"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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How “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic destroyed public health

Post author By Orac
Post date November 20, 2023
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Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya — Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

Jeffrey Tucker recently bragged that “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic like his Great Barrington Declaration had “changed everything.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong and worse, these changes were not a good thing.

Tags American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, childhood vaccines, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Endemic COVID, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Jeffrey Tucker, Jerome Adams, John Snow, John Snow Memorandum, John Snow Project, Jonathan Howard, Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Computers and social media Medicine Politics Popular culture

John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Post author By Orac
Post date February 23, 2022
67 Comments on John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Kim Kardashian — It's time for the Kardahsian index and John Ioannidis, round two.

John Ioannidis’ “science Kardashian” article is the bad science that keeps demonstrating why we should have no superheroes in science. Ideology can warp any of us.

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