Somebody needs to explain the concept of picking a sensible null hypothesis. This is a grossly misleading misuse of the phrase "there is no evidence".https://twitter.com/DrChristineMann/status/1246262180766457857 …
He is not talking to a grant agency but to a journalist. This is not how his statements will be interpreted.
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Do you, as a scientist, agree that we need better data to make more intelligent decisions? E.g. trying to differentiate better between "died with corona" vs "died from corona"? Or performing a study with a representative sample to understand the actual fatality better?
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We can probably look at the change in all cause mortality to make a good-enough decision. We also have lots of reliable data points from China, South Korea and Italy. The reasons why we don't put data together in the right way might be more political than scientific.
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