I find the unwillingness of critics here to engage or level anything other than ad hominem attacks disturbing. Credit to Zeynep for at least engaging and explaining her position lower down in the thread, but I haven't seen a single attempt to justify the "crank" accusation.
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Or, to put his words in context, he said, "There was not efficacy in moderate disease. The azn is garbage against B1351." No one here has asserted that AZ provides no protection against severe illness or death, so can we put that straw man to bed?
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Second, we don't have more big (powered) trials against Beta because it is not really circulating anywhere anymore! It got outcompeted by other variants, notably Delta, and we have tons of real-life data on these much more threatening, current variants and AZ. That's the data!
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That would be fine if this was a thread about AZ but it isn’t about AZ. This thread came about after you added your support to an unjustified attack on a scientist’s credibility.
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If you don’t follow him, why did you call him a crank? You have a huge platform. You shouldn’t take undermining the credibility of scientists lightly.
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And doesn't she have zero background to do so? Isn't she a sociologist? WTH
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"It does NOT show that there is no protection against severe disease" I don't think anyone here has claimed that it does?
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