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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

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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    9. Heretic of Science‏ @hereticscience Mar 25
      Replying to @GidMK

      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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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25
      Replying to @hereticscience

      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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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 25

      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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        2. Heretic of Science‏ @hereticscience Mar 25
          Replying to @GidMK

          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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        3. Heretic of Science‏ @hereticscience Mar 25
          Replying to @hereticscience @GidMK

          Keep in mind it's not that I feel bad for Atlas. I could care less, he is accomplished and will have a fine life. But there was a counter perspective to the prevailing COVID response in 2020 that was largely ignored. He just happened to be one of the voices.

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