he's not. he's a smart guy and a friend of mine.

he's been a strong advocate for team reality, albeit a more recent one.

you just have to realize that many of the folks that have been drawn into this are moving into a field that they have not worked in before. it's complex, the biology is something they have not assessed before, and drug and vaccine research and studies are a highly specialized field in which not many are conversant.

i just happened to know how it worked when this all began because i read A LOT of studies like this and work on their design.

to come in as a layperson you expect vaccines to work, at least partially. ideas like OAS and the long track record of mRNA being an awful modality for therapeutics are arcane even among those who work in life sciences.

it's really not fair to pillory the folks who came in as non experts and sought to get up to speed. this is hard, confusing, non-intuitive material.

save that for all the folks who claimed to be experts and clearly had no idea what they were saying, the one who lied and who claimed their credentials granted credibility.

they're the ones who hurt us.

they're the clowns that fell for bad drug trials and worse data handling and they're the ones that were supposed to know better.