1) Thanks to everyone who sent me stuff on @YaleLawSch @gregggonsalves. He blocked after I got sick of his constant attacks on reporters doing reporting.
Let's take a look at his scholarship. tinyurl.com/3j6r3xrf
2) Gonsalves filed a legal declaration that claimed 6 feet social distancing stopped spread of #COVID. This claim is completely made up, as Anthony Fauci testified last week.
Screenshot of Gonsalves' declaration. Let's see footnote #7
3) Footnote #7 takes you to a NY Times article. That's what Gonsalves cites as medical evidence for a scientific claim, a newspaper article.
4) Here's a hierarchy of medicine, used to determine how you rank scientific evidence, from Mt. Sinai.
Do you see "newspaper article" on this chart?
5) It gets better, when you go to the NY Times article, you find there is no actual data, as Gonsalves claims.
There's just an artist's drawing. That's it.
6) Here's questions I sent to Gonsalves asking him to explain. This is a guy who's never afraid to hold an opinion, but he refused to respond.
7) This ain't the first time Gonsalves has cited a newspaper article to make a claim for COVID policy. He cited a newspaper article to argue for lockdowns.
No scientific evidence: a newspaper article. It was @zackbeauchamp at Vox, so not really reporting.
8) After Gonsalves argued for lockdowns, he then did the same on Twitter, until he was accused of being pro lockdown, which he then denied.
Because of course.
9) We have a problem in America where fewer now trust public health, and even less trust academics. How is behavior by Gregg Gonsavles contributing to this?
His entire oeuvre is "everyone who doesn't hold my worldview and politics is a baddy."
10) After a Harvard student complained that students were held to a higher plagiarism standard than Claudine Gay, Gonsalves ranted that her copy/paste scandal it was all about politics.
Should this guy be teaching students?
11) Read more at @DisInfoChron and please subscribe.
Yale needs to do better, both for America and its students.
"Anthony Fauci Exposes Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves as Academic Activist Who Fakes Data Claims" disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/anthony-fauc…
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