Two docs talk LIVE about the dangers of medical black & white thinking when it comes to COVID-19.
We talked Danish Mask Study, Thanksgiving public health absolutism and harm reduction strategies, the latest ways to think about the new COVID vaccines, scientific censorship, political polarization in science, Dr. Scott Atlas, and much more.
Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a practicing hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He studies cancer drugs, health policy, and clinical trials and better decision making. He is author of these academic articles, and the books Ending Medical Reversal(2015), and Malignant(2020). He hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session, and runs a YouTube Channel VinayPrasadMDMPH. He tweets @VPrasadMDMPH.
Here are all the other episodes we’ve done with Vinay!
Timestamps: 00:00:01 – 00:01:30 Intro
00:01:31 – 00:06:22 Danish masks study – nuance vs noise
00:06:23 – 00:08:33 Case for cluster randomised trials to find masks efficacy
00:08:34 – 00:12:47 More about politics and science surrounding Danish study
00:12:48 – 00:17:38 Curious case of Scott Atlas
00:17:39 – 00:19:50 Problem with making Facebook the arbiter of information
00:19:51 – 00:22:14 Covid is bringing the issues with established research practices to the fore
00:22:15 – 00:22:58 Public health policy needs input from all concerned, not just medical science
00:22:59 – 00:24:20 Poor policy induced social exhaustion
00:24:21 – 00:26:35 Science needs to be interpreted through values to make policy
00:26:36 – 00:29:18 Personal circumstances determining perspectives
00:29:19 – 00:32:41 Thanksgivings strategy – absolutism vs pragmatism
00:32:42 – 00:33:31 Harm reduction
00:33:32 – 00:35:53 Tailored social media manipulation
00:35:54 – 00:36:44 Pushing the minds to the edge
00:36:45 – 00:37:50 Twitter turns bored folks (including scientists) into fumbling buffoons
00:37:51 – 00:40:14 Trump’s reverse manipulation
00:40:15 – 00:41:27 Alternative middle view
00:41:28 – 00:43:57 Illiberal follies of the left
00:43:58 – 00:44:56 Bottomless belly of the outrage junkies
00:44:57 – 00:48:08 JAMA and tribal badges
00:48:09 – 00:49:43 Hydroxychloroquine episode
00:49:44 – 00:50:19 Not impossible to keep personal politics and science separate
00:50:20 – 00:56:08 Perils of premature grouping
00:56:09 – 01:08:25 Vaccines progress and comparison
01:08:26 – 01:09:12 Smart study designs
01:09:13 – 01:11:40 Skin in the game
01:11:41 – 01:13:00 Vaccination prioritisation
01:13:01 – 01:14:40 Covid-19 prevalence speculation
01:14:41 – 01:16:12 Should low risk folks should get vaccinated?
01:16:13 – 01:17:40 Mandating vaccine would presumably be unnecessary
01:17:41 – 01:21:12 Current medical training absurdities
01:21:13 – 01:23:10 Closing rituals
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