The CDC’s announcement covers everything except the fundamental problem to which the director and the external reviewer are blind: industry subservience and epidemiologic incompetence.
CDC has published numbers of fatally flawed study reports over the last two years in MMWR, its captive journal. No amounts of “moving faster” will fix this problem. It took CDC two years to figure out that the vaccines are not an effective public health tool for reducing infection spread, something that I and numerous colleagues have been saying for more than a year.
CDC has still not recognized that for Covid, masks are useless, that distancing is useless, that general population testing is virtually useless for managing the population pandemic.
That the CDC has reviewed itself and only found trivialities and not the systematic problems that caused it to produce repeatedly failing policies shows that this review exercise was only window dressing. It was not a serious review.
The CDC needs a completely different independent external review to understand how it as a public health agency with MD and PhD epidemiologists could get so much science wrong for so long. The current makeover plans are ludicrous, will fool no one, and will not restore any of the large amount of public trust that has been lost by its poor performance over the last 2.5 years.”
— Dr. Harvey Risch.
Harvey Risch is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Risch received his MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington, Dr. Risch was a faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto before coming to Yale.
See folks? V&C1 has a terrible time linking to their sources.
Harvey Risch is a cancer guy. "His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens." https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/
Anybody got anything in his background specific to infectious diseases or public health? He likes a lot of other peoples' studies but he doesn't seem to have any relevant experience or studies of his own. Perhaps someone out there knows if he has any relevant training or experience.
He sure seems to have a hate on for the CDC, though. They musta peed in his cornflakes somehow.
“The CDC had failed. The CDC’s announcement covers everything except the fundamental problem to which the director and the external reviewer are blind: industry subservience and epidemiologic incompetence.
CDC has published numbers of fatally flawed study reports over the last two years in MMWR”.
__ Dr. Harvey Risch.
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington,
Faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto
Currently teaching at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a cancer guy. "His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens." https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/
Folks, when you come down with an infection - Malaria, say, or polio or covid - do you want to talk to a cancer specialist? Or would you rather talk to an infectious disease specialist?
— Dr. Harvey Risch.
Harvey Risch is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Risch received his MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington, Dr. Risch was a faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto before coming to Yale.
See folks? V&C1 has a terrible time linking to their sources.
Harvey Risch is a cancer guy. "His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens." https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/
Anybody got anything in his background specific to infectious diseases or public health? He likes a lot of other peoples' studies but he doesn't seem to have any relevant experience or studies of his own. Perhaps someone out there knows if he has any relevant training or experience.
He sure seems to have a hate on for the CDC, though. They musta peed in his cornflakes somehow.
Dr. Harvey Risch. Direct quote:
__ Dr. Harvey Risch.
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington,
Faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto
Currently teaching at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a cancer guy. "His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens." https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/
Folks, when you come down with an infection - Malaria, say, or polio or covid - do you want to talk to a cancer specialist? Or would you rather talk to an infectious disease specialist?