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National Science Correspondent STAT News, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Defender of LA, Gardener, Mom. Covering coronavirus since 2020.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2011

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    Usha Lee McFarling‏Verified account @ushamcfarling Feb 28

    Usha Lee McFarling Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD

    Admired? From '19 review of 'Outrages" which mentions her "long, ludicrous career." Over the years her batty claims have included that a woman’s brain can allow her to become pregnant if she so desires...that writing a letter to a breech baby will induce it to turn right side up.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1366181609284775944 …

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    David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskon
    As do I. Their number included a scientist whom I used to admire greatly pre-pandemic. https://twitter.com/statsepi/status/1365935384157446147 …
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      2. Usha Lee McFarling‏Verified account @ushamcfarling Feb 28

        Wow this review: Her first, career-making book, “The Beauty Myth,” is well-known for exaggerating the number of women who died of anorexia (Wolf stated that anorexia kills 150,000 women annually; the actual figure at the time, in the mid-1990s, was said to be closer to 50 or 60).

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      3. Usha Lee McFarling‏Verified account @ushamcfarling Feb 28

        One academic paper found that fully 18 of the 23 statistics about anorexia in the book were inaccurate and coined a term — “WOLF” (Wolf’s Overdo and Lie Factor) — to determine the degree to which Wolf was wrong.

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      4. Usha Lee McFarling‏Verified account @ushamcfarling Feb 28

        “On average, a statistic on anorexia by Naomi Wolf should be divided by eight to get close to the real figure.”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html …

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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Feb 28
        Replying to @ushamcfarling

        I wasn’t referring to Wolf. I really knew little about her before she went #COVID19 crank, and she’s not a scientist anyway. I was referring to John Ioannidis.

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      3. Usha Lee McFarling‏Verified account @ushamcfarling Feb 28
        Replying to @gorskon

        OK, I was surprised you'd admire her given your predilection for actual facts.

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