6 months ago: 1 epidemiologist per 100,000 population
Today: 100,000 epidemiologists per 100,000 population #epitwitter
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A few days ago: your article alluding to 'doom laden' analysis
@tomaspueyo - https://www.businesspost.ie/analysts/why-covid-19-predictions-wont-always-add-up-231b44f9?utm_campaign=article&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web … Today: a new piece from him - https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 … What is your opinion now? Curiously, you agreed in your piece with the suggestions - rapid lockdown now, so why dismiss?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Because the predictions were totally incorrect. That we both agree that mitigation is necessary does not mitigate the many errors in the piece regarding prediction
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Justin Clarke Retweeted Yaneer Bar-Yam
Leading pandemic response voices like
@yaneerbaryam disagree, and are urging people to read the follow-up:https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1240754323874885646 …Justin Clarke added,
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The assumptions were extremely suspect and almost certainly wrong. The actual modelling I've seen from pandemic modelling experts looks vastly different, but honestly you don't need to see that to note that the piece was massively flawed
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I appreciate you think that, but if you go to the effort of writing an article dismissing it, as a reader I would have appreciated specific criticisms so we are more informed. Instead it seems like lazy dismissal. I would be surprised if
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It was not the only absurd prediction, so I wrote addressing them all. I could spend 7,000 words addressing every piece of nonsense out there, but that's the problem with nonsense. Always more to debunk than there is time to do it
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I have seen a lot of people calling you lazy in the last few days for not spending your time giving detailed breakdowns of why all the nonsense is nonsense.
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How dare I not spend all my time pointing out every single inaccuracy in pieces riddled with inaccuracies 
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Replying to @GidMK @riding_red and
Why bother responding if it's just to present a total exaggeration of a simple criticism: that you bothered to write an article but just engaged in lazy dismissal?
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