@wintertravel1980
What is it with all the "in feminam" attacks on brilliant women academics?
“Brilliant” is an emotional word.
I have absolutely no doubt that all iSAGE members are highly competent. My observation is that many of them (women and men) got so emotionally invested into the Covid topic that they have lost the ability to think critically, realise when they were wrong and learn from mistakes. A similar example on an opposite end of the spectrum would be Michael Levitt. The guy is a Nobel prize winner so he is certainly competent (brilliant?) in his field. However his views on Covid have been completely distorted by his own convictions and beliefs. It is sad to see how delusional people can get.
Re: feminism - I still remember the twitter soap opera when two “brilliant female scientists” (Gurdasani/Hyde) tried to discredit/dox a young Moderna researcher (sailorrooscout/Chise) playing the gender/race card not realising that Chise is in fact (i) female and (ii) bi-racial.
Okay, women academics of the calibre to have tenured posts in medical/health sciences/mathethematical science at Oxford or UCH, which are world renowned establishments, who have published widely and who also are quite famous in their fields?
You can insert another adjective/s if you like. "extremely well respected and successful" maybe?
ISage have been right about a lot of things, for example that we were doing the wrong thing in deliberately exposing our children to covid without putting more mitigations in schools.
I'm afraid I don't know anything about either Michael Levitt or the twitter soap opera (I don't get much involved in arguments on twitter)
The word delusional means something quite specific and not just that someone has views with which we disagree, by the way.