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We summarize our conversation with Dr. John Ioannidis, professor at Stanford University, author of the most accessed manuscript in the history of the Public Library of Science, and one of the most cited scientists in history.
Jan 6, 2022 · Our latest in @BMCMedicine with @METRICStanford's P. Janiaud & J. Ioannidis - an appraisal of 3744 meta-analyses on 57 topics: Statistically significant results are common in observational studies, but are rarely convincing or corroborated by RCTs.
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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...
In 2022, Ioannidis authored a paper in BMJ Open arguing that signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration were shunned as a fringe minority by those in favor of the John Snow Memorandum. According to him, the latter used their large numbers of followers on Twitter and other social media and op-eds to shape a scientific groupthink against the ...
Editorial board member of many leading journals (including PLoS Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, JNCI, many others) and Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Clinical Investigation (2010-2019). Delivered ~700 invited and honorary lectures.
Professor of Medicine/Health Research & Policy/Biomedical Data Science/Statistics, Stanford Univ. Verified email at stanford.edu - Homepage. meta-research clinical epidemiology evidence-based...
