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Dear Joel, I respect you and know this is reciprocal. I look forward to the moment we can start our joint research as discussed and believe this is reciprocal. But reading this series of tweets almost make me cry. https://twitter.com/joel_c_miller/status/1344245893348802567
I’m still trying to understand why this made me so sad. I started feeling that pressure on my chest when I read the expression “mainstream scientists”. What is that? Should that even exist?
Then I kept reading and when I got to the end my eyes were in tears. I guess I’m not a mainstream scientist but I’m not sure because I don’t know what that is. If I’m not a mainstream scientist, does that make me a COVID denier? Or is there something else for me to be?
Some people assume I’m against vaccines because I say under some forms of heterogeneity immunity from natural infection accumulates more efficiently than without heterogeneity. But why would I spend most of my career studying vaccines if I had anything fundamental against them?
My role in the pandemic is to estimate how much more efficiently immunity is being acquired in populations due to heterogeneity. I’m working on this very seriously with very serious collaborators. I have put on pause other projects that I really like so I could do this full time.
I seem to be coming to the conclusion that so-called mainstream scientists failed to integrate the input that we have been offering all along. I wonder how abundant these situations are and how different things might have been had some scientists not been marginalised.
