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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

Sydney, New South Wales
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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Jul 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Emma Alberici

    For the last (hopefully) time: "Expert" means someone who knows a lot about a topic THAT'S EXACTLY WHO YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO WHY WOULD YOU LISTEN TO A FOOL WHO KNOWS NOTHINGhttps://twitter.com/albericie/status/1283603401553571840 …

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    Emma AlbericiVerified account @albericie
    An interview with former PM @HonTonyAbbott in which both he & @TheIPA are aghast that Australian politicians have become “enthralled” by “unelected experts” - scientists, you know, like public health authorities. “It’s not the Australian way” https://ipa.org.au/australiasfuture …
    4:33 AM - 16 Jul 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Jul 2020

        "Oh yeh, I just listen to Bob down the pub. He's a fuckin' idiot but he sounds like he knows what he's taking about and that's what I care about"

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      2. Medical Nemesis‏ @Medical_Nemesis 16 Jul 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Experts think or believe they know a lot when they often don’t. The education system and licensing rigs the system in favor of professions. Amateurs often beat licensed professionals in many areas of knowledge and skill.

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      3. Medical Nemesis‏ @Medical_Nemesis 16 Jul 2020
        Replying to @Medical_Nemesis @GidMK

        Many a grassroots movement was built in defiance to the rule of disabling professions.

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      2. Rory‏ @RexMorg13536950 16 Jul 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        sorry it's long, but it relates - "History shows those most likely to survive a pandemic – physically and economically – are those who deal with the world as it is, not as they would wish it. A good example comes from Rio de Janeiro, reported by Laura Spinney in her brilliant

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      3. Rory‏ @RexMorg13536950 16 Jul 2020
        Replying to @RexMorg13536950 @GidMK

        book Pale Rider on the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Just as the virus was sweeping into the city, parts of the popular press dismissed the disease as a mere “limpa-velhos” (killer of the old). They said the authorities were exaggerating its danger in a bid to impose

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      2. Starving Engineer‏ @edw_tweet 16 Jul 2020
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        Let's not dismiss the critique, it is not coming from nowhere (even if the messenger and its goals... Well.) Experts tend to oversell their expertise. Military experts have left countries in quagmires. Economic experts are... (No need to expand on that one)

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      3. Starving Engineer‏ @edw_tweet 16 Jul 2020
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        What health experts are "lucky" with, is that this epidemic is a "big one", a once-a-century event. But anything lesser than that, and they would have burned all credibility. Remember it *almost* happened with H1N1 (and impeded the response to covid-19).

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      1. Francis St-Pierre‏ @FSP_QC 16 Jul 2020
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        Neil Ferguson has destroyed the confidence in experts for the next decade

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