3/n Now, part of this is because the academic being defended usually has not by any description been silenced. Nobel laureates and tenured professors at Stanford don't really need defending they can do it themselves
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4/n As a wise man said "it's basically impossible to silence a man who can call his own press conferences" (paraphrased)
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5/n But the other thing about these ridiculous arguments that I dislike is how incredibly costless they are No one is risking much when they go to bat for, say, Professor John Ioannidis
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6/n Seriously, ignoring anything else, Prof Ioannidis is one of the most famous academics in the world, and a tenured professor with no small number of friends/colleagues
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7/n When you defend an eminent professor, you're not so much fighting the current as you are riding the wave of support It's a bit like this scene from Rick and Mortyhttps://youtu.be/me16KSj_Oj0?t=14 …
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8/n I mean, Professor Ioannidis is, by all accounts, a lovely guy and a very dedicated researcher But he's also enormously famous, and clearly in no danger of being "silenced" in any way any time soon
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9/n Where are the defenses of the PhD students who speak up? The post-docs who have been shouted down? They exist. But they don't get STAT editorials
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10/n Often, FINDING these people is quite hard, because THEY HAVE BEEN SILENCED. They have little power, and their voices regularly go unheard despite often having really important things to say
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11/n But instead of trying to push up the powerless, we get people arguing that Scott Atlas, one of the most powerful medical professionals in the world for much of 2020, was a victim of "silencing"
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I think the point is that someone like Scott Atlas was derided and ignored, pilloried by media and academia alike, for having a counter narrative to the one prevalent through most of 2020. The man was one of the heads of the task force and few people have heard his viewpoints.
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That's just not true. He had a massive global platform, and huge power over the United States response. He was one of the most listened to people on the globe, regardless of what you think of his opinions
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He may have been pilloried in the media, but every time he made any statement EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY LISTENED. That's not silencing by any reasonable measure
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When someone speaks, and then that is followed by dozens telling you to ignore what you just heard in digital and screen media, it is a method of silencing though drowning out. See my other tweet. It's not about people losing their jobs. The argument is about the media IMO
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