09-11-2020, 12:38 PM
(09-10-2020, 05:05 PM)magnus Wrote: Looks like infectious disease and health experts at Stanford have written an open letter against Atlas' public musings.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/stan...d=72926212
the letter is here
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/r...4/full.pdf
which says in part
Quote:As infectious diseases physicians and researchers, microbiologist and immunologists,
epidemiologists and health policy leaders, we stand united in efforts to develop and promote
science-based solutions that advance human health and prevent suffering from the coronavirus
pandemic. In this pursuit, we share a commitment to a basic principle derived from the
Hippocratic Oath: Primum Non Nocere (First, Do No Harm).
To prevent harm to the public’s health, we also have both a moral and an ethical responsibility to
call attention to the falsehoods and misrepresentations of science recently fostered by Dr. Scott
Atlas, a former Stanford Medical School colleague and current senior fellow at the Hoover
Institute at Stanford University. Many of his opinions and statements run counter to established
science and, by doing so, undermine public-health authorities and the credible science that
guides effective public health policy. The preponderance of data, accrued from around the
world, currently supports each of the following statements:
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"
