5 minute read A silly preprint uploaded a few weeks back underlined how scientists and scicomm writers easily fall for “research” that tickles them in their political privates. With an authoritative title, “The Efficacy of Facemasks in the Prevention of COVID-19: A Systematic Review
The weirdest bit of pandemonium for me since the pandemic is the hiding or subverting of scientific study on the internet AND the NIH et al saying one thing to the public and then publishing another.
One example of each:
1) Mask studies from before the pandemic were widely available and easy to look up on the internet. After they started mandating masks you had to do a date range pre pandemic to get that information.
2) NIH and CDC: study in Pubmed: "A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness". On TV and for interviews with news agencies ivermectin was horsepaste that only idiots would take and... may kill you. SO STOP.
The rank hypocrisy was pretty overwhelming on both the masks and ivermectin. THEY didn't wear them for anything health related and only for show. When THEY got sick, THEY got their physicians to get ivermectin for them.
Excellent! What's scary is the unbelievable ease that the general public can be manipulated using pseudo-scientific pseudo-evidence as a rationale for every and any policy. This has been shown with Corona, but has it been employed in other areas? Global Warming? Sustainability? Green Energy? The usual vaccines? Nuclear Energy? Equal Opportunity? Once one realizes that everything can be manipulated, doctored, faked, or outright invented-one loses faith in science in general, and that can be a terrible backlash to the Dark Ages (BTW, did they ever exist?)
The essay is good but it leaves out the main component of the zoonotic crowd. They are all looking for a grant, are paid to write that pablum or are just to stupid to know any better.
I know people that are still expounding on the benefits of masks. I think some people, especially healthcare workers, are still traumatized from the pandemic.
Awesome article.
The nonsense has been thick, but often focused at the meta top of the evidentiary chain.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-meta-analytical-fixers-an-ivermectin
this article offers a profound insight. and it makes me wonder how much of every pundit's Twitter account is bullshit
I just shared this column on both Maggie and Laurie's twitter feeds. Let's see how they react.
The weirdest bit of pandemonium for me since the pandemic is the hiding or subverting of scientific study on the internet AND the NIH et al saying one thing to the public and then publishing another.
One example of each:
1) Mask studies from before the pandemic were widely available and easy to look up on the internet. After they started mandating masks you had to do a date range pre pandemic to get that information.
2) NIH and CDC: study in Pubmed: "A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness". On TV and for interviews with news agencies ivermectin was horsepaste that only idiots would take and... may kill you. SO STOP.
The rank hypocrisy was pretty overwhelming on both the masks and ivermectin. THEY didn't wear them for anything health related and only for show. When THEY got sick, THEY got their physicians to get ivermectin for them.
The should stop wondering why they are hated.
Excellent! What's scary is the unbelievable ease that the general public can be manipulated using pseudo-scientific pseudo-evidence as a rationale for every and any policy. This has been shown with Corona, but has it been employed in other areas? Global Warming? Sustainability? Green Energy? The usual vaccines? Nuclear Energy? Equal Opportunity? Once one realizes that everything can be manipulated, doctored, faked, or outright invented-one loses faith in science in general, and that can be a terrible backlash to the Dark Ages (BTW, did they ever exist?)
The essay is good but it leaves out the main component of the zoonotic crowd. They are all looking for a grant, are paid to write that pablum or are just to stupid to know any better.
The current situation is just the tip of an enormous iceberg.
https://angelovalidiya.substack.com/p/yes-we-can-have-genuine-science-based
Hmmm does this make the pro maskers who share info without verification conspiracy theorists and spreaders of misinformation? #tablesturned
I know people that are still expounding on the benefits of masks. I think some people, especially healthcare workers, are still traumatized from the pandemic.