On the @SWAtlasHoover front, there’s a fascinating story to be told that @Stanford and particularly the @HooverInst has been a hot spot of covid misinformation from basically the beginning of the pandemic. It’s not just Atlas.

2/ Remember those early and largely discredited antibodies studies out of Santa Clara and LA counties. Again folks at @HooverInst. There were real questions of ethics violations on this one, not just shoddy work. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-antibody-studies-california-stanford

3/ Then there’s the pompously entitled Great Barrington Declaration, basically a brief for letting everyone get sick and getting herd immunity. Again, Stanford/Hoover, Jay Bhattacharya, the one with the discredited antibodies studies.

4/ Most of these folks like Atlas are doctors but have no expertise in epidemics or even infectious disease. But there’s also John Ioannidis, a legit expert on epidemics who’s basically been pushing covid denialism since the beginning. Again, Stanford/Hoover.

5/ For true hackdown there’s Richard Epstein, a law and economics hack at Hoover. He was the one who had the much cited article predicting 500 deaths from covid for the entire epidemic. One of his many theories was that the virus wld quickly weaken because that’s ...

6/ what nonsensical theories developed in the law and economics bubble world told him. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/richard-epstein-coronavirus-500-5000-deaths.html

7/ Seriously the list goes on and on. Most of the people who have fancy titles and degrees and have been either constantly wrong about covid or often peddling misinformation are associated with Stanford.