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In the sights of the newspaper Washington Post Greek professor of epidemiology, medicine, and statistics at Stanford University found Giannis Ioannidis for the controversial opinions that the coronavirus it is almost harmless and locks are unnecessary.
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.
The Washington Post, however, “dedicates” a lengthy eight-page text to its online edition, making its claims.
As the newspaper points out, his controversial opinions have been gaining publicity since last March when in a documentary about coronavirus pandemic Ioannidis, who is already well known in the global medical community for his highly revealing research into the clumsy and sometimes unethical way medical research is often conducted, argues that the coronavirus is far more harmless than the estimated.
When the American president Triumph was at open war with Dr. Anthony Fauci (with whom the Greek physician had previously worked closely in the field of fighting the AIDS plague) Ioannidis openly questioned the usefulness of the closures. He even claimed that according to his own estimates the death toll in the US would not exceed 10,000.
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.
Criticism from the scientific community is harsh: Many argue that the Stanford physician “poisons” scientific reason by refusing to admit his errors of judgment and influence his public, that he defies public health guidelines for … absurd reasons, as they often say.
THE Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist and former collaborator of Dr. Ioannidis at a Stanford research institute, expressed concern about the role played by his former colleague in the development of 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.
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 former partners, who argued that it should continue. group immunity for young people with parallel protection measures for the elderly.
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