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Replying to @matthewstoller @Pinboard
He’s right. That guy has been a fountain of misinformation. There’s a wrong way to get mad at the right target.
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Well I'm trusting
@jonst0kes on this and he's pointing out it looks more like a petty turf war.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@jonst0kes on a lot of things tbh but haven’t seen what he says on Ding. Not everything Ding says is wrong but he has said blatantly wrong things and blocked scientists begging him to correct. Imho we shouldn’t amplify misinformation peddlers. That’s all.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Ding went from 2K followers to 83K overnight. He has done a handful of Twitter norm violation type things that one doesn't normally do when one has that big of an account. He has also been subjected to some SJW weirdness (one woman accused him of being a sexist creeper b/c...
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Replying to @jonst0kes @zeynep and
..he DMed her & some others who were smearing him & wanted to talk IRL to work it out.) He's been called a lot of names, & in general there's just a lot of professional jealousy going on, some of it sort of moderately understandable, but still
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I don’t know any of that! I just saw really bad tweets from him plus him blocking people nicely correcting. That’s what I’m going from. Everyone makes mistakes but it’s the reaction to polite correction that’s telling to me. Turf wars... Sure... They’re always there
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I saw the Bad Tweets too, which were retracted/deleted, but when I saw the name calling & dragging & then I saw who he was blocking, I was like "ok he woke up one morning with a whale Twitter account & he's Doing It Wrong here by whale standards in terms of reacting to dragging."
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Replying to @jonst0kes @zeynep and
Like I said, I find his account useful, & I'm just not seeing anything more than tonal stuff & some Twitter norm violations. He's also airing some of the more dire scenarios & numbers that IMO are a useful antidote to some of the press coverage that won't touch that stuff.
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I find the constant ‘oh stop exaggerating that this disease is a big deal’ far more prevalent than the doomsday types. And there’s far too much faith in the CCP.
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I don't think I'm on the stop exaggerating camp at all (have been railing against the flu comparisons) but again, there is a wrong way to go at a right target and misinformation is often as paralyzing as the nothing-to-see-here crowd.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller and
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepOn the gallows humor side, I guess that'd be one way to end the "Medicare for all" debate. Given EMTALA, which requires anyone showing up at an emergency room to be "stabilized and treated", and given the COVID-19 age profile, this might de facto lower Medicare age to 50 or so.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
I've been saying this for weeks. It's a pretty obvious observation. What I don't understand is why the candidates aren't saying it. And frankly, the total absence of any discussion of the virus in the 2020 presidential race leads me to believe we need a lot more doomsdayers.
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