The political leanings of Mr. Prasad are embarrassingly evident in this shoddy column. Much of his advice is already well understood by most scientists. Do randomized testing! Brilliant! Why didn't any other scientists think of that?
No one is going to get the science and the public policy exactly right on something as complex and ever-ch…
The political leanings of Mr. Prasad are embarrassingly evident in this shoddy column. Much of his advice is already well understood by most scientists. Do randomized testing! Brilliant! Why didn't any other scientists think of that?
No one is going to get the science and the public policy exactly right on something as complex and ever-changing as a pandemic, but one thing I've learned for certain is that the experts (like the CDC, NIH and Dr. Fauci) are much better at discerning truth from nonsense than right-wing media pundits.
Dennis Prager is a perfect example of what I mean. Prager says that masks don't work. He claims that the vaccines don't work. He claims that HCQ and Ivermectin cure covid, and that the medical establishment is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in America because they don't prescribe these useless drugs. Non of that is based in science. Prager simply pulled it out of his substantial rear end.
Prager also says that he no longer trusts doctors and the medical establishment because "they're all corrupt", without citing a single example of any actual corruption. Few people have done more to undermine our country's response to the pandemic than Dennis Prager, with the possible exception of Robert Kennedy Jr.
No single group has done more to politicize the pandemic than right-wing media. Right-wing media is why we have such a low vaccination rate, and such a high death rate. (Right-wing media is also why so many Americans believe that Trump won the 2020 election, and why we had a violent insurrection committed by a bunch of delusional lunatics.)
Also, simply protecting the vulnerable is much easier said than done because sooner or later they have to come into contact with other people who could be carrying the virus and not even know it. I've yet to see a country successfully protect the vulnerable while allowing everyone else to go about life as normal. Protecting the vulnerable sounds nice, but in practice it doesn't work.
Also, I wonder why Dr Prasad didn't cite Australia, S Korea and New Zealand as examples of successful public policy. Actually, I don't. His politics is clearly obfuscating his ability to think clearly.
His point was that common sense dictates RCT's, which did not and are not being done to get actual scientific data. So we leave the pandemic no wiser than we went in. Now 3 more years along, Dr. Prasad has been vindicated in most of his observations. Perhaps your politics are obfuscating your clear thinking.
The political leanings of Mr. Prasad are embarrassingly evident in this shoddy column. Much of his advice is already well understood by most scientists. Do randomized testing! Brilliant! Why didn't any other scientists think of that?
No one is going to get the science and the public policy exactly right on something as complex and ever-changing as a pandemic, but one thing I've learned for certain is that the experts (like the CDC, NIH and Dr. Fauci) are much better at discerning truth from nonsense than right-wing media pundits.
Dennis Prager is a perfect example of what I mean. Prager says that masks don't work. He claims that the vaccines don't work. He claims that HCQ and Ivermectin cure covid, and that the medical establishment is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in America because they don't prescribe these useless drugs. Non of that is based in science. Prager simply pulled it out of his substantial rear end.
Prager also says that he no longer trusts doctors and the medical establishment because "they're all corrupt", without citing a single example of any actual corruption. Few people have done more to undermine our country's response to the pandemic than Dennis Prager, with the possible exception of Robert Kennedy Jr.
No single group has done more to politicize the pandemic than right-wing media. Right-wing media is why we have such a low vaccination rate, and such a high death rate. (Right-wing media is also why so many Americans believe that Trump won the 2020 election, and why we had a violent insurrection committed by a bunch of delusional lunatics.)
Also, simply protecting the vulnerable is much easier said than done because sooner or later they have to come into contact with other people who could be carrying the virus and not even know it. I've yet to see a country successfully protect the vulnerable while allowing everyone else to go about life as normal. Protecting the vulnerable sounds nice, but in practice it doesn't work.
Also, I wonder why Dr Prasad didn't cite Australia, S Korea and New Zealand as examples of successful public policy. Actually, I don't. His politics is clearly obfuscating his ability to think clearly.
His point was that common sense dictates RCT's, which did not and are not being done to get actual scientific data. So we leave the pandemic no wiser than we went in. Now 3 more years along, Dr. Prasad has been vindicated in most of his observations. Perhaps your politics are obfuscating your clear thinking.