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Because misinformation is information that’s not controlled. The people we’ve let seize control over our society are really bad at decision making, so they need to control information. They have no shame in being wrong, and they pay no consequences for their stupidity.

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Ignore her. Getting publicity of *any* kind is something that self-promoters crave. It is their oxygen. Surely you know this. Ignore her.

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Why does Mandavilla get booking at Harvard when she is a leading exponent of misinformation? Harvard has become Misinformation Central, along with Stanford and many other leading academic centers that have become a network of Philistinism or should I say propaganda. Yes, academic has been captured by the Deep State. How? $$$$

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Vinay, for someone that has published so many papers, I am surprised you need an explanation. Let's try: correct party line + correct platform (can't beat NYT!) + correct skin pigmentation => Harvard invite. See, not so difficult.

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It's known as "failing upward".

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It's kind of genius actually. To get out from under the "Harvard == Plagiarism" scrutiny, why not toss another incendiary grenade in hopes that it'll make the plagiarism problem go away? OR! OR! it falls into the Gump's Razor (albeit not as well known as Occam's Razor") which states "Stupid is, as Stupid does"

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There probably isn't a more perfect audience than Harvard for her outrageous BS. She's preaching to the choir. I wonder though, how many people like her would have the internal resources to say anything of value if it wasn't racism, racism, racism?

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She has to be near the top of utterly worthless reporters...no surprise that she is at the NYT. She wouldn't recognize mis-information if it hit her over the head...she IS mis information (Miss Information?). But when you have the blessing of the government and the half of the country that has stopped thinking, you can say whatever you want and blame all errors on others. Great work if you can get it.

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It is all about the political science not real science.

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She was never a reporter or a journalist. She works for the propaganda/censorship-industrial complex, hence all those intentional ”mistakes “ that always inflated the numbers and the natural segue into the misinformation/censorship space. They are one and the same.

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Is Jacinda Ardern at Harvard also? If so, didn’t she claim to be the truth about all things pertaining to Covid?

So, Harvard now apparently the place to be.

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Vinay, you should totally write a letter to those who invited her letting them know your thoughts. I mean, it's just totally dripping with irony.

Of course, she's probably giving these lectures because she's thoroughly versed with the subject, but.....

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As are the other doctors whose “science” Vinay critiques- primary among them Eric Topol. No, he is not a bad scientist- he is an excellent propagandist

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In the caption, she claims to provide “science journalism”, an absurd and self-serving title. Once journalism becomes a personal opinion or a seemingly enlightened wisecrack about the intersection of racism with the lab leak theory, it is no longer about science. This woman embodies everything that’s pathetic about many NYT articles.

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