Thread by @AtomsksSanakan

@luckytran Re: "Bhattacharya has spread disinformation on COVID"

You may want to support this claim, if you haven't already.

There are plenty of examples of him spreading misinformation.

For instance: on masking

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@luckytran Promoting obvious disinformation about China's COVID-19 policy.

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@luckytran Saying a majority of Indians had "natural immunity" when the real number was ~25%, weeks before India suffered a large COVID-19 wave

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@luckytran Promoting paranoid misinformation on the CDC + masks, and then unfairly blaming the CDC for him falling for this misinformation.

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@luckytran Willfully misrepresenting what experts said about average fatality rates.

"The World Health Organization chose to send out the signal that three or four percent of people would die if they got infected."
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@luckytran Whatever evil this is:

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@luckytran No, experts noted risk increased with age.

"[...] public health experts all spoke with one voice.  [...] everyone, no matter what age, is equally at risk of hospitalization and death after infection."
collateralglobal.org/article/misapp…

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@luckytran No, experts' initial modeling assumed post-infection immunity strong enough to prevent all reinfections.

"[...] public health experts all spoke with one voice. [...] there is no immunity after infection"
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His co-author John Ioannidis discussing their (erroneous) estimate for COVID-19's fatality rate that placed it on par with seasonal influenza:

[medrxiv.org/content/10.110…]

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@luckytran No, those locations did not achieved herd immunity by July 2020.

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July 2020:
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@luckytran Evading basic immunology on the benefits vaccination provides to previously infected individuals

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@luckytran No, it was not "all spoke with one voice".

The WHO had a position, but others were free to voice other positions.

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@luckytran It's telling when lockdown critics cite Bhattacharya as credible, since he'll falsely blame lockdowns for stuff.

For example: Andrew Cuomo's resignation

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@luckytran It's almost as if Bhattacharya has an anti-lockdown bias that causes him to misinform on basic facts...

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@luckytran Is there anything negative Bhattacharya won't blame on lockdowns, even if he has to contort logic to do it?

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@luckytran To folks struggling to understand why so much of the public health community doesn't take Bhattacharya seriously:

It's not because of a conspiracy.
It's not because they're silencing dissent.

It's because he says is... 🤣🙄

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@luckytran A thread worth reading:

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@luckytran And another (more on the legal front than the scientific front):

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@luckytran

https://x.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1478045633806221316

@luckytran No, 'focused protection' did not lead to herd immunity within 6 months in Florida.

"Florida, which adopted a focused-protection approach"
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@luckytran And again:

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@luckytran When your main non-lockdown example... has a lockdown.

"announced a ban on public events of more than eight people"
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"upper secondary schools are again closing"
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Bhattacharya:
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@luckytran And the apt criticism of Bhattacharya's claims continues...

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@luckytran Bhattacharya' NIH nomination for 2025 is reminiscent of Scott Pruitt's EPA nomination for 2017:

Position a contrarian ideologue whose views contradict published evidence + expert assessments.

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@luckytran In which Bhattacharya does the intellectual equivalent of claiming vaccine denialists are being unfairly persecuted because Andrew Wakefield's blog told him so

🤢

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Bhattacharya, November 2020:

"What they're doing is focused protection, and you can see the result. The infection rates are going up in Sweden, but the death rates are not."
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@luckytran Bhattacharya, 11 Nov 2020:

"In Sweden, 6,000 deaths to date from COVID, and only 1,800 total excess deaths. They have fewer excess deaths total, all cause, than COVID deaths"
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/vi…

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nature.com/articles/s4158…
[msemburi.shinyapps.io/excessvis/]

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