alt Hacker NewsHow much death and suffering does this guy have on his conscience?
I’m so curious how someone goes from being a professor to a science denier? I simply can’t imagine that journey.
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The suffering is the point.
I can definitely imagine it. It becomes so much easier to not worry about it when you have a comfortable pillow made out of lots and lots of money to rest your head on.
Also interesting that there can be a giant asshole running a federal agency into the ground and I've never heard of him until now. Gives some scale to the problem. I also wonder what else is going on in government that falls below the widely reportable threshold.
Death and suffering are “natural.”
These people are all delusional ideologues. If reality does not match the ideology, reality must be wrong.
It's really weird how many in HN such as you don't like Vinay Prasad.
He is 100% data driven. He has no ideology behind any of his beliefs or decisions, it's all 100% data driven. He should be worshipped by HN but instead he is vilified because many people on HN are the ones motivated by ideology or politics.
The decision to block Moderna's application was simple, they were comparing their results against a lower-dosage flu shot which no one in that age range (65+) takes.
Moderna agreed to add a comparison for the higher dose for older patients and then the application was allowed through. Why is this bad?
The media framed it as if the FDA backtracked but that's a complete lie, Moderna modified their application because Prasad looked at the study and rejected it because it was purposefully giving itself easier goal posts. He did EXACTLY what we want, which is don't make it easier for drug companies to give us bullshit, and to make sure that the drugs are doing what they say they are.
The loss of Prasad is a real loss for Americans.
Results are fuzzy. He has a nice Malibu compound to go to after this lived experience
I imagine at some point, after earnestly trying to help the American people with real science, these people get tired of working thankless jobs where they're up against monstrous bureaucracy and just want to do something that benefits themselves and their families. Sadly, and in part because our society rarely rewards beneficial work the way it does exploitation, these people find the path of least resistance to be this kind of journey.