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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by acdha on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:48AM (#30101194)
Where was his involvement in the development or testing of the vaccines we’re actually using? The extensive safety and efficacy reviews which were conducted in multiple countries prior to authorization? The ongoing review since then?

That’s what matters when discussing his expertise on the subject of the COVID vaccine. It doesn’t matter how great he might have been at one of the many parts of the scientific process which got us here, what matters is the topic we’re actually discussing. Scientists are not like you see in the movies: nobody is an expert at everything and they’re not perfect, either — that’s why the process is built around adversarial review since everyone makes mistakes. Linus Pauling was a Nobel laureate and by all accounts a brilliant researcher but that didn’t mean he was right about vitamin megadoses.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by stnmtn on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:34AM (#30102555)
> Where was Fauci during the development of the vaccine?

This is such a weird question because the answer is obvious, he was working in a leading role as the head of a government agency who has to be involved with/aware of what is going on with the vaccine.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by acdha on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:35AM (#30102583)
Fauci is not claiming that his views are based on being an inventor of the technology. He’s saying that he’s read the papers by the many scientists involved and is basing his advice on that heavily-reviewed work. Malone could submit his claims to the same process but he knows that they’d never hold up to examination.
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