Disagreement over science should not consist of personal attacks That is not an excuse for uncritically accepting all bad science, nor for refusing to critique things that are clearly flawed
It has been very disheartening. I could forgive the political opinions, but the bad science and obvious nonsense is very upsetting!
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In this case I think he allowed his politics to infect his science. The opportunity to influence was so big that it required speed and left open ignoring some data. even early on, using Lombardy or NYC total death rate % as lower bounds would have yielded higher ifr.
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Covid deaths/total population for Lombardy is now around 0.3%.
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For the record:
1. I used to be a huge fan
2. I was the editor who peer-reviewed & published the essay that made him mega famous 1/2