Episode Details

Booster Shots, Kids & Masks, Vaccine Mandates, & SCIENCE (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad)

Published 4 years, 8 months ago

Tha’ Notorious VP returns to talk about the numbers around mandates, booster science or lack thereof, masking young kids, and more!

Topics & Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:31 The science on masking young children

6:29 Criticizing irrational views held by rational people, kids’ masking

9:47 Bangladesh mask study promoting surgical masks over cloth in adults

13:29 Vaccine mandates, do they make sense to actually improve outcomes, an analysis

23:18 What’s going on with irrational college campus COVID policies, the testing industry’s influence on policy

27:16 FDA resignations and the controversy over COVID boosters

29:18 Flaws/bias in Israeli vaccine data sets

32:00 Boosters in healthy people, the FDA resignations, and political pressure

35:42 Creating psychological reactance and tribalization in response to mandates and poor communication

38:05 The John Mandrola myocarditis study controversy

44:04 #medtwitter madness and using vaccines off-label for kids

52:06 The Ivermectin overreaction in the media

54:32 The modern sense-making crisis and the influence of social media in sowing division and culture wars

58:17 Vinay’s possible dystopian scenario on government overreach

1:03:41 Why the haters, and why block people on Twitter, credentialism, Alt-Middle, religion and science, and more

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