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Mar 23

Before Paul Farmer died, each school year, I'd go up to talk to his class on global health (SW25 Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives) at Harvard after a showing of How to Survive a Plague. 1/

Paul's vision of medicine and public health was based a preferential option for the poor. 2/

As an AIDS activist and now researcher, who works on substance use and infectious diseases, his emphasis on those who have been the subject of structural violence resonated with me, resonates with me still. 3/

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Mar 9

@germanrlopez

There is a problem with @germanrlopez piece on #COVID origins in the @NYTimes today. First, while two theories exist, he crafts this as an "underdog" story, lab-leak-can't-get-any-love, and as a meeting of the minds now that these two theories are equally plausible now. 1/

@MichaelWorobey

The fact is we do have two competing theories and the market origin at the current moment has stronger data to support it as @MichaelWorobey wrote in the @latimes the other day. 2/ latimes.com/opinion/story/…

@sciencecohen

Yesterday was a perfect opportunity to lay out the case-the scientific one-for the lab leak, yet as @sciencecohen wrote in @ScienceMag yesterday, it was mostly a missed opportunity with rehashed arguments and conspiracy mongering. 3/ science.org/content/articl…

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Mar 8

@MichaelWorobey

.@MichaelWorobey is one of the world’s foremost disease detectives. He did the crucial work on HIV’s origins and has focused much of his career on the evolution and emergence of viruses. This is an important piece. 1/ latimes.com/opinion/story/…

@DKThomp

If you’ve written on #covid origins, you owe it to yourself to read this. Wrestle with the science. End/ @DKThomp @DhruvKhullar @SherylNYT @benjmueller @jonathanchait @NateSilver538

@ScienceMagazine

Twitter being Twitter, people slid into my replies yesterday with "Worobey gotchas"--criticism of the work in @ScienceMagazine in support the market-hypothesis. My question for them--as the two prominent ones are working scientists: have you written a letter to Science yet? 1/

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Mar 8

@angie_rasmussen

Thanks to @angie_rasmussen & @SaskiaPopescu for writing this and saying what many scientists have been reticent to say: while the origins of #SARSCOV2 are still uncertain, the evidence for a zoonotic spillover is more robust than for a "lab leak." 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

@jonathanchait

Now this isn't to say the evidence on an origin in the Wuhan wildlife market is definitive. It is not. But there are too many commentators, from @jonathanchait, Nate Silver, and others who have weighed in on the lab leak as having an equivalent or stronger evidentiary basis. 2/

@angie_rasmussen

We need to continue to investigate both theories, but it's important not to stray from what we know now, which is well articulated by @angie_rasmussen and @SaskiaPopescu and also described here by @FoodieScience. 3/ npr.org/sections/goats…

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Gregg Gonsalves

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Mar 3

Between Peggy Noonan, Jonathan Chait, Nate Silver, Bret Stephens, we have a cottage industry of pundits, who don’t care to engage with the scientific evidence & would rather spout off on issues to satisfy their own existing beliefs. It’s lazy and embarrassing and irresponsible.

@NPR

When actual science and health journalists dig into stories, they do it with expertise, careful attention to detail and highlight the uncertainties in understanding. Like this piece from @NPR. npr.org/sections/goats…

I am sure each of these people and others like them would be in high dudgeon for me to suggest any of this.

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Gregg Gonsalves

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Feb 25

If someone comes to class, hasn’t done the homework, skimmed the readings, but feels compelled to pontificate on the subject under discussion nonetheless, your professor is annoyed, your fellow students are rolling their eyes. 1/

With the discussions on Twitter, on #COVID and masking, we have a whole lot of people who did not do the homework, skimmed the readings and are insistent that they must be heard. 2/

We can have a real discussion about the strength of the evidence, both randomized and observational, but it relies on you to do the work, and not pretend you have. 3/

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