis-fire-dr-joseph-a-ladapo

Then put DeSadist in a Mickey Mouse outfit, duct-tape him into it, and put him on permanent display at the entrance to Walt Disney World. Can you imagine what this motherfucker's private life must be like? Gag.

Limousine Guy said...

Note:
I'm not a fan of the Covid Vaccines. I took the first two, but have refused the rest. If I could go back, I would not have taken any at all.

That being said, the issue discussed is not the efficacy or the safety of the vaccines, or whether someone should have taken them or not...the issue is a top doc of the state altering research for his own agenda. And that has to STOP

Confidence and faith in government institutions is at a low already and this ain't helpin'.

Cervantes said...

Obviously you've made me very curious. What didn't you like about getting the vaccine? Some people briefly have flu-like symptoms, is that what happened to you?

Limousine Guy said...


At the time I took the first two shots, it was still considered experimental. The hype was so terrifying that I did what everyone else did out of fear. Then I realized that my odds of surviving a Covid infection was about 98% or better.

Another factor was I was angry at how the whole vaccine issue was rolled out by that time. They told us to take the vaccine to protect those around you. But the vaccines did not prevent infection nor did it prevent transmission. Whole lotta untruths were told about the vaccine.

Anyway, I'm not a warrior. It was just a personal choice. Freedom and all that.

Cervantes said...

Well, I don't want to be pedantic about it but that's not 100% accurate. The vaccine doesn't 100% prevent infection but it does indeed reduce the viral load and transmissibility, so it does protect others, just not perfectly. Anyway, a 2% chance of dying is definitely not trivial for me, and the chance of long-term symptoms, possibly quite debilitating, is much greater than that. So I'm not really grocking you.

Limousine Guy said...


My chances of dying in a car accident is about 1% according to National Safety Council. I have determined that that is an acceptable risk. I'm pretty much fucked without transportation.

The odds of dying from Covid, was about 2% and that's IF infected. The overall odds were much, much lower than that. The vaccine and it's new technology were experimental. The CDC kept changing its recommendations every two months which made them seem untrustworthy. The risk of not taking it compared to the risk of the unknowns seemed acceptable.

It was a rational decision. No politics.