Random surgeon bloviating — The Great Barrington Declaration: COVID-19 deniers...

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Those sharing the “Great Barrington Declaration” as “proof” that scientists favor a herd immunity strategy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic should realize that this “declaration” is nothing more than a science denialist technique known as “magnified minority.” This tactic involves finding a scientist or two (or three) who hold an opinion FAR outside the mainstream, make a bogus “open letter,” “petition,” or, in this case, “declaration,” get it signed two or three crackpots with legitimate credentials, and then round it out with a bunch of ideologues with unrelated degrees. The idea is to give the impression that the crackpot view is mainstream and worthy of consideration. This is a technique that’s been used by creationists to attack evolution, climate science deniers to attack the conclusion that human activity is the primary driver of global climate change, HIV/AIDS denialists, and even 9/11 Truthers.

In this case, a right wing free market fundamentalist think tank worked with these three scientists, who are either useful idiots or who are down with the whole right wing “open the economy” thing, to write up the declaration and publicize it to Fox News and the right wing media and social media ecosystem. Don’t fall for this propaganda technique.