"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Anti-lockdown ideologues’ “science” is now as bad as antivaccine “science”

Post author By Orac
Post date November 27, 2020
51 Comments on Anti-lockdown ideologues’ “science” is now as bad as antivaccine “science”

Anti-lockdown ideologues are now falling prey to the ecological fallacy in their bad epidemiological studies in the same way antivaxxers have been doing for years. Cranks gonna crank, I guess.

Tags coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, David Geier, ecological fallacy, epidemiology, EpiWonk, lockdown, Mark Geier, SARS-CoV-2

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AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Post author By Orac
Post date October 29, 2020
68 Comments on AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Cranks love a heroic persecution narrative, and the climate science-denying right wing think tank American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) has a doozy: COVID-19 “anti-lockdown” cranks like Scott Atlas and those behind the Great Barrington Declaration are the new abolitionists! This is a page from the antivax playbook.

Tags AIER, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, Focused Protection, Fugitive Slave Act, Great Barrington Declaration, herd immunity, lockdown, persecution, SARS-CoV-2, slavery, Stacey Rudin, vaccines

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