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Andrei Stieber's avatar

You are being too charitable. She actually is a total moron.

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Bruce E Belcher's avatar

I disagree. Do the math! If it was because she was a total moron, then mistakes would be made in each direction. Here mistakes consistently overplay covid effects. She might be stupid, but she is clearly dishonest.

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Bruce E Belcher's avatar

I mean "her" mistakes, note "here" mistakes

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Edward's avatar

Her willingness to not be a journalist is exactly why NYTimes employs her as science writer! she is highly qualified by virtue of her inability to think beyond the canned slogans. as a propaganda rag, you couldn’t ask for a more qualified dimwit!

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Chris's avatar

She is a prime example of the absolutely pathetic state of journalism today. Yet another ignorant activist masquerading as a journalist.

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DM, MD's avatar

Sad that anybody listens to NYT on science at all. I think the term science journalist is an oxymoron. She basically writes opinion pieces. Her writing should come with a black box warning. Actually the whole paper should.

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TerriM's avatar

Totally agree. If I read anything there, I try to find alternate opinions to find the details they've intentionally omitted.

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brianne fitzgerald's avatar

Keep up the hard work of calling out incompetence. Hope springs eternal. Thank you VP

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Vijay Gupta's avatar

But if Apoorva had been much smarter, NYT wouldn't have hired her as a science reporter. So the root problem is not with Apoorva, but with NYT, or more generally, with the mainstream media.

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Joan Breibart's avatar

About five years ago the Times wrote their WellnessBible and now it is all www --or wimpy wokey weak. I have long history with this paper. My son and the current publisher were in Nursery school together and Sulzberger came to my NYC apartment for play dates. He was a lot cuter at that time. I worked there in 1971-2 when they owned Quadrangle books. And the Sulzberger family supports Barnard College, my alma mater. NOTHING they write now reflects the facts. It is all filtered through their wellness crap. Jane Brody who recently retired after 45 years of writing about Nutrition for the Times with her Gang of Four made America FAT.

Stop ignoring the real facts. 65% of us are fat. the rest are eating disordered and phony. Covid closedown was because the CDC covered up the real obesity numbers. WE are in deep decline. But there is one growth biz. I am being treated with chemotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering . Biz is booming. Most of the patients are FAT.

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Jim Ryser's avatar

My hope is that we finally start calling it all what it is - PROPAGANDA. There are very few journalists anymore. I’ll admit I’m pretty biased, but then I’m not a journalist. I just play music.

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Daniel Bruetman MD, MMM's avatar

Is this any different than “alternative facts”? Most people who make such colossal mistakes would lose their job. Shame on the NYT.

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Goldilox's avatar

she may fill a "quota" that is more important to maintain than journalists integrity ?

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David Martin, MD's avatar

"Ultimately, the fact she is the science reporter for the Times just shows that the paper does not take science seriously."

When in fact the NYT does not take the truth, or factual reporting, seriously. Nowadays it's "All the Narrative that's Fit to Print."

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Amos's avatar

I like how she doesn’t deny the flu comparison, just says it’s not “helpful.” She may as well come out and say it- she values her narrative more than she values the truth, and she sees nothing wrong with that.

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Hansang Bae's avatar

Dr. Prasad, I think you're being too harsh and unfair.

After all, she does work at the NY Times whose motto is: All the $hit Virtue Signaling That's Fit to Print.

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H8SBAD's avatar

💯👏✔️🎯

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KaiKai's avatar

I do not read what she, them, they write for all the reasons people have commented on. And after 30 years of subscribing to NYTimes I cancelled it during the pandemic after they published a headline: “ nation faces hand to hand combat to get reluctant Americans vaccinated.”

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cleyet's avatar

Sh’s literate, that doesn’t makeup for her false advocacy.

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Guttermouth's avatar

She's mentally ill and a liar.

Shrimple as that.

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Steve. S's avatar

What a dingbat!

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