It doesn’t really matter precisely how much he made from this. What matters is how good his scientific work is. This situation was not good. That does not mean what he is doing now is bad. I am however not that supportive of his work.
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Beth
#25
Well, @John_Hemming, you are quite the renaissance man… great musician too… and now I’m just irritated 
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curt504
#26
This guy has a few videos on how bad NIH (etc) research is. 50% is reproducable
Gov is a cow and University/researchers milk the cow and quality or utility is 2ndary. It’ll be better to burn down and rebuild a better topic funding system. Even a different place where research is conducted vs opportunistic universities addicted to Gov funding. Sad.
My wife and I find better quality facts in Vetinarian research of similar organs then human. (LOL) ;( ;( ;(
curt
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Well, that’s depressing. Unfortunately it looks like dysfunctional culture over there, with little accountability. These pathologies have been getting worse over time, and huge sums of research money is simply being wasted. Radical reform is needed. No wonder progress seems so slow and uneven.
Curious
#28
I wholeheartedly agree. The veterinarian medicine and the research done on livestock cattle have not gotten enough attention. We feed pigs and cattle and pay close attention to their development. In some cased we know pretty well what they ingest. SO I think the industrial knowledge there, is an interesting source for longevity knowledge. An alternative to observations done on mice.
Like when it comes to ferulic acid.
Growth Promotion: Studies have shown that ferulic acid can promote growth in livestock by enhancing muscle development and improving feed efficiency:
Supplementing livestock feed with ferulic acid can improve meat quality by increasing carcass yield and enhancing the nutritional value of the meat.
Reproductive Health: Ferulic acid may also have positive effects on reproductive health, improving fertility and overall reproductive performance in livestock.
These observations on how big mammals respond to a substance (in this case ferulic acid) is very intresting. At least, observations like that brings ferulic acid up on my the table for further investigations.
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PBJ
#29
Yeah, lets burn down the NIH because a Covid denier says so. I guess to some comparing Covid to Adolf Hitler makes sense.
In October 2021, Prasad prompted social media controversy when he published a blog post comparing the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response to the beginnings of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan said that Prasad’s arguments were specious and ignorant, and science historian Robert N. Proctor said that Prasad was “overplaying the dangers of vaccination mandates and trivializing the genuine harms to liberty posed by 1930s fascism”.[26]
In November 2021, Prasad expressed his opinion that pediatricians must be honest with parents about the risks of COVID immunization.[27] However, physician Jonathan Howard noted that Prasad was selectively omitting the risks of COVID disease[28] which would not be consistent with the tenets of medical informed consent.
In January 2022, the conservative periodical City Journal published an opinion piece by Prasad in which he attempted to demonstrate that the American public health organizations were not being honest in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[29] Writing for Science-Based Medicine, epidemiologist Lynn Shaffer criticized Prasad’s article for the various “mistruths” it contained about face masks as a COVID-19 mitigation measure, for example the unevidenced claim that mask wearing was stunting children’s language development. In Shaffer’s view Prasad’s writing “lean[s] heavily on pushing people’s emotional hot buttons” and amounted to a form of fearmongering.[30]
Prasad was an early member of the Urgency of Normal, a group that in 2022 campaigned against quarantines and mask mandates in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.[31] He spoke in support of repealing such mandates in a March 2022 interview.[32]
Earlier in 2023, Prasad showed support for the ideas of Robert Kennedy Jr.[33] However, according to physician David Gorski, Prasad did not show sufficient understanding of bad faith debate.[34] In November 2023, the levels of kindergarten vaccine exemptions rose to the highest level in years.[35] Prasad mentioned about this outcome[36] but did not acknowledge his role in causing this outcome, per physician Jonathan Howard.[37] In 2024, Prasad expressed criticism for the funding decisions of the NIH as well as support for more cluster randomized controlled trials.[38] However, according to physician David Gorski, Prasad again demonstrated insufficient understanding of the limitations of these randomized controlled trials as well as how the NIH’s funding decisions work.[39]
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