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Ruth Parry's avatar

Informative podcast. I'd like to know more about this red light therapy.

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The SV40 cancer wave plot he mentioned at the end is completely bogus. I don't know if Kruse saw it but I tried to explain it to him in this thread: https://x.com/henjin256/status/1873801569206177818. He said on Twitter that the SV40 plot was the main subject of his podcast.

The increase in cancer ASMR between 1950 and 1990 is mostly due to lung cancer, but other major types of cancer went down or remained flat. So did SV40 disproportionately cause lung cancer but not other types of cancer? The SV40-contaminated vaccines were mainly given to children, but the cancer ASMR in ages 0-54 went down between the 1960s and 1990 and the increase in ASMR was due to ages 55 and above.

In the SV40 cancer plot Ethical Skeptic took data from Statista up to 2017 but data from CDC WONDER from 2018 onwards. The data from Statista before 2018 was identical to ASMR values returned by CDC WONDER, which calculates ASMR by 10-year age groups using the year 2000 US standard population. However I was not able to reproduce the ASMR from 2018 onwards that Ethical Skeptic calculated himself. He got the lowest ASMR in 2021, but his ASMR went up from 2021 to 2022, from 2022 to 2023, and from 2023 to 2024. However I always got lower ASMR in 2023 than 2021 even though I tried several different methods of calculating ASMR. I think it might be if Ethical Skeptic applied an adjustment he calls "excess MCD normalization" to the plot even though he didn't mention it anywhere. But I explained in the thread above why the adjustment is wrong, and how I busted him falsifying data in order to justify the adjustment.

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