Thank you, @DKThomp for doing the unpleasant work of documenting (a fraction) of Alex Berenson many many (I can only conclude deliberately) wildly misleading and flat-out-false claims.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/ …
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But there's clearly a line between people having (heated and rancorous) intra-science debates, and are flat-out attempting to mislead, misinform and misrepresent. That line is hard to tell if you are not steeped in the field, and someone is deliberately pretending to be former.
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The decision to deny oxygen to deliberate misinformation by amplifying it, and going out and debunking it depends, I think now the character and nature of the attempt, and on this case, I think this is right. He is so obviously wrong so often, while wrapping himself in scientism.
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I think there's a point beyond which academic contrarianism, arrogance, even egomania (which is normal, if annoying) becomes political agenda--and in this case, nefarious political agenda. Maybe they haven't quite reached Scott Atlas level yet, but they're closing in...
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