This study was released in June, so this may be a repost, but I just found out that one of my friends is a fan of Emily Oster and this is the void I must scream into.

    • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Her wikipedia has a COVID-19 section. She is a think tank head who pushed super hard for school reopening and making masks optional in public. Her credentials for these were she is a liberal economist who graduated from Harvard and taught at the Chicago School of Economics. Her research was at least on "Economics and Health" but she also wrote a book with a section contesting fetal alcohol syndrome's causal sensitivity which was widely panned by anyone who knew anything about it.

    • Wertheimer [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Atlantic writer who led the drumbeat on reopening schools. An economist who pretends she’s an authority on public health. Takes money from the Cato Institute to write things that appeal to liberals.

      https://proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/motivated-reasoning-emily-osters-covid-narratives-and-the-attack-on-public-education/

      https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-162-how-the-data-driven-label-sanitizes-cruel-austerity-politics-9a0e471f12b5

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      A Great Unclean One who acts as Herald of the Plague for Grandfather Nurgle, may he liberally spread his blessings among us.