It never ceases to amuse me how cranks conflate the publication that they like by a single faculty member of a university as having been done by the university, as in, "Johns Hopkins concluded..." instead of Marty Makary concluded. (Makary is Johns Hopkins faculty.) 1/
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This conflation is a transparent ploy to make make it seem as though the conclusions of a crank faculty member carry the full endorsement of his university. It’s an exaggerated appeal to authority. 2/2
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Replying to @gorskon
You may disagree with him, and I don’t agree with him (and nor do I follow him), but a crank he is not. That’s wholly unfair.
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Replying to @Brian_Orak
No it isn’t unfair at all. It’s not just his innumerate nonsense about medical errors. (Just ask
@MarkHoofnagle.) He’s become a full-on#COVID19 denying/minimizing crank as well.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @Brian_Orak
We’ve been trying to fix his bad math for years which he resists because it buys him headlines and contrarian status. He is a malignancy on actual scientific understanding if error.
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Indeed. And now he’s a #COVID19 contrarian, because of course he is. Predicting that he’d go that route was the easiest prediction ever.
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