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The banning sounds silly, but I'm glad Dr. Niman is here; this is home.

I just posted up a link to Dr Niman's latest commentary ("Misinformation Linked to Explosion of Swine Flu in US Schools") over at FT and it was pulled with no explanation so it seems that FT will no longer even allow Dr Niman's commentary to be posted up as news items by others.

I haven't even had the courtesy of a pm telling me why my post was removed despite the fact I cannot figure out what rule I seem to have broken - all I posted was the information with no comments relating to the banning of Dr Niman.

The incredible irony here is that Florida1's actions are driving people to this site rather than FT

They are only hurting their own credibility. So, so sad.

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I am not a doctor, virologist, or any of type of medical/life sciences professional.

I am a layman with a background in the physical sciences.

Actually, the pulling of commentaries is quite ironic in many respects. One web site that I don't consider to be credible, had banned links to Recombinomics commentaries. I knew the owner of the site becasue he had asked for an "endorsement" when he started the site (on the flu pandemic) and when I asked him why he was blocking the links, he said that as long as the commentary had a link to flutrackers.com, he would ban the commentaries (the "media link" at the bottom of commentaries links to the thread with the original news story, which I used to post at flutrackers.com).

I told him that pandemic sites that block recombinomics commentaries really have no credibility as a pandemic news site.

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I had a post referring to Dr. Niman removed also, as have others. Dr. Niman's name is no longer included in the User List of the other site. For me, the credibility of the other site no longer exists. Without Dr. Niman's information and participation it has become nothing more than a bunch of news posts, subjective comments, and incorrect and confusing data interpretation.

quote]Its making me regret my donation, and rethink the time I spend there.[/quote]

Yes, me too. I was just setting up a monthly donation. With the removal of my post, that loyalty in both time and attention will change.

You can still get the stats if you click on Niman in an old post

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20,000 plus posts for an average of 16 per day over three and a half years. Now silenced at FT just as the pandemic we all feared enters a critical phase.

I think you are being missed, Niman...
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showth ... p?t=122942

Roche: few cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu
Published: Monday, Sep. 07, 2009
Updated: Monday, Sep. 07, 2009



Uh, now I may be a microbiological ignoramus, but I would like to know how Mr. Reddy knows that those having the resistant strain did not pass it on to other people. And is it just me all ate up with smooth-brain syndrome or is having 13 confirmed cases of oseltamivir-resistant swine flu popping up all over the world in Europe, the United States, and Asia a bad thing? I mean, for each case that is confirmed and documented how many others go unconfirmed and undocumented? Bet that ratio is pretty healthy. Also, from a sample of just 13 confirmed cases he concludes that the resistant strain is typically mild? Does any one else get a strong whiff of bowel off of this thing?

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Actually it is worse than you think, because the historical numbers are from sub-optimal use in children in Japan many years ago, which is not relevant to the recent resistance is seasonal and pandmeic flu whoch only involve H274Y in H1N1. There were ZERO recent cases in seasonal H3N2 because the seasonal and pandmeic H1N1 resistance is linked to recombination, NOT spontaneous mutations (wich are VERY rare).
H274Y is quite widespread and largey just below the detection range, so most samples colllect BEFORE Tamiflu treatment test as wild type, but resistance develops VERY quickly very often (but is not tested in samples collected after treatment.

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