He's got Covid three times and has had every booster and the last case was the worst of all. So the vaccines and boosters didn't prevent infection, nor did they make his last case less severe or mild. It appears he's never taken off his N-95 mask so those didn't prevent him from getting infected multiple times. He also makes clear that he doesn't hang around people who are unmasked or unvaccinated ... and he still got Covid three times.
His statement that lockdowns a week earlier in the UK would have saved 25,000 to 35,000 lives is the whopper of them all.
I guess he doesn't believe in "early spread" like I do. What we had, according to him and other "experts," was "late spread" in the UK (in March and April 2020) and this spread was super contagious and lethal .... all at once.
Like other posters have said, thanks for saving these "receipts."
Well said. The funniest part is he seems to have no clue about connecting his passion about masking up & vaccines/boosters to his 3 COVID infections. I mean is just hilarious.
I've said this before. I wish Trump had said "Wear a Mask...lock down, and keep the kids from going to schools!" Then the entire academia/prof doctor's org would have done the EXACT opposite to claim virtue signaling award. Weingarten would have SCREAMED that teachers need to teach (laughable, I know, but play along) And we would have maintained sanity as a society. Instead...this happened.
Actually Trump DID say the parts about the lockdowns and keeping the kids from going to schools. At first, he said we only had to do this for 15 days, but then he said, "no, it's still not safe yet ... just a little longer."
And he started wearing masks and I think everyone in the WH wore them for more than a year - at least judging by WH press conferences and all the reporters wearing them.
ATLANTA — President Trump on Wednesday criticized the decision of a political ally, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, to allow many businesses to reopen this week, saying the move was premature given the number of coronavirus cases in the state.
“I want him to do what he thinks is right, but I disagree with him on what he is doing,” Mr. Trump said at a White House briefing. “I think it’s too soon.”
“I love those people that use all of those things — the spas, the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. “I love them. But they can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit — not much, because safety has to predominate.”
Trump did try to block travel from China, and that caused a massive uproar among the Democrats that was hard for them to turn around. Some how the word went out that Birx and Fauci were the actual architects of the lockdowns and that the Democrats shouldn’t fight against the authoritarian civil rights abuses being proposed. There is certainly an alternative timeline in which Trump doubled down on his travel bans and germaphobia and the Democrats spent the entire pandemic screaming about the loss of learning, jobs, health care access, travel, immigration, and increase in hunger and wealth inequality that Trump was causing.
Flu once in my life, 1992. No “flu shots”. Sorry for Tennant if he gets it twice a year. Not surprised though given his beliefs about the immune system.
I am 67 and have had the flu once in my whole life. I am around tons of children and adults! 2x years is NOT a given for those of us who eat healthy food, exercise, get lots of fresh air, and expose ourselves to germs!
Proof of what I’ve told young folks for years when they ask me if med school was hard. “No, a chimp can get through med school, but med school will not teach it or you common sense.” What an absolutely clueless man.
But reputable scientists (people in academia and elsewhere) don't want to "waste" their time checking other people's errors because they don't get recognition, promotion or tenure for repeating and verifying (or failing to verify) prior results.
If you support The Current Thing (the "authorized narrative") you will go far in epidemiology and academia (or any field). It doesn't matter a lick if everything you said was preposterously false. All that matters is that you were a good scientist or citizen and you accepted The Current Thing.
Nobody believes in the Socratic Method anymore. Socrates himself would have been cancelled the day China reported this pandemic to the WHO.
It’s worse. People in my recent MA and PhD don’t just disbelieve in the Socratic method: if any grad student or professor knows who Socrates is, then they openly oppose him because Socrates was white and male (according to them and my discipline’s literature). They ‘cancel’ him and his ‘patriarchal’ status (and Plato and Aristotle) on a regular basis. I’ve witnessed this categorical dismissal and zealous erasure in real time by my professors and via citation justice. For his very ancient self to be present in modern academia confirms the patriarchy is alive and well and must be fought by any means necessary. Even pseudoscience and erasure if necessary.
💯 Replicable. Aggregable. Duplicable. RAD. In applied linguistics, Luke Plonsky called for assessment of empirical content 10yrs ago. Problem is, scientific institutions incentivize ‘original’ research and case studies at the cost of verifying findings via institutional disconfirmation. Too few want to spend their limited time pouring over someone else’s studies to refine or discard theories. As a result, we theorize ourselves into pseudoscience certainties rather than progressing to rigorous uncertainties. And statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science (Aubrey Clayton) necessitate RAD all the more.
Philosophy of science should be an integral part of the curricula of every scientific discipline. Or epistemology advisors should be at the top of the bodies governing research WW.
It would become rather well accepted that in natural and applied sciences all we can probably actually do, is attempting to falsify scientific hypotheses - which is what "science" actually amounts to.
But mass culture clearly prefers sticking to the platonist fairy tale of "Science" that reveals the inner laws of nature... Which - once "discovered" - you either embrace, or you're a nutjob.
I struggle with these posts from Dr. Prasad. While it is incredibly satisfying to see idiots called out with Twitter receipts, I do worry that this is not the best and healthiest use of time for either the writer or the reader. I have stopped following a number of COVID policy skeptics. Not because the where wrong (they clearly weren’t), but because I was spending too much time reading them and getting angry and it was adversely impacting other areas of my life.
And yet you read this and commented.... Just skip things you don't want to see. I understand the anger. Spend more time outside with no phone or electronics of any kind.
Dr Prassad provides much needed and excellent critical appraisal. I am regularly enlightened by his indefatigable efforts.
But I find this kind of post mystifying. The victim here was wrong on many counts. He persisted and doubled down. Yes, he has proven himself to be misguided and ultimately incorrect. His call for error checking is ironic. Agreed.
I have screwed up as an “expert” physician many times albeit not so publicly. Some of my advice to patients, in hindsight, was shockingly, embarrassingly flawed.
How is it helpful to offer up this selection of tweets for ridicule? How are these ad hominem attacks getting us closer to the truth?
Prof. Prasad; I agree. But, there is a stubborn cultural barrier to overcome; Our reluctance to cross the “thin blue line”, (original reference is about police who wont snitch, but public health out-performs police on blue line issue). Earlier this week, I pressed a PhD Psychologist colleague for comment on my pediatric-Trans statement. He refused. Recently, I tried to get same colleague to comment on a psychological assessment that I discovered to be fake. Refusal, as if he were married to APA Director. In 2020 before Covid, I respectfully corrected my department director who mistakenly reported a very high number of AIDS Deaths for 2019. A colleague, (PhD epidemiologist)expressed shock that I corrected the boss. When information is correct, everyone wins.
Information is information, or misinformation, or whatever. The problem is that people tend to be dishonest and especially will slightly skew things when it benefits them. Now, repeat this a million times over and you have this mess. So I'd say, when people are intellectually honest, everyone wins.
I prefer he continues to mask. So I know to stay far far away from him. I hope he also has a "hate has no home here" sign on his front lawn, again so I can stay far far away. I want to keep half my money instead of proving this guy is lost. He proves it already. No need to spend a penny on it. He is doing it for us.
Because they're not smart. They're typically very good at memorizing material in detail and regurgitating it when prompted. These idiots absolutely WILL be replaced with AI powered bots since that's one thing LLM's are good at.
I gotta say I sure am grateful I have had a “questionable” Guillain-Barré as part of my medical history - nobody bothers me about flu or Covid shots anymore.
Half of funding in science should go to studying the cognitive dissonance and mental illness of "scientists" like Peter.
Dammit I literally just spit coffee all over my white couch. I should know better.
It's almost like there is contest to see who can delay admitting they were wrong the longest.
🎯
Lol. That's so true.
Don't confuse credentials with intelligence.
He's got Covid three times and has had every booster and the last case was the worst of all. So the vaccines and boosters didn't prevent infection, nor did they make his last case less severe or mild. It appears he's never taken off his N-95 mask so those didn't prevent him from getting infected multiple times. He also makes clear that he doesn't hang around people who are unmasked or unvaccinated ... and he still got Covid three times.
His statement that lockdowns a week earlier in the UK would have saved 25,000 to 35,000 lives is the whopper of them all.
I guess he doesn't believe in "early spread" like I do. What we had, according to him and other "experts," was "late spread" in the UK (in March and April 2020) and this spread was super contagious and lethal .... all at once.
Like other posters have said, thanks for saving these "receipts."
Well said. The funniest part is he seems to have no clue about connecting his passion about masking up & vaccines/boosters to his 3 COVID infections. I mean is just hilarious.
I've said this before. I wish Trump had said "Wear a Mask...lock down, and keep the kids from going to schools!" Then the entire academia/prof doctor's org would have done the EXACT opposite to claim virtue signaling award. Weingarten would have SCREAMED that teachers need to teach (laughable, I know, but play along) And we would have maintained sanity as a society. Instead...this happened.
Actually Trump DID say the parts about the lockdowns and keeping the kids from going to schools. At first, he said we only had to do this for 15 days, but then he said, "no, it's still not safe yet ... just a little longer."
And he started wearing masks and I think everyone in the WH wore them for more than a year - at least judging by WH press conferences and all the reporters wearing them.
Here's Trump, from the NY Times of April 22, 2020, telling everyone "hang in there just a little longer. It's still not safe."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/trump-georgia-governor-kemp-coronavirus.html
By Rick Rojas
April 22, 2020
ATLANTA — President Trump on Wednesday criticized the decision of a political ally, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, to allow many businesses to reopen this week, saying the move was premature given the number of coronavirus cases in the state.
“I want him to do what he thinks is right, but I disagree with him on what he is doing,” Mr. Trump said at a White House briefing. “I think it’s too soon.”
“I love those people that use all of those things — the spas, the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. “I love them. But they can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit — not much, because safety has to predominate.”
Trump did try to block travel from China, and that caused a massive uproar among the Democrats that was hard for them to turn around. Some how the word went out that Birx and Fauci were the actual architects of the lockdowns and that the Democrats shouldn’t fight against the authoritarian civil rights abuses being proposed. There is certainly an alternative timeline in which Trump doubled down on his travel bans and germaphobia and the Democrats spent the entire pandemic screaming about the loss of learning, jobs, health care access, travel, immigration, and increase in hunger and wealth inequality that Trump was causing.
A brilliant truth. 🙌🏼
Love that you're keeping the receipts!
Another sick burn from Dr. Prasad 🤣
It’s glorious.
🔥
Come for the sensible evidence-based medicine, stay for the absolute savagery
Who regularily gets the flu 2x a year?
But if you got your flu shots, those two cases would be a little milder.
I got one flu shot my whole life. Sure enough, I got the flu that year. And it wasn't too damn mild either.
I haven’t had the flu since 1998. I certainly knew I had it then. I’ve had maybe 2 flu shots. Last one at least 10 years ago. Fool on display here.
Flu once in my life, 1992. No “flu shots”. Sorry for Tennant if he gets it twice a year. Not surprised though given his beliefs about the immune system.
I am 67 and have had the flu once in my whole life. I am around tons of children and adults! 2x years is NOT a given for those of us who eat healthy food, exercise, get lots of fresh air, and expose ourselves to germs!
People who get the flu vaccine. DUH.
Proof of what I’ve told young folks for years when they ask me if med school was hard. “No, a chimp can get through med school, but med school will not teach it or you common sense.” What an absolutely clueless man.
But reputable scientists (people in academia and elsewhere) don't want to "waste" their time checking other people's errors because they don't get recognition, promotion or tenure for repeating and verifying (or failing to verify) prior results.
If you support The Current Thing (the "authorized narrative") you will go far in epidemiology and academia (or any field). It doesn't matter a lick if everything you said was preposterously false. All that matters is that you were a good scientist or citizen and you accepted The Current Thing.
Nobody believes in the Socratic Method anymore. Socrates himself would have been cancelled the day China reported this pandemic to the WHO.
It’s worse. People in my recent MA and PhD don’t just disbelieve in the Socratic method: if any grad student or professor knows who Socrates is, then they openly oppose him because Socrates was white and male (according to them and my discipline’s literature). They ‘cancel’ him and his ‘patriarchal’ status (and Plato and Aristotle) on a regular basis. I’ve witnessed this categorical dismissal and zealous erasure in real time by my professors and via citation justice. For his very ancient self to be present in modern academia confirms the patriarchy is alive and well and must be fought by any means necessary. Even pseudoscience and erasure if necessary.
💯 Replicable. Aggregable. Duplicable. RAD. In applied linguistics, Luke Plonsky called for assessment of empirical content 10yrs ago. Problem is, scientific institutions incentivize ‘original’ research and case studies at the cost of verifying findings via institutional disconfirmation. Too few want to spend their limited time pouring over someone else’s studies to refine or discard theories. As a result, we theorize ourselves into pseudoscience certainties rather than progressing to rigorous uncertainties. And statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science (Aubrey Clayton) necessitate RAD all the more.
Philosophy of science should be an integral part of the curricula of every scientific discipline. Or epistemology advisors should be at the top of the bodies governing research WW.
It would become rather well accepted that in natural and applied sciences all we can probably actually do, is attempting to falsify scientific hypotheses - which is what "science" actually amounts to.
But mass culture clearly prefers sticking to the platonist fairy tale of "Science" that reveals the inner laws of nature... Which - once "discovered" - you either embrace, or you're a nutjob.
I struggle with these posts from Dr. Prasad. While it is incredibly satisfying to see idiots called out with Twitter receipts, I do worry that this is not the best and healthiest use of time for either the writer or the reader. I have stopped following a number of COVID policy skeptics. Not because the where wrong (they clearly weren’t), but because I was spending too much time reading them and getting angry and it was adversely impacting other areas of my life.
And yet you read this and commented.... Just skip things you don't want to see. I understand the anger. Spend more time outside with no phone or electronics of any kind.
Tyrants begin as pathetic little creatures who are given an opportunity.
Good point. You've got to stop them before they climb too high up the ladder ... but good luck with that.
Dr Prassad provides much needed and excellent critical appraisal. I am regularly enlightened by his indefatigable efforts.
But I find this kind of post mystifying. The victim here was wrong on many counts. He persisted and doubled down. Yes, he has proven himself to be misguided and ultimately incorrect. His call for error checking is ironic. Agreed.
I have screwed up as an “expert” physician many times albeit not so publicly. Some of my advice to patients, in hindsight, was shockingly, embarrassingly flawed.
How is it helpful to offer up this selection of tweets for ridicule? How are these ad hominem attacks getting us closer to the truth?
“mental illness”, “deranged midwit”, “Fool”, “clueless”, “so stupid”, “Tyrants”, “pathetic little creatures”, “failed unit”, “stupid as dogs”, “indoctrinated”, “clueless”, “sheep”, “idiot”, “moronic”.
Can we not publicly hold bad ideas to account without encouraging this kind of degradation?
Only when those of us who held the line for 4 years get full and genuine apologies from the likes of this asshat.
Prof. Prasad; I agree. But, there is a stubborn cultural barrier to overcome; Our reluctance to cross the “thin blue line”, (original reference is about police who wont snitch, but public health out-performs police on blue line issue). Earlier this week, I pressed a PhD Psychologist colleague for comment on my pediatric-Trans statement. He refused. Recently, I tried to get same colleague to comment on a psychological assessment that I discovered to be fake. Refusal, as if he were married to APA Director. In 2020 before Covid, I respectfully corrected my department director who mistakenly reported a very high number of AIDS Deaths for 2019. A colleague, (PhD epidemiologist)expressed shock that I corrected the boss. When information is correct, everyone wins.
Information is information, or misinformation, or whatever. The problem is that people tend to be dishonest and especially will slightly skew things when it benefits them. Now, repeat this a million times over and you have this mess. So I'd say, when people are intellectually honest, everyone wins.
I prefer he continues to mask. So I know to stay far far away from him. I hope he also has a "hate has no home here" sign on his front lawn, again so I can stay far far away. I want to keep half my money instead of proving this guy is lost. He proves it already. No need to spend a penny on it. He is doing it for us.
How can smart people like him be so stupid?
He is smart. He’s smart enough to know “success” in his field is determined more by speaking like the Kewl Kids than actually being right.
Because they're not smart. They're typically very good at memorizing material in detail and regurgitating it when prompted. These idiots absolutely WILL be replaced with AI powered bots since that's one thing LLM's are good at.
Just another failed unit from our HC educational system.
I gotta say I sure am grateful I have had a “questionable” Guillain-Barré as part of my medical history - nobody bothers me about flu or Covid shots anymore.