I read all sorts of analyzes and criticism of anti-vaccines this week, and thought that there could be harm from advanced popularizers of science too.
Our people are easily divided into two camps, they begin to spit on obscurantists and sing praises to the fashionable denouncer of obscurantists. Against this background, a flushed and contented denouncer unties his tongue and lets out all his fantasies.
In fact, the whistleblower's fantasies are often wild. In short, the circle is complete. Our popularizers cannot restrain themselves from promoting their expert opinion.
You understand that if a dude feels your support, then he wants to justify the high trust shown and continue to play the role of a whistleblower.
The problem is that the set of current scientific facts is limited. Writing incriminating articles every day will not work. At the same time, the public demands some kind of alternative opinion. Take it easy.
And then the accuser dumps his thoughts. They seem logical to him, but by the same verification they are in no way confirmed by the actual scientific information. In bent!
In short, you can show exactly where the obscurantists are mistaken, but it's better to shut up on this and not promote your alternative opinion.
What does aspirin have to do with it?
After all these covid hospital adventures with rivers of heparins and mountains of eliquis, the sense of danger has noticeably dulled in people. Everyone is afraid of thrombosis, but for some reason they are no longer afraid of bleeding.
A couple of times over the last month I notice how literate people seem to fantasize about "eat an aspirin". Like slightly disperse platelets in some kind of situation.
Guys, let me remind you that it was fashionable twenty years ago to feed all healthy people from a certain age with aspirin. Then they stopped doing that, because it is quite possible to die from aspirin.
Aspirin increases the likelihood of hemorrhage in or around the brain by about 50% over the next 10 years. Then every second victim of this hemorrhage can die.
This is not counting the risk of stomach bleeding, from which no one dies or bothers in developed countries, and in our country it is quite possible not to wait for an ambulance.
In fact, the absolute risk of fatal hemorrhage is small. Well, that is, if you literally count these corpses over their heads, then there will be few of them, but the risk is still noticeably increased.
People need aspirin after a heart attack or stroke, because it really prolongs their life. But everyone else is very doubtful. And even more so, you can't just experiment on yourself from nefig in terms of blood thinning and all that. Aspirin is not candy.
So I do not advise you to "secure" yourself with aspirin in a situation where the use of aspirin is not officially approved. This is how you play the deadly lottery.
