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He is an expert who in his judgment, advocates an informed decision. No one knows exactly what is the right thing to do so he’s making his own call.
by verroq 6y ago
He is an expert who in his judgment, advocates an informed decision. No one knows exactly what is the right thing to do so he’s making his own call.
- parrellel 6y agoSince the point of this article is he went off on this with no data and plenty of feeling, and then did studies that were roundly criticized for omitting data and bad stats, and his let-it-ride vision of the pandemic is an order of magnitude less lethal then the shut-it-down-sorta we got I figure a good chiding might be in order.
- Bukhmanizer 6y agoThe point of science is that by looking at the data you can draw logical conclusions and actions. By “making his own call”, Ioannidis has thrown that out the window. Instead of presenting the data clearly and getting scientific consensus, he has tried to backdoor the process and go straight to the White House. Even the data he has collected has been widely criticized as skewed. Ioannidis is an influential scientist but he is not a politician or a policy maker, this isn’t his call to make.
- coldtea 6y ago>who in his judgment, advocates an informed decision It's not up to an "expert's judgement" to say that they advocate an informed decision. It's up to their experctly use of methodology and experctly analysing and taking account of available information -- which he kind of didn't do. Being an expert doesn't make your decisions informed. Being an expert makes you know the processes for making and evaluating informed decisions. But then you also need to follow that process.