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May 30, 2023 8 tweets 7 min read Read on X
The @nytimes@zeynep has long blocked me because frankly, I’ve been beyond brutal in my criticism of her - & rightfully so.

Since then, along with multiple excellent articles by @thackerpd, @michaelpsenger, & @KelleyKga, she’s been fully & unflatteringly exposed.

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Since then, @zeynep, w/ zero formal training or experience in the biomedical science she’s set her sights on yet another area where she can go ahead & cosplay as a biomedical scientist - so-called “Long COVID” research.

Her current feed is littered with tweets like this:

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Her current dalliance is over what set of diagnostic criteria provides the greatest inter-rater reliability for diagnosing “Long COVID.”

A great problem for @zeynep, who has training in statistics, but wouldn’t recognize an valid medical illness if it hit her in the head.

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It’s fine to have high inter-rate reliability for your diagnostic criteria set, but it puts the cart before the horse.

There’s still no good evidence that LC is a clinical entity that’s distinct from good-old-fashioned postviral illness occasionally seen in colds & flu.

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Either way, I think @zeynep hates being out of the limelight - I found this on her timeline & it made me think she missed being the center of attention when she & her #masks4all co-conspirator, @jeremyphoward, mask-trolled the world.

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This is her MO - leveraging her dual-role status as a supposed scholar & scientist (even though she only has relevant training & experience in sociology & computer science) when it suits her, & then her status as a journalist when it suits her. You can never pin her down.

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Let’s see if it works.

Maybe just like how she single-handedly trolled the @CDCgov into reversing course on masks, she can usher in yet another giant gusher of money on the “Long COVID” grift - which, like masks, she has no actual learned perspective on- she’s a pretender.

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Anyways, if you like my tweets bagging on crappy excuses for “SciComm” journalists from @nytimes like @zeynep, let me know. Pictured below is my recent article on her.

Also check out the other articles I’ve written (accessible from the link on my profile page).

Thanks!

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May 29, 2023
This headline is blatantly Orwellian, but got me to thinking about classic, leftist-affiliated Frankfurt school “critical theory” (or it’s modern - day racialist offshoot, CRT) which @PhilWMagness I heard once offhandedly label as “magic decoder ring” political philosophy.

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Meaning, as long as you possess the proper elite academic training, obscurantist verbiage, & elite institution publication history, you too can see ubiquitous evidence of your favorite malevolent force wherever you look - in CRT, “white supremacy,” no matter where you look:

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The late Syracuse University Professor of Psychiatry Thomas Szasz, had a name for these kinds of social concepts that were conceived of as being all-encompassing, malevolent forces that were everywhere & yet imperceptible to all but the properly enlightened- “panapathogens.”

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May 19, 2023
I recently tweeted about the mass proliferation of what @ConceptualJames has dubbed the “intersectionality aesthetic” in art - it’s literally everywhere now.

It eliminates individuality & turns us into just bland racialist caricatures.

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newdiscourses.com/2021/08/onlysu…
This is a great article one of my followers just tweeted (the website is horribly formatted but it’s well worth reading).

This style is called, apparently & appropriately “globohomo” - as in “globally homogenized art style.”

thegrandgeekgathering.com/its-not-just-y…

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Apparently it started in 2017 with, unsurprisingly, Facebook, & was created by their design firm called Buck.

Early version of this art style is below:

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May 9, 2023
I mean this analogy to be deliberately scary.

Ppl forget in 1994 that in Rwanda, nationwide political mass-murder took place, committed w/ machetes & blunt instruments.

Was fueled by government media (largely radio).

Asked ChatGPT & it provided a pretty good explainer:

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Since Trump, & the largely unified reaction of media, government, & civil institutions against him (which resulted in his defeat in 2020), we’ve seen increasingly extremist rhetoric characterizing conservatives as “fascists,” “Nazis,” & even promoters or “genocide.”

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Aside from a few stray pockets of resistance (like Twitter), what I call the progressive “Uniparty” now has unprecedented reach.

Jacob Siegel talks about it in his masterful article on @tabletmag - the best piece I’ve read yet on this phenomenon: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

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Apr 5, 2023
Egaz Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist famous for innovating & popularizing the practice of prefrontal lobotomy - severing or destroying parts of the frontal lobes - as treatment for severe mental illness such as schizophrenia.

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By the 1960s, the practice became wildly popular, owed in large part to the efforts of psychiatrist Walter Freeman, who despite having no surgery training, travelled the US promoting the practice (w/ his own efficient procedure using an ice pick) in a garish van.

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Freeman himself, who died in 1976, ended up performing over 4,000 of these procedures on patients, many of whom suffered severe, lifelong consequences as a result.

Regardless, Freeman was excellent at publicity, & often performed these procedures for crowds.

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