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Once again, the Greek Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Statistics at Stanford University, Giannis Ioannidis, who with his controversial views that the coronavirus is almost harmless and the lockdowns are unnecessary, is in the spotlight of the international media Washington Post with this time to deconstruct your claims.
The docile middle-aged gentleman in a well-tailored suit, usually white, and long, well-combed hair who tries in vain to balance the loss of once-rich bangs, does not speak evasively.
Even when faced with skype TV interlocutors proving that they would be very happy to reach the wives if given the opportunity to meet him live, Dr. John Ioannidis does not lose his composure in the least.
He defends his views with a firm voice that betrays nothing but uncertainty, while he does not hesitate to criticize his critics accusing him of “terrorizing” public opinion by applying hasty, crude and even kompogianni methods of scientific analysis, when at the same time accompanies. Now a populist and unscientific he maintains that the coronavirus pandemic is just a low-risk disease, one of many viruses that appear intermittently on the planet.
Dr. John (John) Ioannidis is not, after all, a random scientist. Nor is it his course to refer to a Kombogianni in the medical field seeking the opportunity to make a name for himself through populist television shows.
Excellent in Greece, teacher in America
He grew up in Athens, with his two parents, also doctors, graduated from Athens College, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with postgraduate studies at the famous American universities Harvard and Tufts and later Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine and Medicine. your CV could do anything but pass it on to the scientific community.
His scientific performance is complemented by his great love for literature but also with his passion for classical music. Even today, in addition to medicine, he teaches modern Greek poetry at Stanford University, while trying to write librettos for opera.
This time the works and journeys of Dr. Ioannidis are once again in the headlines of an influential and world-class media outlet, as the Washington Post “dedicates” an extensive eight-page text to its online edition.
As the newspaper notes, his controversial views have been gaining publicity since last March, when in a documentary on the Koronovirus pandemic, Mr. Ioannidis, who is already well known in the global medical community for his highly revealing research on the draft and The way that medical research is done many times, maintains that the coronavirus is much safer than estimated.
At a time when the President of the United States, Trump, was at open war with Dr. Anthony Fauci (with whom the Greek physician has worked closely in the past in the field of treating the plague of AIDS), Ioannidis openly questioned the usefulness of the closures. He even claimed that, according to his own estimates, the death toll in the United States would not exceed 10,000.
The … guru of the pandemic negatives
Their positions, even when they were disproved by all reliable statistical models, advocated for the ultra-conservative camp to come out to the media and demand that the economy remain open despite the millions of people still predicted.
These were the same positions that, although Ioannidis never met with the US president, pressured Donald Trump to question the enormous severity of the pandemic.
Citing the BuzzFeed News website, the Washington Post reports that the statistical poll conducted by Ioannidis was funded by David Neilman, owner of the large American airline JetBlue and a fanatic supporter of the open economy and, of course, President Trump.
The summer recession of the pandemic, made Ioannidis discouraged as he divided his time according to the newspaper between the Vouliagmeni Star in Athens and the concert hall of the Berlin Symphony in the German capital.
“I feel like I’m defending my world when I’m here [στο Βερολίνο]”He even sent an email to the Washington Post.
As the pandemic repeated itself more intensely in the fall, Ioannidis withdrew, as evidenced by at least his refusal to subscribe to the manifesto of some of his colleagues, including his former associates, who argued that he should seek immunity from the courts. Parallel protection measures for the elderly.
However, as the great American newspaper reports, Ioannidis “had already made his name heard. It had already appeared 18 times on major television networks in the United States, repeatedly questioning the intensity of the pandemic. Although he knew that his views would become the product of political exploitation, he argued that not publishing his views would be just as dangerous.
However, in early fall, Dr. John Ioannidis closed his long European summer and returned to the United States. In a country where while about nine months ago he predicted that the dead would be at most 10,000, today the loss of human life in the most powerful country on the planet has reached 310,000 …
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