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Lindsay Beyerstein

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She's an award-winning documentary filmmaker & investigative journalist. Sidney Judge for @SidneyHillman. (inglés y español) Shared a 2021 New York Press Award!

Brooklyn, NY
Joined August 2008

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    Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

    Finished Barry’s “The Great Influenza,” they had everything we’ve got from mask culture war, to a lying president, to curbside pickup, to the 1918 equivalent of garbage preprint servers!

    7:36 PM - 26 Jul 2020 from Brooklyn, NY
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      2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        They turned the medical journals into “preprint servers” abandoning peer review and publishing what everyone knew to be garbage—which by the standards of 1918 medicine was really fucking bad.

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      3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        People forget how primitive medicine was in 1918. Purging and bleeding were considered quaint but still mainstream. Every remotely competent MD had already been sent overseas for the war--so the stragglers really let their freak flags fly.

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      4. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        By 1918, the Grand Old Men of the American medical establishment had largely won their battle to marginalize the old "heroic" (read: violent, toxic, unscientific) ways by reforming medical education.

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      5. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        However, all the good doctors got drafted into the military and sent to Europe to treat the troops, leaving a handful of alcoholic old fossils who were still devotés of the old purging, bleeding paradigm.

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      6. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        Left in charge, their first impulse was: Could we be doing more with strychnine?

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      7. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        Their rivals, the homeopaths decided this was their moment to shine...with bogus "trials" and the same bad arguments we hear today to explain away the failures of HCQ and other pet therapies.

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      2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020

        Ironically Spain got blamed because they didn’t have wartime censorship, so their papers reported what was actually happening.

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      2. John O'Neil‏Verified account @THAToneil 26 Jul 2020
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        Does it say anything about why the pandemic was so thoroughly memory holed? I literally never heard of it till I was in my 30s. My mom, who was born in 1931, didn't hear a mention of it till decades later.

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      3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 26 Jul 2020
        Replying to @THAToneil

        Wartime censorship is a big part of it. The first draft of the pandemic’s history was never written in the US.

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