https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499357-science-...rt-damage/

Weird science: Covid-19 does NOT cause heart damage, as blockbuster study had basic calculation errors

Quote:By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics.

A widely circulated scientific study reported that Covid-19 causes long-term heart problems. Its authors have been forced to issue major corrections after they wildly miscalculated the risk, but the damage has already been done.
The scientific establishment wields a lot of power these days. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has elevated many career scientists and academics to positions of great influence, acting as advisors and commissars to governments on all things Covid-related. Which, it turns out, is everything. That is why it is so important that they conduct rational, unbiased research, and analyse all findings with great scepticism, taking nothing for granted.
Weird science
Alas, that was never going to happen. Unless you follow the right Twitter accounts (such as Alex Berenson who has been indefatigable in his criticism of shoddy Covid-19 ‘science’), you won’t read about this anywhere else. But what should be a pretty big scandal resulting in a major inquiry into publishing practices is currently underway in the field of cardiology.
Just over a month ago, a paper from Germany entitled, ‘Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)’, was published in the journal JAMA Cardiology. It was based on 100 people recently recovered from Covid-19, who underwent MRI scans to find factors associated with damage to their hearts.

 Covid-19
The article quickly became a smash hit, going viral, inasmuch as academic research can. It racked up hundreds of thousands of interactions on its Altmetric score, a tool that tracks how much a piece of research is being clicked, shared and talked about online. No doubt, this was owing to the paper’s bombshell conclusions. If Covid-19 was strongly linked to long-lasting heart disease in a significant proportion of those who survive it, that would be a hugely important thing to know.
A comedy of errors
The only problem with the conclusion of the paper is that almost every piece of data given to support it was wrong. As more and more media breathlessly reported that Covid-19 will eventually kill everyone with heart attacks, the mathematically minded on Twitter – including Darrel Francis, a Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute – began to point out obvious miscalculations and mismatches in the results of the study.
The authors appeared to confuse medians for means, and data points present in the graphs were absent elsewhere. In essence, the paper was riddled with remedial mistakes that the first few hundreds of thousands of people who read it (or scan the last few sentences) failed to notice.

But Professor Francis is still not happy with the reissued article, launching another scathing attack on his Twitter account. He has more than the layman’s knowledge of statistics, but he lays out in no uncertain terms that the authors are still, even after their extraordinary climb down, fudging the numbers. He is adamant that the corrected figures show that while people who have recovered from Covid-19 do show markers of heart disease in their MRI scans, so do people of similar health profiles who have not had the virus. That is, Covid-19 had absolutely nothing to do with the heart damage seen in the people in the study.

The authors of the study, meanwhile, have not taken kindly to the egg on their faces. They have lashed out at Twitter’s dismantling of their less-accredited math skills, (not sure people outside UK will know what these are) griping that a letter to the editor “would indeed be more appropriate.” It only took them a month to correct their substandard article, but by that point the damage was done. Just the other day I actually had someone casually inform me that “Covid causes heart damage.” Clearly the study’s reach has been wide. Whether its debunking will have as wide a reach remains to be seen.

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That's right.

I said it.

Biden should not debate Donald Trump.

I am siding with Pelosi and the rest of the leftists.   

Biden should only take softball questions from leftist news organizations that are heavily edited and spliced.

He should only do pre-recorded interviews and statements.

Sorry fellow freedom fighters, but I'm "sidin' with Biden.

Biden has got a lock on this election anyway, so there's no need for Biden to even do anything.  He should just sit the last 3 months out.  Relax, enjoy the victory.  Plan for the future.

If anyone wants to Tweet this, feel free.

I'm not ashamed to be saying this either, I will own what I say.

-Beez

Just a quick post to make sure everyone sees the DNC logo. They hide their loyalties in plain sight.

So I'm at work yesterday, I work in a machine shop.  I got pissed off over something stupid because of a misunderstanding with a manager.  

In a nutshell, we use templates to measure parts sometimes.  Many times I'll make my own, it takes about 10 seconds to do.  My manager comes over and says there's a template in the work pack,  which is a folder with the specifications of the part you're making.  I said, it's ok, I just made one, I'll use that.  30 seconds later he walks by again and says everyone else uses the template in the work pack.  I said, ok, great, and kept using mine.

A few minutes later he's back with the head of the inspection office, saying I have to use the template in the work pack.  At this point I'm fucking pissed and pull the template out of the work pack, slap it on the desk, roll mine into a ball and throw it over my shoulder. He should have led with, you have to use this template, instead of making it a suggestion, then the whole fucking fiasco could've been avoided.

No biggie, it's happened before, it'll happen again, I was pissed off for 20 minutes, then I was back to normal, like a normal human being.

But no, today the production manager comes up to me, really cool guy who I like, and said the manager came to him saying a few employees went to the manager saying my anger was making them uncomfortable. 

I laughed, and said I guess they've never been around anyone angry before.  If they're going to piss their pants everytime someone gets angry about something, they're gonna leave here someday with serious PTSD.

I continued on my tirade for a few minutes, saying if the snowflakes are gonna piss their pants over something that was over in 20 minutes, and I wasn't screaming, cursing, and kicking shit, well that's their problem, not mine.

Make of it what you will.

Trump 2020.

Irony deluxe by MSNBC Rachel Maddow.

She cuts away from a Republican Governor (who looks better than Rachel !) who was talking about the rampant unchecked looting and rioting in Democrat areas with local Democrats failing (possibly on purpose).

Soup to Nuts Rachel actually calls on a failed Democrat Mayor to comment LOL 

Quote:Folks, you simply cannot make this up. It’s comedy hour. Yes, it’s as expected, but c’mon—this is beyond ridiculous. MSNBC has made it a thing to cut into coverage of the Republican National Convention to correct things they find…very wrong. In other words, anything that makes Democrats look bad. In this case, they were very triggered that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem discussed the leftist violence engulfing Democrat-run cities. 

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow found that accurate claim to just be too much, so she invited Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to push back. Yeah, Durkan only allowed armed leftists to seize a portion of her city for a few days, but no big deal, right? This is just—it’s a circus act. 


LINK-->  Triggered: MSNBC Host Upset with Kristi Noem Mentioning Rioting...Brings on Seattle's Mayor to Push Back

The other day my husband and I drove 2 hours to pick up a telescope for me. It was a nice surprise from him and something I’ve been wanting for a long time. 

I was 12 when I got my first look at Saturn. That moment has stuck with me ever since. I always said I’d get a telescope of my own one day and look at it as long as I wanted. As the years went by there was always something else that took priority. I never stopped thinking about it though and when he said to pick one out for my birthday this year I jumped on the chance.

The first night didn’t go so well. I was so excited that I didn’t take into consideration that there were things that needed to be aligned. The next evening I did all that so it would be ready once it got dark. 

The first place I looked was at Saturn. It was breathtaking. I spent quite awhile gazing at it enjoying the fact that I could take as long as I wanted. After a time I let hubby look.

We then viewed Jupiter and three of it’s moons, and took some time to look at our moon. 

It’s been so nice to spend time with him doing something we both enjoy. 

Hoping to get an attachment for my camera because as you can see by the photo holding the phone over the eyepiece to try and get a pic is impossible.

   

Now it looks like Nancy Pelosi is doing a prelim setup for excuses to not have Presidential Debates in 2020 !!

Yup she's doing her part in protecting the mental case Joe Biden !!

One mental case covering for another mental case !!

Of Course her main "reason" is Trump !!

Watch her choke & gag phony presentation LOL 

Quote:Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Politico that she doesn’t think Joe Biden should agree to debate President Trump.

Said Pelosi: “I don’t think there should be any debates… I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States.”


LINK-->  Pelosi Wants No Presidential Debates