Dr. Topol, I believe you may have omitted the word "vaccine" in referring to shingles in your talk/transcript:
"Eric Topol (18:37):
And that brings us to the natural experiments I just wrote about recently, the one with shingles, which there's two big natural experiments to suggest that shingles might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, an added benefit beyond the shingles that was not anticipated."
"... shingles **vaccine** might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, ..."
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Because of that, I read the article you had linked
After listening to your conversation, I now better understand the fuzziness around the edges of facts and certainty. As we are now immersed in social media untruths, pandemics and political manipulation, there is clearly a need to inject this learning into our education system at an earlier and wider level.
Fascinating discussion that made me want to read the book in hopes I can retain some of the esoteroica BUT our local library system's version has a significantly different cover, perhaps from a difference between US and UK versions? The cover I'm looking at is BLUE and the subtitle is "The art and science of certainty." Your discussion took me back to some mislaid memories of the Monty Hall debate in the popular press; I think I was on the wrong side then but you've helped my unbelief.
The leading discussion about reason in scientific proof versus how much is unknown or in Civud the science reality is disturbing. So disturbing we have health czars who are anti science. As we move the more we learn the more we understand our insights open up a host of unknowns . Thanks
I suffer from dyscalculia, so much of this is incomprehensible to me. The run-on sentences and bad grammar and syntax make it even worse. I can't follow large chunks of the explanation even in English. I realize this must be a rush transcript, but I gave up early on.
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Dr. Topol, I believe you may have omitted the word "vaccine" in referring to shingles in your talk/transcript:
"Eric Topol (18:37):
And that brings us to the natural experiments I just wrote about recently, the one with shingles, which there's two big natural experiments to suggest that shingles might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, an added benefit beyond the shingles that was not anticipated."
"... shingles **vaccine** might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, ..."
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Because of that, I read the article you had linked
https://open.substack.com/pub/erictopol/p/the-shingles-vaccine-and-reduction
which seems to confirm that you meant to say that the shingles VACCINE might reduce dementia, not contracting shingles itself.
yes, corrected in transcript.
After listening to your conversation, I now better understand the fuzziness around the edges of facts and certainty. As we are now immersed in social media untruths, pandemics and political manipulation, there is clearly a need to inject this learning into our education system at an earlier and wider level.
Fascinating discussion that made me want to read the book in hopes I can retain some of the esoteroica BUT our local library system's version has a significantly different cover, perhaps from a difference between US and UK versions? The cover I'm looking at is BLUE and the subtitle is "The art and science of certainty." Your discussion took me back to some mislaid memories of the Monty Hall debate in the popular press; I think I was on the wrong side then but you've helped my unbelief.
Yes. I used the UK cover since I thought it was much better
The leading discussion about reason in scientific proof versus how much is unknown or in Civud the science reality is disturbing. So disturbing we have health czars who are anti science. As we move the more we learn the more we understand our insights open up a host of unknowns . Thanks
I suffer from dyscalculia, so much of this is incomprehensible to me. The run-on sentences and bad grammar and syntax make it even worse. I can't follow large chunks of the explanation even in English. I realize this must be a rush transcript, but I gave up early on.