It is absolutely stunning to observe how the scientific community has reacted to the public health aspects of the pandemic. When the fog clears, one of the consequences of the pandemic will be public distrust in science and scientists.
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Replying to @MartinKulldorff
What specifically do you mean, Martin? I mean apart from the retracted NEJM/Lancet papers, the cherry picking of evidence in top journals as if Science is non-objective, or the overly risk-averse (at the cost of economy) clinical reaction to "things we don't know", what else?
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne
Many scientists without prior work on infectious disease outbreaks (+some with) have pushed for general population-wide
#lockdown instead of minimizing mortality by isolating high-risk elderly while younger low-risk people build#HerdImmunity.https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/29/delaying-herd-immunity-is-costing-lives/ …21 replies 59 retweets 267 likes -
Replying to @MartinKulldorff @MoreeSpinne
This would be a very bad strategy. Probably you also don’t know what Spiked is, or its history. Have a look at the Wikipedia article:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine) …
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Replying to @bealelab @MartinKulldorff
So the source means everything in it, even if written by a professor from Harvard, is silly? Bias much? Even the likes of Lancet and NEJM are busy publishing “peer reviewed” studies based on stupid methodology and fake data (later retracted).
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @MartinKulldorff
It’s Martin’s article, I’m just surprised it was the vehicle chosen for such a piece.
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I was also surprised. I tried but failed with English language main-stream media. As a contrast, in Sweden I had no problem publishing in major daily newspapers.
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