<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 27, 2020, at 11:56, <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" class="">paulz@ieee.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpcd3971ddyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class=""></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">While reading the Harvard article about measles, I happened to see a list of other articles on the left side of the page. I found one particularly timely:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class="">How textbooks taught white supremacy</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Linkety link: <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/harvard-historian-examines-how-textbooks-taught-white-supremacy/" class="">https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/harvard-historian-examines-how-textbooks-taught-white-supremacy/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Getting back to the Covid issue for a moment, but also touching on the above by implication, there’s quite a storm brewing locally at Stanford that I suggest people start popping popcorn for.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>You may have heard that Trump picked Scott Atlas, a specialist in radiology, as his COVID-19 guy. Which is weird, right? Except he’s a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s whackadoodle Hoover Institute. THAT is why he was picked.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/scott-w-atlas" class="">https://www.hoover.org/profiles/scott-w-atlas</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Stanford has an official bio of his publications, so let’s go look:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas?tab=publications" class="">https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas?tab=publications</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you look on page 2, one of the 2003 publications (Magnetic resonance image-guided proteomics of human glioblastoma multiforme) is really hard science research. The rest? Not so much. Oh, and there was a textbook, but textbooks tend to be syntheses of other peoples’ research, so I’m not going to count that. You do you.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Anyhow, his Stanford *Medical* colleagues in infectious disease posted a public letter, which is here: (Note that it’s actually posted on the NY Times server):</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/read-the-open-letter-from-stanford-doctors-on-scott-atlas/813b50f72b6543b4/full.pdf" class="">https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/read-the-open-letter-from-stanford-doctors-on-scott-atlas/813b50f72b6543b4/full.pdf</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Stanford Daily article’s here: <a href="https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/09/16/letter-to-the-editor-scott-atlas-and-lockdowns/" class="">https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/09/16/letter-to-the-editor-scott-atlas-and-lockdowns/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>The top comment is amusing: "Running counter to established science" is a fancy way of saying "because shut up." </div><div><br class=""></div><div>And then, because of course, when you’re dealing with a fucktard, they have to send a demand letter:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/mfgrp/status/1306419659801985026" class="">https://twitter.com/mfgrp/status/1306419659801985026</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>And if they’re REALLY a fucktard, they send it *from* Stanford, CA *to* Stanford, CA from a NYC attorney. Just sayin’.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The Stanford researchers did the equivalent of “LOL, nope” and more signed on:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/mfgrp/status/1308974637758513153" class="">https://twitter.com/mfgrp/status/1308974637758513153</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>…and got some press: <a href="https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1309248424953425920" class="">https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1309248424953425920</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Which is where we stand at present.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>