David Zweig
@davidzweig
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Author of INVISIBLES and AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. ORDER NOW: https://t.co/36kL0G6P11 Subscribe: https://t.co/ytTP1HqGbi Clips: NYT, Atlantic, NYmag, TFP, Wired.
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š„š„š§Ø I am beyond excited to announce that I will be writing AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, a book for @mitpress, about the schools debacle in America during the pandemic. The book, in essence, will be a case study of how and why bad decisions are made. THREAD.1/12.
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Iām so honored to have received the Sinai Award for my reporting on children and schools during the pandemic. I was in great company with @mtaibbi @JustineBateman and others. Thank you @tabletmag @alananewhouse
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RT @politicalmath: There is a certain black-pill post-truth darkness to all this. These people strongly believe things that are clearly untā¦.
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Itās true! I am doing an AMA from 10-1130 ET this morning if anyone wants to join in! Link is in reply to the original tweet.
Over at Reddit, @davidzweig is doing an AMA. It's very strange to be reminded exactly how much misinformation about Covid lives on
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Ok @AmerAcadPeds: what evidence is there that Cody Meissner and Martin Kulldorff are anti-vaccine?. This tweet, from our nationās top pediatric org, exemplifies the arrogant, tribal, defamatory rhetoric that sadly has destroyed trust in so many elite American institutions.
More than 98% of families in this country choose to vaccinate their young children. But now, vaccine policy is being shaped by the small, extreme minority that doesnāt. This decision doesnāt reflect, protect or support families.
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You call @MartinKulldorff a āwild card,ā which strikes me as pretty condescending. Your post was also mostly laudatory except for saying heās veered to āideological stances.ā What is your evidence for that claim? And for him being a wild card? What does that even mean?.
Martin Kulldorff:.Until recently a highly regarded professor at Harvard. He has a history as a rigorous and serious scientist. So hereās the rub: He Supported the great barrington declaration - calling for which caused the public health establishment to essentially damn him. I.
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RT @politicalmath: I'm on a bit of an epistemology kick and I have to recommend @davidzweig's An Abundance of Caution for how he weaves intā¦.
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Hereās the thing this professor doesnāt understand: our intuitions are often wrong, and thatās particularly true with medicine. āJust makes sense, ya knowā is not valid science. Read my book to learn why youāre mistaken about the effect of school mask mandates.
Okay, let's try the small worded Joe Rogan approach. Do you have kids? Because everyone who has kids knows the house gets sick when they bring some bug home from school. Just makes sense ya know.
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I will gladly debate Taylor about school closures. She has me blocked so if anyone is in touch with her, please let her know.
Pete Buttigieg told @BulwarkOnline that if he could do it over, he wouldāve worked to get the schools open faster in 2020. In response, @TaylorLorenz denounced him as a eugenicist. Meanwhile, @DavidZweigās new book presents an avalanche of evidence indicating that school
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This is a really well constructed interview I did with @JanJekielek, with various news clippings interspersed in the video.
šØThe COVID-19 pandemic was a world-altering event in which older people were favored to the detriment of children. Thereās one journalist who has chronicled this sacrifice of children since the beginning: @davidzweig . 00:44 - The Failure of Pandemic Decision-Making.02:41 -
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āIn every epidemiological decision there are philosophical decisions that go along with itāā@BenedictBeckeld . This is a fundamental truth noted by Beckeldāa brilliant philosopher Iāve had the good fortune of speaking withāthat our āexpertsā and politicians pretended was untrue.
I just read @davidzweigās āAn Abundance of Cautionā, which I warmly recommend to anyone curious about shocking mismanagement during Covid. I spoke with David a while back about the philosophy of science and was reminded of it by this short someone did of me from an old interview:.
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The tour continues!.So grateful to @shvetaraju for hosting a great event and for meeting such good people. Now off to Nashville!.
Great spending time with @davidzweig @kate_freedomer @jharmer @shvetaraju . Davidās book is fantastic by the way. Future historians will use it to learn what happened during the Covid era
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RT @Beanie0597: On my way home today I was listening to @davidzweig talk about the absurdity of closing schools for millions of healthy chiā¦.
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I also cover a study by @vkoganpolisci in my book, which shows that parent attitudes tended to favor whatever mode their school district was in. As soon as their schools opened parents shifted to being in favor of them staying open. Read my book!.
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David, this is the second time in the last few weeks I've seen you post polling results like this. As I wrote before, this is simply evidence that health officials and the media failed the public terribly by misinforming them.
āIn April 2021 an NBC News poll asked people who had children in school ādo you believe that your childās school system has been too slow in re-opening, too fast in re-opening, or struck the right balance?ā 14% said too slow, 14% too fast, and 70% struck the right balance.ā.
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During an excellent New Rules on hypocrisy and tribalism in America, what a great surprise to see An Abundance of Caution mentioned! Thanks @billmaher @RealTimers for the shout out!. Read the book for the untold story of the baldly unscientific behavior of our expert class.
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Grateful to @neontaster for an excellent review of An Abundance of Caution. He succinctly captures a critical message from the book hereādonāt accept the āwe donāt knowā narrative:
Check out my review of @davidzweig's new book, "An Abundance of Caution," from the June issue of @Commentary.
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Great to see @KelleyKga @justin_hart and @politicalmath getting recognition! During the pandemic I often trusted them and a few other Team Reality folks, because they earned it, more than the authorities. Kelley in particular helped me a lot with CDC data acquisition for my book.
Thank you to @MckeanCarrie and @TheFP for this nice article about the Covid work I've done over the past five years, along with @politicalmath, @justin_hart, and the rest of Team Reality.
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RT @MattWelch: This was originally a mostly-paywalled episode of @wethefifth, but paying subscribers wanted to be able to share it more widā¦.
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