<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Sep 30, 2020, at 11:35 PM, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Quoting Dire Red (deirdre@deirdre.net):</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>You may have heard that Trump picked Scott Atlas, a specialist in</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>radiology, as his COVID-19 guy. Which is weird, right? Except he’s a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Senior Fellow at Stanford’s whackadoodle Hoover Institute. THAT is why</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>he was picked. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>That is a depressingly common con job, carried forward into the new</span><br><span>decade: All my life, I've seen resident whack jobs at Hoover</span><br><span>Institution promoted as being academics from 'Stanford'. The Hoover</span><br><span>Institution is _not Stanford_; it's just located on the Stanford campus.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>FYI, I did give this link for his publications:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas?tab=publications">https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas?tab=publications</a></div><div><br></div><div>So given that the page header is “Stanford Profiles” and the next header is:</div><div><br></div><div>Scott W. Atlas</div><div>Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution</div><div><br></div><div>…assuming a link didn’t seem a stretch.</div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div></body></html>