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He's a Dr. and a Stanford professor of medicine. The Great Barrington Declaration was signed by almost a million doctors. They were warning about the harm lockdowns would do to kids and they were correct.

Even if they weren't, this would still be unacceptable.

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The Great Barrington Declaration was signed by almost a million doctors

You're off by an order of magnitude and then some. Also, none of the numbers they do claim are verifiable. https://gbdeclaration.org/view-signatures/

You know, when you make a specific claim like that it's really worth the 30 seconds it takes to check it again to verify your memory is correct.

According to its own website, the great barrington declaration was signed by around 15,000 doctors.

Thanks. I didn't realize there was a further breakdown from the 934,094 total and can't edit it now. Here's the exact breakdown.

medical & public health scientists: 15,989

medical practitioners: 47,278

concerned citizens: 870,827

FYI, anybody who wants to can sign the "Great Barrington Declaration," and check whatever box they want: https://gbdeclaration.org/#sign

The list of medical practitioners and scientists includes a number of homeopaths and obvious fake names.

Sounds like appeal to authority, a logical fallacy.

Exactly, you can't trust any authority (Twitter moderation team included) to determine truth for you.

As I said, it’s debatable if the guy’s reach needed to be limited, the point you are arguing.

What’s not debatable is that the breathless outrage-bait under discussion misrepresented the case for limiting the Dr’s reach with a straw-man argument, and so did you.

> misrepresented the case for limiting the Dr’s reach

Could you help me understand what the argument is that this person should have been put on any form of blacklist?

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