Forget politics. Forget ideology. Ever since March, the majority of the mainstream scientific discourse around this has been a triumph of opportunistic mediocrity over honorable, independently thinking scientists. I am glad that the tide is turning. It's high time.https://twitter.com/rfsquared/status/1300917711854342152 …
As somebody who grew up around medical research, I don't find it shocking. Just sad because so many lives could have been saved if the science, which is supposed to be an amazingly reliable method, weren't turned into another corporate weapon against people.
Ioannidis *nailed it* and was crucified because a mob who should know better just couldn’t bear to hear dissenting views or be confronted with dissenting data that conflicted with their policy preferences. It’s that simple.