Posted on 05/23/2020 8:18:42 PM PDT by lightman
In a recent op-ed, Steve Pandelidis advocated for the so-called “herd immunity” approach to the coronavirus pandemic. His piece was very poorly timed as he cited Sweden as a success story. He should know that Sweden followed his “herd immunity” approach and had the most COVID-19 deaths per capita in Europe last week. He should also know that Sweden's case fatality rate is far higher than most other countries.
Dr. Pandelidis is not an expert on viruses or pandemics....
Dr. Pandelidis lives the life of a very privileged person. He fails to acknowledge that an uncontrolled coronavirus in relatively rural York County (resulting from going to green too quickly) may very lead to many more cases and deaths...
In his op ed, Dr. Pandelidis also leans heavily on a fallacy. He wrongly implies that, because precautions worked, that means precautions weren't necessary....
York County just went to yellow. If, by the end of June or July, the number of cases and deaths are lower than they are now, great, he was sort of right..
(Excerpt) Read more at ydr.com ...
Did you try applying that author’s theory to his own paper?
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”
Skepticism has the habit of eating itself.
The reason there are no “peer-reviewed” papers that disprove global warming is because no grants will be given for such papers.
You can get a paper to prove anything you want as long as you are willing to pay for it.
Nice non-sequitor.
Whatever you say, perfesser.
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