That’s the conclusion of this.

Even MAGA is not happy with our medical establishment. Ht @ononokomachi1.bsky.social pjmedia.com/jeff-hunt/20...

The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship. But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach. To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk. New post from me: 1/

You are wrong. That is *exactly* the point. So I guess you are right!

Meanwhile, the guy he is defending says that citizens who criticize the government are “enemies.”

Me: Grifters and frauds claim vaccines cause autism. Macedo and Lee: Even vaccine advocates have been forced to admit that "vaccine cause autism."

Yep. It’s the quantbrain philosophy: failure to recognize the limits of data, data without thinking. Good scientists understand what data can tell us and what it cannot. We teach this in grad school! The Stanford political scientist has quantbrain disease.

The anti-vaxxers this book venerates, in addition to their ongoing destruction of public health and medical research, were wrong about everything they said along the way, too. They called for a plan, just weeks before the vaccine proved a winner, that would have likely doubled or tripled deaths.

MAHA rose to power via a child labor advocate sciencebasedmedicine.org/child-labor-...

crackpots always seem to have a revolutionary theory and the explanation for why it has no traction with any serious people is always an even more unbelievable conspiracy against them

Congratulations indeed. Brilliant work all around… sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

Remember, Ioannidis is saying it is political to *oppose* this guy in any way.

The next time a journalist talks to John Ioannidis they need to press on these vague calls for rigor. Pin him down. What does he think about these headlines. Force him to engage with, you know, reality.

I figured out his gimmick. He ignores a real threats- Covid and MAHA- and then says a much worse threat looms if you don’t see things his way. A worse future is just around the corner. The danger is not here yet, and your attempts to prevent it will bring it on. So be quiet and accepting.

This quote from John Ioannidis is pretty incredible. He is implying that Jay Bhattacharya is an apolitical actor here and that it is we, his critics, who are running the risk of making science political. In his fantasy, these headlines are required now, to save science. We need to STFU.

It’s nice to see people like this article. But I want to discuss a comment it received from a political scientist at Stanford. But first some background. 🧵

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Astonishingly corrupt government; I for one have been grateful to the AAP for calling out RFK Jr’s extreme, horrific, dangerous anti-science, anti-public health positions

Our 🤮 medical establishment at work.

Note: Prasad’s objection here was to children be given a safe and effective medicine that makes illness less severe while also making timing of infection more predictable during periods of high circulation.

A link to a @joho.bsky.social review of the section devoted to the Great Barrington Declaration. bsky.app/profile/burn... There are people bankrolling this ahistorical rewrite just like there were people bankrolling the think tanks producing the declaration.

Again, not hidden! They announced their intentions loudly and often.

Maybe if I had listened to @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social and her advice “you don’t have to include every detail.”😅

Good review of this book earlier in the year. sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

Macedo and Lee unleashed this on us all, while *faking* being progressive. That’s all they should be known for or asked about. More…

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

Books like this get accolades because the Opinion Class protects itself above all else. sciencebasedmedicine.org/opinionclass/

He says he's trying to get there, honest. 🥺 He's just so, so bad at it, poor dear.

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Holy frak @stephenmacedo.bsky.social you owe this man a public apology

When elites make room for liars and cheats, it’s because the elites are full of liars and cheats. They are telling us who they are but demand our respect and admiration anyway. We don’t owe them anything and the faster we accept that, the better we will be.

"There’s some places where I think we’ve reached herd immunity actually." Jay Bhattacharya July 2020

Nothing to see here Just the NIH Director trashing, um, one of the world’s best respected journals, Science It makes sense really—power-hungry, power-consolidating autocrats love to criticize the media, it’s one of their favorite tactics

Macedo and Lee misrepresent what happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise. Congratulations, I guess. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

Macedo and Lee misrepresent what actually happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise. A longer take here w/my colleague Greg Gibson: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around. Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.

Podcast Jay wants you to know he’s unbothered by the nickname. Not at all. Also, he opposed lockdowns in 2020.

a book that, should its core argument be true, would disprove the germ theory of disease. real depressing

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

people who did not have the experience of working in a hospital in fall/winter 2020 & 2021 should probably shut up about community interventions is that rational of me? nah anyway, after you’ve [a lot of redacted bad things], this is not a discussion of inconveniences

He’s a deeply self-conscious, one trick pony of a man who is desperately trying to stay relevant as he has landed in a position of power far greater than he could have imagined being in AND that is far above his skill set. He’s trying to play both sides bc he wants power AND to be taken seriously.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

The supposed best book of the year about a pandemic doesn’t get the definition of quarantine right. “By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine”

Fake cries of censorship from famous doctors paved the way for👇

Good 🧵covering some of the issues either the Science story about Director Bhattacharya…

Correct. He was called fringe in a private email. So he had a public therapy session about it with Bari Weiss.

MAHA had enablers *everywhere*. The most pernicious were universities, individuals, publications that claimed to stand for science and free speech, yet instead hosted and promoted MAHA royalty. Kennedy and his ilk didn’t arise from nowhere.

Parody versus UCSF professors on Sensible Medicine

You have got to be fucking kidding me. The whole book is a sendup to anti-vaxxers who are destroying our public health and medical research infrastructure as we speak.