Politicians have rightfully received much of the blame for the COVID carnage, but some scientists and doctors have been giving the rest of us a bad name.

When confronted with a new disease, our understanding changes over time, and messages may change. That's good, that's how science should work. Don't let anyone convince you it means that science doesn't know what it's doing.

None of these problems are new. Like with everything else, COVID-19 has just exposed issues that already existed, in this case deep problems with science and scientific research.

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I've called them 'references' but it's really a further reading and watching list, do take a look at some if you can.

References/Reading List:

1. The ibuprofen one liner: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
2. OpenSAFELY (the smoking paper): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
3. Tweetorial about collider bias:   / 1258607277357006849  
4. More in-depth analysis, focusing on COVID-19: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11...
4a. Why most COVID results might be wrong: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/20...
5. Tweetorial about the PPI paper:   / 1280728013475401728  
6. Santa Clara Seroprevalance study: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.ed...
7. Interview with Ionannidis: https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/20...
8. Tweetorial on CMR paper:   / 1288246926392070145  
8a. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
9. Another explanation of problems with the cardiac study:   / 1295745239878119427  
10. My tweetorial on just one of the Bakersfield docs’ mistakes/lies:   / 1254742195577458688  
11. Dr Mike’s video on Bakersfield docs:    • These Doctors Are RECKLESS & WRONG.  
12. Dr Mike’s video on Plandemic:    • Doctor Fact-Checks PLANDEMIC Conspiracy  
13. ZDogg’s video on Bakersfield docs:    • Two Bakersfield ER Docs Vs. Health Of...  
14. ZDogg’s video on Plandemic:    • A Doctor Reacts To “Plandemic"  
15. Plandemic analysis: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/plan...
16. America’s Frontline Doctors: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/3...
17. Hydroxychloroquine: https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/23/...
18. Surgisphere: https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
19. Guardian Australia first raising the alarm regarding the data: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...
20. Lancet retraction: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
21. F Perry Wilson’s summary of the 5 HCQ RCTs:    • Clinical Researcher Reviews Every Hyd...  
22. T-cells madness: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/...

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:22 Following the science
02:51 Ibuprofen
04:10 Smoking and COVID
05:41 Correlation is not causation
06:00 Fake data 1
07:33 Santa Clara
09:04 Heart effects of COVID
10:00 Flu bros
10:27 Frontline doctors
11:22 Masks
14:58 Hydroxychloroquine
17:00 Fake data 2, fraud, cam girls
20:41 Conclusion