Weekend reads: Vaccine contamination paper under investigation; Harvard sues Gino for falsifying evidence; fugitive scientist arrested September 20, 2025 Retraction Watch “We force people to do things they’re not prepared to do, and we shouldn’t blame them if they do things wrong,” John Ioannidis says of publishing pressure. Plus, his recent paper on “Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles.”
I guess maybe John Ioannidis would know.
Stanford University to host right-wing trucker convoy adjacent political event. Covid contrarian symposium scheduled a month before the U.S. presidential election – same old characters, backed by right-wing money, with the same extreme politics against public safety. Chloe Humbert Sep 08, 2024 A month or so after disparaging the precautionary principle, John Ioannidis & Jay Battacharya, with several other authors, published a study that they claimed bolstered their position against safety interventions. It was a study in Santa Clara County, California that supposedly showed that the area was closer to some sort of herd immunity than the public health case surveillance was reporting. It was reported that the study authors didn’t know where the study funding came from, but that seems like a superfluous point, since it’s kind of obvious that a tycoon of some kind known to be very vocal against pandemic mitigation forked over money to pay for a study by vocally anti-prevention scientists, who then went on to be sloppy about the particulars of their methods – specifically an inaccurate antibody test which discredited the study. Any mogul interested could’ve easily found out these people were like-minded. Like John Ioannidis, Jay Battacharya also had a covid contrarian op-ed published March 24th 2020 in The Wall Street Journal of all places, boldly claiming that the mortality rate for the pandemic coronavirus was supposedly exaggerated, right while we were getting news that Italy’s world-class health system was collapsing with healthcare workers bearing witness to mass death, and less than a week before the reports of freezer truck morgues in New York City started hitting the headlines.