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The lead "researcher" on that paper is a climate change denier who also claims covid didn't exist. He also used racial slurs against a former colleague. https:
by cthalupa 10mo ago
The lead "researcher" on that paper is a climate change denier who also claims covid didn't exist. He also used racial slurs against a former colleague.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Rancourt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Rancourt
He's not a credible source. HAL is not a peer reviewed journal, it is an open archive where you can upload papers regardless of publication status.
Meanwhile, we have excellent actual research done by credible researchers in peer reviewed journals like https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... that directly dispute this nonsense.
- youarentrightjr 10mo ago> The lead "researcher" on that paper is a climate change denier who also claims covid didn't exist. He also used racial slurs against a former colleague. I invite you to read another important Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well No doubt Denis Rancourt holds false and reprehensible beliefs. But you can defeat his claims without attacking his person.
- cthalupa 10mo agoI would argue that his general stance on COVID is HIGHLY relevant and not poisoning the well, as is his general stance on other science-related topics, which climate change definitely is. If someone claims that COVID doesn't even exist then I think it is quite fair to immediately discard anything they have to say on this topic. Mentioning his racism is perhaps poisoning the well, but the other stuff I think is relevant.