I don't know about ousting from Cochrane or what was behind that. I can take ur word about 'poor behavior' but it seems like I would have to do quite a lot of digging and investigation to formulate my own impression. Do you think the content of the editorial I shared is wrong?
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Brian, if you do a cursory check on Gøtzsche you’ll find information regarding him? Did you not even find the Go Fund Me?
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No, I had no knowledge of GoFundMe. I'm confused about ur perspective. If I read an article whose content seems sensible, your view is I should first investigate the author of the article to see if, in some other context, they have said things other experts object to?
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Gøtzsche is promoting his “Institute for Scientific Freedom”, did you not even do a basic check on what it is and why he formed it?
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Here was my thought process: the BMJ is a pretty respectable source. Here is an article expressing values about science, and concerns about problems in science, that I think are good values and reasonable concerns. I will share this expression of values/concerns.
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There’s your mistake. BMJ has become rather dodgy in a number of ways, not the least of which that there’s an antivaxer (Peter Doshi) as one of its associate editors.
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This was quite obvious when I had a look. But how on earth does this quack end up being an associate editor?
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I wish I knew. He has no medical training. His training is, as I recall, as an anthropologist. Yet he pontificates on vaccines, in particular the flu vaccine, all the time, parroting antivaccine misinformation and distortions of science. He has no business as an editor of BMJ.
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Looking through his publications it almost looks like he's an influenza denier, or at least an impact of influenza denier: https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3037.short …
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He is. Consistent themes in his writing include claims that the flu isn’t as dangerous or deadly as we are told and that the flu vaccine doesn’t work. He even spoke at an antivax conference run by NVIC.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/crank-conferences-a-parody-of-science-based-medicine-that-can-suck-in-even-reputable-scientists-and-institutions/ …
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Peter Doshi very much parrots antivaccine talking points, but cleverly with a layer of plausible deniability.https://thepoxesblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/peter-doshi-is-at-it-again-with-the-anti-vaccine-stuff/ …
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