David Zweig
@davidzweig
Author of INVISIBLES and AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. ORDER NOW: https://amzn.to/3Q3k44c Subscribe: http://SilentLunch.net Clips: NYT, Atlantic, NYmag, TFP, Wired.
💥🔥🧨 I am beyond excited to announce that I will be writing AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, a book for @mitpress, about the schools debacle in America during the pandemic. The book, in essence, will be a case study of how and why bad decisions are made THREAD 1/12
This is a really well constructed interview I did with @JanJekielek, with various news clippings interspersed in the video.
🚨The COVID-19 pandemic was a world-altering event in which older people were favored to the detriment of children. There’s one journalist who has chronicled this sacrifice of children since the beginning: @davidzweig 00:44 - The Failure of Pandemic Decision-Making 02:41 -…
This quote from Collins in @davidzweig's book is worth posting here:
I’m so honored to have received the Sinai Award for my reporting on children and schools during the pandemic. I was in great company with @mtaibbi @JustineBateman and others. Thank you @tabletmag @alananewhouse
There is a certain black-pill post-truth darkness to all this. These people strongly believe things that are clearly untrue They are smart, articulate, capable of research and reason, and fully convinced that the truth is not true
It’s true! I am doing an AMA from 10-1130 ET this morning if anyone wants to join in! Link is in reply to the original tweet
Over at Reddit, @davidzweig is doing an AMA It's very strange to be reminded exactly how much misinformation about Covid lives on
Ok @AmerAcadPeds: what evidence is there that Cody Meissner and Martin Kulldorff are anti-vaccine? This tweet, from our nation’s top pediatric org, exemplifies the arrogant, tribal, defamatory rhetoric that sadly has destroyed trust in so many elite American institutions.
More than 98% of families in this country choose to vaccinate their young children. But now, vaccine policy is being shaped by the small, extreme minority that doesn’t. This decision doesn’t reflect, protect or support families.
You call @MartinKulldorff a “wild card,” which strikes me as pretty condescending. Your post was also mostly laudatory except for saying he’s veered to “ideological stances.” What is your evidence for that claim? And for him being a wild card? What does that even mean?
Martin Kulldorff: Until recently a highly regarded professor at Harvard. He has a history as a rigorous and serious scientist. So here’s the rub: He Supported the great barrington declaration - calling for which caused the public health establishment to essentially damn him. I…
I'm on a bit of an epistemology kick and I have to recommend @davidzweig's An Abundance of Caution for how he weaves into his book in these questions of "when doing science, how and when do we actually know things are true?" x.com/davidzweig/sta…
Here’s the thing this professor doesn’t understand: our intuitions are often wrong, and that’s particularly true with medicine. “Just makes sense, ya know” is not valid science. Read my book to learn why you’re mistaken about the effect of school mask mandates.
Here’s the thing this professor doesn’t understand: our intuitions are often wrong, and that’s particularly true with medicine. “Just makes sense, ya know” is not valid science. Read my book to learn why you’re mistaken about the effect of school mask mandates.
Okay, let's try the small worded Joe Rogan approach. Do you have kids? Because everyone who has kids knows the house gets sick when they bring some bug home from school. Just makes sense ya know.
I will gladly debate Taylor about school closures. She has me blocked so if anyone is in touch with her, please let her know.
Pete Buttigieg told @BulwarkOnline that if he could do it over, he would’ve worked to get the schools open faster in 2020. In response, @TaylorLorenz denounced him as a eugenicist. Meanwhile, @DavidZweig’s new book presents an avalanche of evidence indicating that school…
“In every epidemiological decision there are philosophical decisions that go along with it”—@BenedictBeckeld This is a fundamental truth noted by Beckeld—a brilliant philosopher I’ve had the good fortune of speaking with—that our “experts” and politicians pretended was untrue.
I just read @davidzweig’s “An Abundance of Caution”, which I warmly recommend to anyone curious about shocking mismanagement during Covid. I spoke with David a while back about the philosophy of science and was reminded of it by this short someone did of me from an old interview:
The tour continues! So grateful to @shvetaraju for hosting a great event and for meeting such good people. Now off to Nashville!
Great spending time with @davidzweig @kate_freedomer @jharmer @shvetaraju David’s book is fantastic by the way Future historians will use it to learn what happened during the Covid era
On my way home today I was listening to @davidzweig talk about the absurdity of closing schools for millions of healthy children for months & I got incredibly angry all over again. I haven’t read his book yet (I’m not sure my blood pressure can handle it) but I probably should.
During an excellent New Rules on hypocrisy and tribalism in America, what a great surprise to see An Abundance of Caution mentioned! Thanks @billmaher @RealTimers for the shout out! Read the book for the untold story of the baldly unscientific behavior of our expert class.
Grateful to @neontaster for an excellent review of An Abundance of Caution. He succinctly captures a critical message from the book here—don’t accept the “we don’t know” narrative:
Check out my review of @davidzweig's new book, "An Abundance of Caution," from the June issue of @Commentary. commentary.org/articles/noam-…
Great to see @KelleyKga @justin_hart and @politicalmath getting recognition! During the pandemic I often trusted them and a few other Team Reality folks, because they earned it, more than the authorities. Kelley in particular helped me a lot with CDC data acquisition for my book
Thank you to @MckeanCarrie and @TheFP for this nice article about the Covid work I've done over the past five years, along with @politicalmath, @justin_hart, and the rest of Team Reality.