Mine & Dr. Peter Doshi's contribution to the NYT series on fixing the #covidvaccines rollout: "It’s needlessly divisive to use pressure, shame, or mandates...Sixty percent of people are willing — and until recently, 60 percent was the herd immunity goal."https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-distribution.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …
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@gorskon No. Not good at all. The side effects Covid are magnitudes worse than the vaccines. Which is temporary. 60 percent is way too low. People who can not be vaccinated because of autoimmune disorders and the like. Will be at grave risk.1 reply 2 retweets 24 likes -
Yup. What the hell is
@nytimes doing giving voice to Peter Doshi? At the very least he's an enabler of the antivaccine movement; at worst, he's an antivaxxer. Indeed, he's even spoken at antivaccine confabs.8 replies 16 retweets 91 likes -
Smearing scientists whose research may complicate your personal opinions or agenda speaks volumes about how much you value actual science.
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First, he's not really a scientist, at least not one with any relevant expertise in vaccines. Second, it is not a "smear" to point out that Peter Doshi regularly spreads antivaccine misinformation and, because of that, is widely admired and quoted by antivaxxers.
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This is perhaps my favorite example (courtesy of
@skepticalraptor) of Peter Doshi going parroting an antivax line. I mean, for someone who claims to be an "expert" on vaccines, he doesn't even understand how the VAERS database or web browsers work.https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/peter-doshi-vaccine-denier-conspiracy-vaers/ …2 replies 5 retweets 25 likes
This isn't new, either. Doshi has been doing this at least close to 15 years now. Here, a senior epidemiologist took him to task in 2006 for the same schtick he continues to do! https://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2006/03/unhelpful-commentary.html …
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I hadn’t read that before. Apparently real scientists don’t think much of Doshi.
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