Ioannidis was going on Fox News and his coauthors were writing op eds on the Wall Street Journal advocating their policy positions. Then they touted their Sant

Ioannidis was going on Fox News and his coauthors were writing op eds on the Wall Street Journal advocating their policy positions. Then they touted their Santa Clara study in the popular media before it had gone through peer review, which it did not ultimately pass without significant revision, due to major statistical shortcomings. Your implication is that he be should be treated like a pure scientist that isn't in the rough and tumble world of politics and should be treated more deferentially. It was the Stanford authors choice to directly criticize the lockdown policy in popular media, and they should not be surprised in the least when people who disagree reply in the same manner and the same forums. Oh, and Ioannidis became famous and was offered the professorship at Stanford because he wrote a paper called "Why Most Published Research Findings are False.", which is in large part about how researchers misuse statistics to report findings that aren't true. It's like an O Henry story.