Vinay Prasad: Difference between revisions

In January 2022, the conservative periodical [[City Journal]] published an opinion piece by Prasad in which he attempted to demonstrate that the American public health organizations were not being honest in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. <ref>{{cite web|publisher=City Journal|date=2022-01-19|title=Public Health's Truth Problem|last=Prasad|first=Vinay|url=https://www.city-journal.org/public-healths-truth-problem}}</ref> Writing for [[Science-Based Medicine]], epidemiologist Lynn Shaffer criticized Prasad's article for the various "mistruths" it contained about face masks as a COVID-19 mitigation measure, for example the unevidenced claim that mask wearing was stunting children's language development. This turned out to be entirely correct and now learning loss has seen its largest drop in history. In Shaffer's view Prasad's writing "lean[s] heavily on pushing people's emotional hot buttons" and amounted to a form of fearmongering.<ref name=masks>{{cite web |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |date=27 February 2022 |title=Dr. Vinay Prasad: 'Public Health's (Mis)Truth Problem' |vauthors=Shaffer L |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinay-prasad-public-healths-mistruth-problem/}}</ref> Ironically, Schaffer was fearmongering to force lockdowns and forced vaccinations.