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The Role of Misinformation in the Pandemic
David Gorski: I think that the view fighting misinformation academia is kind of a quirky phone that maybe people do on the side, whatever. But when people make blatantly, mathematically false claims, as I've discussed, or falsely declare the pandemic over, we need to say this is wrong and this is unacceptable. We don't need to threaten anyone or fire anyone or censor, censor anyone. It's just heterodox thinking. These people are just thinking outside the box. And unfortunately, that's been an reaction of a lot of doctors to misinformation within their own field.