Trepanated, do you come from a scientific background? You seem well read in many of these matters.
Thanks for the compliment, but not to any great degree outside of my education. I was in nursing a long time ago though and did my professional training in one of the last of the old 'Insane Asylums' or 'Mental Hospitals'
I do read very widely though and my interests include all the sciences.
And unlike Vrill, I read for the sake of learning and knowledge, not just selective reading in order to confirm some preconceived conspiratorial belief system.
Here's an example of Vrill's selective reading:
That quote he gave a few posts ago, to prove his anti-vaccine nonsense
"I went to the Office for National Statistics and got out all the old books when public records began to be kept in 1837 and wrote down the mortality figures for the diseases against which we vaccinate. I was shocked to discover that vaccines hadn't made the great impact that I had been led to believe with graphs starting a few years before the vaccines were introduced. INSTEAD of showing the figures from fifty or a hundred years before when you would see that 95-99% of the reduction from measles, for example, already before vaccines were introduced."
I took the trouble to find out where that quote came from - because contrary to Vrill's accusations, I do follow up on what he posts, just in case he isn't posting spurious nonsense.
It turns out it's a doctor called Jayne Donegan, who is a certified
homeopathy practitioner. Basically, she is a quack scientist.
And worse than that, she was involved in a vaccination court case (MMR) a few years ago where her 'expert witness' evidence was dismissed by the judge as quack science.
Even worse than that, the judge said that most of the research she quoted actually
confirmed the opposite of the claims she was making.
Utterly ridiculous
This is the quality of 'evidence' Vrill incessantly rolls out in support of his specious arguments.