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Nov 30, 2020 · In March, when John Ioannidis published an opinion essay in STAT, the reaction was swift and brutal. Ioannidis estimated that deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 could potentially be as low as 10,000 ...
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I realize it’s hard to do now that, as of yesterday, the estimated toll in the USalone from COVID-19 is over 560,000 dead from close to 31 million cases; worldwide it’s nearly 2.8 million deaths out of 128 million cases, with all of those numbers almost certainly being significant undercounts of the true toll. Still, try to envision the situation a...
So why have I, after having procrastinated so much over writing this post, finally pulled the trigger and written it? It came in the context of a recent Twitter discussion about “silencing” of academics who advocate contrarian views about the pandemic and a new paper by Prof. Ioannidis published on Friday. An example of one thread that I saw last w...
If there’s one characteristic Prof. Ioannidis has demonstrated during the pandemic, it’s that, whenever his COVID-19 prognostications are criticized or attacked, he tends to deny that he had made them and/or double down on similar arguments. For example, Dr. Howard (mentioned above), loves to compare these two statements: This comes from an intervi...
As much as I used to admire him, since the pandemic hit John Ioannidis has consistently disappointed me to an extreme degree. In the last year, my disappointment with Prof. Ioannidis has gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to avoid lumping him with the COVID-19 minimizers/deniers like those who published and continue to promote the Great Bar...
May 1, 2020 · A Prophet of Scientific Rigor—and a Covid Contrarian. John Ioannidis laid bare the foibles of medical science. Now medical science is returning the favor. Photo-Illustration: Sam Whitney; Robyn...
Apr 19, 2024 · I underestimated how much power politics and media and powers outside of science, could have on science. Despite this inglorious track record, Dr. Ioannidis did not say “I underestimated COVID ” when reflecting on his “biggest mistake”. Instead, he said his “biggest mistake” was that he underestimated something else.
Oct 4, 2010 · John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. By David H. Freedman. November 2010 Issue. I n 2001, rumors were circulating in Greek hospitals that...
Feb 13, 2008 · By Jim Giles. 13 February 2008. (Image: Paul Stuart) When the clinical epidemiologist John Ioannidis published a paper entitled “Why most published research findings are false” in 2005, he ...
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John P. A. Ioannidis ( / ˌiəˈniːdəs /; Greek: Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, Greek pronunciation: [iɔˈanis iɔaˈniðis]; [1] [2] born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research.
