Back to episode — Episode 1595 Scott Adams - A Deal With Russia, and Evaluating a Rogue Doctor's Credibility
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ou're a doctor in the comments please. Yeah I don't know. Stick with the devil you know. Uh oh, so your doctor says Pfizer is a smaller dose than Moderna but that's also why it works less, right? Wasn't Moderna the highest efficacy? Dr. Matt Wayne says go with what you had before. Dr. Johnson, I'm not sure if you're a real doctor or you're a troll. I'm a doctor, don't know. All right yeah there's…
← Previous segment →ichever of the shots you want. Scott said if you don't have better information get the one you already had. Who had better advice? Because a lot of the decisions we're making there's a big question of should you trust the experts or trust somebody who's just good at decision making because it's different, right? I don't know. I feel like the edge is for me because I don't think that we have — especially if you had the Pfizer, if you had the Pfizer shot which is a lower dose than Moderna, that's like a slam dunk isn't it that you would get the Pfizer shot again? But if you had the Moderna shot twice, now maybe just a little extra Pfizer, similar platforms technology. Is that better? I don't know. I think my bias would be to stick with whatever I got but know that if you stuck with the Moderna your first two doses would be the highest dose of that type and then by the time you got the booster you would be well into highest ever of that technology. So that's a risk.
All right, let's talk about Pfizer and their 55 years to release data. Everything you knew about that was okay. Let's start there. What was it even? I believed — I think I hope I showed enough skepticism in this story because I should have in retrospect. But do you know why the 55 years? Does anybody? Or it was 75 but it got lowered to 55. Um does any — yeah the 75 I think got lowered to 55. It got revised. But does anybody know why? All right well so Andreas Backhaus was tweeting about this and even the FDA criticized the FDA for its data sharing stuff. So nobody's happy that it would take so long. But here's my best take on it. Apparently the FOIA requests — the requests where I guess any citizen of standing can request government information that shouldn't be secret — so there are so many of them now like even private companies are doing these all the time for competitive reasons etc. trying to figure out what the competition is doing. There's so many FOIA requests that the FDA couldn't possibly do them all. All right so the first thing you need to know is that the amount of requests is this big and the staff for all of those requ
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ests, not just for vaccinations but for everything the FDA does, for everything, the staff is like a pinprick. So the amount of staffing they have is nowhere in the neighborhood of what they would need to get the job done competently. All right so that's the first thing. Second thing is that I guess there's a lot of stuff that has to be redacted which means you have to pore over it and you probab…
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