“In een informatiebeschaving worden samenlevingen bepaald door vragen over kennis – hoe die wordt verdeeld, het gezag dat de verspreiding ervan regelt en de macht die dat gezag beschermt. Wie weet het? Wie bepaalt wie het weet? Wie bepaalt wie er bepaalt wie het weet? Surveillance kapitalisten hebben nu de antwoorden op elke vraag, hoewel we hen nooit gekozen hebben om te regeren. Dit is de essentie van de epistemische staatsgreep. Zij eisen de autoriteit op om te beslissen wie in kennis wordt gesteld door het eigendomsrecht op onze persoonlijke informatie op te eisen en verdedigen die autoriteit met de macht om kritieke informatiesystemen en infrastructuren te controleren.”
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“Stroomafwaarts is waar de bedrijven willen dat we zijn, zo verwikkeld in de details van het eigendomscontract dat we het echte probleem vergeten, namelijk dat hun eigendomsclaim zelf onwettig is.”
Collider bias can arise when researchers restrict analyses on a collider variable13,14,15. Within the context of COVID-19 studies, this may relate to restricting analyses to those people who have experienced an event such as hospitalization with COVID-19, been tested for active infection or who have volunteered their participation in a large scale study (Fig. 2a). Among hospitalized patients, the relationships between any variables that relate to hospitalization will be distorted compared to among the general population. The magnitude of this distortion can be large, inducing associations that do not exist in the general population or attenuating, inflating or reversing the sign of existing associations16. As such, associations based on ascertained COVID-19 datasets may not reflect patterns in the population of interest (i.e. lack of external validity)
“Still, the reversal prompted rebukes from even the C.D.C.’s staunchest supporters. “It’s not something that instills a lot of confidence, right?” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert at Emory University. “It doesn’t help at all.”
Other scientists said it was hard to understand how a document of such public health importance could have been posted without careful vetting, given how closely the agency’s actions are now scrutinized.
“At this time, everybody knows that the stakes are extremely high, in terms of science communication,” said Dr. Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician at Harvard Medical School.”