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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Peter Doshi is as much of a scientist as my cat. He's a historian, an honorable profession, but he lacks any credentials in epidemiology, virology, public health, microbiology, biochemistry, cell biology, or anything related to vaccinology.
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For the fact-concerned, Doshi is a professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Research Interests: Credible evidence synthesis; evidence-based medicine; reporting biases; drug safety...[more] https://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/research/faculty/ …
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No vaccines, though. Funny that.
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Didn't know about this guy... Looked him up and found this drivel. Wow. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037 …
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Oh, there's lots more drivel like that by Doshi where that came from.
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I need to get on an editorial board so I can finally publish my Roadrunner fanfiction I wrote (well, drew) in Kindergarten...
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