Our guests are Dr. Swapnil Hiremath for the University of Ottawa and Saurabh Jha from the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss the controversies surrounding the COVID-related opinions and research findings of John. P.A. Ioannidis, the notorious Stanford data scientist and physician.

GUESTS:

Swapnil Hiremath, MD: Twitter and professional page

Saurabh Jha, MBBS: Twitter and professional page

LINKS:

• "A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data" (STATNews)
• "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" (PLOS)
• "Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized" (STATNews)

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