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Texas Lawmaker not Worried about Measles because of ‘Antibiotics'

posted by mrpg on Thursday February 28 2019, @04:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the Brawndo-Has-What-Plants-Crave dept.

DannyB writes:

Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'

Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.

Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.

“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.”

There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses.

It could be funny if it weren't so tragic.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @12:34AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @12:34AM (#808483) Journal

    Do you know about someone later verifying this model is capable of predicting something useful?

    Nope.

    Or do you just believe every random model that gets published? How do you decide what to believe?
    Nope. Only those that pass my guts tests. Until someone certifies them.
    Do you have any other heuristic? Because any choice in this regard is gonna be a heuristic.

    Because I assure you a contradictory model that fits all the same data is possible.

    Shoot, let's see it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:42AM (#808488)

    No, I'm not going to spend the time on this. But if you have ever modeled something you know it is not hard to get a fit to anything with enough adjustable parameters...

    If I were to do it though, I would take their model (if it is actually available somewhere) and add in "dark measles" cases (the 85% unreported ones) that make it show what I want.