@DrEricDing This one is called, "I sent my son to school in a nation that didn't require masking of the kids."
This one I call, "performative pandemic response".
@parcc_inserm
"Who built that lab in Wuhan? You did. You did. That's who. Here's a treat."
@AVHernandezDiaz
This one is called, "Sure, I thought it was reasonable to published a meta-analysis immediately following #Surgisphere when no honest person thought the majority of my data points were real."
@CathrineAxfors
This puppy's name is, "most of my data is from a study that tested a drug in a way no doctor in the world was actually using it."
@DrTedros
This beagle has a question about people who never had a soul to begin with.
@GidMK
This little fella's leash is longer than seven years in graduate school without publishing a study in a field that gives nominal credit for any work that includes a graph with an axis labeled "Latinx".
@AllergyKidsDoc
This beagle, like most kids, doesn't understand what it means to be part of a large scale medical experiment of unknown consequences.
@TheodoreLytras
This beagle is named "Why does everything think I take money from Big Pharma?"
What an unusual name!
@leandrotessler
Not one of these puppies has embarrassed himself on camera completely misdescribing a meta-analysis he couldn't understand.
@leticiakawano
These little puppies never had to apologize publicly in the NEJM for failing to mention that nearly 40% of the "control group" in their study were very recently medicated with the medicines being studied.
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Well, it's all up to whether or not @ydeigin wants to post the video. I may write a bit about our conversation with him, though I was hoping to do that with the video in hand.
I urge the 17.3% of you he hasn't blocked to encourage him to release the video.
On another note, I'd like to say that it was excellent and courageous of Yuri to take up the conversation---particularly among a group that includes experts in many various and specific aspects of the conversation.
Most who take the opposite position of mine or Steve's refuse.
And being willing to have a conversation, to talk about data, to walk through analysis of the data, with those who argue against an official narrative is exactly what the world desperately needs.
@DrTomFrieden
This adorable lil pup is contemplating what it means to be part of a revolving door regulatory machine that sometimes profit at the expense of the health of patients, including children.
This puppy is wondering whether @gorskon will have the courage to publicly take live the combinatorics/statistics exam I gave for a class I taught to high school students.
I love Frank Herbert's Dune. Deeply. It is the most well-read science fiction novel of all time precisely because it is a deeply crafted universe whose purpose transcends genres into philosophy, religion, economics, technology, spirituality, and so on.
I have spent years discussing with friends and other weirdos what it would mean to make Dune into a great movie. David's Lynch's Dune was...kinda cool, but nothing like what could be achieved by a Game of Thrones budget and time scale. If any book deserves that, it's Dune.
The Dune and Children of Dune miniseries were pretty cool. They scratched and itch, for sure. I could be the curmudgeon and pick nits, but since nothing in the core betrayed the story, I'd feel obnoxious doing so.
Over the past 20 months, it has been fascinating and mortifying to find out that pharmaceutical has its own math that isn't really math, but is believed to be math by almost all doctors and even epidemiologists and medical scientists.
Weirdly, the mathematicians say nothing.
Some portion of the mathematicians just don't know. The way it's all done is pretty well hidden out of sight, and generally mathematicians are not given a closer view of much of it without accepting indoctrination.
With such a large army of respected indoctrinated people, it's easy for the "system managers" to intimidate the small handful who could throw a monkey wrench into all of it.
Are the @CDCgov (@CDCDirector; @RWalensky) and @US_FDA (@DrWoodcockFDA) really going to watch these vaccines get approval jammed through while dozens of scientists and statisticians with analyses pointing to substantial mortality are ignored---without any risk-benefit analysis?
That's what this looks like---the exact opposite of sound regulation. Can we just drop the facade that our regulatory agencies are distinct from pharmaceutical corporations?