Here's a very interesting thread where several academic Twitter heavyweights debate the Facebook censorship of a @WSJ op-ed by Johns Hopkins public health professor @MartyMakary.
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on my thoughts on censorship (tldr; it's a slippery slope).https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1368437342348832769 …
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I don’t think any prominent experts took those CDC estimates very seriously. We actually discussed them briefly at work over the summer and determined they were biased. Working backwards from any reasonable IFR would give prevalence estimates much lower.
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Yeah I guess the point is that experts didn’t take the paper seriously, but the moment
@MartyMakary used similar estimates they took it seriously and labeled it “misinformation”. Also, what’s the point of peer review at this point?
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