Subject: Re: Scientists abandoned science during covid 19,
hclasvegas: Doc Prasad for the usual suspects...

So Dr. "Do Not Comply" Prasad is saying that when daily deaths in the U.S. went from 23 on March 20, 2020 to 1,089 two weeks later on April 6 to 2,222 another two weeks later on April 20, we should have taken no public healthcare initiatives without first doing randomized controlled clinical trials like true scientists to determine the possible outcomes of each plan of action.

Well, sure, one or two thousand Americans are dropping dead everyday so let's take a few months to do randomized controlled clinical trials before taking any action.

Science-Based Medicine has a long article on Dr. Vinay Prasad.

Dr. Prasad has been promoting this message for quite a while now. Indeed, doing a quick search of this blog, I found that he was promoting exactly this message a year ago, when he portrayed ongoing concern about the harms of COVID-19 and a desire among many to avoid catching the disease if they possibly can as irrational anxiety and fear. At the time, I pointed out how this sort of portrayal of public health advocates as fearful and of catching an infectious disease as unavoidable -- even inevitable (or, as Dr. Prasad puts it this time, "unpreventable") -- is exactly the same sort of narrative that antivaxxers have used for decades about measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases.

One wonders what Dr. Prasad thinks of antivaxxers who said exactly the same thing about measles back in the day, that it's a "harmless childhood disease that is dangerous to only a very few," that it's impossible to avoid getting it, that "natural immunity" is better. Dr. Prasad obstinately keeps claiming that he's "not antivax," but then goes and keeps repeating antivax messaging that was old when the pandemic hit in 2020. Either he’s ignorant about this messaging (possible, but no longer likely given how often people have tried to explain it to him), in denial that that is what he’s doing (possible), or doesn’t care (the most likely possibility).

Full article: https://sciencebasedmedicine.o...