How misinformation spreads
So this is how misinformation gets spread especially from Fox News.
Add another social media platform a guy railed about not being able to use alternative medicines and that and then he showed me this image below about a John Hopkins report that lockdowns, bans, abd losures had nothing to flatten the curve.
It took me all of 15 seconds to find the facts behind this alleged John Hopkins report.
I actually found a couple but I chose Forbes so that I wouldn’t get an automatic anti-New York Times complaint about the source. Link [1] below but in a nutshell:
The article he cited was NOT a John Hopkins endorsed article- it was only opinion articles by these people:
-Steve H. Hanke, PhD, a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow at The Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank.
Two of three authors weren’t even from Johns Hopkins University:
-Jonas Herby, MS, described as a special advisor at Center for Political Studies in Copenhagen.
-Lars Jonung, PhD, who is a professor emeritus in economics at Lund University, Sweden.
These guys are not virologists or epidemiologists- they are economists. They used the term “working paper” to describe what they had put together. Simply calling it a “Johns Hopkins study” glosses over this important distinction. A working paper is not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a reputable scientific journal.
Cato Institute should have been the first red flag!
