I wasn’t embarrassed. I was impressed by his eloquence, his knowledge, & his belief in what he is saying. The last tweet I saw from a medical doctor said he refused to treat patients who don’t wear masks so I don’t see any reason to trust someone just because they’re a doctor
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Replying to @RichardMorgan10 @JamesDelingpole and
Exactly. There's some really dodgey medical doctors. Then there's simply those who do clinical care and have no public health skill. Yeadon (assuming that's who he's criticising) is, as he says, eminently qualified to speak on this.
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Replying to @HelenTeaPot @RichardMorgan10 and
I think he is a nice guy that genuinely thinks he is right and that he is helping. The problem is, I don't think he is either right or helping.
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Replying to @0bj3ctivity @HelenTeaPot and
I honestly have no idea who he is or thoughts on his person either way, but he does make a lot of errors both mathematical and epidemiological so most of what he says is factually incorrect about COVID
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Replying to @GidMK @RichardMorgan10 and
Those have been my thoughts on you, too.
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Replying to @HelenTeaPot @RichardMorgan10 and
Always keen to correct mistakes. What errors have I made?
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Replying to @GidMK @RichardMorgan10 and
You regularly present 1 preferred conclusion from data as fact (confirmation bias). Eg pre-existing immunity in Asian pops has not been excluded and quite possible. Scientific inquiry would allow debate of possibilities, but as this thread shows, conf bias blocks that option.
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Replying to @HelenTeaPot @RichardMorgan10 and
Health Nerd Retweeted Prof. Shane Crotty
Well, I can't say I'm less immune to confirmation bias than anyone else - we are all human after all - but it isn't really a maths or epi mistake. The specific example you cited of pre-existing immunity has indeed been shown to make little difference i.e.https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1313580981341712386?s=19 …
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Replying to @GidMK @HelenTeaPot and
Also important to note that here you're attacking a point that I never actually made - pre-existing immunity in Asian populations - so despite being wrong it's also a bit of a straw man. I'd still love to know of any factual errors I've made
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Replying to @GidMK @RichardMorgan10 and
Not a strawman but an alternative to your "Asia did well because of masks" conclusion. There's only so much room in a tweet and I only have so much time. Point is you are very conclusive towards your biases and don't pursue scientific inquiry.
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That's not something I've ever said
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Replying to @GidMK @RichardMorgan10 and
It's a while since I read you so I'm happy to be mistaken on the point re masks vs alternative explanations. But the point remains about confirmation bias, and is in fact why I stopped reading you, there was too much of it. Maths is 1 thing but applied epi something else.
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