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

Check out Dr. Vinay Prasad’s YouTube channel here and here are the other episodes we’ve done together.

Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-mandates/

 

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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