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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 2281444" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>John Ioaniddis is the same scientist who predicted fewer than 10k deaths in the US.</p><p></p><p>"It started on March 17, when Ioannidis published <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/" target="_blank">an opinion essay</a> in STAT saying that the data on Covid-19 were not sufficient to know the disease’s true prevalence and fatality rate. He also argued that scientists were in the dark with respect to which distancing and lockdown measures work, which don’t, and what the measures’ downstream harms might be. All of which was true — even if his very early estimate that as few as <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/" target="_blank">10,000 might die</a> in the U.S. turned out to be wrong. Ioannidis went on to say that preventing people from working or leaving their homes could cause more harm than the virus itself."</p><p></p><p>"But the attacks on Ioannidis from the medical community and the popular press are different. They are tinged with partisanship, with each side appearing to embrace the math that serves their political allegiances."</p><p></p><p>Full text here.</p><p><a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/06/15/viewpoint-stanford-epidemiologist-john-ioannidis-covid-19-controversy-illustrates-how-political-science-has-become/" target="_blank">https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/06/15/viewpoint-stanford-epidemiologist-john-ioannidis-covid-19-controversy-illustrates-how-political-science-has-become/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 2281444, member: 140811"] John Ioaniddis is the same scientist who predicted fewer than 10k deaths in the US. "It started on March 17, when Ioannidis published [URL='https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/']an opinion essay[/URL] in STAT saying that the data on Covid-19 were not sufficient to know the disease’s true prevalence and fatality rate. He also argued that scientists were in the dark with respect to which distancing and lockdown measures work, which don’t, and what the measures’ downstream harms might be. All of which was true — even if his very early estimate that as few as [URL='https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/']10,000 might die[/URL] in the U.S. turned out to be wrong. Ioannidis went on to say that preventing people from working or leaving their homes could cause more harm than the virus itself." "But the attacks on Ioannidis from the medical community and the popular press are different. They are tinged with partisanship, with each side appearing to embrace the math that serves their political allegiances." Full text here. [URL]https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/06/15/viewpoint-stanford-epidemiologist-john-ioannidis-covid-19-controversy-illustrates-how-political-science-has-become/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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