Hammond Answers Cowan's "Five Simple Questions for Virologists"
And I agree w/his analysis. There are more details that could be added to some of his answers, but they would be extensions, not exceptions or justifications.
I agree w with Jeremy’s analysis. I could add more details to some of his answers, but they would be neither exceptions nor justifications, rather, extensions on details, as I have in the past in my posts addressing the questions.
As I have understood the exchanges, the answers to the questions have been provided to this crowd by myself and others for some time (over a year and a half ago at least.
In my opinion, given that the questions have been addressed repeatedly, I think this has been a non-issue for a long time and is only kept alive via ignoring clear evidence and via the repetition of answered questions.
Please read Jeremy’s answers.
If they do not precisely provide sufficient information, let me know what specific additional information is needed.
Fascinating read. I remain unconvinced. Even if viruses in fact do exist, it would appear that they are not always and maybe never the sole cause of the illness, as is suggested by two other data points during Covid, i.e. the nutritional aspect and the bearing it has on the immune system, including the research published in BMJ during the period which concluded that low inflammatory diets like plant-based (-73%) and even pescatarian (-59%), reduced the risk of "moderate to severe" covid, and high inflammatory diets more likely increase the risk (low carb diets: +20%).
The other issue is the question of why viruses obey stop signs, and political boundaries, as has been documented by several researchers both in Italy during the aerly part of the outbreak and in terms of the distribution of mortality in the US (Rancourt).
I wrote an article on the whole thing here:
https://www.americaoutloud.com/covid-19-the-chickens-are-now-coming-home-to-roost/
Also unconvinced......when I look up the defn of virus it states non-living. So we always say viruses can only live by taking over a living host. I cannot be a car jacker without a car. So am I a car jacker before I get into the car? Would it be misinformation to call me a car jacker just because idk you presume I will hijack a car?
If a virus is non-living when it gets isolated and centrifuged then is it a virus? It is not in a living cell once removed from the patient.
My understanding of what Cowan states is that due to that inconvenient truth, scientists add fetal calf cell (to provide a living host for the non-living virus to invade and come back to life.)(Feel like a am story telling to a 7 yr old boy because that sounds like a comic book not science). Next for the living fetal calf cells to survive we need to provide them nutrition so now we have added a second variable to the Petri dish. Then, I have read antibiotics get added providing a third substance.
When I looked at a picture of Petri dishes one done as stated above one done as stated above minus the patient centrifuged specimen, they both looked like the so called “spike” protein after about 5 days.
Another way Cowen explained it was if I want to see if a wine cork can break a window then I remove it from my kitchen drawer and throw it at the window. If I melt down the silverware in the drawer with the cork mixed into it and then throw it at the window and it breaks, would it be accurate to say a cork can break a window?