In recent months, Trump has increasingly turned to Dr. Scott Atlas for advice on the coronavirus, even though Dr. Atlas is a radiologist with no experience in epidemiology or infectious diseases.
A few days ago, Dr. Atlas tweeted that masks don’t work, and Twitter blocked his tweet because it is inaccurate and misleading. People’s lives are at stake.
MarketWatch reported:
Twitter Inc. on Sunday blocked a post by Dr. Scott Atlas, one of President Donald Trump’s top health advisers, after he claimed face masks were ineffective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
“Masks work? NO” he tweeted Sunday, following by a thread of posts that misrepresented scientific findings on masks.
Twitter TWTR blocked the post citing a violation of its policy against sharing false or harmful information.
Atlas’s tweet also contradicts the official guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends wearing a mask when outside one’s home. There is widespread agreement among health experts that wearing face masks is the simplest and most effective way to curtail the spread of COVID-19 until a vaccine is developed.
Atlas, a Stanford radiologist with no background in infectious diseases, joined the White House coronavirus task force in August. He has been a vocal supporter of Trump and opposes lockdowns in favor of pursuing a strategy of herd immunity.
Also Sunday, Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease expert, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Atlas’ herd-immunity theory “is the most amazing combination of pixie dust and pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.” Osterholm said herd immunity requires 50%-70% of the population getting infected — far more than Atlas claims — which would likely cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
Others have been similarly dismissive of Atlas. Last month, CDC Director Robert Redfield was overheard on a phone call saying of Atlas: “Everything he says is false.”
Can a doctor be sanctioned or even lose his license for public statements containing provably false & dangerous information?
I was just wondering the same thing.
Masks don’t work?
Scotty boy needs to tell that to all the surgeons, nurses and other medical professionals in the US.
This fellow was not really once Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford Medical school, was he?
Yikes!
I knew Stanford’s Hoover Institute was a bunch of ideological hacks, but I was under the impression that their medical school was not.
Might have to adjust my priors.
He may be an excellent radiologist but he has no experience with infectious diseases.
I’ve known many right winger/libertarian types who are excellent physicians and researchers. Not a single one of them–not one, in my experience–would ever have let their political views affect their medical oath. So, based on that, I’d be willing to bet that Atlas is not much of radiologist, regardless of the institution he comes from. (Yes, there are bad doctors at prestigious institutions.)
Well they also think Fauci, a six administration and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Go figure.
Well said!
Oh–Rasputin is here. The narrative proceeds right on schedule.
Ratspukin
!! Yes !!
Rats-Putin
Masks are Good
Masks are good
But Ducktape’s best
Latter would
Squelch Atlas pest
love it
Presumably, one has to learn about infectious diseases in medical school even to become a radiologist.
He may be old, but I seriously doubt he went to med school before they discovered “filterable agent infectivity” in 1886
That he worked in any capacity at Stanford Medical school is frightening.
I certainly would not want him reading and interpreting MY x-rays.
The beginning of wisdom is to know what you don’t know. Dr. Atlas is not wise.
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-surprise-victory-tom-del-beccaro
Again? Still?
Repeating that I am fearful of an in-person debate the 22nd. I can’t understand this. Somebody please tell us–before Thursday–that it will be virtual.
How much more day-marish (a nightmare that’s real, every waking day) could our scenario get?
Even without the covid risk to Biden, a virtual debate would be the much better way to go after the way Trump behaved the first time. That way, Trump could be silenced when Biden was speaking and all we would see on a split screen would be Trump moving his mouth with no sound. And actually. Even when it was Trump’s turn, it would be best to keep the microphone off. On the rare occasions I turn on Fox news or CNN, I find it much better to watch with no sound.
But the media — and 💰 — are driving the debates and Trump’s on air behavior actually boosts their ratings. So they will never go for a virtual debate.
This guy should be appointed head of a new exec covid agency pronto!
He fits right in with some of Trump’s more memorable cabinet appointees:
Rick Perry, who had advocated shuttering the Dept of Energy
Betsy DeVos who is against public schooling
Scott Pruitt who sued the EPA repeatedly, self-described in his official bio: “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.” Dept now run by coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler.
Ben Carson, critic of HUD’s rules designed to combat segregated housing
Andrew Puzder – unconfirmed nominee for Labor Sec’y who fought labor rules designed to protect workers
Elain Chao, shipping heiress in charge of Transportation
Alex Azar (HHS), pharmaceutical lobbyist & executive
David Bernhardt, oil & energy industry lobbyist, is in charge of mgt & conservation of our fed lands/ natural resources
Mnuchin, investment banker – dept of the Treasury
I get it Donald, I really do. You wanted to shake things up. But I always thought you meant politically—you know, disrupting govt bureaucracies. Never realized you wanted to kill us off…
“It’s not science. It’s shake and bake and Scott helped”
The biggest evidence that Trump and his stooge of a loyalist advisor are wrong is China, Southeast, and East Asia where ALL the people wear masks without complaint.
Compliance is 100%.
China = 4,634 deahts or 3 per million population
Laos = no death reported
Vietnam = 35 deaths or 0.4 per million population
Cambodia = no deaths reported
South Korea = 450 deaths or 9 per million population
Japan = 1,676 deaths or 3 per million population
Thailand = 59 deaths or 0.8 per million population
Compared to Trump’s the United States = 226,149 or 682 per million population
Brazil’s leader reacted just like DT did and refused to wear a mask and just like Trump he encouraged others to also not wear masks. Just look. 154,888 deaths or 727 per million population.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?#countries
Anyone that has a brain capable of fact-checking could easily find out the truth. That leaves Trump and his loyalists competing to see who is dumb and dumber or just dead.
Trump to his chumps on the stump: “Make America great again again.” LMAO
Make America Gaspforbreath Again