Re:How the pandemic is changing the norms of science
by tchalla on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:28AM
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Your edit is indeed enlightening and I want to focus on one part of the article from March 2020 written by the author of the OP
> Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?
So much for "science fiction". In my view, Ioannidis is a person who can't function without data. However, there are many situations in life where one doesn't have data to make a decision. In many cases, there are more than one options for decision making to achieve similar goals. Ioannidis doesn't get it.
I feel like I agree in isolation with almost everything he says (science should share more data, corporations shouldn't be trusted to generate science that affects their bottom line, science is a complicated business with lots of opinions).
But sprinkled into it he seems to be attacking some technocratic elite of pundits and I'm not sure who he's talking about. (There's another article from the same magazine recommended as related that tries to define who these elites are and what they are up to, but if anything I'm less sure what they're talking about after reading it.)
America’s Smug Elite Is Harming Our Kids The push to decouple skepticism from science turns schoolchildren into victims by Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/americas...
Googling smug and elite brings up a lot of weird articles.
edit: found this enlightening:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-j...