It seems that to Ioannidis academic freedom means that if you're "a giant", "one of the greatest scientists of our times" then you can say whatever the hell you want? And the evidence can go hang!pic.twitter.com/xcv0yF7hGI
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It seems that to Ioannidis academic freedom means that if you're "a giant", "one of the greatest scientists of our times" then you can say whatever the hell you want? And the evidence can go hang!pic.twitter.com/xcv0yF7hGI
Of course as Ioannidis himself is a tenured professor at Stanford with a citation rate >3,000 a month (in the top ten of all scientists, natch)...so he can say this without fear of contradiction.
Even if he doesn't actually seem aware of, for example, petty details like Gøtzsche's stance on HPV vaccines... It's those little lower case facts, when you've got the Truth.
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And Gøtzsche has now, to my complete and utter lack of surprise, come out as full on anti-vaccine:https://mobile.twitter.com/Rosewind2007/status/1096336832189657088 …
Rosewind added,
Hi, I'm a bit buffled by that. Any link, anything in written, a video maybe?
A picture of @PGtzsche1 with other people??? Please clarify. That is a strong accusation.
Well, he is appearing at this event, alongside Toni Bark and Robert F Kennedy? They are, I think it's fair to say, rabidly anti-vaccine: https://www.prweb.com/releases/physicians_for_informed_consent_to_host_workshop_luncheon_in_southern_california/prweb16097222.htm …pic.twitter.com/kZPaG7cdT0
Can you honestly think of an "innocent" explanation?
"He didn't know Physicians for Informed Consent were #antivaccine to the core?"
"He had no idea who @doctorsensation is, or her position regarding vaccines!"
"Robert F Kennedy? He's not #antivaxx is he?"
Yup. RFK Jr. is hard core antivax. So is Mary Holland. Ditto Toni Bark. Rick Jaffe is a lawyer who specializes in representing quacks like @DrStanBurzynski. @picphysicians is a hard core antivax group disguised as a a group advocating "informed consent."
If @PGtzsche1 was unaware of these facts before, he is no longer. Will be pull out of this antivax confab where he's agreed to appear? I predict no, because he's become antivax.
And he’s giving a talk that, by its title, is designed to appeal to this antivaccine audience. Basically catering to them.
Indeed. It's a talk that Mary Holland or RFK Jr. himself could give. Hell, Andrew Wakefield could give it. I know @PGtzsche1 hates being compared to Wakefield, but right now the shoe seems to fit.
Sorry guys, I'll believe he is antivax when I hear or read him talking against vaccination. Talking amongst a group of antivax people isn't enough after everything he's done. I'll be eager to read/watch more about this. In the meantime my admiration for him remains put.
Giving a talk on an antivaccine topic in an antivaccine event is a strange thing for someone who is not antivaccine. It’s touching that you trust him to the extent of ignoring it, but it’s also probably over trusting.
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