Ok. I've had my coffee and I think there are some things that need to be said about this @undarkmag piece
It is, I think, thoroughly misleading and in many places wronghttps://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/1271152906935230464 …
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Firstly, this is all posed as some vague academic dispute IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT At this moment in time, academics with huge influence can quite literally decide whether millions of people live or die
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I've been told by a number of sources that the Santa Clara study DIRECTLY impacted policy decisions in several countries That's not just an academic question
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Presenting this whole debacle as "just asking questions" or as some kind of vague academic dispute about correctness is, imo, really missing the point
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And the piece ends with this, which is, uh, an odd thing to say How in the world can you describe what is happening as 'silencing'???pic.twitter.com/gRAicWKAEB
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Ioannidis has, by my count, appeared on more than a dozen national US TV shows, had a Youtube video with millions of hits, has been in print another dozen times, and has written two lengthy editorials If that's silencing, sign me up
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Overall, I think the piece is very misleading, and as I've pointed out factually incorrect in several aspects
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