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>Well, I reviewed this open letter, and it turns out that only around 100 of the 270+ signatories to the letter are people with qualified medical degrees. And a

>Well, I reviewed this open letter, and it turns out that only around 100 of the 270+ signatories to the letter are people with qualified medical degrees. And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine. This would land a lot better if they showed their work; a list of each person who signed it along with degree or job title or whathaveyou. It's hard to trust one random person who says, "I reviewed it, trust me," without any clear evidence that someone beside themselves verified their claim. Such is the nature of Substack/Medium/et. al., I suppose.

kashunstva 5y ago
> This would land a lot better if they showed their work. Indeed. The argument is further weakened by the inclusion of medical residents among the disqualified signatories. Having once been a medical resident many years ago, I can assure the author that a) medical residents are medical doctors and b) the do actually practice medicine and c) they are allowed to have an opinion about whether Mr. Rogan's opinions on issues touching on the medical sciences are evidence-based or not.
stephencanon 5y ago
> And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine. … what exactly do they think MDs employed by universities do?
antifa 5y ago
Also "vast majority" refers to 90%, not 67%. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/126654/is-vast-majority-something-to-avoid/126757 https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/126654/is-vast-m...
- no-dr-onboard 5y ago
  Your argument from stack exchange isn’t particularly convincing considering the answer you linked is prefaced with “when I use an adjective…”.
  - antifa 5y ago
    Are you saying words don't have definitions or meanings when they are adjectives?
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ZeroGravitas 5y ago
I followed their link to the "far-left" rockerfeller foundation, so the non-doctor who was one of the main authors bio there is: > Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS > Science Communication Lead at The Pandemic Tracking Collective > Jessica Malaty Rivera is an infectious disease epidemiologist and science communicator. She earned her MS in Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Georgetown School of Medicine and has dedicated the last 15 years of her career to disease surveillance research, public health policy, and vaccine advocacy. > She is currently the Science Communication Lead for The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, a researcher with the COVID-19 Dispersed Volunteer Research Network, a research affiliate at Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator, and an expert contributor for NBC Bay Area and CNN. If that's "far-left" then I don't want to be "right".

kashunstva 5y ago

> This would land a lot better if they showed their work. Indeed. The argument is further weakened by the inclusion of medical residents among the disqualified signatories. Having once been a medical resident many years ago, I can assure the author that a) medical residents are medical doctors and b) the do actually practice medicine and c) they are allowed to have an opinion about whether Mr. Rogan's opinions on issues touching on the medical sciences are evidence-based or not.

stephencanon 5y ago

> And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine. … what exactly do they think MDs employed by universities do?

antifa 5y ago

Also "vast majority" refers to 90%, not 67%. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/126654/is-vast-majority-something-to-avoid/126757 https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/126654/is-vast-m...

no-dr-onboard 5y ago
Your argument from stack exchange isn’t particularly convincing considering the answer you linked is prefaced with “when I use an adjective…”.
- antifa 5y ago
  Are you saying words don't have definitions or meanings when they are adjectives?
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ZeroGravitas 5y ago

I followed their link to the "far-left" rockerfeller foundation, so the non-doctor who was one of the main authors bio there is: > Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS > Science Communication Lead at The Pandemic Tracking Collective > Jessica Malaty Rivera is an infectious disease epidemiologist and science communicator. She earned her MS in Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Georgetown School of Medicine and has dedicated the last 15 years of her career to disease surveillance research, public health policy, and vaccine advocacy. > She is currently the Science Communication Lead for The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, a researcher with the COVID-19 Dispersed Volunteer Research Network, a research affiliate at Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator, and an expert contributor for NBC Bay Area and CNN. If that's "far-left" then I don't want to be "right".