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Christian Rück, professor of psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet, recently started a thread on Twitter where he urged people to admit what they have done because of their errors in judgment. So, not what other people – authorities, politicians, public debaters and more – have done wrong, but our personal mistakes.
He received 363 responses, many of which were complacent and thoughtless. It is closer to human nature to see the great in your brother’s eyes, but not the lightning bolt in yours.
One who actually obeyed Christian Rück’s challenge was Joacim Rocklöv, an epidemiologist and modeler in Umeå and one of 22 signatories to a discussion article posted on DN’s discussion page in April 2020. Joacim Rocklöv says he regrets the controversial tone and condescending on the designated discussion article. officials in charge as “without talent”. This remorse has already been expressed by Rocklöv in an interview with a newspaper.
I also reacted about the debate article that Rocklöv later distanced himself from, in a column published in DN in April. Above all, I clung to two things: that some of the debaters presented themselves as “researchers” even though their research merits go back decades, or they refer to topics that are not relevant at all in the context. . And that the controversy in the article was mainly concerned with comparing the death rates of individual days.
Simply counting the deaths recorded in covid-19 over a limited period is a cardinal mistake that many have made, far beyond the circle of Rocklöv’s controversial co-authors. But those are useless comparisons. Countries record deaths in different ways, the pandemic wreaking havoc on a monthly and yearly basis, and not just on individual days. The only sensible way is to compare excess mortality compared to previous years, and this data is just beginning to come in now.
I wrote about the debaters’ dishonest method of picking cherry blossoms for a few days. So in hindsight, I can regret that I wasn’t even harsher in my criticism.
But what I regret the most Since last year, I have not made any more efforts to support comrades Amina Manzoor and Maria Gunther.
As stated by Expressen and SVT’s Agenda program, among others, Amina Manzoor is now leaving as a medical reporter for Dagens Nyheter, in part due to the hate campaigns she has been subjected to.
Science editor Maria Gunther has also recently testified on Swedish Television and Swedish Radio news shows about impulses that have affected her due to corona reports.
It is a fact that both Amina Manzoor and Maria Gunther work with news journalism at a very high level. They report objectively and qualitatively on scientific results, and do not engage in opinion and opinion journalism.
I myself was the scientific editor of DN between 1997 and 2013 and since then she has been a freelance writer and columnist. I have not worked at DN at the same time as Amina Manzoor and Maria Gunther. But they have been my closest colleagues and on a human level, I should have done so much more for them.
One wonders what forces are behind the coordinated campaigns and personal attacks against journalists such as Amina Manzoor and Maria Gunther (and also against Emma Frenchand against pediatrician Jonas Ludvigsson, who says he has to stop covid-19 research after an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that caused attacks and threats). What forces are winning by silencing the most qualified journalists and researchers and polarizing the debate?
Personally, I’ve become less clueless at that point. This is my most important lesson from the past year.
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Therefore, we do not know what measures work against the virus.
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