Ep. 213 Paul Thacker on Disinformation and Corruption

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Our guest is Paul Thacker, an investigative journalist who reports on science, medicine and the environment. He recently received the British Journalism Award in Specialist Journalism for a series of articles in the BMJ investigating undisclosed financial interests among medical experts advising the US and UK governments on vaccines.

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Paul Thacker: Twitter and Substack

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Ep. 212 Internet Rando vs. CDC

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Our guest is Kelley Krohnert, a mom from Georgia who has repeatedly taken to task public health so-called experts for their shoddy analysis of pandemic statistics. In doing so, Kelley has won a large following on Twitter and on her website COVID-19 in Georgia which is well-respected for its reporting on the pandemic.

One of Kelley’s major fact-checking contribution was to discover that a pediatric COVID mortality statistics that was widely disseminated by the CDC, presented at the June 2021 ACIP meeting, and used to establish vaccine policy, was taken from a pre-print article that contained an egregious error and grossly over-estimated COVID deaths among children. This error was admitted by the authors who were forced to correct the paper.

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Kelley Krohnert: Twitter and webpage

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Ep. 210 The Florida Vaccine Study in Perspective, with Tracy Beth Hoeg

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Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who returns to the show to share her perspective on the controversial study published by the Florida Department of Public Health analyzing a possible link between COVID mRNA vaccines and cardiac-related deaths. Dr. Høeg has made notable contributions to empirical research pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC’s MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress.

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Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD: Twitter

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Ep. 208 Ben Recht on the Humble Side of Machine Learning

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Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and co-author with Moritz Hardt of Pattern, Prediction, and Action: A Story About Machine Learning soon to be published by Princeton University Press but already freely available as a pdf format pre-print here. We discuss his work and perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage

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Ep. 207 A Conversation with Andrew Bostom

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Our guest is Dr. Andrew Bostom, an academic physician also known as “The Researcher Brown University Doesn’t Want You to Know About.” We discuss his life experience as an academic physician with politically conservative views, his opposition to the pandemic response, and his recent suspension from Twitter.

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Andrew Bostom: Twitter

LINKS:

  • Andrew Bostom’s blog

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  • Ep. 192. A Conversation with Viral Myalgia

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Ep. 205 Stanley Goldfarb on Taking CRT Out of the Exam Room

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Our guest is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of the recently-released Take Two Aspirins and Call Me By My Pronouns, a book that details the intrusion of critical race theory and identity politics into medical education and medical practice. He is a former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and returns to the show to discuss his book and the new organization that he is leading to push back against the new trend.

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Stanley Goldfarb: Twitter

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  • Ep. 102 Curriculum Subverted: An Academic Leader Pushes Back Against Woke Medicine (with Stanley Goldfarb)
  • Ep. 140 Amy Wax on Wokeness in Medicine
  • Ep. 149 James Lindsay: Critical Race Theory, Post-Modernism, and Medicine

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