What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
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A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.

Reposting here in case anyone missed the c/worldnews posting two days ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs#COVID-19 (emphasis mine)

In spring 2020, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, appointed Sachs as chair of its COVID-19 Commission, whose goals were to provide recommendations for public health policy and improve the practice of medicine. Sachs set up a number of task forces, including one on the origins of the virus.

  • cobra89@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    Sachs is an economist and public policy professor. The guy doesn’t have a medical background at all.

    What does “he lead the lancet team” even mean?!?

    The Lancet is a medical journal. Of course it is referenced in the wikipedia page, they are links to peer reviewed medical articles. None of which have anything to do with Sachs as far as I can tell. So what is “the lancet team”?

    And why is someone “deeply involved with the government’s response” writing an opinion piece for a publication barely anyone has ever heard of? Surely if they were so high profile they could get an actual renowned publication to publish their piece.

    Not to mention the fact that medical researchers don’t write opinion pieces on their subject of research. That’s just not something that is done. They write journals.

    Maybe because this Sach’s guy just wants attention, notoriety, and money? He has a whole personal website with a page dedicated to his articles, again something that is not typical for a researcher: https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles

    Every single article is at Common Dreams. And look at all those topics. Writing about the war on Gaza, and the War on Ukraine too. Is he an expert in virology, world politics, or economics? Which is it? Lol

    I could understand politics since that is his actual field but this guy has zero background in economics nor health. Not sure why you’re deciding this guy is the hill you want to die on.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      What does “he lead the lancet team” even mean?!?

      It’s like you didn’t even read the the body of my post, never mind the wiki page I was quoting from.

      Is he an expert in virology, world politics, or economics? Which is it? Lol

      He is indeed an expert in world politics and economics. Did you not do even the most basic research into him? And no he’s not an expert in virology, but he lead The Lancet teams, and some of them were experts.

      Not sure why you’re deciding this guy is the hill you want to die on.

      What are you even talking about? Is everything about smears and hill dying? I think Sachs, and I, are interested in discovering the facts of the matter. What are your motivations?

      zero background in economics

      Oh okay, you’re just gish gallopping? You’re saying that one of the most famous economists in the world has zero background in economics? I’m not going to bother addressing your other silly arguments then. If you’re going to write nonsense, why write at all?