Had a conversation with someone yesterday. I decided to right down three statements they made as a fact. I don't consider someone a friend who repeats conspiracies.
Athletes are dying from COVID-19 vaccines
This was a false claim made by or repeated by a senator Ron Johnson that is false
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/t...smid=url-share
Big Pharma Funds 6 percent of FDA budget
"User fees" are collected by various industries from which the agency regulates. The conspiracy suggests that pharma is in bed with the agency.
"The FDA budget for FY 2019 is $6.1 billion.
About 54 percent, or $3.3 billion, of FDA’s budget is provided by federal budget authorization. The remaining 46 percent, or $2.8 billion, is paid for by industry user fees.
The FDA budget is equivalent to $10.01 per American per year.
The FDA budget includes 18,062 full time equivalents (FTEs).
The Tobacco Control Act Program is paid for entirely by industry user fees."
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-ba...%20user%20fees.
Pfizer has 75 years to release information
https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...cs-2022-01-07/
“If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn't matter how smart you are, who made the guess or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.”
"It's true, however, that one has to check a little bit, to make sure that it's wrong. Because someone who did the experiment may have reported incorrectly. Or there may have been some feature in the experiment that wasn't noticed, like some kind of dirt and so on. You have to obviously check.
Furthermore, the man who computed the consequences may have been the same one that made the guesses, may have made some mistake in the analysis. Those are obvious remarks. So when I say, if it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong, I mean after the experiment has been checked, the calculations have been checked, and the thing has been rubbed back and forth a few times to make sure that the consequences are logical consequences from the guess, and that, in fact, it disagrees with our very carefully checked experiment."
- Richard Feynman
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