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As an academic clinician in O&G I try to stay in my lane & comment on #covid only when highlighting my expert colleagues’ work. But for folk like @allisonpearson platforming the #barringtondeclaration and raging against lockdown, I would offer the following advice (1)
Come to Liverpool & see what we are dealing with. Or wait for a couple of weeks - because as sure as night follows day it’s coming soon to a hospital and a community near you (2)
And if it doesn’t (& I really hope no one has to experience what Liverpool is currently enduring) it will be because the advice & guidance of the experts you seem to despise will have made a difference and will have delayed the death of many thousands of people (3)
Because they're mostly not scientists, and few of the actual scientists are epidemiologists, and because they are spewing disinformation. #barringtondeclaration is propaganda, not science. 1/
#COVID19 deniers and conspiracy theorists are taking a page from a old crank playbook. Does anyone remember "Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" and "Physicians and Surgeons Who Dissent from Darwinism"? These were similar "declarations" against evolution and for creationism. 2/
Or what about the open letter by the "Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis" calling for a "thorough reappraisal of the existing evidence for and against this hypothesis [HIV-AIDS] be conducted by a suitable independent group"? 3/ sidasante.com/contacts/group…
